Category: Energy News Beat

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, Feb 2025: The Price Drops & Gains of 33 Largest Costliest Housing Markets

Energy News Beat Below 2022 highs: Austin, San Francisco, Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver, Sacramento, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Portland, Salt Lake, Seattle, Tampa, Raleigh, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Orlando… Rose past their 2022 highs (but some are now sagging): Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Kansas City, Columbus, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, New […]

Can these two men find some middle ground to keep world trade moving?

Energy News Beat We have a new magazine launching today, designed to give the shipping industry an idea of how the markets might play out in the coming months. Today’s opening instalment looks at the trajectories of the world’s two largest economies. Economists have been left flabbergasted by the opening months of Donald Trump’s return […]

Putin Wants to Sell More Russian Gas to Europe. Can He?

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This is an excellent article from Bloomberg about the potential for low-cost Russian natural gas to return to the European market. There are several key points to note while reading this article. President Putin has done an excellent job for Russia, replacing Europe as a customer with the Asian […]

Guyana’s Oil Exports Skyrocket—And Europe’s Refiners Love It

Energy News Beat Guyana’s oil production and exports are surging, with output exceeding 660,000 bpd and expected to reach 1.3 million bpd by 2030. Europe is the biggest buyer of Guyana’s crude, with 66% of its exports heading there in 2024. ExxonMobil and partners are expanding operations, planning gas-to-shore projects, increasing gas production, and considering […]

Trump Energy Policies Reshape Renewables Sector

Energy News Beat The Trump administration declared a national energy emergency to accelerate fossil fuel development and imposed tariffs that increased costs for the renewable energy sector. Negotiations between the US and Ukraine regarding Ukraine’s mineral reserves ended without an agreement, leading to the temporary suspension of US military aid. The Renewables Monthly Metals Index […]

Will Trump Use the Federal Reserve as Leverage, Too?

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: The Fed is a private company that behaves like the Federal Government. In my opinion, it has lost the trust of the American people. President Trump’s actions have indicated that he is looking to back the U.S. dollar with tangible assets and get away from printing money. With the […]

Week Recap: The State of U.S. Energy: Oil, Gas, and Policy Shifts Under the Biden Administration

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories  Chris Wright Moves to Refill The Strategic Petroleum Reserve March 9, 2025 Clark Savage Many people are curious about the Trump administration’s plans to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) that was so callously abused by whomever was making decisions in the Biden administration, which drew this national security […] […]

U.S. Rig Count Stalls as Oil Prices Keep Drillers in Check

Energy News Beat The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States held steady this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 1-rig decrease in the week prior. The total rig count in the US stayed at 592 rigs, according to Baker Hughes, […]

Just 36 Companies Responsible for Half of Global Emissions

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Excellent article from Oilprice.com. Felicity points out some outstanding points about the 36 companies that are the world’s biggest carbon emissions producers. What is missing from this discussion is the definition of pollution. Is it the particulate matter in the air or the CO2? Under the worldwide Green New […]

The Cost of Ignoring Geopolitics

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This is a fascinating look from an EU perspective on the current geopolitical issue facing the EU. What Jo Inge also points out is that the left in power mocked President Trump when he called out their dependence on cheap Russian natural gas and pointed out that a nation’s […]