Day: February 19, 2025

The Collapse of the EV SPACs: Nikola Joins EV SPAC Bankruptcy Lineup. Here Are Those Already Bankrupt, and Those Not Yet

Energy News Beat The Consensual Hallucination that drove the EV SPAC mania didn’t die with the EV SPACs; it moved on to other stocks. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Nikola, the “legendary” maker of fuel-cell electric and battery-electric class-8 trucks that had gone public in June 2020 via merger with a SPAC, finally filed for chapter 11 […]

Trump’s Policy Deluge Is Causing Paralysis in the Oil Market

Energy News Beat The oil market is becoming increasingly numb to the array of changes that Donald Trump is trying to make now that he’s US President again. Trump spent his first weeks in office railing against OPEC, seeking an end to the war in Ukraine, and threatening tariffs against some of the main crude […]

Iranian Oil Exports to China are rolling

Energy News Beat Iranian crude oil flows to China have rebounded this month after a U.S. crackdown on shipments launched in late 2024 decimated them in January. In a last-minute push to sanction Iran, the Biden admin blacklisted a number of tankers, trading entities, and shipping companies as participants in sanctioned oil trade. The February […]

Diamondback Boosts Midland Basin Presence With $4-Billion Acquisition

Energy News Beat Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) on Tuesday announced a deal to buy Double Eagle IV Midco in an acquisition valued at about $4 billion, which gives the buyer increased presence in the Midland Basin in the top-oil producing U.S. formation, the Permian. Diamondback Energy has signed a definitive purchase agreement to buy certain subsidiaries […]

West will have to reconsider Russia sanctions as part of Ukraine peace deal – Rubio

Energy News Beat Ending the conflict could open up “historic” opportunities for US-Russian relations, the US secretary of state has said The United States and its allies would have to address the sanctions imposed on Russia in order to achieve an “enduring, sustainable” solution to the Ukraine conflict, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told […]

Rebuilding ties, finding common ground, Ukraine peace negotiations: key takeaways from Russia-US talks in Riyadh

Energy News Beat Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described the meeting with the US delegation as “useful” as both sides look to re-establish contacts Russia and the US have taken the first steps towards normalizing relations after an impasse which lasted years under the Joe Biden administration. Delegations from Moscow and Washington met on […]

UK Government relaunches Net Zero Council 

Energy News Beat The UK Government has relaunched the Net Zero Council with a plan to help various sectors accelerate towards net zero targets and support thousands of jobs. The relaunch reflects a new “mission-led approach”, ensuring government actively engages with a broad range of industry leaders and stakeholders to drive the progress towards net […]

EU forges ahead with ‘independent’ Russia sanctions policy amid mixed US signals

Energy News Beat   EU envoys agreed on a further round of sanctions on Russia on Wednesday amid conflicting signals from the United States about the future of Washington’s own  regime of restrictive measures aimed at Moscow. The new sanctions package – the EU’s 16th since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 […]

Japan’s January LNG imports rise

Energy News Beat The country’s LNG imports increased to 6.64 million tonnes last month. LNG imports dropped slightly compared to 6.74 million tonnes of LNG in December, which was up by 5.7 percent year-on-year. The world’s second-largest LNG importer took 65.89 million tonnes of LNG last year, down 0.4 percent year-on-year. Japan’s coal imports for power […]

Construction underway on major England-Scotland power link

Energy News Beat Construction has begun on a subsea electricity superhighway that will transport power for two million homes in the UK. Electricity will be transported along more than 190 kilometres of predominantly undersea cable linking the south-east of Scotland with the north-east of England. Eastern Green Link 1, a joint venture by SP Energy […]