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UK’s National Grid plans to invest up to $532 million (£400 million) in extending the operation of the UK-France power interconnector until at least 2050 to preserve a vital electricity flexibility link. National Grid said on Thursday that after 40 years of operation to date, the Interconnexion France-Angleterre (IFA), the cross-border electricity link jointly owned by National Grid and French…
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The European Union has been paying $11 billion more to import oil since the Middle East crisis choked crude oil supplies and triggered a global fuel crisis, an analysis by Euronews Business showed on Thursday. The value of the EU’s petroleum imports jumped by 55.8% in the second quarter of 2026, despite the relatively stable volume of imports, according to Eurostat data. Between April and July,…
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The European Union will not be making new climate finance commitments at the upcoming COP31 conference, climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said, as quoted by Bloomberg today, describing the possibility of further financial commitments for emission reduction as “dead in the water”. The European Union has been the most generous climate finance provider globally for several years, but money has…
The energy ministers of EU member states are meeting today to discuss how to tackle a worsening energy price crisis as winter approaches, and with it, peak heating demand season. The meeting follows reports from Wednesday citing Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen as saying a series of refinery closures in EU member states over the past 20 years was a mistake as the diesel squeeze pushes prices to…
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, elder statesman of Mexican left, dies at 92
Crude oil prices gave up some of the gains they made earlier this week, after U.S. Vice President JD Vance contacted the secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council in a bid to restart peace talks. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $114.14 per barrel, and West Texas Intermediate was trading at $101.45 per barrel, both down from Wednesday but still significantly…
Gold slips after Fed holds rates, PCE inflation data in focus
Oil dips as traders weigh Iran diplomacy against renewed strike risks
US oil prices fall as investors gauge risks to Mideast supply
Middle East nations have renewed their diplomatic efforts, with high-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan having met with Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday to explore a regional security framework in a bid to de-escalate tensions. Whereas Iranian President Pezeshkian has expressed a willingness to resolve regional differences, Tehran continues to insist that U.S. sanctions…
Ten years ago, European countries were closing refineries while Gulf oil states were building new ones. Now, many of these refineries have been damaged in the war between the U.S. and Israel, and Iran. Fuel output from one of the biggest refining regions is not going to be coming back soon. Neither is full refining capacity from one of the world’s top fuel exporters, Russia. Earlier this week,…
The tanker billed as the first to carry Russian diesel to the United States under Donald Trump’s deal with Vladimir Putin has dropped New York as its destination. The Malta-flagged Agioi Fanendes left Primorsk on October 22 with about 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel, due in New York on November 7. Lloyd’s List reported it idling off Skagen, Denmark, on October 26. Its tracking now…
US confirms New World screwworm in a dog in Arizona
U.S. natural gas production is on track to close a second consecutive year with record-high natural gas output as producers respond to demand signs both at home and overseas. Soaring demand for powering data centers in the United States and rising liquefied natural gas exports amid expanding liquefaction capacity, as well as surging global demand for spot LNG cargoes in the absence of Qatar’s gas…
GE Vernova is buying high-voltage equipment maker Trench Group from Triton Partners for $9 billion and raised its 2026 revenue forecast for the third straight time on Wednesday. The company now expects revenue of $46.5 billion to $47.5 billion this year, up from the $45.5-$46.5 billion in its July guidance. Trench makes high-voltage grid equipment, and utilities are spending more on grids to…
India has spent years bringing more households and businesses onto its gas networks. Now, with domestic production declining, supplying those customers means buying more LNG from a market where prices have tripled in a year. Imports are nevertheless heading for a record this October. India’s LNG supply mix has changed a lot since the US-Iran war began in late February 2026. Qatar previously…
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