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EXCLUSIVE Dutch bank ING ends financing for new oil and gas projects-oil and gas 360

EXCLUSIVE Dutch bank ING ends financing for new oil and gas projects

Reuters LONDON – ING Groep NV will no longer finance new oil and gas projects, its energy chief said, one of the first major global banks to commit to such a step in the fight against climate change. The move by the Dutch financial services firm raises pressure on peers to heed a call by the International Energy Agency (IEA)

EU eyes joint gas buying to tackle energy crunch- oil and gas 360

EU eyes joint gas buying to tackle energy crunch

Nasdaq BRUSSELS, March 23 – The European Union recommended on Wednesday that EU countries jointly buy gas to shore up supply, but warned that seeking to cap wholesale prices would cause problems and undermine efforts to shift to green energy. The European Commission will unveil a detailed plan in May to quit Russian fossil fuels by 2027, in response to

Putin says Russia will start selling gas to 'unfriendly' countries in roubles- oil and gas 360

Putin says Russia will start selling gas to ‘unfriendly’ countries in roubles

Nasdaq March 23 – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia would start selling gas to “unfriendly countries” in roubles, after a freeze on Russia’s assets by foreign nations had destroyed Moscow’s trust. Putin said the changes would only affect the currency of payment and that the government and central bank had one week to come up with a

Oil jumps in volatile trade amid CPC pipeline disruption- oil and gas 360

Oil jumps in volatile trade amid CPC pipeline disruption

Yahoo Finance LONDON  – Oil prices rose in volatile trading on Wednesday, supported by disruption to Russian and Kazakh crude exports via the CPC pipeline. Brent crude futures were up $5.16, or 4.5%, at $120.64 a barrel at 1335 GMT. Prices had earlier fallen to a low of $114.45. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose $4.83, or 4.4%,

TotalEnergies to stop buying Russian oil, funding arctic LNG- oil and gas 360

TotalEnergies to stop buying Russian oil, funding arctic LNG

Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg) — TotalEnergies SE said it will stop buying Russian crude and diesel by the end of the year, becoming the latest energy giant to shun the country’s oil in protest against the invasion of Ukraine. The announcement marks a further effort to reduce financial flows to the regime of President Vladimir Putin as punishment for the attack

Russian oil refiners are cutting back production, Gunvor says- oil and gas 360

Russian oil refiners are cutting back production, Gunvor says

World Oil Bloomberg) — Russian refiners are trimming their output, threatening to exacerbate a European diesel market already in short supply, Gunvor Group Chief Executive Officer Torbjorn Tornqvist said. “This is a global problem but for Europe it’s very hard because Europe is so short” of diesel, Tornqvist said at the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit. Diesel is still flowing

U.S. crude oil inventories increase by 0.5 million barrels- oil and gas 360

U.S. crude oil inventories decrease by 2.5 million barrels

Weekly Crude Oil Storage as of March 18, 2022   U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) decreased by 2.5 million barrels from the previous week.  At 413.4 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 13% below the five year average for this time of year, according to the EIA crude oil and petroleum