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Brazil’s Petrobras has high hopes for the country’s oil industry, even under socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as it makes moves that suggest it is in it for the long haul. The state-owned oil major has plans to transform Brazil’s global energy presence, which includes boosting its oil …

The OPEC+ group has made progress in talks with its African producers over their oil output quotas next year, three OPEC+ sources told Reuters on Friday, after the alliance had to postpone this weekend’s meeting over the spat. On Wednesday, OPEC said that the OPEC+ meeting scheduled for this weekend …

ArcelorMittal, the world’s second-largest steelmaker, is looking to sign an agreement with a U.S. LNG exporter as it aims to secure stable supply of natural gas following last year’s energy crisis in Europe, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, quoting sources with knowledge of the plans. Industrial giants in Europe …

The third round of discharging treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea concluded Monday, the plant operator said, with the utility planning another round in the current fiscal year. As in the previous rounds, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) released about …

New rules on curbing methane emissions in Europe’s energy sector may actually boost the case for liquefied natural gas and shouldn’t affect exports from the US. “All of the progress around emissions reduction is positive for the gas business,” Peter Clarke, senior vice president for global LNG at Exxon Mobil …

Turkmenistan’s oil and gas state corporations will hold an International Forum to Attract Foreign Investments in Turkmenistan’s Energy Sector in Paris, France, from April 24 through April 25, 2024, Trend reports. The Forum aims to enhance chances for attracting direct foreign investments in various sectors of Turkmenistan’s energy industry, as …

Russia is adapting to the increasingly stricter U.S. sanctions on trade with Russian oil and is acting in accordance with its own interests, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, commenting on reports that the United States was looking into punishing more vessels breaching the G7 price cap on Russia’s …

Nigeria expects to see “significant investment flow immediately” from Saudi Arabia after the top crude producer in the Middle East and Africa’s largest oil producer signed investment and cooperation agreements in the energy sector at a summit in Riyadh last week. Nigeria has been looking to attract foreign investment in …

In line with Moscow and Beijing’s objective of keeping the West out of energy deals in Iraq to keep Baghdad closer to the new Iran-Saudi axis and to “end [the] Western hegemony in the Middle East [that] will become the decisive chapter in the West’s final demise,” Russia has struck …

The Construction MMI (Monthly Metals Index) continued to lack strong bullish or bearish pressure month-over-month. Overall, the index only dropped by a minuscule 0.13%. Still, many factors remain at play in the construction industry, which seems to be behind the index components’ steady sideways trends. With the winter months coming, …