Gazprom’s 2019 full-year net profits dropped 17% year-on-year, on the back of lower prices and sales volumes to Europe, Kallanish Energy reports. The Russian gas giant reported on Wednesday a net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.2 trilion rubles. Its total sales revenues (net of tax, VAT and customs) were down 7% year-on-year, led by
Read More...The North Dakota Public Service Commission this week voted 3-0 to approve the proposed expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which involves building a pump station in Emmons County to help push up to twice as much crude oil through the line daily. Pipeline owner-developer Energy Transfer plans to begin construction on the facility this
Read More...Worldwide liquefied natural gas demand is expected to double by 2040 to 700 million tonnes, according to third party forecasts, Royal Dutch Shell reports in its Fourth Annual LNG Outlook, Kallanish Energy reports. LNG in 2019 rose a robust 12.5%, to 359 million tonnes, Shell stated. “The global LNG market continued to evolve in 2019,
Read More...U.S. solar industry jobs have jumped 167% in the last decade, from just over 93,000 jobs in 2010, to 249,983 jobs in 2019, according to the 10th annual “National Solar Jobs Census,” Kallanish Energy reports. The latest census, produced yearly by the nonprofit The Solar Foundation, found last year’s nearly 250,000-worker total was an increase
Read More...With the Christmas and New Year’s holidays upcoming, here are the days Kallanish Energy is publishing: * Dec. 23, 27, 30 and 31, along with Jan. 2 and 3. Our normal Monday through Friday publishing schedule resumes Jan. 6. This post appeared first on Kallanish Energy News.
Read More...Saudi Aramco will sell up to 0.5% of its shares to individual investors in what could be the largest initial public offering in history, Kallanish Energy reports. The process begins Nov. 17, and closes on Dec. 4, the company said in its IPO prospectus, released last Saturday. The 658-page document comes almost four years after
Read More...International E&P companies are struggling to make money from offshore investments made during the latest investment upturn, according to a new study by Rystad Energy, Kallanish Energy reports. The independent research company has evaluated all offshore oilfields sanctioned since 2010 and ranked them by estimated value per barrel of oil under various oil-price scenarios. The
Read More...Offshore wind should become a $1 trillion business by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, with global capacity set for a 15-fold increase, Kallanish Energy reports. According to the IEA’s Offshore Wind Outlook 2019, investment last year in the sector neared $20 billion, compared to under $8 billion in 2010. With today’s investment
Read More...Saudi Aramco has delayed the planned launch of its initial public offering in hopes pending third-quarter results will raise investor confidence in the world’s largest oil firm, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Aramco had been expected to announce plans this week to float a 1% to 2% stake on the kingdom’s Tadawul
Read More...The Henry Hub natural gas spot price averaged $2.56 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) in September, up 34 cents/MMBtu from August, the first monthly price increase since March, the Energy Information Administration reports in the just-released Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). EIA/STEO forecasts Henry Hub prices to average $2.43/MMBtu in the fourth quarter of 2019,
Read More...Brent crude oil spot prices will average $59 per barrel in the fourth quarter of 2019, then fall to $57/Bbl by the second quarter of 2020, $5/Bbl lower than forecast one month ago, the Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday in its October Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Despite the recent increase in supply disruptions, EIA expects
Read More...BP’s board of directors announced today CEO Bob Dudley will retire on March 31, 2020 and will be succeeded by Bernard Looney – who currently heads BP’s Upstream, Kallanish Energy reports. Dudley decided to step down as group chief executive and from the BP Board following delivery of the company’s 2019 full year results on
Read More...U.S. exports of crude oil rose to average 2.9 million barrels per day (Mmbpd) in the first half of 2019, an increase of 966,000 b/d from the first half of 2018, the Energy Information Administration reports. U.S. crude oil exports also set a record-high monthly average in June, at 3.2 Mmbpd, Kallanish Energy learns. Despite
Read More...Royalties paid to Pennsylvania landowners for natural gas extraction in primarily eight counties totaled $8.84 billion from 2010 through 2018, according to calculations by the state Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), Kallanish Energy reports. Royalty payments made in the remaining Pennsylvania counties where natural gas is produced would add another $982 million in royalty payments to
Read More...Texas is about to go green — by 2020, more electricity will come from wind than coal, according to analytics/consulting firm Rystad Energy. Propelled by the surging shale revolution, Texas now contributes 40% of total U.S. oil production and nearly 25% of marketed natural gas production, Kallanish Energy reports. However, the “Lone Star State” is
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