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Shell To Cut UK Jobs As Part Of Global Workforce Reduction

Shell To Cut UK Jobs As Part Of Global Workforce Reduction

Jan 12, 2021 at 11:32 | Charles Kennedy

Shell will be cutting 330 jobs from its North Sea operations, mostly office jobs based in Aberdeen, the supermajor said on Tuesday, as carried by the BBC. The Aberdeen…

EIA: U.S. Natural Gas Reserves Slip Amid Low Prices

EIA: U.S. Natural Gas Reserves Slip Amid Low Prices

Jan 12, 2021 at 10:28 | Charles Kennedy

Natural gas reserves in the United States fell by 2 percent in 2019 due to low prices, the Energy Information Administration said in an update on the country’s oil…

IMF Approves Loan To Struggling OPEC Producer Angola

IMF Approves Loan To Struggling OPEC Producer Angola

Jan 12, 2021 at 09:35 | Irina Slav

Africa’s second-largest oil exporter Angola has received approval from the International Monetary Fund for a disbursement of over $480 million under a $3.7-billion loan agreement as it continues to struggle…

Tesla's $25,000 Car May Hit The Market Sooner Than Planned

Tesla's $25,000 Car May Hit The Market Sooner Than Planned

Jan 11, 2021 at 17:42 | Charles Kennedy

Tesla may be closer to producing the US$25,000 electric vehicle sooner than the market thought, according to media reports. At Tesla's Battery Day in September 2020, Elon Musk said that…

HSBC Shareholders Urge Bank To Cut Fossil Fuel Funding

HSBC Shareholders Urge Bank To Cut Fossil Fuel Funding

Jan 11, 2021 at 16:40 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Some of the largest institutional shareholders of HSBC have filed a climate resolution, urging Europe’s biggest bank to announce a strategy to reduce its exposure to lending money to…

Scientists 'Microwave' Coal Into Graphite

Scientists 'Microwave' Coal Into Graphite

Jan 11, 2021 at 15:04 | MINING.com

An international team of researchers demonstrated that pulverized coal powder can be converted into…

US Marks Houthi Rebels As Terrorists After Attacks On Oil Assets In Middle East

US Marks Houthi Rebels As Terrorists After Attacks On Oil Assets In Middle East

Jan 11, 2021 at 14:47 | Charles Kennedy

The United States is designating the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday, after the Houthis are…

Iran: Foreign Oil Firms Must Accept New Terms To Work In Country

Iran: Foreign Oil Firms Must Accept New Terms To Work In Country

Jan 11, 2021 at 12:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Foreign energy firms and contractors have to accept Iran’s new terms and conditions if they return to work in the country, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Monday. “If…

EV Maker Nio Partners With Nvidia To Create Self-Driving 'Supercomputers'

EV Maker Nio Partners With Nvidia To Create Self-Driving 'Supercomputers'

Jan 11, 2021 at 09:38 | ZeroHedge

The self-driving EV race is officially on. And as competition begins to pop up globally, joint ventures and partnerships are being struck almost daily as players from tech and legacy automotive rush…

Saudi Crown Prince Announces Zero Carbon Smart City

Saudi Crown Prince Announces Zero Carbon Smart City

Jan 11, 2021 at 09:31 | Irina Slav

A zero-carbon city will be built on the site of the Neom smart city project, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Sunday, as quoted by Reuters. The city,…

Gas Prices In Spain Skyrocket Amid Cold Snap

Gas Prices In Spain Skyrocket Amid Cold Snap

Jan 11, 2021 at 07:50 | ZeroHedge

A cold snap across Spain is expected to last through mid-January has resulted in natural gas prices more than doubling in the last week, according to 

North Dakota To Pay Off Infrastructure Bonds With Oil Money

North Dakota To Pay Off Infrastructure Bonds With Oil Money

Jan 08, 2021 at 18:31 | Charles Kennedy

The Republican legislators in North Dakota proposed a new $1.1 billion bonding package for infrastructure projects, planning to use proceeds from oil and gas to pay off part of the…

U.S. Natural Gas Prices Hit Lowest In Decades In 2020

U.S. Natural Gas Prices Hit Lowest In Decades In 2020

Jan 08, 2021 at 16:04 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Milder weather and decreased demand resulted in U.S. natural gas spot prices averaging in 2020 the lowest in decades, since at least 1997, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA)…

Apple's EV Partner Still Unknown Despite Hyundai Partnership Rumors

Apple's EV Partner Still Unknown Despite Hyundai Partnership Rumors

Jan 08, 2021 at 14:09 | ZeroHedge

After Hyundai shares rose nearly 19% overseas on the heels of news that the automaker had reportedly been in talks with Apple about producing a self-driving vehicle, the company issued…

Norway’s Oil Lobby Criticizes Government Plan To Triple Carbon Tax

Norway’s Oil Lobby Criticizes Government Plan To Triple Carbon Tax

Jan 08, 2021 at 13:42 | Charles Kennedy

The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, the powerful oil lobby in Western Europe’s largest oil producer, criticized on Friday the Government’s plan to more than triple carbon taxes, saying…

New Lockdowns Dash Hopes Of A Rapid Oil Demand Recovery In Europe

New Lockdowns Dash Hopes Of A Rapid Oil Demand Recovery In Europe

Jan 08, 2021 at 11:46 | Irina Slav

Extended lockdowns in response to the continuing surge in Covid-19 infections in Europe has quashed hopes that fuel demand on the continent could rebound in the first half…

Petrobras Oil Output Hits Record In 2020

Petrobras Oil Output Hits Record In 2020

Jan 08, 2021 at 09:16 | Irina Slav

Crude oil output from fields operated by Brazil's state energy major Petrobras hit a record last year despite the pandemic, at an average 2.3 million bpd, Bloomberg reported, comparing…

Saudi Surprise Cut Continues To Lift Oil Prices

Saudi Surprise Cut Continues To Lift Oil Prices

Jan 07, 2021 at 16:50 | Julianne Geiger

Oil prices remained elevated and were still on the rise on Thursday, hitting an 11-month high, as the effects of Saudi Arabia’s surprise announcement about an additional million barrels of…

Floating Oil Storage Shrinks Amid Robust Asian Demand

Floating Oil Storage Shrinks Amid Robust Asian Demand

Jan 07, 2021 at 15:37 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Global floating oil storage declined at a fast pace in December as traders sold crude held on tankers in the absence of price incentives to store it and in order…

Alaska Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Ends In Flop

Alaska Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Ends In Flop

Jan 07, 2021 at 12:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Major oil corporations steered clear of the first oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, which the Trump Administration opened for drilling and…

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