Industry News

Nigeria Plans to Offer Crude Trading on Bourse for First Time

19 April 2024, 8:00pm
It will be the first time the fossil fuel will be traded on an exchange in Africa's largest oil producer.
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Oil Managed Slight Gain as Risk Premium Falls

19 April 2024, 7:35pm
Oil eked out a meager gain after Iranian media appeared to downplay the effect of Israeli strikes, lowering the geopolitical risk premium for crude.
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ReconAfrica to Drill Namibia Asset in June

19 April 2024, 6:00pm
The company is targeting 163 million barrels of unrisked prospective oil resources.
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US DOE Releases Strategy to Connect Renewable Energy to Grid

19 April 2024, 5:30pm
The Transmission Interconnection Roadmap sets targets by 2030 concerning project approval time, costs and completion rates.
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Emissions Data Firm Bags $6.5MM in Seed Funding

19 April 2024, 4:00pm
Momentick's mission is 'to provide an emissions intelligence platform for countries, industries, and companies'.
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BP, Petrobras to Explore Collaboration Opportunities

19 April 2024, 2:00pm
The two companies are partners in exploration blocks in the Exploration & Production (E&P) segment.
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What Would an All-Out War in the Middle East Mean for USA Gasoline Prices?

19 April 2024, 2:00pm
'It would mean extreme price volatility,' EIR warned.
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Wood to Provide Project Management for NZT Power, NEP

19 April 2024, 1:27pm
NZT Power aims to be one of the world's first commercial-scale gas-fired power stations with carbon capture.
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Iran-Israel Conflict Has Potential to Further Disrupt Shipping Industry

19 April 2024, 10:33am
'The risk profile for commercial vessels operating in the region remains at severe/critical,' Dryad stated.
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Iran Acknowledges Drone Attack by Israel and Says It Failed

19 April 2024, 10:24am
Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iran following last week's missile and drone barrage from Tehran, according to two U.S. officials.
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Analysts Believe Oil Market Is Underpricing Risk

19 April 2024, 8:27am
Analysts at Standard Chartered said they think geopolitical risk in oil has escalated significantly.
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Woodside Logs Lower Quarterly Revenue as Output, Prices Fall

19 April 2024, 7:57am
Woodside posted a lower quarterly revenue of $3 billion as selling prices and production and sales volumes fell.
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Europa Oil & Gas Revenue Hit by Wressle Shutdown

19 April 2024, 6:30am
Europa Oil & Gas posted a revenue of $1.7 million for the six months to January 2024.
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Canada Needs Further Pipeline Expansion: Tamarack CEO

19 April 2024, 6:30am
Tamarack Valley Energy CEO Brian Schmidt sees a need for even more export capacity in the long run as drillers ramp up output from newer fields.
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Canacol Makes Second Gas Discovery in Weeks in Colombian Basin

19 April 2024, 6:30am
Canacol found 123 feet of net gas payzone in the Chontaduro 1 well.
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European Gas Options-Buying Jumped During Recent Price Swings

18 April 2024, 8:00pm
Intense swings in European natural gas prices have prompted traders to pile into options contracts.
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Oil Swings Amid Rising Iranian Threats

18 April 2024, 7:22pm
Oil fluctuated as markets weighed Iran's threats on Israeli nuclear sites against a stronger US dollar.
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NG Energy Inks More Long-Term Agreements for Colombia Production

18 April 2024, 4:00pm
The company has now sold approximately 14.8 million cubic feet per day of production under long-term natural gas sales contracts.
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US Confirms Reimposition of Oil Sanctions against Venezuela

18 April 2024, 3:35pm
Washington will not renew a reprieve issued to Caracas for oil and gas activities, accusing the Maduro regime of reneging on a commitment to upholding fair elections.
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USA Commercial Crude Oil Inventories Rise

18 April 2024, 3:26pm
Crude oil stocks in the U.S., not including the SPR, stood at 460.0 million barrels on April 12.
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U.S. hydropower generation expected to increase by 6% in 2024 following last year's lows

18 April 2024, 12:00pm
Last year, U.S. hydropower electricity generation fell to its lowest since 2001. This year, we expect hydropower to increase 6% and account for 250 billion kilowatthours of electricity generation in the power sector, based on forecasts in our Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). We expect hydropower to increase in nearly every part of the country, with notable increases in the Southeast and in the Northwest and Rockies. We expect other regions with significant hydropower generation to either increase slightly, such as in New York, or remain about the same, such as California.
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U.S. natural gas trade will continue to grow with the startup of new LNG export projects

17 April 2024, 12:00pm
In our recently released Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we forecast that U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will continue to lead growth in U.S. natural gas trade as three LNG export projects currently under construction start operations and ramp up to full production by the end of 2025. We also forecast increased natural gas exports by pipeline, mainly to Mexico. In our STEO forecast, net exports of U.S. natural gas (exports minus imports) grow 6% from 2023 in 2024 to 13.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). In 2025, net exports increase another 20% to 16.4 Bcf/d.
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China imported record amounts of crude oil in 2023

16 April 2024, 2:00pm
China, the world's largest importer of crude oil, imported 11.3 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in 2023, 10% more than in 2022, according to China customs data. Refiners in China imported record volumes of crude oil in 2023 to supply the country's increasing refining capacity in order to support the country's transportation fuel needs and produce feedstocks for its growing petrochemical industry.
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The United States exported a record volume of natural gas in 2023

15 April 2024, 12:00pm
The United States exported 10% more natural gas in 2023 than in 2022, a record of 20.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), according to our Natural Gas Monthly. U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports accounted for more than half of all U.S. natural gas exports, and natural gas exports by pipeline to Canada and Mexico accounted for the remainder.
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