2022

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.

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.