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Carbon Emissions

U.S. Emissions Jumped In 2021 As Coal Power Generation Surged

U.S. economy-wide emissions jumped last year from the low levels in 2020 due to the COVID lockdowns, largely because of soaring coal-fired power generation in A…

Crude Oil

Oil Rallies Amid Worsening Unrest In Crude Producer Kazakhstan

Oil markets shrug off dip in U.S. gasoline demand

Oil Field

ExxonMobil Announces Two New Oil Discoveries In Guyana

ExxonMobil has made two more discoveries in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, which add to the previously announced 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels recovera…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japan's JAEA and Mitsubishi Heavy to Cooperate in U.S. Fast Reactor Project

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will cooperate in a U.S. project to build a next-generation fast reactor, it has been learne…

Energy-Eficient Building

Bringing Energy-Efficient Building Technologies Closer To Commercialization

The U.S. Department of Energy is accelerating emerging technologies from lab to market through its Technology Commercialization Fund.

Electric Car

Korean Companies Account for 9 of 14 EV Battery Plant Projects in the U.S.

Korean companies are taking the lead in building more than half of the large battery production plants in the United States.

Natural Gas

EU Natural Gas Prices Tumble For Fifth Straight Day

20 tankers with U.S. LNG are traveling to Europe, and another 14 are headed in the same general direction awaiting further orders

United States

U.S. Natural Gas Rise As Colder Weather Rushes In

U.S. natural gas futures rose this week as colder weather with snow came into parts of the country.

Crude Oil

Japan To Sell Crude Oil From State Reserves In February

Japan plans to auction in February 629,000 barrels of crude oil from its national reserves as part of a U.S.-led global effort by oil-consuming nations to lower…

Crude Oil

U.S. Oil Rig Count Jumps Along With Crude Prices

The number of active drilling rigs in the United States last week rose by 7, bringing the total to 586 as oil prices remain relatively strong despite the fresh …

Crude Oil

Marathon to Receive Second Release from U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The U.S. Energy Department awarded a second batch of crude oil from the strategic reserve to Marathon Petroleum Corp. as part of the Biden administration’s eff…

Crude Oil

South Korea To Release 3 Million Barrels Of Oil Reserves In Early 2022

South Korea will release 3.17 million barrels of its oil reserves in the first quarter of 2022 as part of the U.S.-led global effort by major oil-consuming nati…

Hydrogen Project

KBR to Look into Green Hydrogen in Trinidad and Tobago

U.S. engineering company KBR has been awarded a study to help establish a green hydrogen market in Trinidad and Tobago financed by the Inter-American Developmen…

Crude Oil

Oil Prices Reach Four-Week High on Declining U.S. Crude Stocks

Oil settled at the highest level in nearly a month after U.S. crude stockpiles decreased and economic data pushed equities higher.

LNG

CNOOC To Take First LNG Cargo From U.S. Exporter

China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the largest Chinese importer of liquefied natural gas, has signed a deal with U.S. firm Venture Global LNG to buy LNG f…