Saudi Arabia is expected to announce in a few days little changes to the price of its crude going to Asia in April, amid a rise in Middle Eastern oil benchmarks, a Reuters survey of refiners showed on Friday. Saudi Aramco, the world’s top crude oil exporter, is set to …
Read More »Oil Prices Set to End the Week with a Minor Gain
Crude oil prices are set to end the week with a modest gain on expectations that OPEC+ will extend its production cap deal, tightening supply further. OPEC initially agreed to reduce combined supply by 2.2 million bpd over the first quarter of the year and meet in early March to …
Read More »Egypt Signs 7 Green Energy Deals with Global Developers
Egypt has signed seven memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with international developers and government entities in the fields of green hydrogen and renewable energy, the Egyptian State Information Service said Wednesday. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and a number of ministers attended the signing ceremony for the agreements at the government headquarters …
Read More »U.S. Natural Gas Prices Gain over 3% after Hitting 1997 Low
U.S. natural gas prices gained over 3% on Wednesday, recovering from a four-year low earlier in the week as European demand popped and unseasonably warm temperatures in the southern United States boosted cooling demand to make up for lackluster heating demand. So far this year, natural gas has shed over …
Read More »Ukraine Steel Giant Faces 31% Drop in Steel Production
Ukrainian metals and mining group Metinvest recently reported a 31% decrease year on year in its crude steel production for 2023, citing Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country. On February 16, the company announced its decision to halt steel manufacturing activities at its assets in Mariupol, Avdiivka, and Zaporizhzhia. This …
Read More »Russia’s LNG Cargoes Bound for China Avoid the Red Sea
Russia has started diverting its LNG cargoes away from the Suez Canal and is using the longer route to China via the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, amid a higher risk of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, according to LSEG data cited by Reuters on Wednesday. The longer …
Read More »Oil Prices Inch Higher as U.S. Crude Inventories Rise, OPEC+ Considers Extending Production Cuts
Crude oil futures inched higher Wednesday as U.S. crude inventories rose while OPEC+ is considering extending its production cuts into the second quarter. U.S. crude stocks rose by 8.4 million barrels last week, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Inventories have been rising in the U.S. as the rate at …
Read More »Russia’s next Nuclear Icebreaker will be Named “Leningrad”
A cold wind of Soviet nostalgia is blowing across a Russia that uses World War II to justify its war against Ukraine. No coincidence then that laying the keel for the next nuclear-powered icebreaker will happen simultaneously as St. Petersburg celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi-German …
Read More »After Sweden, Denmark Ends Investigation into Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions
Denmark has ended its investigation concerning the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines that occurred in September 2022, becoming the second country to do so. Germany, Sweden and Denmark each initiated respective national investigations into the incident after four gas leaks were found on the Nord …
Read More »BP to Invest $1.5 Billion in Egypt as Country’s Gas Output Falls
BP Plc plans to invest about $1.5 billion in Egypt during the next few years as it seeks to develop gas projects and drilling in the North African country. The spending, which will be net to BP, follows the London-based major’s announcement earlier this month it will form a gas-focused …
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