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Colombia government suspends peace talks with ELN rebels
Colombia's federal government has aborted peace talks with leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), its peace delegation said on Wednesday, following an attack which eliminated two soldiers and injured more than 2 lots. The choice is another devastating blow to President Gustavo Petro's cornerstone total peace policy, which sought to eliminate the ELN from its function in the Andean country's six-decades of internal armed dispute. Today the peace process is on hold. Its viability is significantly lessened and its extension can just go on with an unequivocal demonstration of peace by the ELN, the government peace delegation stated in a post on X. The government restarted negotiations with the ELN at completion of 2022 and held six rounds of talks with the rebel group in Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela. The attack which caused the talk with be suspended took place on Tuesday in a rural area of Colombia's Arauca province, which borders Venezuela.
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Chesapeake Energy states deal for Southwestern Energy to close early in 4Q
Chesapeake Energy's $7. billion acquisition of rival natural gas producer Southwestern. Energy is expected to close early in the 4th quarter, CEO. Nick Dell' Osso stated on Wednesday. The offer was postponed earlier this year after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission requested extra info from. the 2. Chesapeake announced the all-stock purchase in January. and initially had actually anticipated the acquisition to close by June 30. Dell' Osso stated on the sidelines of the Gastech energy. conference that the U.S. natural gas market stays. oversupplied. We are going to be pretty mindful with how we think. about changing our supply image up until we see that (oversupply). is no longer the case, he said. Chesapeake is producing about 3 billion cubic feet per. day of gas and when the Southwestern offer closes its output will. rise to about 7 bcfd, he said.
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EQT CEO sees gas costs staying below $3/mmBtu.
The CEO of U.S. gas manufacturer EQT Corp on Wednesday said U.S. costs for the fuel will stay below $3 per million British thermal units in the short term. As rates fell to multi-year lows previously this year, EQT reduced 1 billion cubic feet each day (bcfd) of its gas output. Several competing U.S. shale gas producers also cut drilling to stem over production. Toby Rice, CEO of the biggest U.S. gas manufacturer, said at the Gastech energy conference that he anticipates production curtailments to reduce by next year as need for U.S. melted natural gas exports increase. U.S. gas futures fell 4 cents on Wednesday to settle at $2.284 per million Btus. Rice, whose business has agreements with LNG developers Texas LNG and Commonwealth LNG, stated demand for natural gas to feed LNG exports and fuel power plants has never been more essential. He said the U.S. needs to allow market forces to dictate the fuel mix, slamming what he called political forces obstructing gas advancement. We need to get back to a location where one of the most budget-friendly, many dependable, cleanest energy discovers its method to the marketplace, said Rice. The political forces requires to take a. backseat.
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Shipping firm executive says port strike on US East Coast will cause supply chain problems from the start.
The French container carrier CMA CGM's North America CEO warned on Wednesday that a strike by dockworkers on Oct. 1, at ports along the U.S. East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea would disrupt the flow of cargo into the country. The International Longshoremen's Association represents 45,000 dockworkers at 36 ports, including New York/New Jersey and Savannah, Georgia. The union has promised to stop working if a new contract is not in place by the expiration of its current six-year labor agreement on September 30th at midnight. George Goldman said, "The moment you shut the door, everything starts to back up," on a webcast by the Port of Los Angeles. He said that "one day is not enough" to close a port. CMA CGM belongs to the United States Maritime Alliance, an employer group that negotiates with the ILA. Ports that could be affected are responsible for about half of U.S. imported goods. Retailers, manufacturers, and other ocean carriers are worried about cargo being stuck in idled facilities. They have moved some cargo to West Coast ports to avoid this. Sea-Intelligence analysts, a Copenhagen-based firm that provides shipping advice, estimate that it will take between four and six days to clear a strike-related backlog. Sea-Intelligence stated that a two-week strike may mean ports will not be able to return to normal operation until 2025. Experts in transportation said that goods from Europe, India, and other countries that depend on direct routes over the Atlantic Ocean will be affected most. Imports into the busiest U.S. West Coast port are also surging. This is because CMA CGM and Maersk, as well as other large container carriers have also been stocking up on Halloween costumes and holiday apparel in anticipation of any possible labor action. Manufacturers have also been stocking up on solar panel and other goods that could be subject to tariff increases. In August, the Port of Long Beach recorded its busiest month for 113 years, with a volume jump of nearly 34% compared to the previous year, and boosted by a 40% increase in imports. Los Angeles, the neighboring port, reported a volume increase of 16% in August. This was largely due to an 18% rise in imports. Gene Seroka is the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles. He said that it was difficult to quantify the increase in cargo from other ports. Los Angeles, however, can still handle around 1.2 million 20 foot equivalent units per monthly, as opposed to the 960 597 TEUs processed in August. Seroka replied, "We can handle the cargo."
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Native male shot dead as land dispute in Brazil farm state intensifies
In Brazil, a guy from the Guarani community was shot dead on Wednesday morning, a. governmental protection firm for Indigenous communities stated,. as a land dispute in the farm state of Mato Grosso do Sul. intensified. It comes after a violent fight in early August. throughout which armed guys, backed by farmers in trucks and. tractors, assaulted Native individuals recovering land in the large. farming state, hurting 11 of them. The man was shot in the head on Wednesday early morning, the. indigenous affairs firm Funai stated. The disagreement connects to the. Nhanderu Marangatu Indigenous Land situated in Mato Grosso do Sul. on the border with surrounding Paraguay. Terras Indigenas, a database run by an ecological and. Native rights not-for-profit in Brazil, shows the land of some. 9,000 hectares has an population of about 1,350 and had been. acknowledged as Native area. Funai stated it had actually asked the specialized federal prosecutor's. workplace to embrace all applicable legal procedures and had actually met. the judge accountable for the case. ( We are) dedicated to ensuring that this violence stops. instantly and that those responsible for these crimes are. carefully punished, it said in a statement. Offered the seriousness of this matter, (Funai) is preparing. brand-new action before the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region,. in order to ensure the security of the indigenous. neighborhood, it added. Ranchers have been wanting to clear land to plant soybeans. for export or raise livestock to produce beef. With Brazil's farm. frontier advancing toward the Amazon, disputes over land claimed. by Indigenous individuals have actually multiplied. Violent land disputes have also become more regular and. sustained a continuous dispute over the movement to limit Native. claims to ancestral lands in a conservative Congress backed by a. powerful farm lobby. Legislators have proposed a modification to the constitution. that would introduce a limit to land claims by Indigenous. communities made after 1988, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has. ruled that setting such a time framework was unconstitutional. Less than half of the nation's 1.6 million Indigenous. individuals survive on about 13% of the country's land mass.
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Russia may improve oil exports in October on lower refining, sources say
Oil exports from Russia's. western ports may rise in October as domestic refineries will. boost runs just partially in spite of coming out of the peak. maintenance season, trading sources stated. Traders had actually been mainly expecting oil loadings from the. ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Novorossiisk to fall in October. versus September due to an expected increase in domestic. refining. Two Russian industry sources stated a number of plants will finish. maintenance next month, but others will reduce throughput. after running at capability to make up for refinery outages. across Russia in previous months. It indicates that Russia's total refinery throughput will be. largely unchanged versus September at around 5 million bpd,. leaving more oil for exports, the sources said. I anticipate a little rise in Russia's oil exports in October. I. doubt that all repair work will be finished on time, an industry. source stated. Some 3.9 million lots or some 0.9 million bpd of refining. capacity will be offline in Russia this month, up 34% from. August. Russian authorities have yet to release provisional export. volumes for Baltic and Black Sea ports for October, traders. included. September exports are set to increase by 4.5% from August to. 2.04 million bpd after Russia added cargoes last week.
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Italy's railways to stay under state control, transport minister says
Italy's state railways business will stay under state control, Transportation Minister Matteo Salvini stated on Wednesday, after the business's CEO said he was considering opening it approximately personal financiers. I deny any sell-off (prepare for the company), Salvini stated during concern time in the Senate, the upper home of parliament. No such proposition is on my desk. Control (of the business) has actually been and will remain public, he included. The CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato, Stefano Donnarumma, had said on Sept. 7 he was ready to think about opening up the company's capital to investors. A bourse listing is typically an effect of such a. procedure. I wouldn't mention flotation per se, but of opening. the capital, Donnarumma stated. The president of Italy's transportation regulator (ART), Nicola. Zaccheo, also talked about Wednesday on the eventual partial. privatisation of Ferrovie dello Stato. A privatisation of the facilities is tough, in such. a strategic property the state need to continue to have a central. role, he stated, presenting ART's annual report. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government has. chosen to offer stakes in numerous state-controlled companies. since it took workplace in 2022. On Tuesday, it embraced a decree allowing the Treasury to. sell a stake of approximately 14% in postal service operator Poste. Italiane, while keeping the company under state control.
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Boeing to momentarily furlough 10s of countless workers
Boeing said on Wednesday the planemaker will momentarily furlough tens of countless staff members after about 30,000 machinists went on strike on Friday, stopping production of its 737 MAX and other aircrafts. We are initiating short-term furloughs over the coming days that will affect a great deal of USbased executives, managers and staff members, CEO Kelly Ortberg stated in an email to employees. We. are planning for selected employees to take one week of furlough. every four weeks on a rolling basis throughout of the. strike. A Boeing spokesperson stated the furloughs will affect 10s of. thousands of workers. Ortberg likewise stated he and other Boeing leaders will take a. commensurate pay reduction for the duration of the strike. Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and. Aerospace Workers were set to resume contract talks on Wednesday. in the presence of federal conciliators, after failing to settle on. crucial issues such as earnings and pensions. The union has actually been pushing for a 40% raise over 4. years in its very first full agreement settlements with Boeing in 16. years, well above the planemaker's deal of 25%, which was. resoundingly rejected. A prolonged strike might cost Boeing a number of billion dollars,. even more straining the planemaker's financial resources and threatening a. downgrade of its credit score, experts said. The strike, which enters its sixth day on Wednesday, is Boeing's. initially considering that 2008 and is the latest event in a tumultuous year. for the planemaker which began with a January incident when a. door panel detached from a new 737 MAX jet in mid-air. We won't take any actions that inhibit our capability to totally. recover in the future, Ortberg said on Wednesday. All. activities crucial to our security, quality, consumer assistance and. key certification programs will be prioritized and continue,. consisting of 787 production. The strike has actually stopped production of Boeing's very popular. 737 MAX jets, along with its 777 and 767 widebody aircraft,. postponing deliveries to airlines. Boeing stated on Monday it was freezing working with to cut costs as. its balance sheet is currently burdened with $60 billion of financial obligation. and an extended strike might damage it further. The company has actually likewise stopped placing most orders for parts. for all Boeing jet programs other than the 787 Dreamliner, in a relocation. that will harm its suppliers. Boeing shares have fallen about 40% up until now this year. The. stock was up 0.3% at $156.86 on Wednesday afternoon.
Asia rates hold constant in the middle of Northeast Asia heat, nearing South Asia monsoons
Asian spot melted gas (LNG) prices held consistent this week amid greater temperatures in Northeast Asia and the anticipation of the approaching monsoon season in South Asia.
The typical LNG cost for August shipment into north-east Asia << LNG-AS > was at $12.60 per million British thermal systems ( mmBtu), market sources approximated.
Higher temperatures forecasted for Northeast Asia next week are offset by cooler weather condition in South and Southeast Asia as the monsoon season approaches, stated Ana Subasic, a gas and LNG expert at information and analytics firm Kpler.
Asian LNG front-month prices are also expected to be constant next week with expectations of Australia's Wheatstone LNG supply going back to production.
On June 10, Chevron suspended production at its Wheatstone gas facility in Australia to fix the platform's fuel gas system. It said on Friday that reboot activities at the center are continuous.
Heat throughout Asia had spurred LNG demand, pushing rates up to a six-month top last week. After grappling with record-high summer season temperatures, India's monsoon is advancing after stalling for over a week, with rains set to cover main parts of the country in the coming days, stated weather officials.
In China, southern provinces released serious flood warnings due to heavy rains, but areas in the northwest and east knowledgeable record-high temperature levels.
While expectations for power sector gas burn in other places in northeast Asia are firm, with heat projection for the coming weeks, there stays some unpredictability on stock levels, with some recommending high South Korean stocks which might limit additional LNG need, said Samuel Good, head of LNG prices at product pricing agency Argus.
In Europe, S&P Global Product Insights evaluated its day-to-day northwest Europe LNG Marker (NWM) price standard for freights provided in August on an ex-ship (DES) basis at $10.815/ mmBtu. on June 20, a $0.085/ mmBtu discount to the August gas cost at. the Dutch TTF hub.
Argus assessed the August delivery cost at $10.750/ mmBtu,. while Spark Commodities evaluated the July delivery price at. $ 10.715/ mmBtu.
The marketplace has mainly brushed off more news of the. EU's planned ban on transshipment of Russian LNG, said Argus'. Good. The European Union agreed on a package of sanctions. versus Russia, consisting of banning re-exports of Russian LNG in. EU waters.
Market activity in the Atlantic basin was restricted by firms. holding back cargoes ahead of the Egypt's Natural Gas Holding. Company (EGAS) tender closing next week, suggesting scope for an. increase in activity in the closing days of June.
Egypt is seeking big gas volumes from global markets this. summer season with credits of up to six months, terms that. market sources stated would narrow the list of bidders and. increase premiums.
Good added that the timely inter-basin arbitrage for U.S. loadings has actually stayed open in current days, leaving Asian firms. normally more competitive for this supply.
Meanwhile, LNG freight rates in the Atlantic saw its biggest. week-on-week increase since October 2023, getting to $75,000/ day on. Friday in the middle of increasing demand, said Spark Commodities expert. Qasim Afghan. Pacific rates however alleviated to $47,750/ day.
(source: Reuters)