Preliminary production figures for May 2023 show an average daily production of 1 991 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

While renewable power generation from wind and solar continues to capture much of the peak power demand in The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, demand for gas-fired cooling is also up.

The Texas power grid will be severely tested over the remainder of June as the summer’s first significant heat ridge sets up across the state.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 3.8 million barrels to 463.3 million barrels.

Brent dipped 17 cents, or 0.2%, to $75.50 a barrel, WTI dropped 16 cents, also 0.2%, to $70.46 a barrel.

Global renewable capacity additions are set to soar by 107 gigawatts (GW), the largest absolute increase ever, to more than 440 GW in 2023.

“Climate change has been implicated in worsening wildfires across North America,” Kristina Dahl, principal climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ climate and energy program,

Believe it or not, the concept of reserve power is a foreign one in Texas. The bill passed with a caveat: any increase in costs could not exceed $1 billion annually.

The city council in Austin, Texas is on the verge of signing on to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT), a global campaign calling on countries to phase out fossil fuel production and help communities make the transition to a renewable energy economy.

Owners and operators of U.S. civilian nuclear power reactors (civilian owner/operators, or COOs) purchased a total of 40.5 million pounds U3O8e (equivalent) of deliveries from U.S. suppliers and foreign suppliers during 2022,

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 7.9 million barrels to 467.1 million barrels.

Brent dropped 35 cents, or 0.5%, to $75.61 a barrel, WTI eased 35 cents, or 0.5%, to $70.94.

Adjust the level of overall crude oil production for OPEC and non-OPEC Participating Countries in the DoC to 40.46 mb/d, starting 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2024, which is to be distributed as per the attached table.

The Brent crude oil spot price will average $79 per barrel (b) in the second half of 2023 (2H23) and $84/b in 2024.

The kingdom’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Opec’s de facto leader, made the move as part of a deal in which several weaker African members will have quotas reduced from next year.