The government sources said the carbon price would now increase annually, hitting 55 euros in 2025.

Brent climbed 47 cents, or 0.7%, to $64.67 a barrel, WTI was up 34 cents, or 0.6%, to $59.52 a barrel,

Gas consumption this year is seen exceeding 300 bcm, up 9% from 2018, Jiang Xuefeng, vice chairman at CNPC’s Economics and Technology Research Institute (ETRI), said at a briefing in Beijing on Thursday.

Brent fell by 44 cents, or 0.7%, to $63.90 per barrel, WTI slipped by 33 cents, or 0.6%, to $58.91 a barrel

Brent crude oil spot prices averaged $63 per barrel (b) in November, up $3/b from October. EIA forecasts Brent spot prices will average $61/b in 2020, down from a 2019 average of $64/b. EIA forecasts that West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices will average $5.50/b less than Brent prices in 2020. EIA expects crude oil prices will be lower on average in 2020 than in 2019 because of forecast rising global oil inventories, particularly in the first half of next year.

“Well-designed carbon pricing instruments can be a transformative part of the climate action toolkit. Over half of countries worldwide are thinking about how carbon pricing can help them meet their climate targets”, said Laura Tuck, Vice President of Sustainable Development, World Bank.

The largest-ever group of investors has called on governments to phase out thermal coal power worldwide, put a price on carbon, end subsidies for fossil fuels, and strengthen nationally-determined contributions. The 631 institutional investors managing more than USD37 trillion in assets urged governments to step up efforts to tackle the global climate crisis and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, in a joint statement issued yesterday at the United Nations COP25 climate summit.

Under this option, EU importers of steel, aluminum and other products with high carbon footprints would have to buy carbon allowances, as EU producers do under the EU Emissions Trading System.

This would make Aramco's listing the world's largest, beating Alibaba's $25bn IPO at $25.6bn.

Brent were down 44 cents, or 0.68%, at $63.95 per barrel, WTI were down 48 cents, or 0.81% to $58.72 a barrel,

The 7th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, hereby decided for an additional adjustment of 500 tb/d to the adjustment levels as agreed at the 175th Meeting of the OPEC Conference and 5th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting. These would lead to total adjustments of 1.7 mb/d. In addition, several participating countries, mainly Saudi Arabia, will continue their additional voluntary contributions, leading to adjustments of more than 2.1 mb.

Brent were down 3 cents at $63.36, WTI fell 9 cents to $58.34 a barrel.

The group of more than 20 producers is considering an extra 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) in cuts for the first quarter of 2020 to take the total to 1.7 million bpd, or 1.7% of global demand, Russian energy minister Alexander Novak said

Brent were up 44 cents, or 0.7%, at $61.26, WTI were up by 38 cents, or 0.7%, at $56.48.

They believe relentless US oil production growth will slow rapidly next year.