Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, Western nations have accused China of supplying Moscow with microchips and other critical dual-use technologies that are “powering Russia’s brutal war of aggression.” In response, Washington and Brussels have hit hundreds of Chinese companies and individuals with sanctions …
Read More »Tariffs Seen Disrupting Oil Market, Raising US Pump Prices
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico threaten to disrupt North America’s tightly integrated oil market and push up gasoline prices for American motorists. Trump on Saturday signed orders implementing a levy of 10% on imports of Canadian energy, along with general levies of 25% on …
Read More »China’s Boldest Oil Hunt yet
In October last year, China’s CNOOC reported record oil and gas production from a field called Deep Sea #1. The field was the company’s first ultra-deep project, an example of the pursuit of new, untapped resources that lie deeper under the sea. Yet it’s not only ultradeep offshore drilling that …
Read More »India’s Energy Plan Faces Funding Hurdles
India is gearing up for an energy investing boom as Narendra Modi’s government courts foreign and domestic investments. India’s economy has been growing rapidly, recently overtaking the United Kingdom to become the fifth biggest economy in the world. And it’s expected to keep rising through the ranks, surpassing both Germany …
Read More »Russia Tests Sanctions with Oil Shipments to India
Russia seems to be having little difficulty skirting US Treasury sanctions when it comes to its oil industry, with the country managing to send shipments of sanctioned oil aboard sanctioned tankers to India. The U.S. Treasury’s January crackdown on Russian crude exports doesn’t appear to be a problem for Moscow, …
Read More »Coal Continues to Dominate China’s Energy Landscape
Coal is still king in China despite the renewables boom with record additions of solar and wind power generation. Thermal power generation, which is overwhelmingly dominated by coal, rose by 1.5% in 2024 from a year earlier, to a record high of 6.34 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), data from China’s National …
Read More »Saudi Arabia to Become Global Data Hub Exporting Data
Saudi Arabia plans to treat data centers within the Kingdom with the same level of protection as embassies, Finance Minister Mohammed Al Jadaan said, as the kingdom seeks to position itself as a global hub for data exports rather than oil. Al Jadaan highlighted concerns from European and American stakeholders …
Read More »Turkish Steelmaker to Invest nearly $1B in Solar Energy for ‘Green Steel’ Production
Turkish steelmaker Tosyali Holding will invest nearly $1 billion in solar energy in eight different provinces of Turkey to be able to use solar power for green steel production, the firm’s chairman, Fuat Tosyali, told Anadolu. Tosyali, while attending the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in …
Read More »Saudi Oil Giant Aramco Buys Its First U.S. WTI Midland Crude Cargo
The world’s biggest crude oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, bought this week its first cargo of U.S. WTI Midland, the crude grade which is now part of the dated Brent benchmark, S&P Global Commodity Insights told Reuters. The Saudi oil giant, which is also the world’s biggest oil company, bought the …
Read More »Shale Investors Unlikely to Heed Trump’s Call for an Oil Boom
Despite President Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” policies, it will be oil prices and Wall Street that will determine how much U.S. oil production will grow in the near term, shale investors and executives say. President Trump signed on his first day in office an executive order to unleash America’s energy …
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