Brent edged 3 cents, or 0.1%, lower to $41.41 a barrel, WTI slipped 4 cents, or 0.1%, to $39.27 a barrel.

Spot gold fell 0.9% to $1,895.38 per ounce

Without changes to tax and spending laws, the U.S. federal debt held by the public will reach 195% of GDP by 2050,

the U.S. total drilling for the year will definitely be the lowest since before 1940.

Norway’s oil fund was originally set up to mirror as closely as possible the trading patterns of the Scandinavian country’s economy

The latest IAEA annual projections show that nuclear power will continue to play a key role in the world’s low-carbon energy mix, with global nuclear electrical capacity seen nearly doubling by 2050 in our high case scenario. Climate change mitigation remains a key potential driver for maintaining and expanding the use of nuclear power.

Woodside, Santos and Oil Search put their expansion plans on ice when oil prices collapsed in March.

electricity demand in Vietnam is expected to increase by 7.5 to 8%/year until 2030.

Brent was down 33 cents, or 0.8%, at $42.82 a barrel, WTI was down 38 cents, or 0.9%, to $40.73 a barrel.

2021 world oil demand is now forecast to grow by 6.6 mb/d, some 0.4 mb/d lower compared with the previous month’s assessment to average 96.9 mb/d.