The EIA’s first outlook for 2025 shows forecasted U.S. crude oil production reading 13.4 million barrels per day—a new record for the country. The Energy Information Administration’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook report published on Tuesday represents the first peek into predictions for 2025. Those predictions include the United States hitting …

Environmentalists received a blow this week as Norway’s parliament agreed to allow Arctic seabed exploration to mine for critical minerals as it attempted to shift away from its reliance on oil and gas. The decision could make Norway the first country in the world to commercialize deep-sea mining to harvest …

Russia was on pace for a second year of record oil drilling in 2023, further evidence of the nation’s resilience to Western sanctions. The boom in activity came alongside a recovery in the both volume and value of Russia’s oil exports, a stark illustration of how the country’s fossil fuel …

Despite missile and drone attacks on container ships in the Red Sea from the Yemeni Houthis, tanker traffic remained stable in December, Reuters has reported, citing vessel tracking data. On a daily basis, the data showed there were 76 tankers carrying crude oil and fuels in the Red Sea. This, …

The government of China has formed a new national industrial consortium focused on the development and advancement of nuclear fusion technology, news outlets have reported. The consortium China Fusion Energy Inc. is being led by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), which has been conducting research and development, construction, production, …

TotalEnergies SE has consummated the divestment of its refueling networks in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. for EUR 3.4 billion ($3.73 billion). “TotalEnergies will continue to supply fuel to the service stations in these four countries for at least five years, notably from its refineries …

Back in February 2020, British oil and gas multinational BP Inc. announced an ambitious goal to become net-zero by 2050 through, among other things, aggressively cutting oil and gas production and also undertaking one of the industry’s most expansive renewable electricity build-outs. In April of the same year, deep in …

A consortium of Brazilian, British, French and Chinese energy firms will test new technology aimed at capturing CO2 in an undersea oilfield off Brazil in an effort to reduce emissions, TotalEnergies said Monday. The pilot unit will separate oil from CO2-rich natural gas at the bottom of the ocean and …

Norway’s national oil company Equinor has announced that it has sold its shares in two Azerbaijani oil fields and the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan oil pipeline to Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR and will exit from Azerbaijan after 30 years in the country. “Equinor is in the process of reshaping its …

The shipping industry is one of the focal points of the energy transition, given the amount of hydrocarbon fuels it uses. Increasingly stringent rules about emissions from that industry have been one tool for pushing it into a transition direction. Another should have been the regular process of scrapping old …