"A total of 8 to 16 coal-fired power plants will be offline from Dec. 1 to Feb. 28 as part of efforts to reduce fine dust emissions in the winter period," the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a statement.

U.S. Rig Count is up 6 from last week to 569, Canada Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 171.

Brent rose 13 cents, or 0.2%, to $82.44 a barrel, WTI increased 20 cents, or 0.3%, to $78.70 a barrel.

The OPEC+ alliance is scheduled to meet Dec. 2 to decide on January production levels, amid strong hints from the US, China, Japan and India that a coordinated crude release from their strategic petroleum reserves was imminent.

European and British wholesale gas prices rose on Tuesday as colder weather increased demand and the market remained nervous about winter supplies from Russia.

China, India, Japan, South Korea and the UK will join the US in releasing strategic oil stocks, the White House said, without giving further details.

China has been ramping up gas supply from all sources including pipeline gas contracts with Central Asia.

The Vietnamese government on Nov. 19 held a conference to discuss possible changes to its draft power development plan over 2021-2030 with a vision to 2045, called PDP8, which provides the road map for its power sector including an exhaustive list of proposed projects.

Brent fell 67 cents, or 0.8%, to $79.03 a barrel, WTI fell 88 cents, or 1.2%, to $75.87 a barrel.

"I can confirm to you we will launch new projects on all types of energies especially renewable energy and hydrogen. We clearly want to be hand in hand in the fight against climate change."

Providing consumers in underdeveloped and remote regions of Russia with reliable, high-quality and environmentally acceptable energy sources with a capacity of up to 400kW, designed for operation in extreme natural and climatic conditions, is a priority task for development of the Russian Arctic.

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign fund Mubadala will not change its investment strategy in 2022, keeping a focus on renewables, technology, and life sciences, its CEO Khaldoon Khalifa Al-Mubarak said.

China's total trading volume of greenhouse gas voluntary emissions reduction had exceeded 334 million mtCO2e, with turnover approaching Yuan 3 billion (approx. $469 million),

Economic cooperation between Israel and the UAE has accelerated since the signing of a peace agreement in September 2020. Israel and Jordan signed a peace agreement in 1994.

In September a suite of deals between Ukraine and the USA specified that five new reactors could be built "using AP1000 technology".