2015-10-01 19:45:00
SHELL STOPPED DRILLING
The oil giant is to halt drilling at the Burger J well in the US Arctic, saying it can't justify the expense due to low oil prices. Shell only won the controversial permission to explore the icy waters last month.
Drilling efforts are to end for the "foreseeable future," Royal Dutch Shell said in a statement on Monday, blaming the "high costs associated with the project."
The surprise move came just a month after it won a new permit to explore the Arctic waters off Alaska in the Burger J well in the Chukchi Sea, despite opposition from environmental groups and disagreement among some Democrat party leaders.
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2019, September, 18, 17:55:00
U.S. GAS, WIND WILL UP
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that natural gas-fired electricity generation in the United States will increase by 6% in 2019 and by 2% in 2020. EIA also forecasts that generation from wind power will increase by 6% in 2019 and by 14% in 2020.
2019, September, 18, 17:50:00
U.S. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION UP 0.6%
Industrial production rose 0.6 percent in August after declining 0.1 percent in July. Manufacturing production increased 0.5 percent, more than reversing its decrease in July. Factory output has increased 0.2 percent per month over the past four months after having decreased 0.5 percent per month during the first four months of the year.
2019, September, 18, 17:45:00
FRANCE'S SMALL NUCLEAR
A new small modular reactor (SMR) design has been announced by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), EDF, Naval Group and TechnicAtome. The Nuward - with a capacity of 300-400 MWe - has been jointly developed using France's experience in pressurised water reactors (PWRs).
2019, September, 18, 17:40:00
MONGOLIA'S GDP UP 6.5%
Mongolia’s economy has recovered vigorously from the recent downturn. Economy growth accelerated to 8.6 percent in the first quarter of 2019, over fiscal balance turned into surplus in 2018, and gross international reserves have increased by $2½ billion since 2016.
2019, September, 17, 13:10:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $67
Brent was down 36 cents, or 0.5%, at $68.66 a barrel, and WTI was down 57 cents, or 0.9%, at $62.33 a barrel. Earlier, the crude benchmarks both fell by around 2%.
2019, September, 17, 13:05:00
OPEC+ FULFILL OBLIGATIONS
"Nobody has changed the parameters of the [OPEC+} deal. So, I think that we all agreed in Abu Dhabi, that everyone should fulfill their obligations," Novak said, when asked if Russia needs to continue to comply.
2019, September, 17, 13:00:00
CONFORMITY LEVEL 136%
Conformity with the voluntary production adjustments remains high, 136% in the month of August. However, the JMMC reemphasized the core principles underpinning the DoC, namely, equity, fairness and transparency, and urged all participating countries to intensify their efforts in pursuit of full and timely conformity with their voluntary production adjustments.