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2021, April, 14, 12:10:00
U.S. OIL PRODUCTION WILL UP
Higher prices are buoying drillers’ confidence. Benchmark Nymex oil gained nearly 35% in the past four months after OPEC and its alliance cut production to strike a balance between demand and supply. The fossil fuel is also getting a bump as Covid-19 vaccinations progress and Americans travel again, boosting gasoline consumption.
2021, April, 14, 11:55:00
U.S. ENERGY INVESTMENT PROMOTION
President Biden recently introduced a massive infrastructure bill designed to reshape the U.S. economy while addressing infrastructure reform. Biden’s stated goal is to achieve 100 percent carbon-free power by 2035.
2021, April, 14, 11:50:00
U.S. MICRO NUCLEAR MARVEL
Several microreactor designs are currently under development in the United States that will be smaller in size, more flexible to operate and versatile enough to provide energy to end users for a variety of services ranging from electricity production to water purification.
2021, April, 14, 11:45:00
U.S. ADVANCED NUCLEAR FUELS
Those actions, along with Congress passing support for the US uranium reserve, are "really reinvigorating" the entire US fuel supply chain and could allow the country to be a leading global supplier of advanced fuels,
2021, April, 13, 13:05:00
HYDROGEN FOR U.S.
The hydrogen design can be used for grid-scale blending with natural gas pipelines, blending existing or new power-generating facilities and energy-storage injection into salt caverns and above-ground storage tanks
2021, April, 12, 10:15:00
U.S. OIL TAX BREAKS $35 BLN
Removing this specific tax measure could generate US$13bn over 10 years. Overall, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could increase government receipts by US$35bn over 10 years.
2021, April, 12, 10:10:00
U.S. DIGITAL ENERGY INVESTMENT $2 TLN
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan proposes pumping $2.3 trillion into a slew of sectors over the next eight years.
2021, April, 12, 09:50:00
IRAN, U.S. TALKS
Iran has insisted that the US drop all the sanctions it unilaterally imposed after withdrawing from the deal in 2018, while US officials have maintained that Iranian nuclear violations of the agreement must be rectified first.
2021, April, 12, 09:45:00
U.S. THERMONUCLEAR PLASMA
TAE Technologies, the California, USA-based fusion energy technology company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator has produced stable plasma at over 50 million degrees Celsius.
2021, April, 12, 09:40:00
U.S. GRID MODERNIZATION
The answer lies, at least in part, in focusing on grid modernization, including the expansion of transmission capacity, increased use of energy storage systems, microgrids and digital solutions, and the adoption of a more coordinated national policy to make this possible.
2021, April, 12, 09:30:00
U.S. RIGS UP 2 TO 432
U.S. Rig Count is up 2 from last week at 432, Canada Rig Count is down 11 from last week to 58
2021, April, 8, 11:55:00
CANADA'S SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT $18 BLN
The new group, Sustainable Energy Group (SEG), will combine Energy & Resources (E&R) and Power & Renewables (P&R) groups and have about $18 billion in assets.
2021, April, 8, 11:30:00
U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEFICIT UP TO $71.1 BLN
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $71.1 billion in February, up $3.3 billion from $67.8 billion in January, revised.
2021, April, 8, 11:25:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES DOWN 3.5 MB TO 498.3 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 3.5 million barrels to 498.3 million barrels.
2021, April, 7, 10:30:00
U.S., IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
Iran met in Vienna with the remaining signatories of the deal – the EU, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany. While the US was also in Vienna, it did not participate directly in those talks but met separately with the deal signatories in a different part of the city.