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• Oil Prices Falter On Colossal Crude Inventory Build

  Published 03 March 2021 | viewed 36,768 times

  Crude oil prices dropped today after the Energy Information Administration reported what can only be described as a colossal crude oil inventory build of 21.6…

• Oil Rally Stumbles On OPEC+ Uncertainty

  Published 02 March 2021 | viewed 14,446 times

  A rally that pushed oil prices higher than they were immediately before the pandemic struck has faltered on uncertainty around OPEC+ and a stronger dollar.…

• Venezuela Sees Oil Exports Rise Despite U.S. Sanctions

  Published 02 March 2021 | viewed 4,733 times

  Venezuela’s crude oil exports rose last month despite Washington imposing new sanctions in January on several trading houses that worked with Caracas to export its…

• API Expected To Endorse Carbon Pricing

  Published 02 March 2021 | viewed 2,285 times

  The American Petroleum Institute is set to unveil a declaration in which it endorses carbon pricing as a means of achieving the goals of the…

• Can Abandoned Oil Wells Be Used To Generate Geothermal Power?

  Published 01 March 2021 | viewed 22,844 times

  “The decade of geothermal” is a phrase that is becoming increasingly common in media and energy industry gatherings as the international zero-emission push comes to…

• Aramco Seeking To Extend Loan $10 Billion Loan

  Published 01 March 2021 | viewed 4,432 times

  Saudi Aramco is reportedly seeking to extend a $10-billion loan, according to Reuters, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter, who confirmed an initial…

• This Energy Sector Will See The Next Big M&A Wave

  Published 28 February 2021 | viewed 11,334 times

  Environmental, social, and governance investment is inarguably one of the hottest trends in financial markets. Investors are pressuring companies into reducing their carbon footprint, and…

• Reuters Poll: Bankers See Steady Rise In Oil Prices

  Published 26 February 2021 | viewed 7,730 times

  Brent crude will average $59.07 per barrel this year, according to a Reuters survey of analysts. This is up from last month’s consensus on an…

• China's Oil Reserves Near Limit

  Published 26 February 2021 | viewed 38,428 times

  China's crude oil reserves have reached a level equal to 100 days of imports, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources in the know, which is…

• How High Can Oil Really Go?

  Published 25 February 2021 | viewed 44,177 times

  Oil price revisions started cautiously: some banks saw Brent crude averaging $65 a barrel this year, and others, of a bolder nature, predicted that the…

• Exxon Shocks As Oil Reserves Drop By A Third

  Published 25 February 2021 | viewed 54,211 times

  Exxon slashed its oil reserves by almost a third in what is the most radical reserve revision in the company’s modern history. The supermajor reported…

• Bank Of America Expects Fastest Oil Price Rise In 30 Years

  Published 25 February 2021 | viewed 71,926 times

  Oil prices are set to rise by the fastest rate since the 1970s over the next three years, Bank of America said in a new…

• Carbon Dioxide: A $550-Billion Opportunity

  Published 24 February 2021 | viewed 16,378 times

  Anyone would be forgiven for being shocked when they see the words ‘carbon’ and ‘opportunity’ in one sentence. Carbon, after all, or rather carbon-oxygen compounds,…

• Oil Prices Climb Despite Crude Build

  Published 24 February 2021 | viewed 13,113 times

  Oil prices rose on Wednesday morning, despite a somewhat surprising EIA inventory report, which reflected a build in crude stocks and virtually unchanged gasoline inventories…

• Canadian Oil-by-Rail Exports To U.S. Keep Rising

  Published 24 February 2021 | viewed 6,492 times

  Crude oil exports from Canada to the United States are increasingly being shipped by rail due to the now chronic shortage of pipeline capacity that…

• Scientists Warn That Filling The Sahara With Solar Panels Is A Bad Idea

  Published 23 February 2021 | viewed 41,785 times

  Two years ago, a team of Finnish scientists estimated that the world needs to get 69 percent of its primary energy from solar farms in…

• Luxury Tesla Competitor Ready To Go Public Following $11 Billion Deal

  Published 23 February 2021 | viewed 1,111 times

  Lucid Motors, an EV maker targeting the luxury segment, will merge with a special-purpose acquisition company to go public in a deal worth $11.75 billion,…

• Petrobras CEO Ousting Triggers $13B Stock Loss

  Published 23 February 2021 | viewed 2,521 times

  The decision of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro to replace the chief executive of oil major Petrobras triggered investor panic and a selloff that led to…

• Europe’s Rare Earth Dependency Dilemma

  Published 22 February 2021 | viewed 9,660 times

  Solar panels. Wind turbines. Electric vehicle batteries and motors. These are just four of the things that need one or more of a group of…

• Brazil President Ousts Petrobras CEO

  Published 22 February 2021 | viewed 2,696 times

  The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, ousted Petrobras chief executive Roberto Castello Blanco, replacing him with former Defense Minister Joaquim Silva e Luna. The move…