Not a single crude oil tanker has departed Libya in the past week, industry sources say.
Brent has jumped by almost 40 per cent in the last four weeks, supported by a sharp fall in U.S. oil drilling.
Dubai’s only utility also said it would distribute a cash dividend for the year of Dhs500 million to the government.
Security challenges created by groups such as ISIL are impacting oil investments, which will affect future production, an expert said.
Analysts said that downward pressure may come from the refined products market in the next quarter.
The Gulf state plans to deploy 120 oil and gas rigs by the start of next year, up from 80 rigs now.
The price of Brent crude has increased by more than 30 per cent in the last four weeks.
Omair said the current market surplus was less than 1.8 million barrels per day.
Antimony trioxide is mostly used as a flame retardant and a catalyst in the production of plastics.
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab signed MoUs with Kuwaiti companies involving projects due to start in three to five years.
Benyan replaces Mohammed Al Mady, who was appointed as the president of the country’s military industries corporation.
OPEC officials have expressed cautious optimism about the price recovery and noted signs of higher demand.
Kuwait briefly halted all its oil exports on Thursday due to a dust storm and bad weather.
Four oil majors — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell , Total and BP — had each held 9.5 per cent equity stakes in the ADCO concession since the 1970s.
The plant in Jubail will go offline on March 1, the company said in a bourse statement,
The suspension will remain until further notice when the weather conditions improve, a spokesman said.
That marks the lowest term price for Kuwait Petroleum Corp since its December 2008 to November 2009 contract.
Under Saudi guidance, OPEC decided last November not to cut output, allowing oil prices to plunge.
Oil stockpiles in member countries of the OECD may approach a record 2.83 billion barrels by mid-2015, said the IEA.
OPEC ministers and delegates have blamed non-OPEC producers such as Russia, Mexico and Kazakhstan, as well as U.S. shale oil production, for the oversupply in the market.
The IEA said that supplies remained abundant and that it would take time for investment cuts to make more than a relatively small dent on production, keeping prices low.
ADNOC holds a 70 per cent share in the fields development venture, while Occidental holds 30 per cent, a statement said.
The contracts were awarded to a consortium involving Italy’s Maire Tecnimont and Greece’s Archirodon, Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas, and the UAE’ National Petroleum Construction Co.
Oil revenues currently contribute 30 per cent to the UAE’s overall GDP.
In a monthly report, OPEC forecast demand for the group’s oil will average 29.21 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2015, up 430,000 bpd from its previous figure.
The country has diversified into sectors such as clean energy and industry, said Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed.
BP and Shell were asked to raise their signing bonus, a source told Reuters, in line with France’s Total, which has already renewed its concession.
S-Oil said will supply up to 14 million barrels of diesel, including ultra-low-sulphur diesel and low-sulphur diesel, and up to 14 million barrels of light naphtha to Saudi Aramco.
Fahad al-Mubarak gave no indication that the government actually planned concrete action.
The Saudi oil ministry has allocated an extra 10 million cubic feed a day (scfd) of ethane from July 1, Kayan said.