Platts Seasonal heating demand, lean supplies lend support FOB Singapore jet fuel/kerosene cargo breached the psychologically important $100/b mark for the first time in more than seven years at the Continue Reading
Highlights 2022 power demand growth likely lower than 2021: Platts Analytics China to account for more than half of global power demand growth: IEA Non-fossil fuels grow faster than fossil Continue Reading
Japan on Wednesday widened COVID-19 curbs to the capital Tokyo and a dozen regions covering half the population as the Omicron variant of coronavirus drove record new infections. Already in Continue Reading
Germany reported 112,323 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a fresh single-day record as the health minister said the peak had not been reached and compulsory vaccination should be introduced by Continue Reading
The physical crude market in Asia is showing further signs of strength, bolstering the outlook for higher futures prices just as global oil benchmark Brent rallies to the highest level Continue Reading
Bloomberg News China is better prepared to avoid any energy supply crisis even with power demand forecast to continue to grow rapidly, authorities said. A 10% lift in demand last Continue Reading
China’s overseas shipments of fuels fell for a second year as Beijing tightened export quotas, in part to ensure sufficient domestic supply. Gasoline exports in 2021 slid 9.1% from a Continue Reading
Last year, Chinese policymakers shook up the world’s second-largest economy just as its rebound from the pandemic was starting to wear off, unleashing a flurry of measures to address longer-term Continue Reading
China announced on Monday that its birthrate plummeted for a fifth straight year in 2021, moving the world’s most populous country closer to the potentially seismic moment when its population Continue Reading
The number of people with COVID-19 in French hospitals rose by 888 to 25,775, the health ministry said on Monday, the biggest one-day increase since early November 2020 – before Continue Reading
