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Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Mask Unexpected Oil Price Reactions

Aug 19, 2025

Brent oil prices have shifted very little over the last two weeks, staying in the range of $65 to $66 per barrel. The Russia-Ukraine peace talks loom large, with bearish sentiment winning out in anticipation of Russian barrels making a return to global markets…

Shell's Second Quarter Profit Tumbles by Almost a Third

Jul 31, 2025

Shell's second-quarter adjusted earnings, its definition of net profit, tumbled by almost a third on Thursday, dragged down by a drop in oil prices, but still easily beat analysts' forecasts.The oil major said it would maintain the pace of its share buyback programme at $3…

Egypt Boosts Gas Production as Two West Delta Wells Come Onstream

Aug 29, 2025

Egypt's petroleum ministry said on Friday that two new wells in the deepwater West Delta have gone online, adding about 60 million cubic feet per day (mcfd) of natural gas to the country's output.Egypt seeks to boost gas production after increasingly turning to imports to meet domestic demand…

Norway Intensifies Gas System Maintenance Efforts Ahead of Winter

Aug 29, 2025

Maintenance at major gas fields and onshore processing plants will curb Norwegian natural gas supply by around a third during the first half of September, as Europe's biggest supplier readies the system for the busy winter demand season.'We…

Northern Lights CCS Project Stores First CO2 Below Seabed off Norway

Aug 25, 2025

TotalEnergies and its partners, Equinor and Shell, have injected the first CO2 volumes 2,600 meters below the seabed off the coast of Western Norway as part of Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.The first CO2 volumes were…

Mitsubishi Scraps Japan’s Offshore Wind Projects as Costs Rise

Aug 27, 2025

Mitsubishi Corp said on Wednesday it would withdraw from three Japanese offshore wind power projects due to soaring costs, in a blow to the energy security goals of a country eager to reduce its dependence on imported fuel.A Mitsubishi-led consortia…

Oil Prices Fall Ahead of Possible Cease-Fire

Aug 19, 2025

Oil prices fell on Tuesday as traders thought a possible cease-fire in Russia's war with Ukraine might lead to easing or the end to sanctions on Russian crude oil, which would in turn boost global supply.Brent crude futures were down 50 cents…

Russia's Arctic LNG 2 Continue Loadings with Sanctioned Tankers

Aug 11, 2025

An LNG tanker targeted by U.S. sanctions has berthed at Russia's Arctic LNG 2 plant, the fourth such vessel to do so this year, shiptracking data from Kpler and LSEG showed.The Christophe De Margerie tanker arrived unloaded at Arctic LNG 2 on August 9…

Shape Reef AI to be Deployed in Brazil to Enhance Offshore Oil Safety

Aug 15, 2025

Shape Digital, Shell Brasil, MODEC Brasil and Unicamp signed a partnership to develop new methodologies for monitoring operational risks using artificial intelligence. The solution will be based on Shape Reef, a tool for operational process safety designed by Shape Digital…

Court Quashes TotalEnergies Oil Exploration Permit

Aug 14, 2025

A South African court has rescinded an environmental authorisation granted to TotalEnergies and its joint venture partner Shell to explore for oil in a block off the Cape coast, a court judgment seen by Reuters showed.However, the court said…

Talos Energy Announces Successful Exploration Results at Daenerys

Aug 20, 2025

Talos Energy Inc. announced successful drilling results at the Daenerys exploration prospect located in the U.S. Gulf of America Walker Ridge blocks 106, 107, 150, and 151.The discovery well was drilled to a total vertical depth of 33,228 feet…

Brent Oil Prices Hover While Facing Geopolitical Tensions, WTI Weakens Further

Aug 13, 2025

Brent oil futures are hovering around $66–67 per barrel with mixed geopolitical signals, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) has weakened relatively more.The US-China tariff truce extension by 90 days reduced bearish sentiment, while the uncertainty…

Petrobras Mulls Ethanol Market Entry with Investment in Raizen - report

Aug 18, 2025

Petrobras is considering an investment in sugar and ethanol producer Raizen  as a way to re-enter the ethanol market, local newspaper O Globo reported on Saturday, citing sources.Petrobras had previously said it was eying a return to the ethanol…

Argentina’s 30 MMtpa LNG Ambition by 2030 – Is It feasible?

Aug 15, 2025

The development Argentina’s vast Vaca Muerta share is transforming the nation into a rising energy exporter, with oil and pipeline gas already flowing abroad and an ambitious multi-phase ‘Argentina LNG’ initiative aiming to secure a permanent place in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market…

Norwegian Oil Investment Will Peak in '25

Aug 14, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas investments are expected to peak this year, and start declining next year as major projects are completed, a statistics office survey of industry players showed on Thursday.Norway produces about 2% of global oil, and became…

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