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Market participants appear to be putting greater faith in the IEA than they do in OPEC. Analysts from groups representing oil producers and consumers have radically different views of this year’s market. But OPEC doesn’t seem to believe its own experts. Oil demand will increase almost as fast this year as it did in 2023 …
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(Reuters) – SLB beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Friday and said it expects strong growth in its international business this year as resilient offshore and overseas drilling activity boosted demand for its oilfield services and equipment. Schlumberger has banked on international growth, primarily from the Middle East, Europe and Africa, in recent years as …
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Summary OPEC sees oil demand rising by 1.85 mbpd in 2025 Sticks to 2024 oil demand growth forecast of 2.25 mbpd IEA to publish updated forecasts on Thursday LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – OPEC on Wednesday stuck to its forecast for relatively strong growth in global oil demand in 2024 and said 2025 will see …
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(Reuters Breakingviews) – The United States has grand plans for carbon markets. Washington’s idea, for an Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) targets one of climate finance’s biggest challenges – the need, to increase clean energy investment in the developing world excluding China sevenfold by the early 2030s, to $1.9 trillion annually. John Kerry, U.S. President Joe Biden’s …
OPEC may need to cut production further to keep oil prices at current levels in the face of stuttering demand growth and high U.S. output, the CEO of commodities trader Mercuria Energy Group said on Wednesday. U.S. crude production will climb to record levels over the next two years, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) …
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(Reuters) – Environmental campaigners are criticizing Canada’s energy regulator for approving a “variance” request on a section of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project, calling new conditions around material procurement accompanying the approval too lenient. Last week the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) agreed to Trans Mountain’s request for a variance that will enable the Canadian-government-owned pipeline to …
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Bloomberg The electric power grid in Texas, which collapsed dramatically in a 2021 winter storm, is being tested once again as the state endures an Arctic blast. Demand for electricity has broken wintertime records as the state’s population continues to grow amid a rapid change in its energy mix, with wind and solar displacing fossil fuels. That’s been stoking …
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Activists tout decades-old law to advance climate agenda TC Energy plans expansion of gas pipeline in Pacific Northwest Joe Biden Environmentalists are urging the White House to use an obscure legal tool to thwart TC Energy Corp.’s planned expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest that they say would stoke climate change. The …
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U.S. oil output from top shale-producing regions is due to decline in February for the fifth consecutive month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a monthly report on Tuesday. Oil output is set to fall to 9.68 million barrels per day (bpd) next month, driven by declines in the Eagle Ford and Bakken …
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TotalEnergies’ 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was examining units after a plantwide power outage on Tuesday morning as a winter storm brought frigid temperatures to the U.S. Gulf Coast, sources familiar with the company’s operations said.Flint Hills Resources said its 343,000-bpd refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, sustained significant impacts from unseasonably cold …
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