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Global LNG Demand is Picking up Due to Low Prices – Shell CEO

March 18 (Reuters) – Global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is picking up due to a recent fall in prices, Shell  CEO Wael Sawan said on Monday at a conference in Houston. The LNG market will be well supplied in the second half of the decade, he added. The CEO of rival TotalEnergies on …

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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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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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CERAWEEK: Saudi Aramco CEO Argues for “Re-set” of Energy Transition Timetables

(Reuters) – The head of the world’s largest energy company on Monday urged for a “re-set” of plans to quickly replace fossil fuels with renewable energies, calling current energy transition timetables a fantasy. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser in remarks at a Houston energy conference called for recognition that demand for oil and gas is …

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U.S. Oil Refiners’ Weekly Capacity Seen up 329,000 Bpd – IIR

U.S. oil refiners are expected to have about 775,000 barrels per day (bpd) of capacity offline for the week ending March 22, increasing available refining capacity by 329,000 bpd, research company IIR Energy said on Monday. Offline capacity is expected to edge down to 744,000 bpd in the week ending March 29, IIR added. The …

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LNG Developer Tellurian to Explore Sale Among Other Options, CEO Steps Down

Tellurian said on Monday it was looking at all options, including a potential sale, and that CEO Octavio Simoes had stepped down from his role, amid the liquefied natural gas developer’s efforts to keep its Driftwood export project alive. The company earlier this year had hired Lazard to explore a sale of its Haynesville upstream …

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UAE in 15-Year Germany Gas Deal in Boost to Energy Security

Adnoc to supply SEFE with 1 million tons of LNG per year Supply from Adnoc’s planned Ruwais LNG plant to start in 2028 The United Arab Emirates agreed to sell liquefied natural gas to Germany for 15 years starting 2028, in a deal that further cements Europe’s fossil fuel use and underpins the Middle Eastern country’s plan …

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RESURGENCE: Exxon Chief Goes on the Offensive as Wall Street Sours on ESG

After coming under attack from both environmentalists and investors in the first half of his seven-year tenure at the helm of Exxon Mobil Corp., Darren Woods is on the offensive. Already this year, Woods filed an arbitration case against Chevron Corp. for attempting to buy into Exxon’s massive offshore oil project in Guyana and a lawsuit against …

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