The USA pipeline safety agency has filed a draft regulation aimed at strengthening industry measures to curb methane emissions and prevent hazards to people and the environment from the country’s nearly three million miles of gas pipelines. The proposal by the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …
Read More »Italy’s New LNG Plant Receives Maiden Delivery
Italy’s newest and fourth regasification facility has received its first liquefied natural gas (LNG), paving the way for the startup of a project supplier Eni SPA said can serve about seven percent of domestic demand. The supply came from Egypt, among several countries in Africa where state-controlled Eni has strengthened …
Read More »Venezuela Issues NGL Export Permit to Eni, Repsol in Cardon IV
Venezuela has signed an agreement with European energy giants Eni and Repsol that allows for the export of natural gas liquids -or condensates- to other markets, according to Pedro Tellechea, the country’s oil minister and Petroleos de Venezuela head. The deal comes after years of discussions with Italy’s Eni and …
Read More »India’s Imports from OPEC at all-Time Low as Russian Oil Buy Peaks
Oil producers cartel OPEC‘s share in India’s oil imports fell to an all-time low of 46 per cent in April as purchases of cheaper Russian oil peaked, industry data showed. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations, mainly in the Middle East and Africa, had a 72 per cent …
Read More »Iraq’s Oil Exports to the United States Decrease, Canada Tops the List
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has reported a decrease in Iraq’s oil exports to the United States. According to the administration’s report, Iraq’s average oil exports to the US reached 148,000 barrels per day during the past week, marking a decrease of 74,000 barrels per day compared to the …
Read More »Iranian Oil Exports Double despite Sanctions
Managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said Iran’s export of oil has doubled in the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi in spite of tough sanctions imposed against the country. Mohsen Khojastehmehr made the comment during a visit to Kharg Island, adding that the oil exports have doubled …
Read More »IEA: Achieving Reduction in Oil and Gas Emissions will Require a $600 Billion Expenditure
Around $600 billion spending is required this decade to achieve the cut in oil and gas emissions, according to a new IEA report. This is only a fraction of the record windfall income that oil and gas producers accrued in 2022. Many of the measures also generate additional income streams …
Read More »Norway’s Surprise Natural Gas Nationalization Plan even Broader than Expected
Norway’s plan to nationalize natural gas assets includes more than just Gassled’s natural gas pipelines, new information revealed in a letter from the Norwegian energy minister showed on Friday. The surprise move to nationalize the country’s gas assets will also include other assets—including the Nyhamna processing plant. Last Friday, Norway’s …
Read More »Japan to Increase Investments in Natural Gas Projects Offshore Mozambique
Japanese investors will be supported to increase investment in natural gas projects in Mozambique as the Southeastern African country aims to develop giant offshore projects, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. Japan will encourage “the entry of more Japanese businessmen” in Mozambique, Kishida said on Thursday in the capital, Maputo. “Cooperation …
Read More »Greek Tanker Owners Dominate Russian Oil Trade
Greek shipping tycoons and their tanker companies are moving large volumes of Russian oil and are making a lot of money off these trades, which are mostly shunned by other Western ship owners after the West moved to sanction Russia’s crude. Tankers owned by EU member Greece, one of the …
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