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U.S. to Return Emergency Oil Reserve to Prior Levels by Year-End

U.S. oil stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at year-end will be at or exceeding the level that would have existed prior to massive sales two years ago, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Monday. Stocks will reach those levels in part on the cancellation of congressional-mandated sales of about 140 million barrels, …

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U.S. Oil Output From Top Shale Regions to Rise in April, EIA Says

U.S. oil output from top shale-producing regions will rise in April to the highest level in four months, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its monthly Drilling Productivity Report on Monday. Production from the top basins will climb by more than 9,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 9.77 million bpd, the strongest output …

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Hydrogen Adoption Will Cost Europe, US More Than $1 Trillion

Europe and the U.S. will have to spend in excess of $1 trillion for building infrastructure to enable widespread use of hydrogen fuel, an executive at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said on Monday. A wholesale move to hydrogen will need significant new demand, which could only come with investments in infrastructure to reduce the cost. European …

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BP Whiting, Indiana Refinery Returns to Normal Ops, Says Company

BP Plc’s 435,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana refinery returned to normal operations for the first time since a February plantwide power outage, a company spokesperson said on Monday.Gasoline prices in the Chicago-area climbed by at least 20 cents a gallon in the days following the Feb. 1 power outage at the Whiting refinery. (Reporting by …

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Saudi Aramco CEO Says No Peak in Oil Demand for Some Time to Come

Global oil demand will not peak for some time so policy makers need to ensure sufficient investment in oil and gas to meet consumption and abandon the fantasy of phasing out the fossil fuels, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said on Monday. The head of the world’s largest energy company urged a re-set of global energy …

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Exxon Mobil CEO Says Not Trying to Acquire Hess

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods on Monday said his company is trying to secure preemption rights over Hess Corp’s Guyana assets in its dispute with Chevron, not buy the company itself. In his first public remarks on the company’s pursuit of an arbitration case that could block Chevron’s $53 billion deal for Hess, Woods said Exxon …

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