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Month: January 2018

Category:
  • Prices

Oil dips as North American output soars; overall market remains strong

Oil prices dipped on Monday as soaring North American production was seen undermining efforts led by OPEC and Russia to tighten supplies. Despite this, traders said overall market conditions remained Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Three Wild Cards That Could Hurt The Oil Rally

As I write this, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is above $66 a barrel while Brent crude is breaching $71 a barrel for the first time since December 2014. That means, Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Economy

Every One of the World’s Big Economies Is Now Growing

A decade after the world descended into a devastating economic crisis, a key marker of revival has finally been achieved. Every major economy on earth is expanding at once, a Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran

Oil production at Iran’s West Karoun nearly doubled in the past year: Zanganeh

Oil production from the West Karoun oilfields in southwest Iran nearly doubled in the past year, oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said in an interview broadcast live on state TV Saturday. Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

Aramco IPO Stalled by Indecision Over Where to List

Two years after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced his intention to turn Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil producer into the world’s largest public company, the kingdom and its advisers remain Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

Plea for Money Preceded Saudi Crackdown on Elites

A sweeping, self-styled anticorruption campaign that has upended Saudi Arabian politics and business started with a request from the country’s king and new crown prince to prominent citizens: Make patriotic Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran

Iranians Prayed for Rain, but Were Covered in Snow

In recent years, Tehran has mainly been covered in yellow smog during the winter months, but it was blanketed in snow on Sunday. Some had started praying for rain. Others Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices
  • South Africa

Who will drink the last glass of water in Cape Town?

Because Cape Town sits between picturesque beaches and mountains, it is a favored travel destination . And, its weather during the summer is described as “almost too perfect.” That’s in Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Nigeria: ‘Queues Are Likely to Increase in the Coming Week’

Alhaji Alanamu Balogun is the Lagos State chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN). He spoke to DANIEL ANAZIA on why incessant fuel scarcity appears to have Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Nigeria: 5 Months After, Irate Residents Still Occupy Shell Flow Station

Five months after it shut down Shell flow station at Belema, hundreds of indigenes of Kula are still occupying Shell flow at Belema in Akuku-Torlu Local Government Area of Rivers Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Nigeria: Kaduna Refinery Shut Over Lack of Crude

The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) shut down operations on January 15 due to the non-availability of crude oil. The Executive Director, Services, of KRPC, Abdullahi Idris, disclosed this Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mexico

Mexico’s Cartels Are Ditching Drugs For Oil

Mexico’s energy reform that ended a state monopoly has so far fared fairly well in the upstream sector, with oil majors snatching up offshore oil blocks in auctions. In the Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Autonomous Cars

More Americans Willing to Ride in Fully Self-Driving Cars

American drivers are beginning to embrace self-driving vehicles, according to a new study from AAA. The annual survey reveals that 63 percent of U.S. drivers report feeling afraid to ride Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada

Canada’s Oil Producers, in Standoff With Railways, Sit Out Oil-Price Rally

Hard-nosed negotiating by railway companies is keeping Canadian oil producers from cashing in on a world-wide oil price rally. Oil producers such as Imperial Oil Ltd. IMO 0.13% , Suncor Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China blizzards snarl railroads, coal deliveries amid power worries

China’s worst blizzards this winter have snarled the country’s railroads and highways, cutting off critical supplies of thermal coal, and fuelling a rally in prices to record highs and raising Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada

Why Canada is the next frontier for shale oil

The revolution in U.S. shale oil has battered Canada’s energy industry in recent years, ending two decades of rapid expansion and job creation in the nation’s vast oil sands. Now Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Oil

Texas Set For Another Oil Boom

Texas is set for another oil boom, with production this year expected to hit a record high. That’s according to Karr Ingham, the oil economist who created the Texas Petro Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nuclear

Nuclear fusion: the end of our energy problem?

Professor Thomas Klinger heads up one of the world’s most advanced nuclear fusion projects at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany, where 400 scientists from around the world have Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Pipelines
  • Poland

Poland wants U.S. sanctions to cover Nord Stream 2

Poland wants the United States to impose sanctions on the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a newspaper interview published Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nuclear
  • Ukraine

Westinghouse expands Ukraine presence with new nuclear fuel deal

Westinghouse Electric Co signed an agreement to deliver nuclear fuel to seven of Ukraine’s fifteen nuclear power reactors between 2021-2025, and will source some fuel components locally, Westinghouse said on Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nuclear

Nuclear fusion: the end of our energy problem?

Nuclear fusion: the end of our energy problem? 03:30 (CNN)Professor Thomas Klinger heads up one of the world’s most advanced nuclear fusion projects at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Jan 2018 Published By : ASPO-USA
Category:
  • Prices

Oil settles higher, posts weekly gain as weak dollar underpins

Oil prices settled higher on Friday after hitting three-year highs, with crude also posting a weekly gain as a weaker U.S. dollar underpinned prices. Brent crude futures settled up 10 Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Dollar Helps Propel Oil to Three-Year High as Supplies Tighten

A weaker greenback is seen supporting crude oil prices Hedge funds boost net-bullish Brent bets to record high Oil just got an extra tailwind from a weakening dollar as this Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Oil firms as dollar falls further, but weaker crude demand looms

Oil prices reversed earlier falls on Friday as ongoing weakness in the U.S. dollar was seen supporting fuel consumption. Brent crude futures were at $70.40 per barrel at 0756 GMT, Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Energy Stocks Catching Up to Crude Rally

Energy stocks are finally catching up to the rally in crude prices, a sign that investors are increasingly positive about the long-term prospects of oil companies. Accelerating global growth has Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

The Unstoppable Oil Rally

Oil prices rose this week on the back of a weakening dollar – thanks to comments from the U.S. Treasury Secretary supporting a weaker greenback – and ongoing declines in Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

A new analysis says global demand for oil will peak by 2030

The global demand for crude oil will peak in 2030 as electric vehicles continue to chip away at the market for gasoline-powered cars and trucks. So say analysts with Bank Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • OPEC

OPEC balancing act added $25 per barrel to oil, Saudi minister says

An OPEC effort to balance the market, which includes support from producers like Russia, has added about $25 per barrel to oil, the Saudi oil minister said. The Organization of Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

Aramco Targets Thriftier Engines to Defuse Electric-Car Threat

Company developing ‘radical’ compression engines: Al-Khowaiter Saudi Aramco says crude-to-chemicals helping drive oil demand While Saudi Arabia tries to wean its economy off crude, the nation’s flagship company is devising Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Moves Elites to Prison, Threatens Trial

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is stepping up pressure on detained members of the country’s elite resisting his demands for billions of dollars in payments—moving them from a luxury hotel to Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco, the Crude-Oil Giant, Becomes a Force in Refining

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company is building an oil-refining empire, a major shift for the world’s No. 1 crude producer as it tries to shore up its balance sheet ahead Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran

Iran Says Nuclear Deal “Absolutely Not Renegotiable”

The Iranian nuclear deal that Tehran and the world powers signed in 2015 and that led to the lifting of restrictions on Iran’s crude oil exports is “ absolutely not Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Nigeria: ‘Niger Delta Militants’ Protest in Ondo

A large number of youth claiming to be former armed militants in the Niger Delta area of Ondo State on Friday protested in Akure, the state capital, over their non-inclusion Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • France
  • Venezuela

France urges tough Venezuela sanctions

Mr Macron (right) spoke at a joint press conference with Argentina’s Mauricio Macri France’s President Emmanuel Macron has called for tougher sanctions against Venezuela, accusing it of violating democracy and Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mexico

Oil’s Heavy Hitters Line Up to Dive Into Mexico’s Deep Waters

The sale will be Mexico’s biggest, in terms of fields and expected investment, since Pemex’s monopoly ended in 2013. (Bloomberg) — If you’re a super-major oil explorer, Mexico says it’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Coal

China’s Hebei province to cut coal use by 5 million tonnes this year: Xinhua

China’s northern Hebei province plans to reduce its annual coal consumption by 5 million tonnes this year by promoting the use of clean and renewable energy, the official Xinhua news Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Beijing to shut 1,000 manufacturing firms by 2020 – Xinhua

Beijing will shut 1,000 manufacturing companies by 2020 under a years-long plan to restructure its economy, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing a city official. The closures Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Asia

Asia’s energy landscape in 2018

The dynamics of Asia’s energy landscape is changing fast as prices – from crude oil to LNG – are staging a sharp recovery. What kind of pressure Asian importers will Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA

U.S. drillers add most oil rigs in a week since March: Baker Hughes

U.S. energy companies added 12 oil rigs this week, the biggest weekly increase since March, as crude prices hovered near their highest levels since 2014, prompting drillers to return to Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Economy
  • USA

Oil prices pressured by slip in U.S. GDP

With the U.S. president touting his nation’s economy, crude oil prices wavered around even amid a weaker GDP and new support Friday for the greenback. Speaking at the World Economic Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Gas

Shale gas production outpacing some U.S. regional demand

Gas production from three Appalachian states beats domestic demand and displaces regional supplies to the point of supporting exports, a U.S report stated. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Environment

White House plan would reduce environmental requirements for infrastructure projects

President Trump speaks at an infrastructure meeting with mayors and governors at the White House in June. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) The White House has drafted a proposal to scale Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • International Oil Companies

NYC Mayor Wants Big Oil Dead

New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio threatened Big Oil with more lawsuits on the Bernie Sanders Show podcast, comparing the industry to the tobacco giants, saying they “systematically poisoned Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA

U.S. Rig Count Rises As Oil Holds Firm

The number of active oil and gas rigs rose this week, according to Baker Hughes data, increasing by 11 total rigs. This brings the total number of oil and gas Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Oil Supply
  • USA

The Reported Death of Peak Oil Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

From Dec 2016 to Dec 2017 US Tight oil output has increased by 975 kb/d based on US tight oil output data from the EIA. For the entire US we Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

PNNL-led international study finds ultrafine aerosols have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation

Ultrafine aerosols—minute particles from urban (e.g., vehicles) and industrial air pollution—fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study published in the journal Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Electric Cars

California Governor orders 5M ZEV target for 2030; more hydrogen fueling and EV charging stations

California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed executive order B-48-18, directing all State entities to work with the private sector and all appropriate levels of government to put at Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Pipelines
  • Russia

U.S.’s Tillerson says Nord Stream 2 pipeline would undermine Europe’s energy security

The United States opposes the planned Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that would connect Russia and Germany, believing it would undermine Europe’s energy security, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Germany

Germany tries for more domestic oil production

German energy company Wintershall said Friday there could be more oil in a field near the Dutch border that’s been in production for the last 70 years. Wintershall said it’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Russia

Hackers Create “Perfect Virus,” Put Oil Companies On Edge

Russian security services have arrested a local hacker who planted malware at gas stations across Russia’s southern regions that had been cheating drivers out of the gasoline that they pumped Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple

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