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.

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.

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.