November 2022

The Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), which will be financed over a period of 3 to 5 years, is also backed by Canada, Denmark, the EU, France, Italy, Germany, Norway and the UK.

Under this strategy, India plans to expand its green hydrogen production, increase electrolyser manufacturing capacity, and increase its nuclear capacity three-fold by 2032 (6.8 GW at the end of 2021).

South Africa's electricity generation is dominated by coal - Koeberg supplies about 5%.

Aramco is making its biggest ever investment in South Korea to develop one of the world’s largest refinery-integrated petrochemical steam crackers through its S-OIL affiliate, in line with the company’s strategy to maximize the crude to chemicals value chain.

Japan aims to expand offshore wind energy capacity to 10 GW by 2030 and 30-45 GW by 2040.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 5.4 million barrels to 435.4 million barrels.

Brent dropped by 60 cents, or 0.6%, to $93.26 a barrel, WTI fell 69 cents, or 0.8%, to $86.23 a barrel.

Benchmark gas futures settled 9.2% higher, following an increase of 16% on Monday. Freeport LNG in Texas will likely extend an outage that began in June, increasing global competition for much-needed supplies right before the winter.

From a market share of less than 1% in India's import basket before the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia's share of India's imports rose to 4.24 million mt, or nearly 1 million b/d, in October, taking a 21% share comparable to that of Iraq and higher than Saudi Arabia's share of around 15% in the country's import basket in the same month,

Japan sees an equity stake in the Sakhalin 1 oil, gas project important as it relies around 95% on Middle Eastern oil imports.