Category: Energy News Beat

Fuel tanker costs surge on Red Sea crisis – Bloomberg

Energy News Beat   Houthi attacks in the waterway have prompted many companies to redirect vessels to longer and more expensive routes The cost of shipping fuel by sea has in some cases soared above $100,000 a day due to continued disruptions in the Suez Canal and Red Sea caused by attacks by the Houthi […]

Red Sea crisis could re-ignite inflation

Energy News Beat Prolonged Houthi attacks on ships risk devastating effects on the global economy, according to OilPrice Higher freight costs and delays in cargo deliveries amid the Red Sea crisis could drive up global inflation, according to an OilPrice report this week, citing analysts.  The disruptions to global trade caused by continued Houthi attacks […]

Russian gas output forecast to surge – IEA

Energy News Beat   Global production of the fuel is also expected rise whereas supply will likely remain tight, according to the energy watchdog Gas production in Russia is expected to rise by 4% this year, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Gas Market Report published on Friday. The Paris-based energy watchdog pegged Russian […]

Houthis attack tanker carrying Russian oil product – reports

Energy News Beat The vessel shipping for trading giant Trafigura is reportedly transporting Russian-origin naphtha for making plastics, gasoline A petroleum-products tanker operated on behalf of Trafigura was struck by a Houthi missile in the Gulf of Aden after transiting the Red Sea, several outlets reported on Friday, citing the commodities-trading giant. According to Marine Traffic, […]

TPPF’s Mark P. Mills Denounces Biden Administration’s Halt on LNG Exports

Energy News Beat AUSTIN — Today, in a partisan move aimed at shoring up President Joe Biden’s support from climate activists, the Biden administration announced a halt to the permitting of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals. Mark P. Mills, Distinguished Senior Fellow for energy policy with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, released the following statement on […]

On the Surface, PCE Inflation Is Encouraging, But Beneath it, Core Services Accelerated, Housing Stuck at 5.7% for Six Months

Energy News Beat And a look back at the head-fakes core services inflation dished up last time with this type of inflation. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. So right up front – and the Fed has been talking about this, though no one listens: The “core services” PCE price index has gotten stuck at 3.5% over the […]

Mining People: Forum Energy, Moneta/Nighthawk, Galway, Newmont, Snowline, World Copper

Energy News Beat   ​ Management changes announced this week: Bravo Mining named Heather Laxton as corporate secretary. Forum Energy Metals named Allison Rippin Armstrong VP Nunavut affairs. Galway Metals promoted Jesse Fisher to project manager, Clarence Stream, and hired Robert Richard as head of exploration. As Moneta Gold and Nighthawk Gold merge their companies, […]

White House Implements Nakedly Political Delay in LNG Export Approvals – David Blackmon

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: I highly recomend subscribing to David Blackmon’s Substack HERE: https://blackmon.substack.com/p/white-house-implements-nakedly-political?r=2ey9k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web  David’s industry opinions and knowledge are right on target. Prepare for more sweeping negative impacting energy policies from the Biden administration. If you’ve been wondering how much lower the Biden White House would go to appease their radical climate […]

Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted oil tanker Marlin Luanda in Gulf of Aden

Energy News Beat CAIRO, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthis said on Friday their naval forces carried out an operation targeting “the British oil tanker Marlin Luanda” in the Gulf of Aden causing a fire to break out. They used “a number of appropriate naval missiles, the strike was direct,” the Houthi military spokesperson Yahya […]

REEs used in medical field pollute wastewater, spur superbugs

Energy News Beat   ​ Pollution from environmental rare earth elements (REEs) has increased due to the widespread use of these metals in medical applications. This has implications for the development of superbugs, new research has found. According to a paper published in the journal Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, gadolinium (Gd) is commonly […]