The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Data showed, on Saturday, that Iraq’s export oil to the United States increased to 91 thousand bpd after recording zero. EIA stated in a report, “The United States oil exports recorded 5.541 bpd in the first week of January.” The top three source countries of …
Read More »US Clamps Down on China Tech, Blacklists CNOOC
The US government on Thursday ramped up sanctions and restrictions on Chinese firms over Beijing’s actions in the disputed South China Sea, and the security threat posed by technology. In a wide ranging series of steps unveiled in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration, Washington targeted state oil …
Read More »Oil Drops over 2% on China Lockdowns, U.S. Stimulus Concerns
Oil prices fell more than 2% on Friday as concerns about Chinese cities in lockdown due to coronavirus outbreaks tempered a rally driven by strong import data from the world’s biggest crude importer and U.S. plans for a large stimulus package. Brent was down $1.33, or 2.3%, at $55.17 by …
Read More »U.S. Sanction Threats Force Danish Firm Out of Nord Stream 2
The prospect of severe U.S. sanctions led the consulting firm Rambøll to withdraw from Russia’s controversial natural gas project Nord Stream 2. In the last phase of the Nord Stream 2 project, the Rambøll consultancy eventually bowed to the threat of U.S. sanctions, Politiken reports. On the Nord Stream 2 …
Read More »U.S. EIA Cuts 2021 World Oil Demand Growth Forecast
The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday cut its 2021 world oil demand growth forecast by 220,000 barrels per day from its previous estimate. In its monthly forecast, U.S. Energy Information Administration says 2022 world oil demand to hit 101.08 million bpd, up 3.31 million bpd from 2021.
Read More »U.S. Tells European Companies They Face Sanctions Risk on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump administration prepares a final round of punitive measures against the project, two sources said on Tuesday. “We …
Read More »The UAE Warns U.S. Shale Companies against Pumping More Oil
Any attempt by U.S. shale and other oil producers to boost output this year will backfire and lead to lower prices, according to the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates. Oil prices have surged in the past two months with the development of coronavirus vaccines. They jumped again last …
Read More »Renewables to Dominate New U.S. Power Capacity In 2021
Renewable energy, mostly solar and wind, are set to account for more than two-thirds of the new electricity generation capacity that the United States will install this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its latest inventory of electricity generators on Monday. A total of 39.7 gigawatts (GW) …
Read More »U.S. Oil Production to Fall to 11.1 Million Barrels a Day in 2021
U.S. crude production won’t bounce back in 2021 from last year’s fall, the Energy Information Administration forecast in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook released Tuesday. The EIA estimated that U.S. output will fall to 11.1 million barrels a day this year. Production dropped to 11.3 million barrels a day in …
Read More »U.S. Shale Upended Global Crude Flows
The U.S. removed the ban on American crude oil exports to countries other than Canada in 2015, unleashing a new force on the global oil market to be reckoned with. Soaring shale production over the past half-decade has not only helped America to reduce its reliance on foreign oil imports, …
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