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• The Aviation Industry Is Backing Biofuels

  Published 28 February 2018 | viewed 16,006 times

  The International Air Transport Association has set an ambitious goal for its members: transporting a billion passengers on flights using biofuel by 2025. The goal…

• South Korea Starts Phasing Out Old Coal Plants

  Published 28 February 2018 | viewed 7,928 times

  South Korea will shutter five 30-year-old coal plants in the second quarter of the year to reduce the amount of fine particulate matter in the…

• Analysts Expect Oil Prices To Rise This Year

  Published 28 February 2018 | viewed 19,670 times

  Analysts polled by Reuters expect higher oil prices this year, confident that OPEC and Russian cuts will offset growing U.S. production. Brent crude, analysts expect,…

• Oil Prices Head Lower As Crude, Gasoline Inventories Rise

  Published 28 February 2018 | viewed 30,402 times

  A day after the American Petroleum Institute gave oil bulls a cold shower by reporting a 933,000-barrel build in crude oil inventories on top of…

• Trump’s Gas Tax Hike Could Make Californian Fuel Cheaper

  Published 27 February 2018 | viewed 11,194 times

  No one likes to hear news about higher taxes. Californians got just that kind of news last year, when Governor Jerry Brown signed a 40-percent…

• Sempra Clears Another Hurdle In Oncor Acquisition

  Published 27 February 2018 | viewed 5,579 times

  Sempra Energy has gotten a step closer to completing the acquisition of the biggest utility in Texas, Oncor Electric Company, after the bankruptcy court for…

• U.S. Oil Exports to Sinopec Could Top 200,000 Bpd This Year

  Published 27 February 2018 | viewed 4,940 times

  China’s Sinopec could import over 10 million tons of U.S. crude this year, equivalent to a daily rate of over 200,800 barrels. This would constitute…

• U.S. Investors Look To Buy Controversial Rosneft Stake In Citgo

  Published 27 February 2018 | viewed 8,118 times

  A group of U.S. investors is looking to buy the almost 50-percent interest currently held by Russian Rosneft in refiner Citgo, the U.S. unit of…

• Oil Majors: New Tech Will Save The Industry

  Published 26 February 2018 | viewed 19,049 times

  Oil and gas is not a sunset industry, and low oil prices are not such bad news at all, BP’s chief of upstream operations, Bernard…

• Australia To Get New LNG Import Terminal

  Published 26 February 2018 | viewed 7,008 times

  Fortescue Metal’s chairman Andrew Forrest and two Japanese utilities plan to build an LNG import terminal in New South Wales by 2020 to help alleviate…

• Oil Jumps On Libya Export Outage, Saudi Comments

  Published 26 February 2018 | viewed 16,653 times

  Crude oil started the week with gains thanks to comments from Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih and reports of a slowdown in exports from…

• Earthquake Disrupts Oil & Gas Operations In Papua

  Published 26 February 2018 | viewed 7,039 times

  An earthquake of a 7.5 magnitude led to the suspension of oil and gas operations in Papua New Guinea yesterday. The epicenter of the quake…

• British Columbia Backs Down On Trans Mountain

  Published 23 February 2018 | viewed 9,944 times

  British Columbia has made a small concession to Alberta by admitting that it may not have legal grounds to impose a planned temporary ban on…

• Mexico To Halt All Oil Exports If Obrador Wins

  Published 23 February 2018 | viewed 19,544 times

  Mexico’s energy industry strategy will be overhauled if the frontrunner for the next presidential term, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, wins the July election, his senior…

• Wyoming Joins Iowa, Ohio In Anti-Pipeline Protest Legislation

  Published 23 February 2018 | viewed 8,518 times

  Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a bill targeting pipeline protests, envisaging penalties of up to 10 years in prison for “impeding critical…

• Cleaner And Cheaper: The Future Of Natural Gas

  Published 22 February 2018 | viewed 17,754 times

  Just how clean is natural gas, really? Natural gas is the bridge fuel of the future that will carry the world until renewables take over.…

• Saudi Arabia Looks To Profit From The U.S. Shale Boom

  Published 22 February 2018 | viewed 14,939 times

  Saudi Arabia’s Aramco has considered the possibility of shipping U.S. crude via its Motiva unit to Asia, a source in the know has told Bloomberg.…

• Oil Prices Rise After EIA Reports Crude Draw

  Published 22 February 2018 | viewed 30,553 times

  After a surprise crude oil inventory draw reported by the American Petroleum Institute, the Energy Information Administration strengthened the good mood by confirming the draw,…

• Libya’s El Feel Oilfield Evacuated After Shutdown Threats

  Published 22 February 2018 | viewed 7,103 times

  Libya’s National Oil Corporation has evacuated its workers from the El Feel, or Elephant, oil field amid threats from the field’s guards who are locked…

• Saudis Ready To Swing Oil Market Into Deficit

  Published 21 February 2018 | viewed 34,232 times

  Saudi Arabia is undergoing a truly seismic shift in its economy, politics, and society, all thanks to the oil price crash of 2014. Crown Prince…