U.S. Rig Count is is down 1 from last week to 727, Canada Rig Count is up 15 from last week to 103.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 1.0 million barrels to 419.8 million barrels.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced an additional Notice of Sale of up to 40.1 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

Romania’s energy minister Virgil Popescu said: "I thank our American partners for supporting Romania's nuclear programmes, a bilateral strategic partnership started in the 1980s.

U.S. Rig Count is up 14 from last week to 728, Canada Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 88.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $3.5 billion program to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution directly from the air.

SK said the cooperation between TerraPower and group member companies SK Corporation and SK Innovation will "contribute to fostering the next-generation nuclear power plant industry in Korea through cooperation in securing and commercialising core SMR technology ...

The companies are advancing two different approaches to accelerate ground and flight testing for nuclear-powered prototypes: compact fusion and next-gen radioisotope concepts.

SPARC is described by PSFC as a compact, high-field, net fusion energy device which would be the size of existing mid-sized fusion devices, but with a much stronger magnetic field. It is predicted to produce 50-100 MW of fusion power, achieving fusion gain greater than 10.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 3.4 million barrels to 420.8 million barrels.