The world added last year the smallest coal power capacity in 20 years, but the global fleet of coal-fired plants continued to grow despite the surge of renewables, data from Global Energy Monitor’s annual survey showed on Thursday. A total of 44.1 gigawatts (GW) of coal power capacity was commissioned, …
Read More »China Aims to Maintain Leadership in Aluminum Sector
At a time when analysts expect the global demand for aluminum to rise, a new development in China may significantly impact both aluminum market demand and the country’s internal consumption. That said, market watchers know that any announcement around metals coming out of Beijing these days also has to be …
Read More »BP Begins Promised Major Oil and Gas Project Start-ups
BP said on Thursday that its Cypre development offshore Trinidad and Tobago delivered first gas, as yet another project started up since the supermajor reset its strategy to shift focus back to oil and gas. Cypre is one of BP’s 10 major projects expected to start up worldwide between 2025 …
Read More »EIA: US Crude Oil Inventories Climb 6.2 Million Barrels
Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a large increase of 6.2 million barrels during the week ending March 28, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration released on Wednesday. Crude oil prices were trading up prior to the crude data release by the U.S. Energy …
Read More »Global Crude Oil Shipments Rise ahead of OPEC+ Supply Boost
Global seaborne crude oil flows rose in March from February, just ahead of the supply increase coming from OPEC+ in April, oil flows tracking data by Bloomberg showed on Wednesday. Global crude exports averaged 39.92 million barrels per day (bpd) in March, up by 119,000 bpd from February levels, according …
Read More »Russian Arctic LNG 2 Project Resumes Gas Processing
Arctic LNG 2, the processing and export facility that was billed as Russia’s flagship LNG project, has gradually resumed gas processing after months of hiatus, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing industry sources and satellite images. Arctic LNG 2 has been under U.S. and EU sanctions since last year, and the …
Read More »Kazakhstan Keeps Exceeding OPEC+ Quota with Record-High Oil Production
Kazakhstan’s combined crude oil and condensate production reached an all-time high in March, which further exceeded the country’s crude output ceiling under the OPEC+ deal. Kazakhstan, a non-OPEC producer part of the OPEC+ pact, pumped a record high 2.17 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil plus condensate last …
Read More »A Fifth of EU Gas Imports in Q4 Came from Russia
Up to the last days of the Russia-Ukraine natural gas transit deal, the European Union remained reliant on Russia for about a fifth of its gas imports, based on an official report. Russia accounted for 19 percent or 13.4 billion cubic meters (473.22 billion cubic feet) of EU gas imports …
Read More »Indian Refiners Seek Alternatives to Russian Crude after Trump Tariff Threat
Indian oil refiners have started looking for alternative supplies of crude after President Trump threatened secondary sanctions on Russian energy exports if Moscow refuses to sign a ceasefire deal for the Ukraine. Bloomberg reported that companies such as Bharat Petroleum Corp. and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. were looking for oil cargoes …
Read More »Oil Majors Warn that Australia’s Natural Gas Policy could Make Shortages Worse
Shell, Chevron, and Exxon have warned the Australian government a proposal aimed at curbing natural gas shortages on the domestic market might end up making them worse instead. “The fact that the easiest lever the federal government now has to solve the southern gas problem is export controls, is not …
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