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OPEC Switches to ‘Call on OPEC+’ in Global Oil Demand Outlook

(Reuters) – OPEC will stop publishing a calculation of the world’s demand for its own crude in its monthly oil report, two sources close to the matter said, focusing instead on forecasts for demand for oil from the wider OPEC+ group. The change reflects what has become long-standing cooperation between the members of the Organization …

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Oil’s Fragile Outlook Spells Weaker Prices in 2025

Oil’s Fragile Outlook Spells Weaker Prices in 2025 Demand growth is set to cool and will be more than satisfied by a surge in supply. Bloomberg The emerging outlook for global oil markets next year suggests prices are set to come under pressure. In the past few weeks, forecasters such as the International Energy Agency have rolled out initial …

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Barclays Faces Investor Pressure to Halt Fracking Finance

Church of England is among shareholders pressing UK bank ‘Stop funding this damaging and dangerous fuel’: ShareAction A group of 24 institutional investors with a combined $1.2 trillion of assets wants Barclays Plc to stop financing fracking, and argued a recent pledge by the British bank to restrict financing for companies that focus exclusively on fossil-fuel exploration …

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Canada’s Pipeline Squeeze Set to Return Despite Trans Mountain Start-Pp

(Reuters) – As Canada’s oil industry celebrates the start of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX), some company executives and analysts are already warning that long-term production growth plans will depend on new takeaway capacity becoming available. TMX, which started commercial operations last week after years of delays, will ship an extra 590,0000 barrels per day (bpd) of …

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Australia Backs Long-Term Gas Exploration Despite 2050 Climate Goals

Australia’s resources minister said on Thursday she backs the long-term exploration of potential natural gas projects, setting up a potential clash with opposition lawmakers and some in the incumbent Labor Party that oppose its use. Australia, one of the world’s largest producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is committed to reducing its emissions to net …

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Goldman Sachs Sees OPEC+ Unlikely to Raise Production at June Meeting

Goldman Sachs on Wednesday said they no longer expect OPEC+ to announce a partial unwind of voluntary production cuts in June. The bank said inventories have recently surprised to the upside, and as a result, their model now estimates only a 37% chance of a production increase decision in June. “While our interpretation of OPEC+ …

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BP Softens Tone on 2030 Oil Output Cut to Reassure Investors

BP softened the language on its pledge to cut its 2030 oil and gas output in an effort to reassure investors over its energy transition strategy and narrow a gaping value gap with rivals. CEO Murray Auchincloss has in recent months pivoted the London-based firm’s strategy to focus heavily on returns. He has been less …

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Europe Braces for Billions in Writedowns at Stranded Gas Assets

Germany prepares for gas grids and boilers to become redundant Other European countries are still investing in gas networks For the past four years, the Bavarian city of Augsburg has been warning homeowners that gas supplies could be switched off by 2030 as fossil fuels are phased out. It’s a blunt message on the potentially …

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Iran’s Capacity to Move Oil Reliant on Malaysian Providers, U.S. Official Says

The United States sees Iran’s capacity to move its oil as reliant on service providers based in Malaysia, with oil being transferred near Singapore and throughout the region, the U.S. Treasury Department’s top sanctions official said on Tuesday. Brian Nelson, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, was speaking during a four-day visit to Singapore …

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How Western Sanctions Are Strangling Putin’s Arctic Gas Ambitions

Pipeline exports to Europe have slumped, turning focus to LNG Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 is crucial to expanding export capacity Bloomberg Russia’s fortress economy has proved remarkably resilient to an onslaught of Western sanctions. Two years after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, it continues to fund a costly war and to prop up President Vladimir Putin. …

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