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• Shell Surprises With Strong Profit, Dividend Hike

  Published 29 October 2020 | viewed 11,381 times

  Royal Dutch Shell reported better than expected financial results for the third quarter and hiked its dividend in a surprise move targeting investors who are…

• The Green Hydrogen Problem That No One Is Talking About

  Published 28 October 2020 | viewed 34,339 times

  Gigawatt upon gigawatt of green hydrogen capacity is being planned across Europe, Asia, and Australia. According to proponents of the technology, green hydrogen - the…

• The Car Giants That Knew About Climate Change 50 Years Ago

  Published 28 October 2020 | viewed 4,367 times

  General Motors and Ford have known about the effect burning fossil fuels has on climate for 50 years, a report from E&E News has revealed.…

• Washington Greenlights Conoco Oil Project In Alaska

  Published 28 October 2020 | viewed 5,129 times

  The Bureau of Land Management approved a ConocoPhillips-led oil exploration project in Alaska, which could yield some 160,000 barrels of crude daily when it becomes…

• Crude Inventory Build Forces Oil Prices Lower

  Published 28 October 2020 | viewed 10,080 times

  Crude oil price fell further after the Energy Information Administration reported an inventory increase of 4.3 million barrels for the week to October 23. This…

• Washington Slaps More Sanctions On Iranian Oil Sector

  Published 27 October 2020 | viewed 5,542 times

  The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Iranian entities, this time including the Petroleum Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company, and the National Iranian…

• Venezuela’s Oil Stocks On The Rise As Exports Fall

  Published 27 October 2020 | viewed 6,864 times

  Oil inventories at the port of Jose have reached 11.8 million barrels, which is the highest since August, Reuters reports, citing a PDVSA document. The…

• Is Canadian LNG Too Expensive To Compete?

  Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 6,069 times

  British Columbia is one very pro-LNG province. Both main parties are firmly in favor of LNG projects, and both have made them a prominent point…

• Oil Prices Fall As Libya Looks To Bring Back 1 Million Bpd

  Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 3,352 times

  Libya’s crude oil production could reach 800,000 bpd over the next two weeks and top 1 million barrels daily within a month now that the…

• Cenovus Buys Husky To Create New Canadian Oil Giant

  Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 3,741 times

  Cenovus and Husky Energy have struck a deal to combine their businesses in an all-stock transaction worth US$17.92 billion (C$23.6 billion). The size of the…

• Big Profits Are No Longer The Top Priority For Oil Investors

  Published 25 October 2020 | viewed 15,203 times

  For years, the oil industry drew in investors with sizable—and regular—returns. Even when oil prices fell, Big Oil found ways to keep paying dividends, even…

• Iranian Tankers Hide In Iraqi Waters To Ship Oil Abroad

  Published 23 October 2020 | viewed 13,710 times

  Iranian tankers are hiding in Iraqi waters to do their ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil to avoid U.S. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing…

• Venezuela’s Oil Major Sees Oil At $35 Through 2021

  Published 23 October 2020 | viewed 5,438 times

  Venezuela’s state oil company has made a pessimistic estimate for next year’s oil prices, expecting to make just $35 per barrel for the crude it…

• Could Oil Drillers Make Geothermal Energy Go Mainstream?

  Published 22 October 2020 | viewed 7,239 times

  With so much talk about offshore wind and utility-scale solar, it is easy to forget about one other abundant, emission-free energy source. Geothermal has garnered…

• Exxon Expected To Announce North America Redundancies Soon

  Published 22 October 2020 | viewed 17,865 times

  Exxon is close to completing a workforce assessment for the United States and Canada, after which it will announce the number of people it needs…

• The World’s Largest Oil Trader Just Sent LNG Prices Soaring

  Published 22 October 2020 | viewed 29,122 times

  Three trades for liquefied natural gas cargoes executed by commodity trading major Vitol made the company the talk of the LNG town as it pushed…

• Big Oil Hamstrung In Tackling Methane Problem

  Published 21 October 2020 | viewed 2,474 times

  When the coronavirus first spread around the world, emissions-tracking organizations reported good news: the drop in industrial activity and oil and gas drilling had resulted…

• China’s Pollution Effort Falls Short Of Expectations

  Published 21 October 2020 | viewed 1,805 times

  Despite ambitious efforts to reduce air pollution levels across China over the last five years, results have fallen short of expectations, Reuters reports, citing a…

• Oil Prices Rebound On Small Crude Draw

  Published 21 October 2020 | viewed 8,899 times

  Crude oil prices rose today after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory decline of 1 million barrels for the week to October…

• Alberta Unimpressed By Canadian Plastics Ban

  Published 20 October 2020 | viewed 2,805 times

  Earlier this month, Canada’s federal government confirmed plans to ban several single-use plastic items by the end of next year as part of its efforts…