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TotalEnergies Buys More Gas Assets in Texas to Boost Value Chain

France’s TotalEnergies expands its natural gas footprint in the United States through a deal reached with Lewis Energy Group to acquire a 45% stake in some dry gas producing assets in the Eagle Ford basin in Texas, the company said on Friday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TotalEnergies’ is one of the top exporters of U.S.-made Liquified …

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U.S. Natgas Prices Hold Near 3-Month High as Helene Batters U.S. Southeast

U.S. natural gas futures held near a three-month high on Friday as Hurricane Helene battered the U.S. Southeast after causing Gulf of Mexico producers to cut output and millions of power outages in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. On its first day as the front-month, gas futures for November delivery on the New York Mercantile …

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Why Europe Can’t Give Up Russian Gas Despite Sanctions Over Ukraine

Three years ago, Russia was the world’s biggest exporter of natural gas and Europe was its top customer. For the continent’s leaders, access to all that cheap Russian energy outweighed any misgivings over doing business with President Vladimir Putin. Then Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and this overwhelming reliance on a single supplier suddenly …

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Powering AI Leapfrogs Climate Concerns

It’s become clear there’s not enough low-carbon energy to satisfy data centers’ needs, and natural gas will be key.   It’s Climate Week in New York, and dominating the conversation has been the apparently insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence for power. The subject has been much in the news. Just last week, we learned that the infamous Three Mile …

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About 29% of Crude Production Shut in Gulf of Mexico Due to Hurricane Helene

 About 29% of crude production and 17% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico were shut in response to Hurricane Helene, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said on Wednesday. Energy producers had shut-in 511,000 barrels per day of oil production and nearly 313 million cubic feet of natural gas …

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EQT Plans To Reverse Some US Natgas Production Curtailments in Oct – CEO

(Reuters) – U.S. energy company EQT plans to reverse some natural gas production curtailments in October and November as demand for the fuel and prices increase, CEO Toby Rice told Reuters on Wednesday. EQT, the biggest U.S. natural gas producer, has along with other U.S. drillers curtailed output in 2024 after prices collapsed to multi-year …

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Canada’s Federal Greenwash Law Bill C-59: You’re Guilty Until Proven Innocent

“Under this new law, you’re guilty unless you prove your innocence to some back-room bureaucratic body. That’s simply not a Canadian concept.” Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick In its latest display of environmental correctness, the federal government passed a new anti-greenwashing law that requires individuals or organizations making claims or promises about the climate …

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US Natgas End-of-Season Storage to Reach Four-Year High in October

(Reuters) – U.S. natural gas storage is on track to end the April-October summer injection season at a four-year high of 3.899 trillion cubic feet (tcf) on Oct. 31, according to analysts’ estimates. That compares with 3.809 tcf at the end of the summer injection season in 2023, 3.929 tcf in 2020 and a five-year …

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U.S. Drillers Cut Oil and Gas Rigs for Fifth Week in Six, Baker Hughes Says

U.S. energy firms this week resumed cutting the number of oil and natural gas rigs after adding rigs last week, with the count falling for a fifth week in six, 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, …

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Global Refiners Face Profit Slump as New Plants Come Online

(Reuters) – Oil refiners in Asia, Europe and the United States are facing a drop in profitability to multi-year lows, marking a downturn for an industry that had enjoyed surging returns post-pandemic and underlining the extent of the current slowdown in global demand. The weakness is a further sign of soft consumer and industrial demand, …

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