BLM Moves to Fast-Track Oil Permits in Alaska Petroleum Reserve

The Bureau of Land Management wants to cut the permitting time for some oil and gas projects in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to as little as 60 days, according to…

Citadel Eyes U.S. Shale as Oil Trading Moves Closer to the Wellhead

Citadel is shopping for U.S. oil production assets, including a previous bid for WildFire Energy before Magnolia Oil & Gas agreed to buy the Eagle Ford producer for $4.06 billion.…

  • Gas
  • September 7, 2026
TotalEnergies transfers Papua LNG operations to ExxonMobil and sets up marketing JV

By 19 min ago 2 min read Multinational TotalEnergies is selling a 9.1% stake in Papua LNG to project partners – transferring operations of the LNG plant to ExxonMobil –…

Rosneft CEO: China Calls The Shots in Oil Markets, Not OPEC

China and its crude oil buying behavior in the spring and summer have stabilized global oil markets as Beijing, not OPEC, is calling the shots now, according to Igor Sechin,…

OPEC+ keeps October oil production quotas unchanged amid Iran war

(Bloomberg) – Major OPEC+ nations stuck with their plan to keep oil production quotas unchanged, while the Iran war continues to shutter vast swathes of output in the Middle East.…

China Rare Earth Firms Freeze U.S. Exports Weeks Before Xi-Trump Summit

Despite having secured export licenses, some Chinese rare earth producers have stopped shipping these materials to the United States over fears of repercussions from China’s authorities, sources familiar with the…

India Plans Mandatory Battery Storage at Solar and Wind Projects

India’s authorities plan to introduce, from July 1, 2027 a regulation requiring developers of solar and wind energy projects to have battery storage installed at the sites in a bid…

Iran Says It’s Found Ways to Dodge U.S. Oil Blockade

Iran pursues various tactics to bypass the U.S. blockade, which President Trump reimposed in the middle of July after the deal to make a deal collapsed, according to Iranian Oil…

Europe Gas Prices Head for Fourth Straight Weekly Gain

European benchmark natural gas prices on Friday headed for their fourth consecutive weekly gain as the re-escalation in the Middle East dampened hopes that LNG flows from the Strait of…

  • Gas
  • September 4, 2026
UK must bolster food supply chain resilience

By 15 min ago 4 min read The UK government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) must work more closely with industry to ensure the food supply chain…