U.S. refining and chemicals giant Phillips 66 booked higher-than-expected earnings for the third quarter even if earnings plunged from a year earlier, as expected, due to weak refining margins and fuel demand. Phillips 66 reported on Tuesday adjusted earnings of $859 million, or $2.04 per share, for the third quarter, …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Vows to Maintain Its Status as an Oil Giant
As Saudi Arabia prepares to tender 44 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy projects, it will continue to maintain its oil-producing potential to ensure global energy security, officials from the Kingdom said at the annual investment forum in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude oil exporter, will keep …
Read More »BP and Shell Brace for Profit Drop
BP and Shell are expected to post lower profits this week as the supermajors grapple with weak oil prices and a global slowdown in demand. BP is due to publish its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, while Shell will report its results on Thursday. Earlier this month, the FTSE 100 firms …
Read More »Geopolitical Tensions Cast Shadow over EV Industry
Chinese EV battery maker SVOLT is shuttering operations in Europe on the heels of a yearslong regulatory conflict between European lawmakers and EV manufacturing based in China. As we have reported over the last year, EU authorities have been doing everything in their power to stifle EV production based in …
Read More »European Gas Futures Retreat from 2024 Highs
Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices slumped on Monday from their 2024 high from last week as Israel’s retaliation for the Iranian missile strike was limited in scope and targets and avoided energy infrastructure in Iran. Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures, the benchmark for Europe’s gas trading, were trading down by …
Read More »UAE’s Renewable Energy Giant Pushes back Green Hydrogen Targets
Masdar, the clean energy giant of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has pushed back its target to reach 1 million tons per year of green hydrogen capacity beyond 2030, the company’s press office told Bloomberg on Monday. Masdar, which initially targeted this capacity by 2030, will now aim to reach …
Read More »PetroChina Set to Close Its Biggest Refinery in 2025
State oil giant PetroChina plans to shut its largest Chinese refinery in 2025 after years of considering moving the processing to a smaller site, anonymous sources told Reuters on Monday. PetroChina has been thinking for years to shut its Dalian Petrochemical plant in downtown Dalian, north China. The 410,000-barrels per …
Read More »Egypt to Double down on Natural Gas
Egypt has played a leading role in the global energy market for several decades, as a major producer of both oil and gas, as well as a vital transportation hub for energy products. Despite disruptions, caused mainly by national political unrest and geopolitical challenges in recent years, Egypt remains a …
Read More »Russia Claims to be Developing Nuclear-Powered Submarines to Deliver Arctic LNG to Asia
Russia is pressing ahead with a whole new form of gas transport, unveiling designs for nuclear-powered submarines to ferry LNG from the Arctic to Asia. The Kurchatov Institute, Russia’s leading research and development institution in the field of nuclear energy, is working with energy giant Gazprom to build the underwater …
Read More »BP Walks back Green Targets amid Market Realities
In February 2020, then-brand-new chief executive Bernard Looney told the world that one of the oldest and biggest oil companies in the world was going to become a net-zero company by 2050. To achieve this, it would slash its oil and gas production by 40% by 2030. Four years and …
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