Category: Energy News Beat

Smack Dab In The Middle – Williams Acquires Gas Storage Near The Heart Of LNG Export Demand

Energy News Beat Natural gas storage — especially well-sited storage with lightning-fast deliverability rates — is taking on a new significance (and value) as LNG export facilities and power generators seek to manage their often-volatile gas demand. But developing new gas storage capacity is costly and, with only a few exceptions, it’s hard to make […]

Steinberg Embraces Nuclear Energy, Supports Third Nuclear Reactor at Millstone

Energy News Beat Once a skeptic of nuclear energy, Energy and Technology Co-Chair State Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport, is now one of its staunchest supporters. Steinberg told CT Examiner this week that, like many of his contemporaries, he questioned the benefits of using nuclear energy. But those concerns have been alleviated through research, talking to […]

Supply and Demand Shocks Still Rocking Energy Markets

Energy News Beat A year and a half after a renowned Harvard professor described the pandemic of 2020 as “the mother of all shocks” to energy markets, oil and gas prices are still being rocked by supply and demand shocks, with economic growth trends and geopolitical tensions offsetting or exacerbating them. “One reason why oil […]

Houthis threaten to cut intercontinental internet cables running along Red Sea bottoms

Energy News Beat Yemen’s AnsarAlla threatens to cut fibre optic cable in the Red Sea and the region, Azernews reports, citing foreign media. This will happen if the US and UK strike Yemen’s airports again. Internet cables serve as communication channels between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Taking them out of service would disrupt international lines […]

Gasum to build new Swedish bio-LNG plant

Energy News Beat Finnish state-owned energy firm and LNG supplier, Gasum, has decided to build a new liquefied biogas (bio-LNG) plant in Borlange, Sweden. Gasum said the the investment decision is the next step in its plan to build five large-scale biogas plants in Sweden. In February last year, Gasum started building the first bio-LNG […]

Shell CEO: LNG Canada to start commissioning later this year

Energy News Beat Shell’s LNG Canada terminal is more than 90 percent complete and the project is preparing to launch commissioning activities later this year, according to Shell’s CEO, Wael Sawan. This is the first large LNG export terminal in Canada. Contractor JGC Fluor is constructing the first phase of the giant LNG Canada project […]

ExxonMobil says Golden Pass plant on track to deliver first LNG in H1 2025

Energy News Beat Energy giants QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil are still expecting to start LNG production at their Golden Pass LNG export terminal on the US Gulf Coast near Sabine Pass, Texas, in the first half of 2025. State-owned QatarEnergy owns a 70 percent stake in the Golden Pass project with a capacity of more than […]

Vintage VLCC prices edge down

Energy News Beat Tankers Even though more than 10 rusty ladies have been reported sold this year, prices are finally coming down for vintage VLCCs. Broking sources report that a raft of ships have been circulated, but buyers are reluctant to bid despite healthy earnings. The latest reported sale in the sector is the 16-year-old […]

LNG carrier deliveries this year to smash previous record by close to 50%

Energy News Beat GasShipyards Nakilat The pace of LNG newbuild deliveries will smash records this year, beating the previous annual gas ship delivery peak of 2021 by 48%. Data from Clarksons Research shows 89 LNG ships – with a combined 14.9 cu m capacity – are due to deliver this year, more than double the […]

Daily Energy Standup Episode #300 – Wind Farm Challenges, Global Warming Solutions, and Oil & Gas Finance Market Analysis

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Wind Farms Are Overstating Their Output — And Consumers Are Paying For It February 3, 2024 Stu Turley Dozens of British wind farms run by some of Europe’s largest energy companies have routinely overestimated how much power they’ll produce, adding millions of pounds a year to consumers’ electricity bills, […]