January 2022

Nuclear accounted for 52% of Belgium's electricity generation in 2021 (compared to 40% in 2020) thanks to the high availability of the nuclear fleet,

Renewables accounted for 59% of Portugal's power consumption in 2021

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,

Investment in nuclear power totalling around EUR500 billion (USD565 billion) by 2050 will be needed if the European Union’s goal of carbon neutrality is to be hit

The French government expects plans for new nuclear reactors should be submitted around 2023 with a target date of 2035-37 for the reactors to go online, Berangere Abba, Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological Transition, said during a parliamentary debate in the Senate on 6 January.

Germany will have just three nuclear power plants operating in 2022: Emsland (1406MW PWR) in Lower Saxony; Isar 2 (1485MW PWR) in Bavaria and Neckarwestheim 2 (1400MW PWR) in Baden-Württemberg.

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.