The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began accepting letters of interest from applicants for loans under a new $2.1 billion Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) program.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 263,000 in September, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported

U.S. Rig Count is down 3 from last week to 762, Canada Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 215.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 01.4 million barrels to 429.2 million barrels.

RoPower Nuclear will take steps towards deploying the first NuScale VOYGR-6 (462MWe) power plant in Romania this decade.

The current gas crisis also casts longer-term uncertainty on the prospects for natural gas, especially in developing markets where its use was expected to rise at least in the medium term as it replaced other higher-emission fossil fuels.

U.S. Rig Count is up 1 from last week to 765, Canada Rig Count is down 2 from last week to 213.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 0.2 million barrels to 430.6 million barrels.

The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. In support of these goals, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 3 to 3-1/4 percent and anticipates that ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate.

U.S. Rig Count is up 1 from last week to 764, Canada Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 215

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 1.1 million barrels to 430.8 million barrels.

The US federal government’s effort to force the transition of the US energy economy from a mixed-fuel economy to an “all-electric everything” energy economy based on renewable electricity generation and storage is becoming a brutal and explicit combination of incentives and disincentives.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 2.4 million barrels to 429.6 million barrels.

U.S. Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 763, Canada Rig Count is up 6 from last week to 211.

The possibility of replacing coal power plants with nuclear capacity is being actively explored in the USA and elsewhere.