US Crude Oil Production Nears Full Recovery After Storm Hit Output

(Reuters) – Crude oil producers in the United States continued bringing oil wells back online on Monday, with only around 0.7% of national output still halted in the aftermath of a winter storm that ravaged production last month. Some 100,000 barrels per day of crude output remained shut, according to consultancy Energy Aspects, with outages …

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A $47 bln Deal Heralds US Oil Boom’s Middle Age

By Robert Cyran NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters Breakingviews) – The United States’ transformation into the world’s biggest oil producer has been dramatic. It is also mostly over. Thanks to a combination of declining prime acreage and modest market prices for oil, the name of the game for the producers who turned American shale patches …

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Winter Freeze Cut US LNG Output in January; Imports From Trinidad Helped Fill Gap

(Reuters) – Exports of liquefied natural gas from the U.S. fell in January to 11.3 million metric tonnes – down from December’s record of 11.5 MT – as a winter freeze late in the month shuttered some plants and lowered output at others, preliminary data from financial firm LSEG show. Gas flows into U.S. LNG …

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US Dropping 25% Separate Tariff on Indian Imports After Pledge to Cut Russian Oil, White House Says

(Reuters) – The Trump administration is dropping a 25% additional tariffs imposed on Indian imports over its purchases of Russian oil, in addition to lowering a country-specific tariff to 18% from 25%, a White House official said on Monday. “We are also dropping the 25% tariff given India’s agreement to stop buying Russian oil,” the …

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Trump Cuts India Tariffs in Deal He Links to Russian Oil

By Skylar Woodhouse and Shruti Srivastava President Donald Trump said he will slash tariffs on India to 18% after Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil, easing tensions between the two countries. Trump said Monday on social media that, following a phone call with Modi, he will lower his tariff on Indian …

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The $3 Trillion AI Data Center Build-Out Becomes All-Consuming For Debt Markets

Artificial intelligence already has a big footprint in stocks. Now lending for data centers is becoming a factor in bonds and credit. By Paula Seligson More than $3 trillion. That’s the ­staggering price tag to build the data centers needed to prepare for the artificial intelligence boom. Not even the world’s biggest technology companies—not Amazon.com, …

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Oil Field Vendor Nine Files Bankruptcy to Cut $320 Million Debt

By Dorothy Ma Nine Energy Service Inc., a Houston-based oil field vendor, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday as it struggled with high leverage and a shrinking business amid a slowdown in drilling programs. The deal will see a “complete equitization” of its $320 million first-lien notes due 2028, according to . The company …

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China’s Electric Truck Boom Poses New Threat to Demand for LNG

China’s rapid adoption of electric trucks — which overtook gas-powered vehicle sales for the first time last year — is threatening a key source of demand for the country’s suppliers of the fossil fuel. Sales of heavy-duty trucks powered by batteries and other new energy sources hit a record in December, helping lift the full-year …

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US Natural Gas Plunges by Most in About 30 Years on Warm Weather

By Julian Hast, Stephen Stapczynski, and Sing Yee Ong US natural gas futures plummeted on Monday as weather forecasts for mid-February shifted significantly warmer, marking the largest daily loss for the front-month contract on a percentage basis since 1995, excluding contract rollover days. The March contract settled down 25.7% to $3.237 per million British thermal …

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AI Power Needs May Turn LNG Glut to Gap by 2030, Says Qatar Energy CEO

By Emily Chow, Yousef Saba and Andrew Mills AI and data centres seen driving rising LNG demand Asia, led by China and India, to drive LNG demand growth LNG prices may soften with new supply DOHA, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Growing electricity demand from AI and data centres, together with rising fuel use in Asia …

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