(Reuters) – U.S. energy firms added oil and gas rigs for second year in a row, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its report on Friday. The number of gas and oil rigs were overall unchanged for the week, with oil rigs falling one and gas rigs rising by one, Baker Hughes said. …
Dec 29 (Reuters) – U.S. energy firms added oil and gas rigs for second year in a row, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its report on Friday. The number of gas and oil rigs were overall unchanged for the week, with oil rigs falling one and gas rigs rising by one, Baker …
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Reuters Dec 29 (Reuters) – A federal safety board investigation has found that Chesapeake Energy (CHK.O) and its contractors failed to provide adequate control measures at the site of a 2020 fire at a company-operated oil well, that claimed three lives. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), which investigates industrial chemical accidents, said in a report published …
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LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) – OPEC is facing weakening demand for its crude in the first half of 2024 just as its global market share declines to the lowest since the Covid-19 pandemic on the back of output cuts and member Angola’s exit, according to Reuters calculations and data from forecasters. The trend means the …
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U.S. crude stockpiles were expected to have fallen last week, while distillate and gasoline inventories likely rose, an extended Reuters poll showed on Wednesday. Seven analysts polled by Reuters estimated on average that crude inventories fell by about 2.7 million barrels in the week to Dec. 22. The poll was conducted ahead of reports from …
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U.S. natural gas futures traded below the previous session’s three-week high on Thursday as investors awaited a weekly storage report due later in the day. Front-month gas futures for February delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange were trading around $2.53 per million British thermal units as of 10:08 a.m. EST. Prices rose as much …
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(Reuters) – China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec, expects coal consumption to peak around 2025 at 4.37 billion metric tons, the state energy group said in an outlook released on Thursday. Non-fossil energy supply, led by solar and wind, will likely exceed the equivalence of 3 billion metric tons of standard coal by 2045 to become …
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U.S. natural gas futures climbed more than 5% to a three-week high on Wednesday as the expiration of the January contract helped push up prices, while the outlook for colder weather also lent support. Front-month gas futures for January delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 13.8 cents, or 5.4%, at $2.69 per million …
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NextDecade said TotalEnergies has offered to sell a 17.5% stake in the U.S. liquified natural gas company. The offering by a unit of French oil major TotalEnergies includes 44.9 million shares of NextDecade, the company said in a filing dated Dec. 22. The shares were bought for $219 million in June as part of a broader …
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(Reuters) – Colombia will allow Indigenous, rural and other minority communities to form renewable energy generator and commercialization projects and develop joint ventures with private companies or the public sector, the energy ministry said. Leftist President Gustavo Petro has pledged to turn Colombia away from production of oil and coal, and toward renewables like solar …
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