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Washington has been actively selling from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the past year to keep energy prices from rising even higher, Bloomberg reported on Friday, noting that the government can’t keep tapping the reserves forever. According to the report, over the past year almost 115 million barrels were …

Russia still can reach its ambitious LNG expansion target despite the shift of focus to domestic technology, Novatek CEO Leonid Mikhelson said Friday. The importance of LNG expansion intensifies with Russian piped gas exports to the EU facing a sharp reduction in the long term, Mikhelson told a briefing on …

Japan has confirmed new construction work by China that is suspected to be for gas field exploration, in a contested area of the East China Sea for the second time in about a month. The Foreign Ministry said it has lodged a protest with the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, after …

A 650,000-barrel-cargo of Venezuela’s oil chartered by Italy’s Eni is about to set sail carrying the first export of crude from the US-sanctioned country to Europe in two years, Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Friday. The US State Department sent letters to Eni and Spain’s Repsol in May authorizing them …

The EU’s gas storage levels decreased this week for the first time in two months, according to the latest data from Gas Infrastructure Europe, as quoted by Bloomberg. The drop, which is seen as a sign of a deepening energy crisis in Europe, sent futures of the fuel soaring to …

Oil demand growth is set to slow in the coming months, with consumers likely to endure high prices until consumption is brought back into line with supply that’s struggling to keep pace with the world’s thirst for fuels. The International Energy Agency, the US Energy Information Administration and the Organization …

India imported six times as much Russian coal in the 20 days leading up to Wednesday as it did in the same period last year, Reuters reported on Saturday. During that same timeframe, New Delhi’s imports of Russian oil increased by a factor of more than 31. This increase comes …

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Data showed that Iraq’s export oil to the United States increased to 555 thousand bpd in the last week. EIA stated in a report, “The United States oil exports recorded 6.144 bpd in the second week of June.” The top three source countries for U.S. …

The number of total active drilling rigs in the United States rose by 7 this week, according to new data from Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count rose to 740 this week—270 rigs higher than the rig count this time in 2021, but insufficient to ease market …

As countries around the globe are setting ambitious targets to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels, many will remain reliant on oil and gas for petrochemical production for decades to come. However, the decarbonization of oil and gas operations may well become key to the success of the industry, as …