Oil prices declined on Tuesday following weak economic data from China and the US, while growing expectations that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) will lower interest rates and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East limited further price falls. International benchmark Brent crude decreased by 0.2% to $71.69 per barrel at …
Read More »QatarEnergy Inaugurates Rex Tillerson LNG Vessel
QatarEnergy has inaugurated the “Rex Tillerson” liquified natural gas (LNG) vessel in the Chinese city of Shanghai, marking the first such ceremony of the Qatari company’s major shipbuilding programme. Named after the 69th U.S. Secretary of State, the ship was constructed at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard as part of a 12-ship …
Read More »European Gas Prices Push Higher as Cold Snap Takes Hold
European natural gas prices edged higher as the season’s first cold snap takes hold, potentially raising demand ahead of the official start of the heating season. Benchmark futures headed toward €38 a megawatt-hour on Tuesday after climbing for three consecutive sessions. Prices are elevated for the time of year and …
Read More »IAEA: Japan’s Plan to Reuse Decontaminated Soil in Fukushima Safe: IAEA
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Japan’s plan to reuse decontaminated soil following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident is consistent with global safety standards. The U.N. nuclear safety watchdog handed its final expert report to Environment Minister Shintaro Ito in Tokyo on the same day, …
Read More »China’s LNG Imports to Fall as Natural Gas Storage Nears Capacity
China’s natural gas in storage is nearing capacity, which could spell a decline in imports of liquefied natural gas, Bloomberg has reported, citing data releases from several regional gas storage hubs. If this year’s winter is cold, imports of LNG should remain strong because the gas in storage would be …
Read More »Can Saudi Arabia Actually Afford Vision 2030?
Saudi Arabia has long prided itself on being the lowest-cost oil producer in the world—and has taken maximum advantage of this fact. Now, with ambitious spending plans for a diversified economy, that lowest cost is becoming less relevant. It’s the breakeven cost of oil that matters. And that’s going up. …
Read More »OPEC+ to Begin Oil Production Increase in 2025
The OPEC+ group will begin adding supply to the market in 2025, for the first time since 2022, Jim Burkhard, vice president of research at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said at the Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference (APPEC) on Monday. “We think in 2025 for the first time in a couple …
Read More »Morgan Stanley Slashes its Oil Price Forecast again
Just two weeks after lowering its Brent oil price estimate to $80 per barrel for the fourth quarter, Morgan Stanley cut again its forecast, now expecting the international benchmark to average $75 a barrel in the last quarter of the year. Analysts at Morgan Stanley see rising headwinds on the …
Read More »China’s Energy Transition is Slowing its Oil Demand Growth
China’s oil demand growth has been slowing down due to weaker economic performance and a shift to electric vehicles and LNG-fueled trucks, oil industry executives said at the APPEC conference in Singapore on Monday. Right now, Chinese oil demand growth has slowed to about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) each …
Read More »Solving Nuclear Energy’s Biggest Problem
As we go into a new nuclear energy era, there are renewed concerns about what to do with the waste generated from nuclear plants. Nuclear waste is toxic and can remain radioactive for around 10,000 years, meaning that it needs to be disposed of appropriately to ensure people and the …
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