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• Oil Has Become Too Volatile For Traders

  Published 21 August 2022 | viewed 22,945 times

  Price volatility is a trader’s bread and butter, but in oil, volatility is becoming excessive, pushing traders away and making life harder for a lot…

• Private Equity Is Pouring More Money In Oil And Gas

  Published 20 August 2022 | viewed 13,020 times

  In February this year, The Guardian published exclusively a report by two non-profits that detailed the participation of the world’s largest private equity firms in…

• Energy Inflation Threatens Thousands Of UK Businesses

  Published 19 August 2022 | viewed 3,044 times

  Thousands of small and medium businesses in the UK are finding it increasingly hard to keep the lights on as energy prices continue to rise.…

• Energy Prices Trigger Deindustrialization In Germany

  Published 19 August 2022 | viewed 9,687 times

  German factories are struggling to cope with soaring energy costs, which may prompt many to leave the country for a cheaper location, Bloomberg has reported,…

• India To Delay Coal Plant Closure

  Published 18 August 2022 | viewed 2,227 times

  India is set to delay the retirement of some coal plants even as it builds new coal generation capacity, Bloomberg has reported, noting this would…

• Energy Sanctions On Russia Have Been A Boon For China And India

  Published 17 August 2022 | viewed 5,054 times

  When the UK and the U.S. banned Russian oil imports, and the European Union approved sanctions that made it a lot harder to trade in…

• Drought Is Driving European Energy Markets Toward Disaster

  Published 17 August 2022 | viewed 8,296 times

  Energy markets and nature seem to have it in for Europe. Record-breaking gas prices, rising coal prices, and droughts that interfere with electricity generation in…

• Oil Jumps On Massive Crude Inventory Draw

  Published 17 August 2022 | viewed 56,661 times

  Crude oil prices moved higher today, after the Energy Information Administration estimated a draw in oil inventories of 7.1 million barrels for the week to…

• BP To Sell Mexican Oil Assets As It Ramps Up Renewable Business

  Published 16 August 2022 | viewed 7,482 times

  BP is selling its oil assets in Mexico as it seeks to focus even more on its renewable energy business. The political environment in the…

• Germany Signs Preliminary Deal To Ramp Up LNG Import Capacity

  Published 16 August 2022 | viewed 5,825 times

  The German federal government has signed two memoranda of understanding with the country's top gas utilities for the delivery of two floating LNG import terminals.…

• Iran Delivers Nuclear Deal Response But Details Remain Unclear

  Published 16 August 2022 | viewed 4,715 times

  Iran has submitted a written response to the latest version of the nuclear deal that is being brokered by the European Union between Tehran and…

• The Finite Factor Standing In The Way Of The Renewable Revolution

  Published 15 August 2022 | viewed 5,070 times

  Earlier this year, now former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country could become the Saudi Arabia of wind. In the United States, just…

• Aramco Q2 Profit Soars 90% On Higher Oil Prices

  Published 15 August 2022 | viewed 1,894 times

  Saudi Aramco reported a net profit of $48.4 billion for the second quarter of the year, a record figure and a 90-percent increase on the…

• Aramco Stands Ready To Boost Oil Output To 12 Million Bpd

  Published 15 August 2022 | viewed 39,069 times

  Aramco is ready to ramp up oil production to 12 million bpd whenever the Saudi government asks this of the company, CEO Amin Nasser said…

• Oil Market Surplus Strengthens Case For New OPEC Output Cuts

  Published 14 August 2022 | viewed 30,244 times

  This week, OPEC issued its Monthly Oil Market Report. It was released just hours after the IEA released its own monthly oil market forecast. Unlike…

• UN Warns Of Disaster As Russia, Ukraine Face Off In Zaporizhia

  Published 12 August 2022 | viewed 2,628 times

  Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has called on Ukraine and Russia to halt fighting in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power…

• The New Acquisition Strategy Of U.S. Shale

  Published 11 August 2022 | viewed 7,876 times

  U.S. shale oil producers have been in Washington’s sights for several months now, refusing to produce as much oil as legislators and the White House…

• Former UK PM Calls For Energy Utility Nationalization

  Published 11 August 2022 | viewed 2,248 times

  A former British Prime Minister has called for the nationalization of energy utilities that cannot offer their customers lower electricity prices. In an op-ed for…

• IEA Sees Higher Oil Demand This Year

  Published 11 August 2022 | viewed 3,935 times

  Global crude oil demand will rise by 2.1 million bpd this year, the International Energy Agency said in the latest monthly edition of its flagship…

• Alberta Oil Output Hits Record High

  Published 11 August 2022 | viewed 6,763 times

  Crude oil production in Alberta reached a record high in the first half of the year, at 3.6 million bpd, which was 100,000 bpd higher…