Summary • Renewed hope on rate cuts after a benign inflation reading • Market surplus to drag down oil prices in 2025 (Reuters) – Oil prices stabilised on Monday after losses last week as lower-than-expected U.S. inflation data offset investors’ concerns about a supply surplus next year. Brent crude futures were down by 17 cents, …
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Founders will continue to control company after the listing Arlington-based firm is one of the US’s biggest LNG suppliers Venture Global Inc., one of the biggest suppliers of liquefied natural gas in the US, filed for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings of 2025. The company won’t make public the proposed …
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Ramping up purchases faces numerous practical constraints, not least the country’s limited supply. There’s no quick fix for incoming President Donald Trump’s demand that European nations buy more American oil and gas. He insisted that the European Union make “large-scale purchases” of US hydrocarbons to “make up their tremendous deficit with the United States” or face “TARIFFS …
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High expense of production forces developers to scrap plans BP and Orsted are among companies to have ditched proposals A raft of projects to produce green hydrogen, a fuel billed as critical to reaching net zero, have been abandoned this year as expectations for tumbling costs failed to materialize. Governments and major energy companies have …
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(Reuters) – It’s been a brutal year to be in the battery metals business. Prices of lithium, nickel and cobalt collapsed in 2023 and have continued grinding steadily lower over the course of 2024. A sector that was once racing to build new supply has been closing mines and deferring projects as low prices bite …
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Summary • Benchmark prices ease 2.5% for the week • Dollar on track for third consecutive week of gains • Fed policymakers prepare ground for rate-cut pause in 2025 • Sinopec says China’s crude imports may peak next year • Trump warns EU on tariffs if bloc doesn’t buy more US oil, gas (Reuters) – …
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Reuters – Northern Oil and Gas (NOG.N), opens new tab has made an acquisition offer for Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT.N), opens new tab, a smaller U.S. producer with operations in basins including the Permian and Eagle Ford, according to people familiar with the matter. Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Northern has submitted at least two offers for Granite …
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(Reuters) – U.S. energy firms this week kept the number of oil and natural gas rigs unchanged for the second week in a row, 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, remained at 589 in the week …
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U.S. natural gas futures jumped about 5% to a 23-month high on Friday on early forecasts for much colder weather in mid-January that could freeze oil and gas wells and lift spot prices by reducing output as in past years. Also supporting prices was an increase in the amount of gas flowing to liquefied natural …
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Venture Global LNG filed initial paperwork for an IPO on Dec. 20, about a week after the company’s Plaquemines LNG facility started production.
