The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Monday that the last seven years were the world's warmest "by a clear margin" in records dating back to 1850 and the average global temperature in 2021 was 1.1-1.2C above 1850-1900 levels.

National oil company Sinopec expects Chinese natural gas demand to reach 395 Bcm in 2022, up 7% from an estimated 370 Bcm in 2021, according to its research arm, Sinopec Economics & Development Research Institute.

Brent gained 60 cents, or 0.7%, to $81.47 a barrel, WTI rose 68 cents, or 0.9%, to $78.91 a barrel.

По итогам заседания все страны поддержали предложение сохранить увеличение добычи нефти в феврале 2022 года на 400 тыс. баррелей в сутки.

Средняя цена на нефть марки Urals в январе-декабре 2021 года (среднегодовая) сложилась в размере $69,0 за баррель,

Iraq, OPEC's second largest producer, has a January quota of 4.281 million b/d.

Libya's crude production averaged around 1.11 million b/d in 2021, compared with 360,000 b/d and 1.05 million b/d in 2020 and 2019 respectively.

In 2022, we expect 46.1 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid,

The share of renewables in the power mix declined from 48% in 2020 to less than 43% in 2021, with 23% of wind, 9% of solar and 11% of biomass, hydropower and other renewables.

Overall, renewables accounted for nearly 47% of the country's power generation in 2021 (compared to 44% in 2020), with 23% of wind, 11% of hydro and 10% of solar.

The Worldwide Rig Count for December was 1,563, up 19 from the 1,544 counted in November 2021,and up 459 from the 1,104 counted in December 2020.

U.S. Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 588, Canada Rig Count is up 51 from last week to 141.

Brent rose 24 cents, or 0.3%, to $81.99 a barrel, WTI was up 22 cents, or 0.3%, at $79.12 a barrel.

Reconfirm the production adjustment plan and the monthly production adjustment mechanism approved at the 19th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting and the decision to adjust upward the monthly overall production by 0.4 mb/d for the month of February 2022.

Solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower) are now adding more than 2,250 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity each month.