Thursday, March 27, 2025
Global energy demand rises as power consumption jumps- oil and gas 360

Global energy demand rises as power consumption jumps

(Oil Price) – Surging power demand in both developed and emerging economies accelerated global energy demand growth in 2024 to nearly twice the pace of recent years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday. Record-high temperatures, higher demand from industry and for electrification, and AI and data centers contributed to a 4.3% rise in global power consumption last year, the IEA said

Renewable energy fights for relevance in Trump's America- oil and gas 360

Renewable energy fights for relevance in Trump’s America

(Oil Price) – Since coming into power, U.S. President Donald Trump has made his intention to pivot away from green energy in favour of fossil fuels clear. During his first month in office, he signed executive orders aimed at boosting U.S. oil and gas production and exports by declaring a national energy emergency, removing regulatory barriers, and expediting permitting approval for oil and

Trump invokes wartime powers to boost U.S. critical minerals output- oil and gas 360

Trump invokes wartime powers to boost U.S. critical minerals output

(Oil Price) – President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to increase U.S. critical minerals production in a bid to reduce reliance on “hostile foreign powers’ mineral production.” In an executive order, the U.S. President invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA), which is the main tool at a U.S. president’s disposal to shift economic activity toward national defense priorities. The executive order

Transition investors pile into buyers’ market for wind and solar- oil and gas 360

Transition investors pile into buyers’ market for wind and solar

(Oil Price) – Investors in energy transition businesses are enjoying a shift in market sentiment that has led to valuation slumps turning a lot of wind, solar, battery storage, and other companies from the area into great bargains. Bloomberg reports that the recent crash in wind, solar, battery, and other transition-related stocks has whetted buyers’ appetite on the grounds that the fundamentals of

Baker Hughes, NextDecade enter framework agreement for Rio Grande LNG expansion- oil and gas 360

Baker Hughes, NextDecade enter framework agreement for Rio Grande LNG expansion

(World Oil) – Baker Hughes and NextDecade Corporation have entered into a framework agreement whereby NextDecade plans to utilize Baker Hughes’ gas turbine and refrigerant compressor technology (Equipment Packages) and enter into contractual services agreements to perform maintenance work for these Equipment Packages for Trains 4 through 8 at the Rio Grande LNG Facility. “Utilizing Baker Hughes’ industry-leading rotating equipment

CERAWeek 2025: How ExxonMobil is applying technology to maximize value in the Permian basin- oil and gas 360

CERAWeek 2025: How ExxonMobil is applying technology to maximize value in the Permian basin

(World Oil) – With the general sense of excitement about U.S. production carrying over from panels earlier in the week, ExxonMobil’s panel on operations in the Permian basin convened with great enthusiasm during day three of CERAWeek 2025 by S&P Global. ExxonMobil’s recent headlines have often been tied to their increasing successes and rapidly expanding prospects in offshore Guyana, ever

TotalEnergies and RWE agree one of the world’s biggest green hydrogen deals- oil and gas 360

TotalEnergies and RWE agree one of the world’s biggest green hydrogen deals

(Oil Price) – Germany’s biggest utility RWE will supply green hydrogen to France’s oil and gas supermajor TotalEnergies in a 15-year deal from 2030, in one of the largest such agreements globally. RWE to supply around 30,000 metric tons of green hydrogen annually to TotalEnergies from 2030 to 2044, the German utility giant said on Wednesday. The green hydrogen from RWE will be

B3 Insight and Nanometrics partner to integrate advanced seismic data into OilfieldH2O - oil and gas 360

B3 Insight and Nanometrics partner to integrate advanced seismic data into OilfieldH2O

(Oil & Gas 360) – Collaboration provides powerful, centralized solution to understand and manage injection-induced seismicity Denver, Colorado – March 5, 2025 – B3 Insight, a leader in water and subsurface data intelligence, and Nanometrics, a leader in complete, integrated solutions for passive seismic monitoring, today announced a partnership that enables seamless integration of Nanometrics Seismicity Monitoring Service data with B3

ChampionX’s AOGI platform granted EPA approval for methane emissions detection- oil and gas 360

ChampionX’s AOGI platform granted EPA approval for methane emissions detection

(World Oil) – ChampionX announced today its ChampionX Emissions Technologies’ Aerial Optical Gas Imaging (AOGI) platform has received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Methane Alternative Test Method outlined in OOOOb. This approval marks a significant milestone in emissions management, empowering operators to integrate AOGI into their emissions monitoring programs to detect and locate fugitive methane

Baker Hughes, Frontier partner to develop CCS, data center projects in U.S.- oil and gas 360

Baker Hughes, Frontier partner to develop CCS, data center projects in U.S.

(World Oil) – Baker Hughes and Frontier Infrastructure have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) and power solutions in the U.S. As part of the agreement, Baker Hughes will provide innovative technologies and resources in support of the development of large-scale CCS, power generation, and data center projects. Frontier is leading the

Diamondback pursues JV for gas-fueled plants to power Permian data centers- oil and gas 360

Diamondback pursues JV for gas-fueled plants to power Permian data centers

(World Oil) – (Bloomberg) – Diamondback Energy Inc. is in talks to form a power joint venture that would solve some of the shale giant’s own needs in the Permian Basin while also selling electricity to artificial intelligence data centers in West Texas. Diamondback says it’s looking for an equity stake in a gas-fired power plant that would be built on

BP set to scrap renewable energy goal as it boosts oil and gas- oil and gas 360

BP set to scrap renewable energy goal as it boosts oil and gas

(Oil Price) – BP is expected to announce this week that it is shifting its focus back to oil and gas, ditching a target to boost renewable energy capacity generation 20-fold by 2030, sources familiar with the new strategy told Reuters on Monday. BP earlier this month pledged to fundamentally reset its strategy as it booked its lowest annual and quarterly profits in years and