Strong European demand for Guyana’s crude pushed the oil exports of the South American country soaring by 54% last year, with Europe accounting for the majority of shipments, Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting shipping data and traders. Crude oil exports from Guyana averaged about 582,000 barrels per day (bpd) last …
Read More »Oil Prices Edge down on Rising U.S. Fuel Inventories
Oil prices declined for a second day on Thursday after large builds in fuel inventories in the U.S., the world’s biggest oil user, though expectations for increasing winter fuel demand and concerns over tighter supply limited the drop. Brent crude futures fell 8 cents to $76.08 a barrel by 0409 …
Read More »Kazakh Company Reportedly Bidding for Bulgaria’s only Refinery
Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company KazMunayGas has reportedly offered $1 billion to buy Lukoil Neftochim Burgas, Bulgaria’s only refinery currently owned by Russia’s Lukoil. The Burgas refinery already receives about 40% of its supplies from KazMunayGas, and the acquisition would strengthen the Kazakh company’s position in the European market. …
Read More »Wind Overtakes Gas as Largest Single Source of UK Electricity in 2024
The latest statistics from the National Energy System Operator (NESO) have revealed that wind power has overtaken gas as the largest single source of electricity for the first time. In 2024, wind turbines supplied 30% of the UK’s electricity despite a year of unusually low wind speeds. December, the windiest …
Read More »India’s Latest LNG Import Terminal Receives its First Shipment
Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here. India’s newest liquefied natural gas terminal has received its first shipment, taking the country a step closer to its goal of doubling the proportion of the fuel in its …
Read More »Biden Bans Offshore Oil, Gas Drilling in most Federal Waters
US President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most US coastlines. “I am taking action to protect the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from oil and natural gas drilling and …
Read More »OPEC Oil Production Falls as UAE Leads Supply Cuts
Crude oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declined last month, as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intensified supply cutbacks aimed at stabilizing global oil markets. According to a Bloomberg survey, OPEC’s output fell by 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 27.05 million bpd, with the …
Read More »Kazakhstan Struggles to Reduce Dependence on Russian Routes for Oil Exports
Kazakhstan maintained its reliance on Russian infrastructure to deliver oil to international customers in 2024, despite calls from the central Asian country’s president to seek alternative export routes. State run oil pipeline operator KazTransoil, which operates the country’s second largest export route for Kazakh oil, said on Monday that shipments …
Read More »Norway’s Troll Gas Field Sets Production Record in 2024
The Troll gas field in the North Sea has achieved a historic production milestone by delivering 42.5 billion standard cubic metres (bscm) of natural gas in 2024. This figure represents the highest annual production ever for the field and marks an increase of nearly 10% from the previous record of …
Read More »Syria to Receive Electricity-Generating Ships from Qatar and Turkey
Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkey and Qatar to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, state news agency SANA quoted an official as saying on Tuesday. Khaled Abu Dai, director general of the General Establishment for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, told …
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