Oil Up on Middle East Tensions, China Economy Worries Limit Gains

Reuters – Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday following a more than 1% drop in the previous session as escalating tensions in major producing region the Middle East fuelled supply concerns, though a bleak Chinese economic outlook limited gains. March Brent crude futures , which are due to expire on Wednesday, rose 8 cents, or …

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Enphase Energy Launches New IQ8 Microinverters for High-Powered Solar Modules in North America

FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world’s leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, today announced that it has started shipping its new IQ8™ Microinverters, IQ8HC™ and IQ8X™. With peak output AC power of 384W, IQ8HC and IQ8X Microinverters are designed …

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Battalion Oil Corporation Announces Operations and Financial Update

Houston, Texas, Jan. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Battalion Oil Corporation (NYSE American: BATL, “Battalion” or the “Company”) today announced certain financial and operating updates. Key Highlights Acid gas injection (“AGI”) well is projected to be injecting by end of the first quarter 2024 Recent two well pad was drilled and completed under budget and the …

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Red Sea Worries Cause Spike in Refined Fuel Prices, But Market Will Adjust: Russell

The main impact from the escalating tensions in the Middle East and the threat to ships transiting the Red Sea isn’t on crude oil prices. It’s refined fuels that are most at risk. The missile attack on the product tanker Marlin Luanda on Jan. 26 by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group underscored the risks to shipments …

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Japan Worried U.S Pause of LNG Export Approvals May Delay New Projects

Japan, the world’s second-biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is concerned that a temporary suspension of U.S. export permits may delay the launch of new LNG facilities in the United States, industry minister Ken Saito said on Tuesday. U.S. President Joe Biden last week paused approvals for pending and future applications to export LNG …

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California and Big Oil Are Splitting After Century-Long Affair

Summary State policies favoring clean-energy have oil companies fuming Exxon, Chevron each to take about $2.5 billion in impairments Jan 29 (Reuters) – It is the end of an era for Big Oil in California, as the most populous U.S. state divorces itself from fossil fuels in its fight against climate change. California’s oil output …

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Commentary: Biden’s LNG Pause: a Deadly Fraud – Alex Epstein

In an attempt to buy votes from ignorant, gullible activists, Biden has amputated the US LNG industry without regard for the catastrophic consequences By Alex Epstein Joe Biden has halted LNG expansion, which the world needs for low-cost, reliable, secure energy.He pretends it’s to lower prices or GHG emissions, but it will do neither.Halting LNG is …

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Impact on Commodities Due to Chaos in the Red Sea

Attacks on shipping vessels by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in the crucial Red Sea shipping lane have disrupted shipping in the Suez Canal, the fastest sea route between Asia and Europe. Data from S&P Global showed the Suez Canal route accounts for 14.8% of all Europe and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) imports. In response, …

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U.S. Natgas Prices Drop 10% on Contract Expiry, Freeport LNG Unit Outage

U.S. natural gas futures plunged about 10% on Monday in light trade ahead of contract expiration on an extended outage at the Freeport LNG export plant in Texas and forecasts for warmer-than-normal weather to continue through at least mid-February. Analysts noted the Freeport outage would leave more gas in the U.S. at the same time …

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