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2022, January, 19, 10:35:00
U.S. GAS PRODUCTION DOWN
While US gas production was largely unchanged in the 2020 to 2021 new year, production declines of varying magnitudes and durations were recorded over at least the five new year's prior, dating back to the 2015-2016 winter season.
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2022, January, 18, 13:10:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $87
Brent rose $1.02, or 1.2%, to $87.50 a barrel, WTI jumped $1.36, or 1.6%, to $85.18 a barrel.
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2022, January, 18, 12:55:00
GLOBAL COAL PRODUCTION UP BY 5%
Global hard coal production increased by more than 5% in 2021
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2022, January, 17, 11:55:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $86
Brent gained 40 cents, or 0.5%, to $86.46 a barrel , WTI was up 58 cents, or 0.7%, at $84.40 a barrel.
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2022, January, 17, 11:25:00
JAPAN GAS PRODUCTION
Japan has found "considerable gas shows" in a series of the country's funded drilling operations conducted by INPEX until the fiscal year 2019-20 (April-March), marking the first domestic project, which enters an exploration phase with the support of the government's geological structure surveys,
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2022, January, 17, 11:10:00
U.S. RIGS UP 13 TO 601
U.S. Rig Count is up 13 from last week to 601, Canada Rig Count is up 50 from last week to 191.
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2022, January, 14, 12:25:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $85 ANEW
Brent rose 32 cents, or 0.4%, to $84.79 a barrel, WTI rose 32 cents, or 0.4%, to $84.79 a barrel.
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2022, January, 14, 11:45:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES DOWN BY 4.6 MB TO 413.3 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 4.6 million barrels from the previous week to 413.3 million barrels.
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2022, January, 13, 14:25:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $85
Brent gained 15 cents, or 0.2%, to $84.82 a barrel, WTI were up 3 cents to $82.67 a barrel.
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2022, January, 12, 10:40:00
OIL PRICE: NOT ABOVE $84
Brent were up 6 cents, or 0.07%, at $83.78 a barrel, WTI rose 20 cents, or 0.3%, to $81.42 a barrel .
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2022, January, 12, 10:35:00
OIL PRICES 2022-23: $75-$68
Brent crude oil spot prices averaged $71 per barrel (b) in 2021, and we forecast Brent prices will average $75/b in 2022 and $68/b in 2023.
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2022, January, 12, 10:25:00
GLOBAL CLIMATE 2021: THE HOTTEST
The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Monday that the last seven years were the world's warmest "by a clear margin" in records dating back to 1850 and the average global temperature in 2021 was 1.1-1.2C above 1850-1900 levels.
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2022, January, 11, 12:20:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $81
Brent gained 60 cents, or 0.7%, to $81.47 a barrel, WTI rose 68 cents, or 0.9%, to $78.91 a barrel.
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2022, January, 11, 11:50:00
IRAQ OIL PRODUCTION 4 MBD
Iraq, OPEC's second largest producer, has a January quota of 4.281 million b/d.
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2022, January, 11, 11:45:00
LIBYA'S OIL PRODUCTION 0.9 MBD
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.