U.S. Offshore

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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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October 12, 2021
The U.S. is likely to ask OPEC member states to pump more crude to help ease a surge in energy prices, according to oil historian Daniel Yergin.
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October 08, 2021
President Joe Biden is under intensifying pressure to keep a lid on rising gasoline and natural gas prices that threaten the economic recovery and Democrats’ political ambitions.
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October 07, 2021
Canadian oil shipments to the U.S. jumped to the highest volume since the start of the year thanks in part to the startup of a long-delayed Canadian pipeline.
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October 07, 2021
The U.S. may be heading into winter with the lowest stockpiles of heating oil to meet surging demand in more than two decades.
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October 07, 2021
Oil rebounded after the U.S. Energy Department said it has no plans “at this time” to tap into the nation’s oil reserves to help quell rising fuel prices.
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October 06, 2021
Oil declined by the most in two weeks in the wake of growing U.S. inventories and after Russia signaled it is ready to help ease a global energy crisis.
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October 05, 2021
The Canadian government invoked oil and gas transit rights under a decades-old treaty with the U.S. to stop Michigan’s attempt to shut down an Enbridge Inc. pipeline under the Great Lakes.
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October 04, 2021
Climate policy is a hot topic in the oil and gas industry, with the theme ‘Climate Change’ mentioned over 210,000 times in GloblaData’s Filing Analytics database of global oil and gas company filings in 2020 and 2021 combined – a 41% increase from the 2018-2019 period.
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September 30, 2021
Oil closed the month almost 10% higher after a tumultuous session where China was said to order its top energy companies to secure supplies at all costs, prompting the White House to reiterate its concern over rising prices.
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