Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: The US administration clearly has its head in the sand. China and Saudi Arabia have just exchanged billions in currency to trade oil outside the “Petro Dollar.” After the Biden administration weaponized the dollar through sanctions, they escalated the total devaluation of the dollar and subsequently crippled the US’s […]
Energy News Beat Investing Brent and U.S. crude futures climbed more than 2.5%, gaining $2 a barrel on Monday, as further supply cuts in OPEC+ production are expected in the coming weeks. Source: Reuters Brent crude futures were up $2.19 to $82.80 a barrel by 10:32 a.m. CT (1632 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up $1.98, […]
Energy News Beat World Oil (Bloomberg) — Kimmeridge Energy Management Co., which is among the most active and outspoken U.S. oil and gas investors, said a merger of Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co. would create one of the industry’s most sought-after stocks. Source: Reuters “There are only a few must-own stocks in the […]
Energy News Beat Image: Oman LNG State-owned producer Oman LNG has signed a deal to supply liquefied natural gas to UK-based energy giant BP. Oman LNG announced the signing of the sales and purchase agreement on Tuesday. Under the SPA, Oman LNG will supply 1 million metric tonnes per annum of LNG to BP for […]
Energy News Beat BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) – The People’s Bank of China and the Saudi Central Bank recently signed a local currency swap agreement worth 50 billion yuan ($6.93 billion) or 26 billion Saudi riyals, both banks said on Monday, as bilateral relations continued to gather momentum. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, […]
Energy News Beat The regional electric grid operator in Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), sent a request to stakeholders earlier this year asking for more reserve generating capacity for this upcoming winter when electricity demand is typically at its highest. The request specifically targeted decommissioned coal and natural gas plants owned by municipalities, wanting […]
Energy News Beat November 20, 2023 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, Monthly Electric Power Industry Report The average utilization rate (or capacity factor) for the entire U.S. fleet of combined-cycle natural gas turbine (CCGT) electric power plants has risen as the operating efficiency of new CCGT units has improved. The CCGT capacity […]
Energy News Beat In a recent Angus Reid Institute survey, Canadians were asked which political party they would prefer to manage the country’s climate change file. The winner was the Conservative Party of Canada; 28 per cent wanted the Tories, against 14 per cent who wanted the Liberal status quo. What’s more, respondents were endorsing a […]
Energy News Beat For decades, the fruits of the fracking revolution, plus our newly minted status as the world’s top net exporter of natural gas, demonstrated that American consumers were swimming in bountiful energy. But as the pandemic effects of supply chain shortages, the war in Ukraine, and higher government spending gave way to inflation hikes, suddenly […]
Energy News Beat The modern American version of “the environmental emperor has no clothes” until now has been the rise and fall of Enron. As former Ken Lay speechwriter Robert Bradley, Jr., says, “(T)he cause of Enron’s financial bankruptcy were at root philosophical…. Enron’s leaders were certainly engaged in massive philosophical fraud – an attempt to cheat reality […]
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