Amid the global transition to clean fuel, conventional oil and gas companies appear to have found a way to stay relevant: blue hydrogen. Hydrogen, typically produced by breaking methane inside liquefied natural gas into hydrogen and carbon, is labeled as blue, when all carbon emissions from this process are captured, …
Read More »High Oil Prices could Fuel EV Adoption
As oil prices continue to rise and global demand is bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels, people could be buying into electric vehicles (EV) as an alternative to expensive fuel costs. The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that rising oil prices are expected to encourage people to shift away from traditional …
Read More »OPEC+ Plans to Hold Output Policy Meeting Today
OPEC+ members plan to hold their next meeting today, July 18, to decide on output policy, Reuters reported, citing sources within the producers group. The group did not reach an agreement on oil production policy, starting from August, during the two meetings held earlier this month, while a third meeting …
Read More »EU Court Says Russia should Limit Gas Supply to Europe
The Court of Justice of the European Union upheld on Thursday a lower tribunal’s ruling which had said that Russia’s access to the OPAL gas pipeline should be limited. The court case is a win for Poland against an appeal of the lower court’s ruling filed by Germany. The OPAL …
Read More »OPEC+ Plans New Meeting on Sunday
OPEC and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, plan to hold their next meeting on Sunday to decide on their output policy, two OPEC+ sources told Reuters.
Read More »World’s Recoverable Oil Resources Shrinks By 9%
Every year and following the publication of the BP Statistical Review, Rystad Energy releases its own assessment to provide an independent, solid and clear comparison of how the world’s energy landscape changed last year. Our 2021 review deals a major blow for the size of the world’s remaining recoverable oil …
Read More »UAE Resolves Standoff with OPEC, Agrees to Saudi Arabia’s Output Proposal
The United Arab Emirates has resolved its standoff with OPEC+ and reached a compromise deal that will give it a new output quota, said a delegate. The cartel will set a new date for a meeting soon, the delegate said, asking not to be named because the information was private. …
Read More »Biden, Merkel Agree to Disagree on Nord Stream 2
President Biden and Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to disagree on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project of Gazprom during Merkel’s visit to Washington. Per a Reuters report, President Biden said, “Good friends can disagree,” with regard to the pipeline, which the United States opposes with the argument that Russia …
Read More »IEA: Electricity Demand Growth will Require more Fossil Fuel Production
The demand for global electricity is growing faster than renewable energy capacity and therefore will require more power to be generated from fossil fuels. That’s according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which found renewable energy is not expanding quickly enough to meet the strong rebound …
Read More »EU Energy Tax Plan Seeks to End Hidden Advantage for Fossil Fuels
A proposed new EU-wide fuel taxation system based on energy content rather than volume seeks to end incentives for petrol and diesel, aiming instead to support the uptake of green biofuels, renewable hydrogen and synthetic fuels. The European Commission tabled a revision of the 2003 energy tax directive on Wednesday …
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