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• The 10 Countries With The Largest Natural Gas Reserves

  Published 01 May 2023 | viewed 73,854 times

  Natural gas has been hailed as the bridge between a fossil fuel past and a low-carbon future. It has also been demonized as a Trojan…

• Oil Prices Start The Week Lower As Bearish Sentiment Builds

  Published 01 May 2023 | viewed 11,323 times

  Crude oil prices fell earlier today, starting the week with a decline on expectations of another rate hike by the Fed that combined with weaker-than-expected…

• ADNOC Natural Gas IPO Marks Big Quarter For The UAE

  Published 01 May 2023 | viewed 1,602 times

  The multibillion-dollar initial public offering of the gas business of Emirati ADNOC sent the UAE to the top spot among Gulf states in terms of…

• The 10 Most Incredible Oil And Gas Discoveries Of All Time

  Published 29 April 2023 | viewed 41,984 times

  Many believe that the beginning of the crude oil industry was marked in the United States with the discovery of the Titusville well in Pennsylvania in the…

• Exxon Greenlights New Multibillion-Dollar Guyana Project

  Published 28 April 2023 | viewed 5,440 times

  Exxon will go ahead with a $12.7-billion oil development off the coast of Guyana after the country’s government gave its final approval to the project.…

• Think Tank Says Coal Use In EU Dropped This Winter

  Published 27 April 2023 | viewed 1,140 times

  Coal power plants produced less electricity this winter despite the energy crunch in Europe, a climate think tank has reported. According to Ember, quoted by…

• Pioneer CEO Retirement Could Reignite Exxon Takeover Talks

  Published 27 April 2023 | viewed 4,571 times

  Scott Sheffield, chief executive of Pioneer Natural Resources, is set to retire at the end of the year. Pioneer recently made the news with a…

• Large Crude Inventory Draw Jolts Oil Prices

  Published 26 April 2023 | viewed 79,499 times

  Crude oil prices moved higher today, after the Energy Information Administration reported an inventory draw of 5.1 million barrels for the week to April 21.…

• The EU Just Made Emissions Even More Expensive

  Published 26 April 2023 | viewed 2,562 times

  The European Union finalized the approval of a carbon tax reform that will see polluting industries face higher costs for continuing to generate emissions and incentivize the…

• Up To A Trillion Dollars In Clean Energy Subsidies Is Up For Grabs

  Published 25 April 2023 | viewed 4,593 times

  Up to a trillion dollars in subsidies for low-carbon energy and related infrastructure are up for grabs amid the Biden administration’s push to transform the…

• Big Oil Strikes Out At Supreme Court

  Published 25 April 2023 | viewed 6,861 times

  Anti-oil groups won a victory on Monday after the Supreme Court ruled that lawsuits brought against the oil industry by municipalities should proceed at the…

• Top 10 Countries With Largest Oil Reserves

  Published 24 April 2023 | viewed 203,377 times

  We all know who the biggest producers of crude oil in the world are and can list the top three without effort. But here’s the…

• Russia To Boost Natural Gas Exports To China By 50%

  Published 24 April 2023 | viewed 4,370 times

  Russian plans to increase natural gas exports to China by almost 50 percent this year, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said. Russia's Gazprom sends gas to China via…

• Four Scenarios That Could Send Oil Prices To $200

  Published 23 April 2023 | viewed 24,510 times

  It was the talk of the town last year. Traders bet on oil hitting $200 by March this year. Hedge fund managers warned it could even reach $250 before…

• Oil Prices Extend Losses As Bearish Sentiment Mounts

  Published 21 April 2023 | viewed 10,366 times

  Crude oil extended a two-day streak of losses today, with morning trade sending both Brent and West Texas Intermediate lower. Bar a sudden reversal of…

• Global LNG Inventories Rise On Weak Demand

  Published 21 April 2023 | viewed 1,183 times

  Global inventories of liquefied natural gas have increased this month driven by weaker demand, Reuters has reported, noting demand is about to recover in the…

• Why We Still Need Oil & Gas For Decades To Come

  Published 20 April 2023 | viewed 9,153 times

  Earlier this month, in an op-ed for the Financial Times, the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, wrote that renewable energy was expanding faster than…

• Why U.S. Gas Production Is Growing So Fast

  Published 20 April 2023 | viewed 20,777 times

  U.S. natural gas production is booming. The country is pumping so much of the commodity that prices have dropped to multi-year lows after last year,…

• Oil Prices Continue To Fall As Demand Concerns Persist

  Published 20 April 2023 | viewed 15,030 times

  Demand worries outweighed supply concerns this week to push down oil prices, reinforced by heightened expectations of more U.S. rate hikes that lifted the greenback.…

• Oil Prices Fall Despite Crude Inventory Draw

  Published 19 April 2023 | viewed 16,367 times

  Crude oil prices inched lower today, after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported an inventory draw of 4.6 million barrels for the week to April…