Sanctioned LNG vessels carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project are running into early winter ice on the Northern Sea Route and deliveries to China from the Russian export plant could drop off as temperatures in the Arctic plummet. The Buran vessel, which offloaded a cargo …

Power generation in India plunged by 6% in October from a year earlier – the sharpest drop since the Covid lockdowns in 2020 – as lower industrial demand due to holidays and unusually rainy weather dampened consumption, according to a Reuters analysis of government data. Total power generation fell to …

Morgan Stanley raised its price forecast for Brent crude for 2026 to $60 per barrel from $57.50 following OPEC+’s decision to pause production hikes over the first three months of next year. This was the first oil price forecast revision after the Sunday meeting of the oil-producing group, which also …

Chinese refiners are canceling Russian oil cargos and adopting a wait-and-see attitude after the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia’s oil industry. Bloomberg reports, citing traders, that state-owned majors including Sinopec and PetroChina had canceled previously ordered Russian oil cargos, while the so-called teapots, or independent refiners, had stopped buying Russian …

The United States is looking to develop new rare earth minerals supply chains to reduce China’s dominance of the sector. In October, President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met at the White House to sign an agreement for the strengthening of the critical minerals and rare earths …

U.S.-Venezuela tensions are again rippling through energy and security markets, prompting President Donald Trump to rule out immediate military strikes while maintaining a buildup of American naval assets in the Caribbean. His comments followed reports of U.S. patrols and maritime interdictions targeting narcotics routes linked to Caracas, a campaign that …

Some of Japan’s biggest utilities believe that they would be able to find alternative gas supply in case they are no longer able to import Russian LNG, executives said this week, following U.S. pressure that Japan and other U.S. allies stop imports of Russian energy. Japan imports Russian LNG from …

The government of Mozambique may not agree with the latest estimate for an LNG project led by TotalEnergies, which said earlier this week the price tag for the facility had gone up by $4.5 billion. The French supermajor attributed the cost increase to the four years, during which work on …

India’s biggest state-held refiner, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), has acquired five December-arriving cargoes of Russian crude from non-sanctioned entities, trade sources told Reuters as India scrambles to replace sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil deliveries. The U.S. sanctions Russia’s top two producers sent Indian refiners rushing to replace volumes from these exporters …

Liquefied natural gas has once again become trendy. After several years under attack from environmentalists, even the EU has accepted that natural gas, in whatever form it can get it, is going to stay in the energy mix for quite a while yet. The U.S. is building new export capacity …