As Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices have hit a one-year high, their premium over with the U.S. benchmark gas price has widened well above 2024 averages, signaling that U.S. LNG exporters will likely further boost deliveries to Europe to take advantage of the widening spread. Currently, the price of the …

Saudi Aramco plans to regularly tap the bond market for debt issuance as it looks to optimize capital structure and widen its investor base, Ziad Al-Murshed, chief financial officer of the world’s biggest oil firm, told Bloomberg in an interview. “You’ll see us do a couple of things. One is, …

Exxon, Hess, and CNOOC plan to add a fourth production vessel to the ones already operating in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, Hess Corp.’s CEO has said, as quoted by Reuters. The floating production, storage, and offloading vessel should reach its destination in the first quarter of next year, John …

President-elect Donald Trump intends to revive the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office—just like President Biden shut it down on his first day in office. A Politico report citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation said that the president-elect’s transition team was discussing …

The giant offshore Johan Sverdrup oilfield, Western Europe’s biggest producing field, has resumed normal operations at full capacity following a power outage on Monday, a spokesperson for the operator, Equinor, told Reuters on Wednesday. “The entire production facility at Johan Sverdrup resumed operations yesterday and is now producing steadily at …

Iranian gas refineries are currently producing 840 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas per day, according to the director of production coordination and supervision of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Speaking to the press on the sidelines of a visit to Ilam Refinery, Mohammad-Reza Jolaei, said natural gas accounts …

International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors has started its quarterly meeting on Wednesday in Vienna with its Director General Rafael Grossi’s opening speech. “Addressed the @IAEAorg Board of Governors this morning. Shared updates on #COP29, Iran, Ukraine, nuclear energy and fusion, #Atoms4Food, #RaysofHope, and more,” Grossi wrote in a …

Requests from customers in Austria and Slovakia for Russian natural gas supply via Ukraine rose by 6% on Tuesday compared to Monday, even as Gazprom cut off supply to Austrian energy group OMV this weekend amid a contractual dispute. Nominations from companies in Austria and Slovakia were still 12% below …

Brazil’s Petrobras plans to spend $111 billion in the five years between 2025 and 2029, with $77 billion of this total earmarked for oil and gas exploration and production activities, Reuters reported, citing a securities filing. The new spending figure is $10 billion higher than an earlier version of the …

Austria appears to be still receiving some Russian gas two days after the country’s integrated energy company, OMV, declared it would stop paying Gazprom to offset a 230 million-euro ($242 million) arbitration award by the International Chamber of Commerce over a previous gas cut-off. According to Reuters, gas flows from …