U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 2.4 million barrels to 500.8 million barrels.

US crude imports by India stood at 12.69 million mt in 2020, up nearly 29% from a year earlier, helping the country move up to fifth position from sixth in 2019,

Saudi Arabia exported 6.582 million b/d in January, according to JODI data released March 18, an increase of 87,000 b/d from December. It was the seventh straight month that shipments have risen since a historic low of 4.98 million b/d in June when stringent OPEC+ production cuts were in effect.

Preliminary production figures for January 2021 show an average daily production of 2 137 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

Modelling Princeton conducted on the path to a net-zero future showed not much, if any, increase in gas-fired generation capacity starting now, with small increases in some areas to manage reliability needs from rapid coal retirements offset by retirements of older gas plants in other areas.

A tritium breeding blanket is a core component for future fusion reactors to realise tritium breeding self-sufficiency and electricity generation

According to the study, a 300 MWe grid-scale SMR built in Ontario and operated for 60 years would create direct and related employment including nearly 700 jobs during project development, over 1600 jobs during manufacturing and construction, over 200 jobs during operations, and about 160 jobs during decommissioning.

In 2020, Group net ordinary income amounted to 5,197 million euros, compared with 4,767 million euros in 2019, an increase of 430 million euros (+9.0%).

Westinghouse's work on the offer is financed by the US Trade and Development Agency. The works are to cost $10 million.

Brent was down 74 cents, or 1.1%, at $67.26 a barrel. WTI was also down 65 cents, or 1%, at $63.95 a barrel.