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Norway’s energy minister sees both renewables and fossil fuels in the nation’s future
Norway, Western Europe’s biggest oil producing nation, plans to expand its green energy industry and strengthen its power grid, but isn’t willing to budge when it comes to exploiting its oil and gas resources.
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Saudi oil minister takes short-seller battle straight to Wall Street
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman has battled to keep short-sellers at bay for more than a year, famously warning speculators in September not to bet against him, and more recently lambasting the view that the world should stop investing in oil to protect the climate.
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Schlumberger New Energy, Panasonic Energy partner on new lithium production process
The collaboration paves the way for improved lithium production solutions that will help meet the expected surge in demand for lithium as the electric vehicle market takes off worldwide.
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IEA sees global oil demand reaching pre-virus levels in 2022
World consumption will once again reach 100 million barrels a day in the second half of 2022 as developed economies bring the virus under control, the International Energy Agency said, in its first detailed outlook for the year ahead.
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Inflation data, strong demand raise oil prices to two-year highs
Crude prices found support with U.S. consumer prices in May topping forecasts, extending a months-long buildup in inflation that is seen helping spur more interest in alternative assets like commodities to find yield.
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OPEC projects further oil demand growth in the second half of 2021
Oil consumption will climb by 5%, or about 5 million barrels a day, in the second half of 2021 versus the first as the world emerges from the pandemic slump, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast in a report.
