Last summer, oil and gas-industry groups were lobbying to overturn federal rules on leaks of natural gas, a major contributor to climate change. Their message: The companies had emissions under Continue Reading
Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she’d been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus Continue Reading
1. U.S. oil demand rebound stalls – Oil prices sank this week along with broader financial indices. But oil was also dragged down by the stagnating demand recovery. – U.S. Continue Reading
Summary of Weekly Petroleum Data for the week ending September 4, 2020 U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 12.8 million barrels per day during the week ending September 4, 2020 Continue Reading
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has laid out an ambitious energy plan. His campaign has released nine key elements of Biden’s plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice Continue Reading
Applications for U.S. state unemployment benefits held steady last week, a sign extensive job losses are persisting as the nation struggles to control the coronavirus. Initial jobless claims in regular state Continue Reading
The extreme weather that’s hammered California with runaway wildfires and hit Louisiana with its most powerful hurricane in 160 years may be about to get even worse. La Nina — a Continue Reading
The temporary $300-a-week unemployment insurance boost implemented by President Donald Trump is about to end, with no extension in sight. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday in an email Continue Reading
Whoever wins the presidential election, one thing is clear: The U.S. has turned a corner in its relations with China and is likely to maintain a harder line. In the Continue Reading
American commercial crude inventories grew by 2m barrels – or 0-4 percent – in the week to September 4, according to figures from the Energy Information Administration, breaking a six-week run Continue Reading
The members of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) supported four-to-one a proposal to extend the setback for oil wells from homes and schools to 2,000 feet—four times Continue Reading
Hopes for a new stimulus package to help ease the economic stress of the pandemic before the November elections waned Thursday after Democrats blocked a slimmed-down coronavirus relief bill put forward by Continue Reading
The recovery in US gasoline consumption has plateaued as the summer driving season comes to an end and the school year begins for wide swaths of the country. Latest data Continue Reading
It’s still 2020 and the pandemic-slash-climate change apocalypse just got even worse. The West Coast is burning. As of Wednesday, 24 active fires were reported in California, 12 in Washington, and Continue Reading
People march from the U.S. Capitol to the White House for the People’s Climate Movement on April 29, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images This piece introduces a Continue Reading
The Trump administration will cut the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 3,000 this month, a top military commander said in the country on Wednesday, a reduction from Continue Reading
With one stroke, President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on offshore drilling this week has loosened a political vise that was tightening around three Republicans senators running for reelection in coastal Continue Reading
Hurricane Laura caused significant damage at a site holding about 30% of the nation’s store of emergency crude oil, but three other sites still have plenty of petroleum, U.S. Energy Continue Reading
The September Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) remains subject to heightened levels of uncertainty because mitigation and reopening efforts related to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continue to evolve. Reduced economic activity related to Continue Reading
If Joe Biden wins the White House in November the US could see the largest public and private allocation of capital to renewable energy resources in history along with environmental Continue Reading
Iran sanctions relief under a change in US president represents the biggest supply and price impact for global oil markets heading into the November election, with analysts expecting a Biden Continue Reading
U.S. companies in China are increasingly fretful that trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies will drag out over years and nearly a third said their ability to retain Continue Reading
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order to extend a ban on offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida, as he seeks to win Continue Reading
General Motors Co ( GM.N ) and electric truck startup Nikola Corp NKLA.O will join forces to build electric pickup trucks and fuel cell commercial trucks to take on Tesla Continue Reading
In a matter of weeks, California has been hit with two record-breaking heat waves, hundreds of blazes, freak lightning storms and dangerously poor air quality. Now, unusually strong winds are Continue Reading
Power shut-offs like the one that darkened parts of California this week are expected to be a regular occurrence in the state for years during wildfire season as PG&E Corp. PCG 0.33% upgrades its aging equipment and Continue Reading
Gasoline imports into the US Atlantic Coast January through August plummeted 39.3%, as mostly open arbitrage plays could not overcome coronavirus pandemic-dampened demand. An analysis of US Customs data showed Continue Reading
A firefighter works during the Creek Fire in Madera County, California on Sept. 7. California’s worst fire season on record is about to ramp up as a hot, dry autumn Continue Reading
This year’s driving season was a disappointment for those who hoped and expected it to pull oil prices higher, helped by the pandemic that, those optimists reasoned, would motivate people Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the U.S. election approaching, President Donald Trump on Monday again raised the idea of separating the U.S. and Chinese economies, also known as decoupling, suggesting the Continue Reading
President Donald Trump said he intends to curb the U.S. economic relationship with China, contrasting himself with Joe Biden by threatening to punish any American companies that create jobs overseas Continue Reading
At least there won’t be a government shutdown. But as lawmakers straggle back to Washington for an abbreviated preelection session, hopes are dimming for another coronavirus relief bill — or Continue Reading
Alaska chopped resources for public broadcasting. New York City gutted a nascent composting program that could have kept tons of food waste out of landfills. New Jersey postponed property-tax relief payments. Prisoners in Florida Continue Reading
California’s electricity crisis is threatening to deepen as a heat wave gives way to wind storms, prompting the state’s largest utility to warn it may cut power to more than Continue Reading
Parts of Louisiana will be without power for weeks after Hurricane Laura caused “catastrophic” damage to the region’s grid, mangling steel transmission towers and snapping utilities poles as if they Continue Reading
Here are some of the past week’s most popular downstream-related articles on Rigzone. Less crude oil produced in Saudi Arabia appears to be reaching the United States, and the trend Continue Reading
The Chinese government has stopped renewing press credentials for foreign journalists working for American news organizations in China and has implied it will proceed with expulsions if the Trump administration takes further Continue Reading
It was a perfect ju-jitsu. After weeks of watching US President Donald Trump pressure Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell its social media app TikTok to Microsoft, Beijing struck back, Continue Reading
Coronavirus cases are rising in 22 of the 50 U.S. states, according to a Reuters analysis, a worrisome trend on a Labor Day holiday weekend traditionally filled with family gatherings Continue Reading
An abundance of fossil fuels combined with advances in technology to harness wind and solar power has sent energy prices crashing around the world. WSJ explains how it all happened Continue Reading
Hopes of Congress and the White House reaching a deal on further economic stimulus have faded, as an unexpectedly steep drop in the jobless rate has stifled appetite among Republicans Continue Reading
California just witnessed one of its hottest weekends in memory, which intensified destructive wildfires that erupted. The scorching temperatures forced the National Weather Service to issue heat alerts for nearly Continue Reading
Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance—it’s found in roads, on roofs and in driveways—but its chemical emissions rarely figure into urban air quality management plans. A new study now finds that Continue Reading
The U.S. labor-market rebound extended for a fourth month in August, offering hope that the economy can continue to recover despite a persistent pandemic and Washington’s standoff over further government aid Continue Reading
With ridership hovering around 50% of pre-pandemic days, the transit agency serving the most populous county in the U.S. is considering a radical change: eliminating bus and rail fares. In a board Continue Reading
U.S. utilities are increasingly exploring the use of what is called green hydrogen made from wind and solar energy to reduce emissions from power plants and pipelines. The early investments by Continue Reading
The nascent recovery in industrial gas demand is stumbling in the wake of Hurricane Laura amid a recent slowdown in operations at refineries and chemicals facilities across the US South Continue Reading
In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year Continue Reading
The US government on Sept. 3 sanctioned 11 entities based in Iran, the UAE and China for continuing to facilitate sales of Iranian petrochemical and oil products. Receive daily email Continue Reading
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell below 1 million last week for the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the United States, but Continue Reading
