U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Romania’s Minister of Economy, Energy and Business Development Virgil Popescu initialed a draft Intergovernmental Agreement to cooperate on the expansion and modernization of Romania’s civil nuclear power program.

To achieve financial sustainability, companies need to focus on capital efficiency across the value chain.

U.S. Rig Count is up 3 from last week to 269, Canada Rig Count is up 5 from last week to 80

The total number of jobs lost for the broader category of "clean energy" totaled over 477,862 at the end of September.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 0.5 million barrels to 492.9 million barrels.

The U.S. goods and services deficit was $67.1 billion in August, up $3.7 billion from $63.4 billion in July, revised.

From the year-ago month, U.S. coal exports declined 41.3%. Over the eight months, exports were 44.6 million st, down 31% year on year.

Amendments to the agreement include phased reductions of US imports of uranium from Russia as well as the periodic updating of the import quotas.

Driven by unprecedented low fuel prices, gas power production increased by 7.1% during the first seven months from last year, while coal dipped dramatically by 27.5%.

Total U.S. nonfarm payroll employment rose by 661,000 in September, and the unemployment rate declined to 7.9 percent,