U.S. Offshore

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November 03, 2021
The American Petroleum Institute, which oil companies were pressured to disassociate themselves with by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee last week, came out in support of Biden’s new methane regulations proposed at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
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November 03, 2021
Oil fell as the U.S. intensified pressure on OPEC+ to boost supplies when it meets on Thursday, while concerns grew that tighter policy from the Federal Reserve will impede growth.
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November 01, 2021
OPEC+ headed for a clash with the U.S. as more members rejected President Joe Biden’s call for the group to raise oil production faster and help reduce gasoline prices.
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October 29, 2021
For the past year, oil consuming countries have become increasingly anxious at crude’s resurgence: first to $50 a barrel, then $75 and now to more than $85. And when Vladimir Putin, one of the leaders of the OPEC+ cartel, warned that $100 a barrel was a distinct possibility, the alarm bells really started ringing.
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October 28, 2021
Executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were urged by U.S. lawmakers to abandon the leading oil-industry trade group, and cut off funds to any groups sowing doubts about climate science.
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October 28, 2021
Oil fell for a second day as one of the top energy diplomats in the U.S. urged producers to hike output.
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October 27, 2021
Iran said it had agreed with the European Union to restart big-power talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal before the end of November and a precise date for the negotiations would be announced in the next week.
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October 27, 2021
Oil’s bumper rally cooled after an increase in U.S. crude inventories and as industrial commodities retreated.
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October 26, 2021
Negotiations over the climate provisions in the Democrats’ spending bill have accelerated and are focused on a package of measures that could replicate the emissions reductions of a clean energy plan dropped from the draft legislation.
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October 25, 2021
Natural gas futures soared as forecasts for chilly November weather in the U.S. East heightened concern that supplies will struggle to meet demand this winter.
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October 22, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell is hoping to restart its Ursa oil and gas platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as early as the first half of November, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
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October 20, 2021
Oil hit a fresh high after a U.S. government report showed an unexpected drop in crude stockpiles, allaying concerns that higher prices would blunt demand.
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October 18, 2021
In its October Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that natural gas spot prices at the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub will see the highest average winter price since 2007–2008.
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October 18, 2021
Asian demand for U.S. oil is rising as the energy crisis boosts prices for other crudes that are priced against the global Brent futures contract.
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October 18, 2021
Senator Joe Manchin has told the White House and congressional leaders that he will not support including a key clean-power provision in the Democrats’ spending package, putting at risk a central element of the legislation designed to fight climate change, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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October 18, 2021
The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a container ship that dragged its anchor near to a Southern California subsea pipeline that was the source of an oil spill earlier this month.
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October 15, 2021
U.S. natural gas futures climbed after winter stockpiles of the furnace and power-plant fuel expanded less than expected, heightening concerns about adequate supplies going into the peak-demand season.
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October 14, 2021
Crude oil inventories at the biggest storage hub in the U.S. posted their steepest decline this week than in any October in five years as demand for exports and from refineries pull barrels to the Gulf Coast instead.
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October 14, 2021
House Democrats are making the case for stricter regulation of thousands of abandoned wells, platforms and pipelines off the U.S. coasts following the biggest off-shore spill in California in nearly 30 years.
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October 13, 2021
Donald Trump vowed to revive the coal industry, but it’s President Joe Biden who’s driving a big comeback of the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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October 12, 2021
Big swings in the price of oil derivatives signaled that U.S. crude supply is getting tighter, adding another dimension to the volatility that’s gripping energy markets.
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