Category: Energy News Beat

US issues further Iran sanctions

Energy News Beat The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on more than 30 persons and vessels in multiple jurisdictions for their role in brokering the sale and transportation of Iranian petroleum-related products, the latest in a series of measures the new Donald Trump administration is taking […]

Alaska LNG Growth

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Natural Gas Prices Surged 160%—And They’re Not Coming Down Soon February 24, 2025 Clark Savage Natural gas prices have jumped in recent weeks in all major consuming markets, including in the United States, where prices have soared by more than 160% from this time last year. Colder winters in […]

Natural Gas Prices Surged 160%—And They’re Not Coming Down Soon

Energy News Beat Natural gas prices have jumped in recent weeks in all major consuming markets, including in the United States, where prices have soared by more than 160% from this time last year. Colder winters in North America and Europe have erased all the surplus inventories stockpiled after the previous two milder winters. In […]

Chevron Is Essential to Venezuela’s Economy — and Trump Knows It

Energy News Beat US driller has oil sector on track to grow 17% in 2025 License a ‘challenging card to play’ in talks with Maduro One of the key reasons Venezuela’s economy is slowly recovering from the worst collapse in modern history is an oil giant 2,200 miles away: Chevron Corp. The Houston-based company, which has […]

US Imposes Fresh Sanctions Targeting Iran Shadow Fleet

Energy News Beat The Trump administration imposed a new round of sanctions on oil brokers, ships and people it said were linked to illicit shipments of Iranian crude, framing the move as a return to a “maximum pressure” strategy to squeeze the country’s economy. Twenty-two people and 13 vessels were targeted in the latest sanctions, […]

The Energy Literacy Revolution: How Ronald Stein is Instigating Smarter Conversations

Energy News Beat Pulitzer-nominated author Ronald Stein stimulates conversations to enhance everyone’s energy literacy. Two decades after the term microplastics was first coined, scientists and environmental advocates are sounding the alarm on the urgent need for global action. The continued use of their by-products has led to a great accumulation of waste in the environment, with […]

Apple Announces Server Manufacturing Plant in Houston, Adding Weight to Eyepopping US Factory Construction Boom

Energy News Beat The rethink about manufacturing in highly automated US plants is one of the big changes coming out of the pandemic. Industrial robots cost the same anywhere. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Apple said today that it would invest $500 billion in the US over the next four years, part of which is centered around […]

What is the future of BRICS?

Energy News Beat What is the future of BRICS? With significant changes facing the world right now, what is the future of the BRICS Movement? David Blackmon, Irina Slav, Tammy Nemeth, and Stu Turley will discuss the key issues surrounding the BRICS live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube on Monday at 8:00 Central US time. […]

UK blacklists 40 shadow fleet ships

Energy News Beat Will Rose / Greenpeace The UK is imposing a new wave of sanctions against the Russian oil trade, targeting an additional 40 ships. The biggest sanctions package against Russia’s shadow fleet brings the total number of oil tankers sanctioned by the UK to 133—more than any other European nation. Publishing details of […]

Charting U.S. Oil Future

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Redrawing of global energy markets map set to heap benefits on US February 23, 2025 Clark Savage The prospects of peace and the return of Russian gas looks likely to serve the interests of Donald Trump The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago has reverberated through the global […]