This winter, U.S. natural gas prices have been at their lowest levels in decades.

U.S. Industrial production declined 0.3 percent in January, as unseasonably warm weather held down the output of utilities and as a major manufacturer significantly slowed production of civilian aircraft.

U.S. Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 790, Canada Rig Count is down 2 rigs from last week to 255,

setting a goal for the United States to plant a trillion trees by 2050 to fight global warming,

TC Energy Corporation (TSX, NYSE: TRP) (TC Energy or the Company) announced net income attributable to common shares for fourth quarter 2019 of $1.1 billion or $1.18 per share compared to net income of $1.1 billion or $1.19 per share for the same period in 2018.

EQT Corp, the largest U.S. gas producer, recently said it would take a write-down of as much as $1.8 billion, following CNX Resources Corp, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp in reducing the value of gas properties.

US imports of unfinished oils from Russia averaged 472,000 b/d in November, the most since May 2013, when the same amount of unfinished oils was imported from Russia.

U.S. gas producers are counting on LNG exports to absorb record production from the shale boom. Those exports jumped 68% to a record 5.0 billion cubic feet per day in 2019 after soaring 53% in 2018.

U.S. coal and nuclear power plants will collectively provide more than 25% of electricity generation through 2050.

If current developments with small modular reactors in first month of 2020 are any indication of interest in this scale of nuclear technology, the 2020s could be the decade that SMRs take off. Here are six reports of interest in SMRs the U.S. and Europe.

the U.S. unemployment rate was little changed at 3.6 percent

U.S. Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 790, Canada Rig Count is up 10 rig from last week at 257

Russian energy minister Alexander Novak discussed bilateral energy cooperation with the US ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, on Thursday, according to an energy ministry statement.

The US was prepared to sanction Rosneft if it continued to trade crude oil and fuel with PDVSA, but analysts said those sanctions have yet to be imposed because of the expected impact they may have on the global oil market.

But the agency paints a deeply troubling picture for the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, with carbon pollution dipping briefly this decade, increasing in the 2030s, and falling only 4% overall by 2050,