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United States LNG gas need nears record level

Gas need from the U.S. largest melted natural gas producers skyrocketed on Friday to nearrecord levels on cooler weather and fewer blackouts, according to preliminary data from monetary company LSEG. LNG export plants were anticipated to draw 14.6 billion cubic feet on Friday, the greatest for the year and simply shy of the U.S. record of 14.7 bcf, recorded in December 2023, and up from the 14.5 bcf recorded on Thursday, LSEG information revealed. Gas demand from U.S. LNG export plants is very important as it has been the main source of increased U.S. need in recent years. Freeport LNG,...

Oil Pipeline

Trump prepares wide-ranging energy strategy to increase gas exports, oil drilling, sources say

Donald Trump's transition group is creating a wideranging energy bundle to roll out within days of his taking workplace that would authorize export licenses for brand-new liquefied gas (LNG) tasks and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands, according to two sources familiar with the plans. The energy checklist mainly reflects assures Trump made on the campaign path, however the strategy to present the list as early as the first day guarantees that oil and gas production will rank together with immigration as a pillar of Trump's early agenda. Trump, a Republican politician, also plans to...

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Plains All American agrees to pay about $73 mln to settle California oil spill lawsuit

Plains All American Pipeline has actually accepted pay $72.5 million to settle a claim over the 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara, a filing revealed on Tuesday. The spill occurred after a pipeline, which ran across California's coastline, burst and spilled an estimated 126,000 gallons of oil into the ocean and on the beaches. In 2020, the California State Lands Commission and insurance firm Aspen American Insurance had taken legal action against Plains All American - the operator of the failed pipeline - declaring negligence, willful misbehavior, and disturbance with potential economic benefit. The state of California will...

Transportation

Energy Transfer sees rise in demands from power plants, data centers

Midstream business Energy Transfer on Wednesday stated it has gotten requests for connections to more than 90 power plants and data centers that might total some 16 billion cubic feet daily (bcf/d) of brand-new gas demand. Energy-hungry information centers required to expand technologies like expert system are expected to account for 8% of power demand in the U.S. by 2030, compared to 3% in 2022, according to a Goldman Sachs report in May. Pipeline and storage operator Energy Transfer has gotten demands to connect to over 40 prospective information centers throughout 10 states, which could consume as much as 10...

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Oman's OQ to list up to 49% stake in methanol, ammonia and LPG arm

Oman's OQ Base Industries ( OQBI), the methanol, ammonia and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). arm of stateowned OQ, plans to note an as much as 49% stake on the. regional stock market, it stated on Monday, adding to a string of. IPOs in the Gulf nation. The listing belongs to a privatisation programme by. state-owned energy group OQ, which is assisting Oman - a little. non-OPEC oil producer - to diversify its economy and cut its. debt. OQBI's plans follow the flotations of OQ's exploration and. production organization, which raised about $2 billion. last month in the biggest IPO ever...

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Pipeline operator Enbridge's Q3 revenue more than doubles on consistent oil demand

Enbridge published a more than twofold jump in its thirdquarter profit on Friday, as the Canadian pipeline operator took advantage of stable oil need. Data from the U.S. Energy Info Administration showed that overall U.S. oil intake rose in July to the greatest seasonal level because 2019. Demand for fuel was also at the greatest seasonal levels considering that 2019, whereas jet fuel need the greatest for any month considering that August 2019. Enbridge's mainline system transported 2.96 million barrels each day in the quarter, while its adjusted core earnings rose 3.2%. to C$ 1.35 billion, assisted by greater tolls....

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US LNG export gains at danger if Trump wins election and boosts tariffs, experts state

U.S. exporters of melted gas (LNG) might face new difficulties if Republican Donald Trump wins the presidential election because of a proposed 60% tariff on imports from China, regardless of the former president's pledge to speed brand-new energy licenses, say experts. The U.S. became the world's biggest exporter of the super-chilled gas last year, producing tens of billions of dollars in annual trade. Exports will balance 12.1 billion cubic feet per day this year, almost double their level 4 years back, according to U.S. government estimates. Even higher possible gains have actually been stalled because President Joe Biden's Energy Department...

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Trump dislikes Biden's climate law. His allies are generating income from it

Donald Trump has actually guaranteed to gut U.S. President Joe Biden's. environment aids if elected. However much of Trump's allies are. taking advantage of them thanks to huge investments in solar power,. electrical lorries, carbon sequestration, hydrogen and other. clean energy technologies. Reuters found at least 7 of Trump's close allies and. charity events, or the companies they run, hold hundreds of countless. dollars-worth of stakes in companies that are significant. beneficiaries of the tax breaks embedded in the Inflation. Reduction Act, Biden's signature climate law. They include Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner; his former. ambassador to China and continued ally...

Transportation

Business Products ruling out brand-new Permian oil pipeline, says co-CEO

U.S. energy pipeline operator Business Products is ruling out including a. new crude oil line out of the Permian shale field in West Texas,. coCEO Jim Teague said on Thursday. A wave of consolidation in the top U.S. shale field has. concentrated output in the hands of companies that are appealing. to restrain output so as not to crash prices by overproducing. Teague likewise stated that Business continues to advance its. proposed deepwater oil export job, Sea Port Oil Terminal. ( AREA), but nobody wishes to be (the) first customer to sign. up. Multi-year regulative hold-ups, a loss of commercial...

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JPMorgan seeks to resume trading physical LNG, Bloomberg Report

JPMorgan Chase remains in talk with resume trading physical melted natural gas (LNG) after more than a years, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, pointing out people knowledgeable about the matter. The bank has actually had talks with at least 3 projects under advancement in the Gulf Coast to get a long-lasting LNG supply, the report said. The bank and designers are in conversation to develop a job to liquefy and export gas in Commonwealth LNG website in Louisiana, Sempra Energy's under building and construction site in Texas and Energy Transfer facility in Louisiana, the report added. Energy Transfer did not...

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Energy Transfer indications KBR, Technip Energies to develop Louisiana LNG plant

Pipeline operator Energy Transfer has signed an initial contract with a. consortium to construct its proposed Lake Charles melted natural. gas (LNG) plant, a filing with federal regulators on Thursday. shows. The Technip Energies and KBR offer is subject to a final. investment decision (FID) for the Lake Charles LNG job in. Louisiana, Energy Transfer said in a filing to the Federal. Energy Regulatory Commission. Terms were not divulged. Energy Transfer has actually been trying to develop the job in. Lake Charles, Louisiana, given that 2015 but has not signed enough. consumers for the proposed 16.5 million metric tonnes per...

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Kinder Morgan misses out on quarterly earnings quotes on weak rates, unrefined volumes

U.S. pipeline operator Kinder Morgan fell short of Wall Street estimates for thirdquarter profit on Wednesday, weighed down by weaker product prices and lower unrefined volumes. U.S. WTI petroleum rates declined about 8.1% during the noted quarter from a year earlier on issues over demand and sufficient materials. Crude and condensate volumes fell 4% from the year-ago quarter. At its products pipelines system, that includes refined products, adjusted core earnings reduced about 11.5% to $277. million. Kinder Morgan, whose pipelines move about 40% of total U.S. gas production, stated natural gas transport volumes increased. 2% year-over-year. The Houston, Texas-based company...

Europe

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Argentina's Vaca Muerta gas-export strategy is a pipeline dream

Gas production is flourishing in Argentina's huge Vaca Muerta shale lands, however complete pipelines and the federal government's freemarket method to spending for brand-new ones might avoid the nation from ending up being a major gas exporter by early next years. About $58 billion worth of new or updated pipelines, processing plants and export terminals is needed to deal with Argentina's. growing production from the world's secondlargest shale gas. reserves Vaca Muerta, which is Spanish for dead cow. But libertarian President Javier Milei has actually changed direct. financial investment by the national government in gas infrastructure with. tax breaks and...

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Ukraine's Naftogaz and Ukrnafta increase gas output by 6% from January

Ukraine's staterun Naftogaz and Ukrnafta oil and gas companies raised their natural gas output by 6% to around 12.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) between January and October, Naftogaz said on Thursday. Naftogaz said in July it prepared to increase gas output to 15 bcm this year, from 14 bcm in 2023. Ukrnafta is the largest oil business in Ukraine, and its 50% plus one share owned by Naftogaz. Over the coming winter months, gas is essential to Ukraine for heating. Ukraine's energy system has been a target for Russia whose strikes on power facilities have triggered blackouts. We are doing...

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Acciona and RMC build Ravenna breakwater to LNG terminal for 216 million euro

Acciona announced on Tuesday that it and Italy's RMC would build a breakwater for the new LNG terminal off the port in Ravenna. The contract is worth 216 millions euros ($230million). The terminal will be managed by Italy’s gas grid operator Snam and is expected to be completed in the first quarter next year. LNG imports, which arrive via ships, are regasified in terminals and then transported by pipeline to customers domestically, have now become a major supply source, accounting for around a quarter of Italy's gas consumption. Ravenna’s work is a vertical concrete dock with a length and width...

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Russian gas streams to EU through Ukraine down 3% from typical levels

Russian gas exports through Ukraine to Europe were down more than 3% on Sunday and Monday from levels seen in current months, while nominations for gas to and from Slovakia were stable, data from Gazprom and a. pipeline operator revealed. Russian gas manufacturer Gazprom said it would send. 40.8 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe through Ukraine on. Monday, up from 40.6 mcm on Sunday however down from more than 42. mcm seen in recent months. Russia halted gas supplies to Austria's OMV in. mid-November due to a contractual conflict and a court decision. to award the Vienna-based...

Transportation

Wall Street Journal - Nov. 22

The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has actually not confirmed these stories and does not vouch for their precision. - U.S. satellite television service provider DirecTV said on Thursday it had ended its contract to acquire Echostar's. satellite tv service, which includes rival Dish TV,. over a stopped working debt-exchange offer. - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering picking Kevin. Warsh as his Treasury secretary with the understanding that he. could later on be chosen to lead the Federal Reserve when Jerome. Powell's term as chair ends in 2026. - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump...

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Huge oil companies defeat US consumer claim over production, prices

Numerous oil companies consisting of Exxon Mobil and Chevron beat an appeal on Monday by customers who implicated them of conspiring with previous U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut oil production, increasing rates at the pump. In a 3-0 choice, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stated 2 dozen consumers could not pursue class action claims due to the fact that they concerned political questions and the oil-producing policies of foreign countries. The court also found an absence of proof that the oil companies violated antitrust law by conspiring to raise rates....

Transportation

NET4GAS says it wins arbitration case versus Gazprom Export payments

Czech gas transmission system operator NET4GAS has won an arbitration case against Russian group Gazprom Export over payments it was owed, the Czech business said. In a filing late on Thursday, NET4GAS said a tribunal had bought (Gazprom Export) to pay the claimed amount together with default interest and reimburse N4G for the costs of the proceedings. Gazprom and Gazprom Export did not immediately respond to a. request for remark. NET4GAS has said it was declaring 113 million euros from. Gazprom Export after the Russian carrier stopped working to make payments. under contracts following the halt in products to Europe...

Transportation

Russia wants to keep gas transit via Ukraine to Europe, Putin says

President Vladimir Putin stated on Thursday that Russia aims to keep pumping gas through Ukraine to the European Union but included that Moscow could not force Kyiv to keep the transit agreement which expires at the end of this year. As for Ukraine, we are not abandoning this transit, strangely enough. Why? Since we, and Gazprom, intend to satisfy all our commitments to our consumers with whom we have long-term agreements, Putin said. There is a transit contract that ends on December 31 of this year. However if Ukraine refuses this transit, well, we can't. force it, Putin stated. Putin...

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Tips Poland assisted Nord Stream sabotage are groundless, states presidential assistant

Tips that Ukrainian authorities supported by Poland lagged planning and executing the sabotage attack on Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 are groundless, the Polish president's assistant stated on Sunday. Germany's previous intelligence chief August Hanning told Die Welt today he believed there were arrangements in between presidents of Poland and Ukraine to carry out the attack. These are completely groundless insinuations, Mieszko Pawlak, head of the global policy bureau at the office of President Andrzej Duda stated when inquired about the allegations by Polsat broadcaster, PAP newswire reported. Pawlak stated Hanning was serving when Gerhard Schroeder was German chancellor...

Transportation

Gas transit flows typical amid reported clashes near Russia's Sudzha, Kyiv states

Russian natural gas continued to transit Ukraine to European customers as typical on Wednesday, Kyiv's gas transmission operator stated in the middle of reports of clashes near the Russian town of Sudzha where Russian gas flows into Ukraine. As of 13:00 Kyiv time (1000 GMT), gas is being transported to European consumers as normal, with no modifications. Nominations have actually been confirmed and the physical flow of gas is maintained, the operator informed Reuters. Russia's Gazprom said it would send out 39.4 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Wednesday, down from 42.4 mcm on Tuesday....

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Ukraine's Naftogaz plans to increase gas, oil output in 2024

Ukraine's biggest state energy business Naftogaz is preparing to increase its gas and oil production this year in spite of a consistent threat of Russian bombardments, its CEO stated on Monday. CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov stated that Naftogaz prepares to produce 15 billion cubic metres of natural gas and 2 million tonnes of oil in 2024. In 2023, the company's gas production amounted to 14 bcm of gas Chernyshov said that Naftogaz's assets, which include gas. storage, oil and gas production centers and circulation networks, and other facilities were under constant hazard of Russian barrages as the war nears its 29th...