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BRENT$84.72+1.23
WTI$81.15+0.89
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Electric Aviation Won't Kill Jet Fuel - But It Could Take the Best Routes First

Aviation is often treated as one of oil's safest remaining markets. In 2026 that still looks like a reasonable assumption. Airlines are expected to consume around 104 billion gallons of fuel this year, sustainable…

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Just 7% of America’s Nuclear Fuel Comes From Home

The Trump administration is pushing for a homegrown nuclear power renaissance. The United States is still the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, but that won’t last long without drastic changes in energy…

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The Battle Over North Sea Oil Is Heating Up Under Britain’s New PM

With a new Prime Minister in office, it is uncertain whether the United Kingdom will continue accelerating its green transition or backtrack on climate pledges to support fossil fuel development. Many have speculated…

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Russia's Oil Industry Is Running Out of Room to Absorb More Shocks

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Shell Loses Long Court Fight for South African Exploration

The oil major won't be allowed to renew an exploration right off South Africa's rugged Indian Ocean Wild Coast, the Constitutional Court ruled.

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Mexico Is Betting on Biofuel to Tackle Its Seaweed Crisis

Over the past 15 years, Mexico has faced a severe seaweed problem, with vast quantities of a brown seaweed known as sargassum washing up on beaches along the Caribbean coast and hitting the tourism industry hard…

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Oil Rises as US Threatens Iran

Oil rose as the US threatened new economic pressure on Iran while uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz persisted.

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Shell Loses Long Court Fight for South African Exploration

The oil major won't be allowed to renew an exploration right off South Africa's rugged Indian Ocean Wild Coast, the Constitutional Court ruled.

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Oil Rises as US Threatens Iran

Oil rose as the US threatened new economic pressure on Iran while uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz persisted.

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Bernhard Completes Acquisition of New Mexico Gas from Emera

Bernhard Capital Partners completed the acquisition of New Mexico's biggest regulated natural gas utility from Emera for around $1.25 billion.

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ConocoPhillips Starts Production at New Alaska Oil Project

'ConocoPhillips Alaska invests approximately $1 billion each year to sustain and grow its Alaska legacy assets through projects such as Coyote'.

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US Oil Drillers Add Even More Rigs As Oil Prices Stay Higher

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 593, up 54 from…

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TGS and GTI to team up on offshore seismic projects

TGS and GTI have entered into a four-year strategic collaboration intended to deliver integrated seismic acquisition solutions across shallow water, transition zone, and deepwater environments.

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Electric Aviation Won't Kill Jet Fuel - But It Could Take the Best Routes First

Aviation is often treated as one of oil's safest remaining markets. In 2026 that still looks like a reasonable assumption. Airlines are expected to consume around 104 billion gallons of fuel this year, sustainable…

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Just 7% of America’s Nuclear Fuel Comes From Home

The Trump administration is pushing for a homegrown nuclear power renaissance. The United States is still the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, but that won’t last long without drastic changes in energy…

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The Battle Over North Sea Oil Is Heating Up Under Britain’s New PM

With a new Prime Minister in office, it is uncertain whether the United Kingdom will continue accelerating its green transition or backtrack on climate pledges to support fossil fuel development. Many have speculated…

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Downstream

Russia's Oil Industry Is Running Out of Room to Absorb More Shocks

Following a year of tighter sanctions and Ukrainian attacks on refineries, ports and tankers, Russia’s crude output has fallen further in the second half of 2026, severely affecting the nation’s crude production…

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Downstream

Mexico Is Betting on Biofuel to Tackle Its Seaweed Crisis

Over the past 15 years, Mexico has faced a severe seaweed problem, with vast quantities of a brown seaweed known as sargassum washing up on beaches along the Caribbean coast and hitting the tourism industry hard…

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Indian Refiners in Panic Buying Mode

Indian state-owned refiners are rushing to procure spot crude unusually far in advance as Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy assets and a stalemate over the Strait of Hormuz make supplies increasingly uncertain.

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Why a Record-Strength El Niño Still Might Not Save Europe's Gas Market

Only an exceptionally strong El Niño will meaningfully ease Europe's LNG needs this winter, and forecasters currently rate that outcome as a long shot. Rystad Energy's analysis indicates that European winter…

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Argentina LNG Seeks Government Incentives

The Argentina LNG consortium filed an application for the government's Large Investment Incentive Regime.

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Golar LNG signs $2.5bn agreement for fourth floating LNG vessel

Golar LNG has signed an EPC agreement with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for the it's fourth FLNG production vessel, at a total budget of around $2.45bn.

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SK Shipping to acquire H-Line LNG ships and long-term contracts

SK Shipping aims to become Asia’s largest operator of LNG carriers by acquiring vessels and contracts from H-Line Shipping in a deal announced by Hahn & Co.

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South Korean Fleet Reshuffle Creates Asia’s Largest LNG Carrier Operator

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co plans to reshuffle the liquefied natural gas tanker fleets of its shipping companies SK Shipping and H-Line Shipping to create Asia’s biggest and the world’s third-largest…

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Trump’s Bosnia Power Play Puts an Opaque Energy Deal at the Center

Bosnia is next on U.S. President Donald Trump’s disruption agenda, and an opaque energy deal riddled with conflicts of interest is at the heart of yet another of Washington’s transactional gambles based on insufficient…