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A month-long closure at Freeport LNG plant in Texas and fewer days in the month pushed February U.S. liquefied natural gas exports 7% lower than in January, preliminary date from financial firm LSEG showed on Friday. The drop followed record shipments last year that propelled the U.S. to the world’s largest exporter, above Qatar and …
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U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for a second straight week to their highest since September, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose by three to 629 in the week to …
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U.S. production of oil and gas set new seasonal records in December, capping off an unprecedented year, according to data published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Thursday. Production continued to climb even as prices slumped from the very high levels seen in mid-2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, contributing to the accumulation …
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(Reuters) – Energy companies are ramping up exploration activities in Southeast Asia to boost natural gas output and meet long-term demand growth, drawn by recent discoveries and improved investment policies, company executives and analysts said. Malaysia and Indonesia have recently seen successful upstream discoveries, including a major discovery by Mubadala Energy in the South Andaman Block, following years …
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OPEC oil output rises by 90,000 bpd in February, survey finds (Reuters) – The following table shows crude output by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in millions of barrels per day (bpd) in February and January, according to a Reuters survey published on Thursday. OPEC and allies, together known as OPEC+, announced …
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it will exclude existing natural gas power plants from its proposed carbon regulations that it plans to finalize in April, narrowing the scope of the initial proposal that would have required stringent controls on those facilities. The electric sector had questioned whether the EPA had authority to …
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U.S. natural gas futures edged lower on Thursday ahead of a storage report that is likely to show a smaller-than-normal withdrawal, further adding to the excess supplies that drove prices on a path for their fourth consecutive monthly decline. Front-month gas futures for April delivery lost 1% to $1.869 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) …
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Bloomberg Power provider plans to apply for state loan to build plants Loan would come from $5 billion energy fund approved by voters NRG Energy Inc. plans to apply for as much as $900 million in loans from Texas to build power projects that would run on natural gas, according to its top executive. The loans would cover …
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Cornell University professor Robert Warren Howarth says methane emissions from American LNG supply chains make the fuel as bad or worse for the climate than coal. Bloomberg When the Biden administration paused approval of new liquefied natural gas export licenses in January, the decision was driven by a recognition that the climate impact from the fossil fuel …
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The disruption in the Red Sea has pushed the amount of crude in transit to a six-month high. Oil analysts and executives from across the industry are starting to sound more upbeat than they have for a while at International Energy Week in London. Speakers at events taking place around the main conference painted a picture of …
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