Wall Street stocks tumbled and oil prices surged as White House warnings of a possibly imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine reverberated through financial markets. Markets lurched on Friday during a briefing by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said a Russian invasion could “begin at any time,” including during …

Through its affiliate TotalEnergies E&P USA Inc., TotalEnergies has announced its decision not to sanction, and to withdraw from, the North Platte deepwater project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The decision not to continue with the project was taken “as the company has better opportunities of allocation of its …

Crude oil supply by non-OPEC countries will grow by 3 mln barrels daily in 2022, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says in its February report. OPEC at the same time lowered the estimate in increase of supplies from 0.7 mln barrels a day to 0.6 mln barrels daily …

The Permian has led U.S. shale production growth in recent months and will continue to do so in the coming months, but the oil price rally so far in 2022 has also driven increased drilling activity in other shale basins with higher breakeven prices. $90 oil is incentivizing more drilling …

The European Commission on Thursday raised its inflation expectations for this year, but is still expecting prices to move below the European Central Bank’s target of 2% in 2023. The Brussels-based institution said inflation will hit 3.5% this year from a November forecast of 2.2%. The debate over inflation in …

An unexpected drop in US crude inventories did little to boost oil prices, with investors focused on the outcome of US-Iran nuclear talks on Thursday, which could see more Iranian oil barrels on the market. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $91.19 per barrel at 0615 GMT with a …

The underwater shield crossing project that passes through the Yangtze River of China-Russia Eastern Gas Pipeline is in full swing, which is the key project of the southern section of the China-Russia Eastern Gas Pipeline, with a total length of 10.226 kilometers, the longest tunnel under construction across the Yangtze …

Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the country’s top refiner, will increase crude purchases from Iraq by 11.5% in 2022 to 390,000 barrels per day (bpd), partly to make up for a shortfall from Mexico and a possible supply cut from Kuwait, two sources familiar with the matter said. Iraq is the …

About a tenth of the global oil and gas industry’s methane emissions have been found to come from a group of “ultra-emitter” sites located mostly in Turkmenistan, Russia and the US. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that governments recently agreed to slash by 2030, New Scientist reported. While huge …

Iranian scientists succeeded in breaking the US monopoly in producing electron accelerators, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said. “A while ago I wrote about the important role of electron accelerators in this Instagram page and pointed to inspiring research and activities of nuclear scientists …