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• Bearish EIA Data Sends Oil Lower

  Published 22 May 2019 | viewed 35,179 times

  As confusion among oil traders persists regarding where oil prices are going to go from here, the Energy Information Administration scored one for the bears…

• Aramco Takes Bite Out Of Massive US LNG Project

  Published 22 May 2019 | viewed 17,768 times

  Saudi Aramco struck a deal with U.S. Sempra Energy to buy 5 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually from Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG plant,…

• Tesla Faces ‘’Herculean Task’’ As Share Price Tanks

  Published 21 May 2019 | viewed 10,644 times

  A spike in doubts about Tesla’s ability to deliver on its financial performance targets has caused a more than 20-percent drop in its stock, with…

• Hydrogen Fuel Tech Just Got A Major Boost

  Published 21 May 2019 | viewed 37,596 times

  Hydrogen as a fuel has been drawing a lot of attention ever since the world decided to start weaning itself off fossil fuels. However, after…

• Mid-Caps In Oil & Gas Hard Pressed For New Money

  Published 21 May 2019 | viewed 12,364 times

  Mid-cap oil and gas companies are having trouble securing fresh investments because fund managers are reorienting their priorities towards alternative energies, says the chief financial…

• China Raises Oil Export Quotas Ahead Of Driving Season

  Published 21 May 2019 | viewed 8,422 times

  China has allocated a new batch of oil product export quotas that has brought the total since the start of the year to 50 million…

• China Pours US$23B In Offshore Wind Power Project

  Published 21 May 2019 | viewed 10,939 times

  China will invest some 160 billion yuan (US$23.5 billion) in an offshore wind power project that will have an installed capacity of more than 10GW…

• Venezuela's Military To Oversee Fuel Rationing

  Published 20 May 2019 | viewed 10,012 times

  Venezuelans are having their fuel rationed with the rationing overseen by the military, Reuters reported on Sunday as fuel shortages begin to bite deeper. As…

• Are California Gasoline Prices Being Manipulated?

  Published 20 May 2019 | viewed 9,427 times

  Market manipulation could be behind the fact that California drivers pay more for gasoline than the rest of the country, the Lost Angeles Times reports,…

• OPEC Considers Extending Production Cuts Till End-2019

  Published 20 May 2019 | viewed 11,828 times

  OPEC and its partners may decide to keep the oil production cuts until the end of the year as the cartel fears a steep price…

• The Fear Factor Is Back For Oil

  Published 19 May 2019 | viewed 33,825 times

  Saber-rattling in the Middle East and the continued deterioration in Venezuela have once again trumped considerations such as supply and demand in the fluctuations of…

• The World’s Last Coal Plant Will Be Constructed Soon

  Published 19 May 2019 | viewed 30,417 times

  In its latest energy investment report, the International Energy Agency said energy companies continued investing in coal as demand for electricity continued growing fast and…

• Venezuela Hit By Gasoline Shortages

  Published 17 May 2019 | viewed 12,581 times

  Another problem has been added to Venezuela’s growing list of woes: gasoline import shortages that have caused lines at gas stations, Reuters reports, adding that…

• China Ups Fuel Export Quotas By 5%

  Published 17 May 2019 | viewed 10,526 times

  China has issued a new batch of oil product export quotas and they are 5.3 percent higher than they were this time last year as…

• California Threatens Gasoline Car Ban

  Published 17 May 2019 | viewed 17,102 times

  California might ban gasoline-powered cars if the federal government goes ahead with a plan to relax emission and fuel economy standards, Bloomberg reports, citing the…

• Mystery Tanker With Iranian Oil Unloads In China

  Published 16 May 2019 | viewed 21,486 times

  A tanker carrying Iranian fuel oil has reached its destination at a Chinese port and has unloaded its cargo in storage tanks, Reuters reports, citing…

• EPA Changed Biofuel Credit Rules before Court Allowed It

  Published 16 May 2019 | viewed 6,529 times

  The Environmental Protection Agency relaxed rules for refiners under the Renewable Fuel Standard at its own discretion before a court ruled in favor of such…

• New York Ditches Gas Pipeline Proposal Despite Soaring Electricity Bills

  Published 16 May 2019 | viewed 15,851 times

  In an unsurprising move, the New York state authorities rejected a proposal for a new natural gas pipeline that would have supplied 400 million cu…

• Canada’s Pipeline Crisis Isn’t All Bad For Investors

  Published 15 May 2019 | viewed 8,670 times

  Canadian oil producers have been having a hard time after the 2014 crisis, harder than their peers elsewhere, constrained in their recovery and growth plans…

• Chinese Oil Refineries Return To Record-High Production

  Published 15 May 2019 | viewed 12,374 times

  Chinese refineries returned to record-high processing rates last month driven by the so-called teapots, which added a substantial amount of new refining capacity. According to…