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United States extends remark due date on Biden-era LNG research study to protect approvals

The U.S. has extended the remark period on a federal study of the economic and environmental effects of the thriving natural gas export business as the administration of President Donald Trump seeks to protect approvals from any legal actions. The U.S. Department of Energy said late on Tuesday that it is extending the remark period from Feb. 18 to March 20 in order to get proper stakeholder input. In his campaign, Trump had guaranteed swift action on reversing previous President Joe Biden's pause on the LNG export approvals to huge markets in Asia and Europe. Reuters reported on Jan. 7...

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Trump's export license restart boosts US LNG projects

The U.S. president Donald Trump lifted the moratorium on new export permits of liquefied gas imposed by Joe Biden, his predecessor in January 2024. Trump's executive order targeting the LNG industry was part of the series of policy initiatives to increase U.S. energy output. Biden has halted all new approvals until a study is completed on the economic and environmental effects of the export boom. The study was published in December. The U.S. LNG production was going to double, regardless of the moratorium. Biden had stopped new permit approvals before the government gave the green light for projects to increase...

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Trump's energy actions on his very first day

U.S. President Donald Trump released a. flurry of orders within hours of his inauguration on Monday. planned to improve the nation's currently recordhigh oil and gas. production and loosen up previous President Joe Biden's environment. agenda. Here are some of the actions Trump handled his first day: ENERGY EMERGENCY SITUATION Trump stated a national energy emergency, meant to. supply him with the authority to reduce ecological. limitations on energy facilities and projects and ease. permitting for brand-new transmission and pipeline infrastructure. It allows you to do whatever you have actually got to do to get ahead. of that issue, Trump...

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Plains All American to price very first M&A bond of year

U.S. integrated midstream facilities company Plains All American Pipeline is set on Monday to price a $1 billion investmentgrade bond offering, the year's very first to fund an acquisition. Proceeds will be utilized to money an $800 million purchase of Ironwood Midstream Energy Partners and hybrid shares from EnCap Flatrock Midstream, Plains All American stated previously this month . The offering set the phase for what is anticipated to be a busy year of bond funding for acquisitions. Distribute lenders typically are expecting around $1.65. trillion of brand-new investment-grade bonds in 2025, topping the $1.5. trillion in 2024, making this...

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Trump promised swift action on LNG exports, however consultants preaching patience

Advisers to U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump are prompting him to take a client technique to rebooting approvals for melted natural gas export licenses, fearing fast approvals will just get reversed in court, according to two sources knowledgeable about the discussions. The recommendations use a preview of the challenges Trump will face as his strong campaign guarantees to slash guideline and unfetter industry crash into the truth of governing an unwieldy administration. In an election-year move, current President Joe Biden stopped brand-new LNG export licenses and purchased his administration to conduct a. review of the U.S. LNG market last January after...

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United States LNG gas demand hits record high up on last day of the year

U.S. gas need from LNG plants hit a record on Tuesday, the last day of the year, reaching 15.2 billion cubic feed (bcf) in an indication of a strong year ahead from the startup of 2 brand-new gasprocessing plants, preliminary information from financial company LSEG revealed. U.S. gas demand for LNG plants is anticipated to rise to 17.8 bcfd next year with the commissioning of Endeavor Global LNG's 20 million tones per year (MTPA) Plaquemines plant in Louisiana and Cheniere Energy's Corpus Christi Stage 3 growth in Texas. Need for natural gas by LNG export plants might stimulate greater production...

Transportation

Energy Transfer's unit signs LNG arrangement with Chevron

U.S. pipeline operator Energy Transfer said on Thursday its unit has actually entered a 20year LNG sale and purchase arrangement with oil and gas major Chevron . Under the agreement, the system, Energy Transfer LNG, will supply 2.0 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG to Chevron from the Lake Charles job in Louisiana. Energy Transfer has been attempting to develop the task considering that 2015 but has not signed enough clients to continue with the proposed 16.5 mtpa facility. We believe that Lake Charles is the most engaging LNG project on the Gulf Coast and we continue to make...

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Hydro One partners with Very first Countries to purchase transmission line in Ontario

Canadian energy firm Hydro One said on Tuesday it would partner with the nation's. Native individuals' body, First Nations, to develop and. construct a new top priority transmission line in Northeast Ontario. Canada had stated in April it was supplying as much as C$ 5 billion. ($ 3.49 billion) in loan guarantees to help Indigenous groups. invest in natural deposit jobs. The program is anticipated to offer the groups significant financial investment. chances for oil pipelines, power lines and wind and solar. tasks. Hydro One stated on Tuesday the proposed job is a brand-new,. 260-kilometre, 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission line, at...

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Kinder Morgan projections higher profit in 2025

Kinder Morgan forecast greater earnings for 2025 on Monday as the U.S. pipeline operator bets on development in its gas pipelines and energy transition endeavors in the middle of rising demand for the fuel. Shares of the Houston, Texas-based business were up 1.7%. after the marketplace close. Pipeline operators such as Kinder Morgan are also relying on. electric generation associated with expert system. operations, cryptocurrency mining and information centers. Net income attributable to the company is anticipated to be. $ 1.27 per share in 2025, in line with analysts' average. estimate, according to information put together by LSEG. Kinder Morgan...

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Energy Transfer to construct natgas pipeline in Texas in the middle of soaring Permian production

U.S. pipeline operator Energy Transfer stated on Friday it plans to build an interstate natural gas pipeline in Texas to move gas from the prolific Permian basin. The new pipeline, to be called Hugh Brinson, will be constructed in two stages and would cost a combined $2.7. billion. The first phase, with a capability of 1.5 billion cubic feet. each day (bcf/d), would extend from Waha to Maypearl, Texas, and. is anticipated to come online by the end of 2026. The 2nd stage would increase the capability of the brand-new. pipeline to about 2.2 bcf/d and would be constructed. simultaneously...

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Endeavor Global states brand-new LNG ecological evaluation unnecessary

Venture Global LNG on Wednesday slammed a U.S. require an extra environmental evaluation of a proposed Louisiana LNG project as unnecessary, including that it will be prepared to begin building and construction once the project gets a final goahead. The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) recently pulled Venture Global LNG's permission to build its CP2 export center, needing an additional ecological review of air quality impact. The additional evaluation follows a choice on Aug 6 from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that quashed FERC's approval of NextDecade's plant at the Port of Brownsville, Texas,...

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Pipeline operator Enbridge projections greater 2025 core earnings

Enbridge on Tuesday projection greater core revenue for 2025 as the Canadian pipeline operator anticipates strong oil and gas need to raise volumes, sending its U.S.listed shares up 1% in premarket trading. The business projection changed core earnings between C$ 19.4. billion ($ 13.82 billion) and C$ 20 billion next year, higher than. its 2024 expectations. U.S. gas producers stated in November they would. increase output in 2025 after a series of production cuts in the. existing year, as increased demand from LNG export plants is. anticipated to drive up costs. Global oil intake has rebounded to all-time highs. and...

Europe

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Snam studying binding offer for stake in Eni's carbon capture unit

Italy's Snam is studying a binding offer for a stake in Eni's carbon capture business that could be sent next month, the gas grid operator's CEO stated on Wednesday. In 2015 Snam and Eni launched a joint job for Italy's. first carbon capture and storage center, and Snam is now. thinking about folding its 50% shareholding in the venture into. Eni's CCS system. We are taking a look at the paperwork provided in the. information space and at this moment the indicator we have gotten is. to prepare a binding offer by the end of February ... however there. is...

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LNG exporter Venture Global cuts target valuation for US IPO to $65.3 bln

LNG exporter Endeavor Global on Wednesday slashed the appraisal it was looking for from its U.S. initial public offering to as much as $65.33 billion, considerably lower than the more than $100 billion it had at first aimed. The company also lowered its deal price, effectively increasing the number of shares on sale versus the background of analysts alerting that its high target assessment and little float might deter prospective financiers. It now aims to sell 70 million shares at a price range of $ 23 to $27 to raise $1.89 billion, compared with its previous target of selling 50...

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Hungary imported 7.6 bcm of gas via Turkstream pipeline in 2024

Hungary imported 7.6 bcm of gas from Serbia via the Turkstream pipeline in 2024, with the Serbian interconnector point running at 90% capability, and this is set to continue, the Hungarian Transmission System Operator FGSZ informed Reuters on Friday. Hungary, which has been receiving Russian gas from the south by means of Bulgaria and Serbia through the Turkstream pipeline, increased its purchases from Gazprom last year, going versus an EU drive to decrease reliance on Russian gas and oil. With Kyiv's rejection to renew a gas transit offer with Moscow this month as it seeks to cut earnings utilized to...

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Russian president satisfies Slovak PM as Ukraine gas transit agreement nears expiry

Russian President Vladimir Putin satisfied Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, Russian television speaker Pavel Zarubin said, as a contract allowing for Russian gas to transit through Ukraine nears its expiry date. Slovakia depends on gas going through Ukraine, and Fico has actually criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for refusing to extend the contract, which expires at the end of the year. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov later on informed the TASS news company that the talks had actually ended. He said the two leaders would not issue a joint declaration. Peskov, shown in a video posted...

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Gazprom is blamed by the president of Moldova for the energy crisis

The President Maia Sandu accused Gazprom on Thursday of creating an energy crisis in Moldova. She said the Russian energy giant refused to supply gas via an alternative route, if fuel stopped flowing through Ukraine by the end of the year. Since Kyiv announced that it would not renew its contract with Gazprom at the end of December, Moldova's 2.5 million residents have been preparing themselves for prolonged power outages. Russia provides Moldova with around 2 billion cubic meters of gas each year via Ukraine. This is piped to the breakaway region of Transdniestria which uses the gas to generate...

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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...

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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...