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• Uganda, Tanzania Seal $3.5-Bln Oil Pipeline Deal

  Published 12 April 2021 | viewed 1,649 times

  Uganda, Tanzania, and two oil majors inked a deal for the construction of a $3.5-billion pipeline that will carry Ugandan oil to the Tanzanian coast,…

• Qatar Could Throw A Wrench In America’s Ambitious LNG Plans

  Published 11 April 2021 | viewed 20,750 times

  U.S. domestic demand for natural gas has been falling for a year now, according to EIA data. The authority expects demand will continue down this…

• Iran Could Soon Officially Return 2 Million Bpd Of Oil To Global Markets

  Published 09 April 2021 | viewed 3,718 times

  Iranian crude could return to global markets sooner rather than later as this week’s start of negotiations between Tehran and the five world powers that,…

• Saudi Oil Minister: OPEC+ Strategy Is Not Set In Stone

  Published 09 April 2021 | viewed 3,752 times

  Days after OPEC+ greed to gradually ramp up production, adding some 2 million bpd to global supply by July, the Saudi energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz…

• Investors Rush To Oil Stocks Despite ESG Push

  Published 08 April 2021 | viewed 7,146 times

  Oil and gas companies have been in the crosshairs of public outrage for years now and the pressure has only been growing, with a new…

• GM Shares Secrets About Its New Revolutionary Battery Tech

  Published 08 April 2021 | viewed 4,248 times

  GM shed some light on its EV tech research to produce much cheaper EV batteries, which will be key for its EV transformation. The automaker…

• M&A In U.S. Oil And Gas To Hit $3.4 Billion In Q1 2021

  Published 08 April 2021 | viewed 3,385 times

  Mergers and acquisitions in the upstream segment of the U.S. oil and gas industry hit $3.4 billion in the first quarter of the year, Reuters…

• What Caused The Saudi-India Oil Rift?

  Published 07 April 2021 | viewed 25,931 times

  A match has been going on in global oil, which has stayed largely out of the spotlight as the world focuses on the pandemic and…

• Rising Fuel Stocks Push Oil Prices Lower

  Published 07 April 2021 | viewed 8,199 times

  Crude oil prices fell on Wednesday after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory draw of 3.5 million barrels for the week to…

• EIA: Gas Prices At the Pump Could Hit 3-Year High

  Published 07 April 2021 | viewed 5,531 times

  Gasoline prices could hit the highest in three years this summer, the Energy Information Administration said in this year’s edition of its Summer Fuels Outlook.…

• Why Has President Biden Sidelined Natural Gas?

  Published 06 April 2021 | viewed 4,039 times

  “Build Back Better” was the slogan that accompanied the Biden administration’s initiative for economic recovery after the pandemic. The actual plan that the administration released…

• Oil Trading Giant Vitol Sees Revenues Drop In 2020

  Published 06 April 2021 | viewed 1,218 times

  Commodity trade major Vitol reported a drop in its 2020 revenue to $140 billion from $225 billion a year earlier as the pandemic plunged its…

• India Cuts Orders For Saudi Oil After Price Hike

  Published 06 April 2021 | viewed 2,774 times

  India will buy some 36 percent less crude oil from Saudi Arabia next month, unnamed sources told Reuters soon after the Kingdom said it would…

• Soaring Methane Emissions Suggest U.S. Oil Production Is Bouncing Back

  Published 05 April 2021 | viewed 3,899 times

  U.S. oil production remains about 2 million bpd lower than its pre-pandemic levels. Still, methane emissions are already back to their levels from before the…

• Saudi Arabia Angers Asian Buyers As It Hikes Oil Prices

  Published 05 April 2021 | viewed 10,774 times

  Saudi Arabia has hiked its crude oil prices for Asian buyers by $0.40 per barrel and cut those for European and U.S. buyers by $0.20…

• Suez Canal Traffic Jam Clears

  Published 05 April 2021 | viewed 12,338 times

  The backlog of ships in the Suez Canal has been cleared following the refloating of the Ever Given, which got stuck in the Canal blocking…

• Forget OPEC Production Cuts, It’s Exports That Matter

  Published 04 April 2021 | viewed 14,123 times

  Oil prices went on a rollercoaster ride this week ahead of the April OPEC+ meeting to discuss how production control is going and what their…

• EVs, Smart Appliances Pose Cybersecurity Risks

  Published 02 April 2021 | viewed 737 times

  Electric vehicles and smart appliances, whose popularity among Americans is growing, pose a potential cybersecurity risk, a recent report from the Government Office of Accountability…

• Europe Looks To Stock Up On Natural Gas This Summer

  Published 01 April 2021 | viewed 4,438 times

  Harsh winters are always bad news for energy consumers. But they are good news for those that produce the energy that consumers use. This winter…

• ExxonMobil Set To Outperform As Oil And Gas Prices Climb

  Published 01 April 2021 | viewed 8,242 times

  Exxon could swing into profit this quarter after five consecutive quarters in the red thanks to higher oil and gas prices and recovering demand, according…