Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces a setback for his climate-change action plan in conservative-leaning Saskatchewan, as provincial opposition mounts against the federal carbon tax. On Monday, the western Canadian province stopped collecting the tax applied to homes heated by natural gas and electricity, after Trudeau’s Liberal government exempted home heating oil from the tax …
The U.S. is seeking to buy up to 3 million barrels of U.S.-produced sour crude oil for delivery in April to help replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the Department of Energy said in a statement on Wednesday. President Joe Biden’s administration is slowly purchasing oil for the SPR after it sold a record 180 …
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U.S. natural gas futures gained about 2% to a one-week high on Wednesday on a decline in daily output and forecasts for colder weather in mid January than previously expected. That price increase came despite forecasts for milder weather and lower heating demand this week and next than previously expected, and a small decline in …
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(Bloomberg) Germany’s Heide oil refinery and its partner Orsted A/S have shelved plans for a green hydrogen plant due to increased investment costs and associated economic risks. This is at least the second such project Orsted has dropped in recent months, after deciding not to proceed with an electrolyzer at the Humber refinery in the UK. The …
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Summary More OPEC+ cuts likely next year, analysts say U.S. inventory reports seen showing rising crude stocks Coming up: API report, 2130 GMT LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Oil fell on Tuesday, reversing steep gains made in the past two sessions, as investors turned cautious ahead of a meeting of OPEC+ this Sunday when the …
(Reuters) – Siemens Gamesa, the struggling wind division of Germany’s Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE), plans to cut costs by around 400 million euros ($436 million) by 2026, according to presentation slides posted online ahead of the company’s capital markets day. The goal was to “simplify organization and optimize overhead costs” while the Siemens Gamesa’s onshore wind …
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The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday said it was still looking for the source of a leak from an underwater pipeline off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico that it estimated had released more than a million gallons of crude oil. The 67-mile long pipeline was closed by Main Pass Oil Gathering Co …
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The biggest oil-storage hub in the US — a massive network of tank farms known as the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World” — is rapidly losing its primacy as a signal for domestic supply and demand. For decades, traders watched inventory levels at Cushing, Oklahoma, to track US crude balances, but the US’s increasing integration …
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(Bloomberg) It’s about to get very noisy in the climate world as more than 70,000 people flock to the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 summit starting next week. Making sense of the many announcements about to land will be a challenge. The main headlines will rightly focus on what nearly 200 countries agree on at the United Nations-backed …
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Courtesy of ENERGYminute See more articles and infographics from ENERGYminute HERE An electric vehicle battery is typically made up of several components, including: Electrodes: The positive and negative electrodes are the heart of the battery. They are usually made of a metal oxide for the positive electrode and graphite for the negative electrode. Separator: The separator is a …
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