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Month: August 2018

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  • p-

Oil slips as trade war worries outweigh Iran sanctions

Oil prices slipped on Friday as concerns over the impact of a global trade war depressed sentiment, although impending U.S. sanctions on Iran and falling Venezuelan output limited losses.  Benchmark Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Oil Approaches Six-Week High

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday that U.S. crude inventories had come down by 2.6 million barrels last week, ahead of the one million barrel decline predicted by analysts Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Crude rises to highest since July on sanction concerns

Oil prices rose on Thursday to the highest in more than a month, extending gains on growing evidence of disruptions to crude supply from Iran and Venezuela and after a Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Oil Supply

Now you see it, now you don’t: oil surplus vanishes ahead of Iran deadline

An overhang of homeless crude in the Atlantic Basin has halved in recent weeks, suggesting oil traders are bracing for a further supply loss from Iran due to U.S. sanctions Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Natural Gas Supply
  • Prices

Don’t Expect A Price Shock In Natural Gas

A few months from now, the U.S. will enter the winter heating season with natural gas inventories at their lowest level in years, setting the stage for pricing risks, particularly Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Analysts Forecast Average Price of Brent Crude in 2019

Rigzone highlights different forecasts for Brent Crude in 2019. The average price of Brent Crude will be between $70 and $80 per barrel in 2019, according to a new Rigzone Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran

Iran is complying with nuclear deal restrictions: IAEA report

Iran has remained within the main restrictions on its nuclear activities imposed by a 2015 deal with major powers, a confidential report by the U.N. atomic watchdog indicated on Thursday. Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • OPEC
  • p-

OPEC, non-OPEC seek to formalize oil policy coordination: draft charter

 OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers will aim to formalize their long-term cooperation later this year by approving a charter that will make possible further joint action on output, according to Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • OPEC

OPEC to review monitoring of crude oil output deal in Algiers in September

OPEC and its allies on Thursday vowed to review the monitoring mechanisms of its output agreement at the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee meeting in Algiers on September 23 but said Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Japan

Is Japan Giving Up On Securing A Sanction Waiver For Iranian Oil?

S&P Global Platts today cited a Japanese government official as saying it was not giving up the fight for a sanction waiver on the grounds that it would cause grave Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Nigeria Must Look Beyond Oil

Unarguably, the African continent is home to five of the top 30 oil producing countries in the world. Nigeria, with a maximum crude oil production capacity of 2.5 million barrels Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Nigeria: NNPC to Establish 200,000bpd Condensate Refineries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to establish two condensate refineries with 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) refining capacity at Western Forcados Area and Assah North, Ohaji South (ANOH) Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India

India’s Currency Hits Record Low Vs. Dollar On Rising Oil Prices

India’s currency, the rupee, hit a new record low against the U.S. dollar on Thursday on the back of rising oil prices, end-month demand for dollars, and concerns about the Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Venezuela

Special Report: In Venezuela, new cryptocurrency is nowhere to be found

To hear Venezuela’s leftist President Nicolas Maduro tell it, this remote hamlet of 1,300 souls is perched on the cutting edge of an innovation in cryptocurrency. Located in an isolated Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Venezuela

Venezuela Claims It Aims To Boost Oil Production By 640,000 Bpd

Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA has said that it signed a US$430 million joint service agreement with seven companies that would help it increase its crude oil production by 641,000 Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Brazil

BP, Shell, Total To Bid In Brazil’s Pre-Salt Oil Auction In September

Brazil’s oil regulator ANP has approved the applications of six companies—including Big Oil’s BP, Shell, and Total—to bid in next month’s oil auction of four blocks in the coveted pre-salt Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Climate

Drought-hit Australian farmers rethink climate change

A cloud of flies buzzes noisily around the carcass of a cow that is decomposing in a barren, grassless paddock. “She died of urea poisoning, which is a big risk Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Renewables

Australia’s Newest ‘Clean Energy’ Source

Australia, one of the world’s top LNG exporters, has a bright future as a hydrogen economy. This is the conclusion of a brand new road map from the Commonwealth Scientific Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

PetroChina aims to grow natural gas output at faster rate than oil

PetroChina is aiming to grow its gas output at a much faster rate than oil over the next five years as oil companies rush to meet Beijing’s call for cleaner Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Why rising temperatures are bad for our mental health

A couple of years ago Solomon Hsiang, assistant professor of public policy at University of California, Berkeley, became fascinated by an important issue: what effect does heat have on our Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Earthquakes
  • Shale Oil

How energy companies set off earthquakes miles away from their waste dumps

 Each day across the United States, 2 billion gallons of fossil-fuel-industry wastewater flies through thousands of underground tubes. The injection wells descend into porous rock, filling gaps with brine and Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Oil

New Crude-By-Rail Service Aims To Ease Permian Bottlenecks

Texas-based Vista Proppants and Logistics has struck a deal with logistics firm JupiterMLP to transload crude oil from truck to rail at Pecos, Texas, and ship crude on the Union Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Oil

Colorado drilling setbacks on November ballot could slash DJ Basin production

Weld County would be most affected.  Spending could move elsewhere Colorado voters will decide in November whether to increase land setbacks from new oil and gas development, a measure that Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Pipelines

Court Quashes Canadian Approval Of Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline

A Canadian court on Thursday overturned approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, ruling that Ottawa failed to adequately consider aboriginal concerns, putting the future of the C$7.4 billion Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Offshore
  • USA

California Fights Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans

Earlier this week, the California State Assembly passed SB 884 , a bill that if passed would prohibit the States Lands Commission from allowing any new wharfs, piers, pipelines and Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Oil

Texas’ Oil Output Drops In June For First Time Since Feb. 2017

Texas oil production fell in June from a year earlier for the first time in 16 months, according to figures released on Thursday by the state’s energy regulator, a fresh Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Wind

Maersk Tankers Turns to Wind Power to Cut Soaring Fuel Costs

In the 1980s, French ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau commissioned the Alcyone, a vessel named after the daughter of the wind in Greek mythology, which used turbo-sails that provided thrust in Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Pipelines
  • Russia

Nord Stream 2 construction begins in German waters despite threats

Construction work for Nord Stream 2, the planned Russian gas pipeline to Europe, has started in German coastal waters, despite the threat of sanctions from US president Donald Trump and Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Electric Cars

Should you buy an electric car?

Sitting in an electric car on the start line at Silverstone, about to go head to head with the latest Aston Martin, I quietly wonder what on earth I am Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Prices

Oil rises on Iran sanctions, lower U.S. fuel inventories

Oil prices rose on Thursday, extending gains on growing evidence of disruptions to crude supply from Iran and Venezuela and after a fall in U.S. crude inventories. Benchmark Brent crude Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Natural Gas Supply
  • Prices

Why Oil And Natural Gas Prices Are Diverging

Until a decade ago, the prices of natural gas in Europe were tightly linked to oil prices. Back then, gas delivery points and gas markets were highly segmented across Europe, Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • OPEC

OPEC to discuss compensating for Iranian supply drop after U.S. sanctions: Iraqi official

OPEC will discuss in December whether producers can compensate for a sudden drop in Iranian oil supply after U.S sanctions against Tehran start in November, the head of Iraq’s state-oil Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Wants to Become a King of Patents

Technologies “provide a competitive advantage…whether it’s for one shareholder or several shareholders,” said Aramco’s Chief Technology Officer Ahmad Al-Khowaiter in an interview at the company’s Dhahran headquarters. Creative Energy State-run Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran

Iranians Are Turning To U.S. Dollars To Offset Sanctions

In a development that must be hard to stomach for the political elite in Tehran, many Iranians are turning to U.S. dollars to offset the impact of sanctions and a Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran

Economic Crisis Looms In Iran As Sanctions Bite

Iran’s currency, the rial, has fallen by more than half since the start of the year. There is now a thriving black market for U.S. dollars as the rial continues Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Iraq

Iraq Itching To Boost Oil Exports, Seize Iranian Market Share

Iraq is waiting in the wings, ready to increase its crude oil exports in anticipation of slipping Iranian oil exports waiting only on the go-ahead from OPEC, acting director-general of Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Iran
  • Prices

Senior Official: India “Definitely” Not Going To Zero Iranian Oil Imports

India will “definitely” not cut off entirely its crude oil imports from Iran, but it expects to have more clarity on its oil purchasing strategy amid the U.S. sanctions on Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Japan

Japan remains firm on seeking US exemption for Iran oil imports: top official

Japan remains firmly committed to seeking US exemption for Iranian oil imports as it sees the supplies as important for the country’s energy security and businesses, a top government official Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Libya

Conflict rocks OPEC member Libya

Political actors in Libya, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, shouldn’t settle scores through violence, the U.N. mission stated. The U.N. Support Mission in Libya called for Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia

CIA and Saudi Arabia Conspired To Keep 9/11 Details Secret

It’s easier to bury uncomfortable facts than to confront them. So this September 11, the ceremonies marking the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., will simply honor the Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Nigeria

Oil Manager: Nigeria Could Lose OPEC Status If It Signs New Oil Bill

While Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be withholding signing the country’s new petroleum bill into law over concerns that it strips the president of powers over the industry, Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Venezuela

Exclusive: Venezuela’s port woes stall oil exports to Rosneft

The closing of a dock at Venezuela’s main oil export port could delay as much as 5 million barrels in crude deliveries to Russian company Rosneft, further complicating oil-for-loan agreements Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Brazil
  • Norway

Equinor identifies Brazil as a core area of focus

After expressing concern about the long-term future offshore Norway, energy major Equinor said Wednesday that Brazil’s energy sector was now a core area. Equinor has more than 90,000 barrels of Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mexico

Mexico’s Dramatic Energy Reform

A document seen by Reuters , drafted by advisors to incoming Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), proposes withdrawing Mexico from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and moving closer Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Wind

China pushes wind energy efforts further offshore

After tapping all of its near-shore capacity for wind, Norwegian certification body DNV GL said it would help China develop additional power resources offshore. Huadong Engineering Corp. has contracted DNV Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality
  • China

Pollution May Dim Thinking Skills, Study in China Suggests

A large study in China suggests a link between air pollution and negative effects on people’s language and math skills. The link between pollution and respiratory diseases is well known, Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Oil Supply
  • USA

China’s Sinopec Snubs Geopolitics, Looks To Diversify Crude Sourcing

Despite the ongoing U.S.-China trade war and the upcoming U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, China’s and Asia’s biggest refiner, Sinopec, will continue to buy crude oil from both the Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Electric Cars

Ford Asked If Police EVs Could Be Exempt From Obligatory Noise Rule

Ford asked the U.S. government back in 2015 if the cars it makes for the police could be exempt from the new mandatory rule for electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Arctic
  • USA

Eni Acquires Leases on Alaska’s Eastern North Slope

Eni acquires 124 exploration leases in the Eastern North Slope of Alaska from Caelus Alaska Exploration. Eni S.p.A. has acquired 124 exploration leases in the Eastern North Slope of Alaska Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Oil

Drowning in Dirty Water, Permian Needs $22B to Stay Afloat

In the dry, dusty plains of West Texas, home to America’s most prolific oil play, the problem isn’t too little water, it’s too much of it. (Bloomberg) — In the Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple

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