European demand for natural gas remained near the bottom of the five-year seasonal levels in August, helping inventories end the month at around 93% full, data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) showed on Monday. Europe’s gas demand, measured in consumption in the EU and the UK, has trended …

Denmark’s annual power demand could treble to 127 TWh by 2035, fuelled by a surge of electrolysers using wind and solar power to create hydrogen and other green fuels, said the nation’s energy agency in a new study. It estimated demand from electrolysers to jump from virtually zero today to …

Iraq launched three energy contracts with UAE’s Crescent Petroleum to develop three oil and gas fields in Iraq, Iraq’s oil ministry said on Sunday. Earlier this year, Crescent Petroleum signed three 20-year contracts to expand oil and natural gas fields in Iraq’s Basra and Diyala. The contracts are set to …

ExxonMobil’s purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources is the largest upstream deal, in nominal terms, since Shell acquired BG for $82 billion in 2015 and makes ExxonMobil the world’s first megamajor. That’s according to Wood Mackenzie’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Research, Tom Ellacott, who added, in a statement sent to …

The International Atomic Energy Agency and experts from China, South Korea and Canada on Monday collected seawater samples near the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex in northeastern Japan following the release of treated radioactive water from the site, the Japanese government said. The team is visiting Japan through Oct. 23 to …

During the 2023 World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, the government of Uzbekistan and the World Bank signed an agreement to allocate $46.25 million for financing the Innovative Carbon Resource Application for Energy Transition Project (iCRAFT). These funds will help implement a project supporting …

Bitcoin miners use an estimated 348 terawatt hours of electricity per year, and with the world increasingly moving to renewables, some are asking the question: just where does Bitcoin get its electricity? To answer that question, Visual Capitalist’s Chris Deckert partnered with HIVE Digital to visualize data from the Cambridge …

Crude oil prices began trading relatively flat on Monday after a hugely volatile week in which both WTI and Brent saw two significant drops before a massive rally on Friday. In morning trade in Asia, Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate were trading at a slight loss of between 0.3% …

Turkmenistan is on the cusp of securing a major new buyer for its natural gas: Iraq. On October 8, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry reported on a four-day visit to Baghdad by the head of the Turkmen state gas company for meetings revolving around this prospect. The plan is for Iraq …

Iran produced 3.058 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in September, registering a 15,000-bpd increase compared to the previous month, according to OPEC’s latest monthly report. Based on secondary sources, Iran produced 3.043 million bpd of crude oil in August. The Islamic Republic’s average crude output for the …