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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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Hydrogen Adoption Will Cost Europe, US More Than $1 Trillion

Europe and the U.S. will have to spend in excess of $1 trillion for building infrastructure to enable widespread use of hydrogen fuel, an executive at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said on Monday. A wholesale move to hydrogen will need significant new demand, which could only come with investments in infrastructure to reduce the cost. European …

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BP Whiting, Indiana Refinery Returns to Normal Ops, Says Company

BP Plc’s 435,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana refinery returned to normal operations for the first time since a February plantwide power outage, a company spokesperson said on Monday.Gasoline prices in the Chicago-area climbed by at least 20 cents a gallon in the days following the Feb. 1 power outage at the Whiting refinery. (Reporting by …

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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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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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