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An attack on Saudi Arabia's East‑West pipeline knocked out roughly 700,000 barrels per day of throughput, tightening global oil supplies. Meanwhile, U.S. LNG exports surged to a record 43.3 million tonnes in March, driven by new projects and a redirection of cargoes from Europe to Asia amid the Hormuz crisis. Africa’s imports remain dominated by Egypt, while Europe’s share of U.S. LNG continues to shrink. The combined events underscore shifting geopolitics in both oil and gas markets.
Tesla has added China’s Sunwoda Electric Vehicle Battery Co Ltd as its fifth global battery supplier, integrating Sunwoda’s third‑generation LFP cells into vehicles built at its Shanghai plant for export markets. The partnership follows a new model where Tesla purchases...
Reuters verified that nearly $950 million of oil short positions and more than $500 million of crude futures were executed in the minutes before former President Donald Trump posted his cease‑fire message on Truth Social. At the same time, about $1.5 billion of...
Econet InfraCo, the infrastructure arm of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, is supplying free solar power to rural clinics located within five kilometres of its telecom base stations. The scheme, launched in 2025, taps existing tower infrastructure to run vaccine refrigerators and...
The Australian Energy Update 2025 shows hydrocarbons—oil, coal and gas—provided 91% of the nation’s primary energy in 2024. Renewable sources such as solar, wind and hydro together accounted for just 9%, a share that has barely moved since the mid‑1970s. Despite...
Rising natural‑gas prices triggered by the Iran‑Israel conflict are prompting Asian and European nations to revive coal‑fired power. Thailand has restarted plants, while Japan, South Korea and Italy have lifted caps or delayed coal phase‑outs, with Germany’s coal output now...
The Great Simplification’s first "Oil 101" episode explains how oil formed from ancient marine phytoplankton and functions as a geological solar battery. It quantifies the hidden labor in a single barrel—about five years of human work—and scales this to global...
Oil prices rebounded sharply, with WTI crude up 4.5% to $98.56, as the fragile U.S.-Iran cease‑fire remained under pressure. Iranian officials claimed the truce had already been violated, while former President Trump warned of renewed strikes if negotiations fail. European...
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed legislation that repeals the state’s decades‑old moratorium on new nuclear reactors, allowing permits for fresh plants and removing the requirement for a federal waste‑disposal solution. The move aims to add at least one gigawatt...
Germany’s power market plunged into deep negative pricing on Monday as unusually strong wind and solar output covered roughly 80% of the nation’s electricity demand. Intraday prices fell to -€324 per megawatt‑hour (about $353) and imbalance fees dropped to -€4,632/MWh...
Oil markets have experienced dramatic swings in the past 48 hours as geopolitical tension resurfaced. A tentative U.S.-Iran ceasefire initially drove West Texas Intermediate (WTI) down from $115 to $92 per barrel, a drop of over 20 percent. Iran’s quick...
The Crude Chronicles estimates oil’s fair value at about $80 per barrel, using a marginal‑cost framework that emphasizes rising extraction costs as well‑productivity slows. The analysis highlights two near‑term catalysts: full refinery restarts within 2‑3 months, which should keep crack...
Energy Vault announced a binding agreement to acquire a pipeline of Japanese battery projects, adding 350 MW of advanced‑stage and 500 MW of early‑stage storage capacity. The deal marks the Swiss‑engineered firm’s formal entry into Japan, a market praised for its revenue‑stacking...
China reduced its scheduled domestic fuel‑price increase for the second time, limiting gasoline to a 3.85% rise (about $1.23 per litre) and diesel to 4.2% (around $1.20 per litre), a move aimed at tempering inflation amid volatile Middle‑East oil markets....
Ruth Carter, CEO of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), says the organization has expanded 20% to 24,000 members in 194 countries while championing building performance, safety and decarbonisation. She highlights embodied carbon as the "sleeping giant," responsible...
