Category: Energy News Beat

Refineries are BACK!

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories ADNOC Moves Ahead With Huge LNG Export Project in UAE June 12, 2024 Mariel Alumit Abu Dhabi’s national oil company ADNOC has taken the final investment decision to move forward with the Ruwais LNG project, which will more than double the existing LNG production capacity in the United Arab […]

Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation: A Stunning Outlier Services CPI Drove Down Everything Else

Energy News Beat Services are big, and that one-month outlier was massive, and it drove down Core CPI and overall CPI. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Consumer Price Index for May, on a month-to-month basis, was pushed down by the continued sharp drop in durable goods prices, a drop in energy prices, flat food prices, and […]

Fed Sees Only 1 Rate Cut in 2024, Holds Rates at 5.50% Top of Range, QT Continues at Slower Pace as Announced in May

Energy News Beat Higher for longer becomes formalized one meeting at a time, as projections for “longer-run” federal funds rate keep getting raised. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. FOMC members voted unanimously today to maintain the Fed’s policy rates unchanged, as Fed governors have uniformly telegraphed in their speeches: Federal funds rate target range: 5.25% – 5.5%. […]

Coal Meets India’s Record Power Demand; Net Zero Sidelined

Energy News Beat Dirty coal is dead, and the future is renewable energy. Or so the heavily bankrolled green industrial complex would have us believe. Reality is starkly different, however, as the Global South’s embrace of fossil fuels demonstrates. India is a prime example. Having the planet’s largest population, the country will register the world’s highest […]

Berkshire Buys Nearly 2.57MM More Shares from Occidental

Energy News Beat Billionaire Warren Buffett bought almost 2.57 million common stocks from Occidental Petroleum Corp. last week for about $153.3 million. The purchase, made in three tranches, has increased Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s common shares in the United States energy company to nearly 250.6 million, according to a Berkshire regulatory disclosure. Berkshire now owns nearly […]

Oil Drops on Inventory Build

Energy News Beat Crude oil prices moved lower today, after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported an estimated inventory increase of 3.7 million barrels for the week to June 7. The change compared with a weekly build of 1.2 million barrels for the previous week that was also accompanied by builds in fuel inventories, pressuring benchmarks. Last week, the […]

Oil settles up on Mideast tension, gains curbed as interest rate cuts pushed back

Energy News Beat HOUSTON, June 12 (Reuters) – Oil settled higher on Wednesday as ongoing tensions in the Middle East lent support to prices, but news that interest rate cuts could start as late as December capped gains, following the Federal Reserve’s statement concluding its two-day meeting. Brent crude futures settled 68 cents, or 0.83%, […]

Citi Says Oil Could Crash to Sub-$60 Level

Energy News Beat Citi analysts have painted a bleak picture for the oil market, forecasting a significant price drop by 2025. According to their latest note, they anticipate a decline to $60 per barrel for Brent crude, marking a decrease of over 20% compared to current market expectations. The report suggests that while short-term volatility […]

U.S. LNG Shipped to Asia Is Still Cleaner Than Coal

Energy News Beat US LNG shipped to Asia has a lower value-chain emissions footprint than coal-fired power generation, even over long distances. Uncertainties regarding methane emissions and variations in emissions intensity between different sources and types of LNG and coal complicate the assessment. Reducing methane leakages in the LNG value chain can widen the emissions […]

Matador Resources Company Announces Strategic Bolt-On Delaware Basin Acquisition

Energy News Beat DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun. 12, 2024– Matador Resources Company (NYSE: MTDR) (“Matador” or the “Company”) today announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matador has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a subsidiary of Ameredev II Parent, LLC (“Ameredev”), including certain oil and natural gas producing properties and undeveloped acreage located in Lea County, New Mexico and Loving and Winkler Counties, Texas (the “Ameredev Acquisition”). The […]