Daily Standup Top Stories Saudi Aramco Sees Oil Demand Rising by 1.6 Million Bpd in Second Half of 2024 August 6, 2024 Mariel Alumit Saudi Aramco’s CEO has forecast a strong increase in global oil demand for the second half of the year, ranging from 1.6 to 2 million bpd. Aramco’s outlook contrasts with the more […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories EV Slowdown Steers the World Further Off Course From Net Zero June 16, 2024 Stu Turley Electric vehicles have swiftly gone from a bright spot in the global climate fight to cause for concern, leading BloombergNEF to slash sales estimates and warn that the auto industry is falling further off the track toward [… […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Joe Biden Plans to Use Oil Reserves to Artificially Lower Gas Prices Before the November Election June 18, 2024 Mariel Alumit Joe Biden plans to deplete the U.S. oil reserves to artificially lower gas prices just months before the presidential election. When Biden took office in January 2021, the nationwide average gas […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits May 7, 2024 Stu Turley “Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. As […] U.S. Dept. of Energy To […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Energy Giants Create Global Synthetic Natural Gas Coalition March 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit Supermajor TotalEnergies, another French energy giant, Engie, and U.S. Sempra Infrastructure have announced plans to create a global coalition to support the production and use of e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic natural gas produced from renewable hydrogen […] Deutschland: How Germany Is […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories U.S. Northeast Gasoline Reserve Could Be Sold Off March 4, 2024 Mariel Alumit The U.S. could sell off its 1-million-barrel Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve in the fiscal year of 2024, a funding bill up for discussion at U.S. Congress says. Under the draft text of the bill, “the Secretary […] US funding bill blocks […]
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