Malaysia’s Petronas plans to boost exploration, deepwater development, and enhanced oil recovery over the next three years as it looks to maintain its domestic oil and gas production stable at about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), the state energy giant said in its 2026-2028 activity outlook …
Read More »Europe’s Wind Bet Meets a Cold, Hard Energy Lesson
Europe has been trying to reduce its reliance on imported energy for four years now. It has had partial success, notably through demand destruction resulting from excessive prices. This month, part of Europe doubled down on that plan just as the United States grid presented an object lesson in the …
Read More »TotalEnergies Pushes ahead with Mozambique LNG despite Risks
After a five-year hiatus, French supermajor TotalEnergies is formally relaunching on Thursday the $20-billion Mozambique LNG project at an event led by Mozambique’s President Daniel Francisco Chapo and attended by TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné. At the end of last year, TotalEnergies lifted the four-year-long force majeure on the Mozambique LNG …
Read More »Sanctions Pushed Russian Oil Revenues Lower in 2025
Sanctions from the European Union and the United States pressured Russian crude oil export revenues to a 20% decline on the year in 2025, the Financial Times reported, citing Agus pricing data. The data suggests that the discount between Russian crude and international benchmarks widened to $24 per barrel last …
Read More »China Moves Closer to Fusion Breakeven as Scientists Beat a Key Limit
China has been investing billions in nuclear fusion research. A potential game-changer for global energy, fusion has been slow to live up to promises, but now, Chinese scientists have reported yet another breakthrough in the process: a state of matter that was previously only theorized. Reported in Science Advances, the …
Read More »Chevron Keeps Venezuelan Oil Flowing as Asia Shipments Stall
Venezuela’s beleaguered oil export system is narrowing rapidly around Chevron as shipments to its largest traditional customer in China remain stalled amid an intensified U.S. oil embargo and mounting geopolitical upheaval. Shipping data as of January 6 shows crude loading for Chinese buyers at Venezuelan ports has been on hold …
Read More »Shell Returns to Angola as Oil Majors Circle a Declining Basin
Shell is making a quiet but pointed return to Angola’s offshore oil patch, signing a deal to acquire a 35% stake in two deepwater blocks from a Chevron subsidiary, as international majors circle a country trying to arrest a long production slide. The agreement gives Shell a minority interest in …
Read More »Top Oil Traders Eye Swift Return to Venezuela
Some of the biggest international oil trading houses, including Trafigura Group, will discuss with the U.S. Administration returning to oil trade with Venezuela, the global head of Trafigura’s oil division, Ben Luckock, told Bloomberg television in an interview on Tuesday. The capture of Nicolas Maduro opens the door to U.S. …
Read More »EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live and Trade Partners are not Amused
On Thursday, January 1st, the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism entered into effect with the goal of improving the competitiveness of European goods manufacturers against non-EU companies operating in laxer emissions reduction frameworks. China was the first to threaten retaliation. It won’t be the last. The carbon border adjustment mechanism, …
Read More »White Hydrogen Emerges as a Wild Card in the Global Clean Energy Race
The white hydrogen boom could be within sight based on recent finds in France, the United States, and other parts of the world. However, developers are still not sure of the costs involved with exploiting white hydrogen resources, as well as the technical challenges to accessing reserves, making the outlook …
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