(Oil Price) – The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $1.8 trillion oil fund, has made its first investment in an external hedge fund with long-short strategies, amid changing and volatile markets, a top executive of the fund’s manager told the Financial Times. The fund, which is commonly referred to as ‘Norway’s oil fund’ because it was created with 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
(Oil Price) – The United States will not lift any sanctions on Russia unless Moscow noticeably changes its behavior, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European leaders in a call after the U.S.-Russia meeting in Riyadh. European leaders are concerned that they are being left out of talks and of the apparent major pivot in U.S. foreign policy after the
(BOE Report) – The European Union will seek more gas from countries including the U.S. to replace Russian supplies, and expand renewable energy faster to cut its overall reliance on the fuel, the EU’s energy commissioner has said. The EU has pledged to quit Russian fossil fuels by 2027 in response to Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. While Russian pipeline
(Reuters) – MOSCOW – Kazakhstan’s oil exports could be cut by 30% for up to two months via its main pipeline due to damage from a Ukrainian drone attack, Russia’s state pipeline operator said on Tuesday. Monday’s attack occurred a day before U.S. and Russian officials met in Riyadh for their first talks on ending the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv and
(Oil Price) – TotalEnergies and Air Liquide plan to invest a combined more than $1.046 billion (1 billion euros) in two electrolyzer projects to produce green hydrogen in the Netherlands, as part of the French supermajor’s efforts to slash emissions from its refineries in northwest Europe. TotalEnergies on Tuesday said it had signed agreements with French industrial gases firm Air Liquide to
(Investing) – LONDON – U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday called a pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 a “sinister goal”, and criticised the British government’s attempts to hit clean energy targets. Former President Joe Biden set a target in 2021 for the United States to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 to help fight climate change, in
(Oil Price) – Europe has been driving global LNG trade since the start of the year, buying every cargo it can to secure energy supply during the coldest months of the year. Once spring comes, however, it will need to begin to refill its fast-emptying storage to prepare for next winter—and its fondness for overregulation may turn suicidal. Global LNG imports
(Investing) – KYIV -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that a minerals deal between Kyiv and Washington would provide Ukraine with a post-war “security shield”, and President Volodmyr Zelenskiy said he hoped to reach an agreement within days. Bessent, the first cabinet-level official on Donald Trump’s team to visit Kyiv, spoke after Zelenskiy said he was ready to do
(Oil Price) – European Union officials are considering the potential introduction of a cap on natural gas prices as part of discussions on a clean industrial deal policy to boost Europe’s industry. Europe is losing competitiveness due to the European gas prices which are up to four times higher than those in the United States. A cap on prices is
(Investing) – BRUSSELS – Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election. The nearly 200 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement faced a Monday deadline to submit new national climate plans to the U.N., setting out
(Oil Price) – Amid cold winter weather and fast-depleting inventories, Europe’s natural gas prices jumped on Monday to a two-year high to levels of over $100 per barrel oil equivalent, which now makes burning oil for industrial use more cost-effective. Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures, the benchmark for Europe’s gas trading, surged by 4% in Amsterdam on Monday, to the highest level since February
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