Weekly Daily Standup Top Stories The OBBBA Resets the Energy Policy Playing Field: A New Era for Oil, Gas, and Nuclear July 6, 2025 Clark Savage On July 3, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, marking a pivotal shift in U.S. energy policy. This landmark legislation, passed with […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Shell and TotalEnergies Boosting Oil and Gas Output in Nigeria: A Global Trend with Financial Implications July 8, 2025 Clark Savage The global energy landscape is witnessing a resurgence in oil and gas production, with major players like Shell and TotalEnergies leading the charge in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer. According to […]
Continue ReadingThe global energy landscape is witnessing a resurgence in oil and gas production, with major players like Shell and TotalEnergies leading the charge in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer. According to a recent report from OilPrice.com, these supermajors are accelerating investments to significantly boost output by 2027, targeting key projects such as Shell’s Bonga North […]
Continue ReadingOPEC+ has been making waves with ambitious production quota hikes, signaling a bold shift toward reclaiming market share. However, recent data reveals a recurring theme: the group’s actual output consistently falls short of these lofty targets. As oil markets shrug off the latest production push, questions arise about whether OPEC+ is nearing its production ceiling, […]
Continue ReadingOPEC+ has once again accelerated its oil production strategy, moving its key meeting from Sunday to Saturday, July 5, 2025, to discuss a potential fourth consecutive monthly output increase of 411,000 barrels per day (bpd) for August. This decision, reported by OilPrice.com and confirmed by OPEC+ delegates, reflects the group’s aggressive push to reclaim market […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories What Would Happen to the Oil Market if Israel Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Sites or Oil Export Infrastructure? June 10, 2025 Clark Savage The escalating tensions between Israel and Iran have long been a geopolitical flashpoint, with implications that ripple across global energy markets. Recent speculation about Israel potentially targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities […]
Continue ReadingIn a significant setback for Nigeria’s fiscal ambitions, negotiations for a record-breaking $5 billion oil-backed loan from Saudi Aramco have hit a wall, with falling crude oil prices casting a shadow over the deal. This development, first broached during a November 2023 meeting between Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Dropping Oil Price Boosts Odds of Ukraine Peace Deal, Trump Says May 5, 2025 Clark Savage ENB Pub Note: President Trump’s team still does not understand what motivates President Putin to end the war. In the following article from Bloomberg, President Trump oddly says that low oil prices will bring President […] Saudi […]
Continue ReadingEmmanuel Johnson sees Abuja’s partnership with the group as a way to boost economic growth and geopolitical influence Nigeria’s recent accession to BRICS as a partner state is a major step towards economic revival and reducing Western influence, Emmanuel Chukwuka Johnson, chairman of the Nigeria-Russia trade and investment advisory council, has told RT in […]
Continue ReadingTwo months ago, Nigeria’s beleaguered energy sector witnessed a very significant event: the Dangote Oil Refinery began producing gasoline and selling it domestically to Nigeria\’s state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), marking the first time in decades Africa’s largest oil producer is refining its own crude. The state-of-the-art $20.5 billion refinery was launched in […]
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