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2020, May, 21, 12:45:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES DOWN BY 5 MB TO 526.5 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) decreased by 5.0 million barrels from the previous week. At 526.5 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 10% above the five year average for this time of year.
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2020, May, 21, 12:35:00
U.S. RIGS: THE LOWEST LEVEL
Producers were operating the fewest oil and natural gas drilling rigs on record in the United States at 339 on May 12, the lowest level in the Baker Hughes Company’s rig count data series that dates back to 1987.
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2020, May, 21, 12:30:00
U.S. POWER GRID DOWN 5.8%
U.S. power grid weighted-average 5.8% decrease in demand for 2020 versus the same period in 2019.
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2020, May, 21, 12:20:00
COVID & CLEAN ENERGY
Podcast/Audio - It's sad, but also topical and unavoidable. So in this, our thirtieth 'chinwag' podcast, Dr Massey and I decided to chat through what some of the implications of the virus might be for the clean energy sector.
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2020, May, 20, 11:45:00
U.S. ECONOMY WILL DOWN BY 37%
the U.S. economy would contract at a 37.7% annual rate in the second quarter, but expand at a 21.5% pace in the July-September period.
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2020, May, 20, 11:15:00
U.S. URANIUM PRODUCTION DOWN
The USA produced a total of 0.17 million pounds U3O8 (65.4 tU) of uranium concentrate from all domestic sources in 2019, according to a newly published annual report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This was 89% less than in 2018.
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2020, May, 19, 11:50:00
U.S. PRODUCTION: OIL (-197) TBD, GAS (-779) MCFD
Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to decrease 197,000 b/d month-over-month in May from 8,019 to 7,822 thousand barrels/day, gas production to decrease 779 million cubic feet/day from 82,249 to 81,470 million cubic feet/day .
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2020, May, 18, 08:35:00
U.S. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION FELL 11.2%
U.S. total industrial production fell 11.2 percent in April for its largest monthly drop in the 101-year history of the index
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2020, May, 18, 08:15:00
CHANGES OF WIND PLANTS PERFORMANCE
The study finds that output from the typical wind plant declines by about 13 percent over 17 years.
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2020, May, 18, 08:00:00
U.S. RIGS DOWN 35 TO 339
U.S. Rig Count is down 35 rigs from last week to 339, Canada Rig Count is down 3 rigs from last week to 23
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2020, May, 15, 11:50:00
U.S. OIL DEMAND DOWN TO 14.2 MBD
Reduced economic activity resulting from shelter-in-place restrictions due to COVID-19 drove significant near-term disruptions to energy markets in the month of April with U.S. petroleum demand falling nearly 27 percent to 14.2 million barrels per day (mb/d),
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2020, May, 15, 11:25:00
U.S. CLEAN ENERGY JOBS LOST
U.S. Dept. of Labor said more than half-a-million jobs in the clean energy sector were lost in March and April
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2020, May, 15, 11:15:00
U.S. ADVANCED NUCLEAR $160 MLN
A new programme launched today by the US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide USD160 million initial funding
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2020, May, 14, 16:10:00
U.S. OIL DEMAND UPDOWN
EIA expects U.S. total liquid fuels consumption will rise from an average of 15.9 million b/d in the second quarter of 2020 to 18.7 million b/d in the third quarter of 2020 and then to average 19.8 million b/d in 2021, up 8% from 2020, but lower than 2019 levels.
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2020, May, 13, 12:15:00
THE NEW NUCLEAR ALLOY 617
A combination of nickel, chromium, cobalt and molybdenum, Alloy 617 can be used in tomorrow’s advanced nuclear plants because it allows higher temperature operation.