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 »Refinery Throughput at Sinopec Dipped in 2024 amid Weaker Chinese Demand
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec, saw its refinery throughput drop by 2.03% in 2024 from a year earlier, the biggest Chinese refiner said on Friday. Sinopec’s refinery throughput fell to 252.3 million tons last year, amid an overall decline in Chinese crude processing rates, for the first time …
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 »Exxon Begins Drilling for Natural Gas Offshore Cyprus
ExxonMobil and its partner offshore Cyprus, QatarEnergy, on Friday started drilling for natural gas in an exploration block in the island nation’s exclusive economic zone, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, said. The U.S. supermajor and Qatar’s state energy giant launched drilling activities in Block 5, Christodoulides wrote on X. …
Read More »Japan’s Top LNG Buyer Plans more Purchases from the U.S.
JERA, the largest LNG buyer in Japan, plans to boost purchases from the United States to diversify its supply portfolio, a top company executive told Reuters on Friday. Japan, the world’s second-largest LNG importer after China, is looking to increase its energy security with diverse sources of supply and could …
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 …
Read More »China’s 2025 Crude Oil Output to Exceed 200 Million Tons
China aims to maintain crude production in 2025 little changed from 2024, with output expected to come in above 200 million tons. In 2024, China’s total oil and gas output exceeded 400 million tons of oil equivalent for the first time, the National Energy Administration (NEA) has revealed. China’s crude …
Read More »Italy to Begin Gas Refilling Next Month to Avoid Price Spikes
Italy, the EU’s third-largest economy and the country holding the second-biggest natural gas storage space in the bloc, plans to begin refilling its sites as early as February, to avoid price spikes later in the year, Italian Energy Security Minister, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, said on Thursday. “Due to ongoing geopolitical …
Read More »Uniper: More U.S. LNG Flows to Europe will Relieve Gas Markets
Additional purchases of U.S. LNG from the European Union would help ease the tightness in global natural gas markets and reduce consumer and industry prices in Germany, Michael Lewis, chief executive at German energy giant Uniper, told Reuters on Wednesday. Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump urged the EU, …
Read More »China’s CNOOC Lowers Output Growth Target as It Keeps 2025 Capex Flat
Chinese state-held oil and gas giant CNOOC is keeping its capital expenditure flat this year compared to 2024 as it lowered its oil and gas production growth target, although it still expects annual output records going forward. CNOOC, which specializes in offshore oil and gas developments in China and internationally, …
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