The Commodity Futures Trading Commission probe is focused on whether aspects of the strategy that the Russian government pursued last month with other members of the OPEC+ coalition leaked out to market participants ahead of time

The U.S. dollar was weaker against the Japanese yen and the euro

The pan-European STOXX 600 rose 1.5%, following gains in Asian markets after the Bank of Japan pledged to buy unlimited amount of bonds to keep borrowing costs low.

U.S. Utilities are accustomed to dealing with storm restoration and routinely handling crisis management, but COVID-19 is bringing new challenges for Utilities in a different way.

The original agreement provided for Hilcorp to pay $4.0 billion near-term and $1.6 billion through an earnout thereafter.

U.S. Rig Count is down 64 rigs from last week to 465, Canada Rig Count is down 4 rigs from last week to 26

the Nuclear Fuel Working Group’s Strategy to Restore American Nuclear Energy Leadership,

Compared to the two countries, the U.S. has also fallen behind on global sales of nuclear technology. “Civil nuclear reactor vendors from the United States have competed poorly in recent decades in the global new build market,”

The recommendations are meant to address growing concern in Washington that the United States has ceded its global leadership in nuclear technology in recent decades, and to boost domestic nuclear power producers and uranium miners suffering from a lack of investment.

The U.S. oil industry was already struggling to satisfy investors unhappy with weak returns, even as the United States surged to become the world’s largest oil producer in the last few years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI dropped 2.44% to end at 23,650.44 points, while the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.79% to 2,823.16.

The project (4,560 MW), when fully operational at the end of 2022, will not only create the largest power plant in American but the largest generator of carbon-free power in the country as well.

Energy efficiency is critical for the benefit of utilities, end energy users, and the environment.

U.S. Rig Count is down 73 rigs from last week to 529, Canada Rig Count is down 5 rigs from last week to 30

U.S. petroleum demand declined to 19.4 million barrels per day (mb/d) in March, which was a 4.6% decrease from February