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Exxon Mobil is ahead of schedule with its plan to double the size of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) portfolio to 40 million tons per annum (mtpa) by 2030 and will focus on selling its own gas rather than trading that of third parties, the company’s LNG chief said on Thursday. Exxon is revamping its …
Exxon Ahead of Schedule on Doubling LNG Portfolio, Exec Says Read More »
U.S. natural gas futures eased about 1% to a three-week low on Thursday on forecasts for milder weather over the next two weeks than previously expected, ample gas in storage and expectations gas flows to liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plants would remain low through May due to outages at Freeport LNG’s plant in Texas. …
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Global oil consumption is outpacing expectations this year Oil executives gathered in Houston confident on demand outlook The world is using more oil than ever and demand is outpacing expectations again this year, raising questions about how soon global consumption will peak. The unabated thirst for crude contributed to an increasingly confident tone from executives …
CERAWeek: Oil Demand Outpaces Expectations, Testing Calculus on Peak Crude Read More »
Executives gathered at CERAWeek say the technology has potential to become a huge source of demand, as well as reshape production. The energy industry, which has prided itself on innovation since the days of kerosene lamps, has a flashy new technology to be bullish about: artificial intelligence. During on-stage discussions and one-on-one interviews, energy executives from …
CERAWeek: AI Emerges as Next Shiny Thing in the Energy World Read More »
White House pause on new permits threw sector into disarray Ban will ‘annihilate critical jobs’: Texas attorney general Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers. A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and the US Department of Energy in Louisiana federal court on …
No Go Joe: Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit Read More »
By John Kemp LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) – Global petroleum inventories are only slightly below the long-term seasonal average but futures prices have already moved into a steep backwardation as traders anticipate they will deplete further over the rest of 2024. OECD commercial inventories of crude oil and refined products are estimated to have been around …
Oil Traders Expect Stocks to Fall Significantly after OPEC Extends Cuts Read More »
(Reuters) – A senior BlackRock executive said on Thursday the world’s largest asset manager was “dismayed” by a Texas state fund’s move to pull $8.5 billion in assets, and urged the fund’s administrators to reconsider. Texas State Board of Education Chair Aaron Kinsey said on Tuesday the Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) was terminating a contract with …
BlackRock Urges Texas Fund Managers to Reconsider After $8.5 Billion Divestment Read More »
U.S. energy pipeline and storage operators have spent two years watching the consolidation of oil and gas producers, and now they are gearing up for the merger wave to hit their sector, executives, investors, and analysts said. The midstream sector has a lot of specialized midsize firms and only a handful of very large operators …
U.S. Pipeline Firms Poised to Follow Biggest Customers into M&A Read More »
If the U.S. pulls back from permitting new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plants, demand for the fuel will still be met from projects in Qatar, Argentina and Africa, the CEO of Baker Hughes, the world’s largest provider of equipment for the LNG sector, said on Thursday. The Biden administration in January paused new export …
LNG Growth to be Met by Other Countries if U.S. Walks Away – Baker Hughes CEO Read More »
U.S. natural gas storage is on track to end the November-March winter withdrawal season at 2.050 trillion cubic feet (tcf) on March 31, the highest since 2017, according to analysts’ estimates. That compares with 1.850 tcf of gas in storage at the end of the winter withdrawal season in 2023, 2.063 tcf at the end …
U.S. Natgas End-of-Season Storage to Reach 7-Year High in March Read More »
