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Marathon, Teamsters Reach Pay Deal at Detroit Refinery

By Reuters Dec 15 (Reuters) – Teamsters members working at Marathon Petroleum’s  Detroit refinery have voted to ratify a seven-year collective bargaining agreement, the company and the union said on Sunday, three months after workers walked off the job. “The process to safely welcome our employees back to the refinery is already in progress,” the Findlay, Ohio-based …

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Enbridge Reports 265,000-Litre Oil Spill in Wisconsin

EDMONTON — Calgary-based pipeline giant Enbridge says it has cleaned up about 60 per cent of a nearly 265,000-litre oil spill in Wisconsin that was discovered last month. Enbridge says the spill was discovered by an employee conducting a visual inspection of its Line 6 at the Enbridge Cambridge Station, west of Milwaukee, on Nov. …

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Interview: How the Incoming Administration Can Unleash American Energy – Alex Epstein

Kimberly Guilfoyle recently interviewed me on what I think the incoming administration, including some promising new political appointees, can do to unleash American energy. The full video and transcript are below. As a preview, here’s what I view as the top 5 energy policy priorities: Liberate responsible energy development End preferences for intermittent electricity Set …

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Exxon’s AI Power Play Aims to Beat Nuclear

By Liam Denning Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. To most of us, a power plant is a source of electricity. To Exxon Mobil Corp., it’s a machine that converts natural …

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AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water. More Everything

It looks easy enough: Ask ChatGPT something, and it responds. But pull back the curtain, and you’ll find that every ChatGPT prompt and Microsoft Copilot task consumes vast resources. Millions of human beings engineering, correcting and training models. Enough terawatt-hours of electricity to power countries. Data center mega­campuses around the world. Power line networks and …

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Oil Sands are Canada’s Winning Lottery Ticket With ‘Significant Change’ in Emissions Growth

‘The Oil Sands are Canada’s Winning Lottery Ticket’ By Deborah Jaremko Follow CEC on Linkedin  CEC Linkedin Follow CEC on Facebook CEC Facebook Follow CEC on Twitter CEC Twitter   As Alberta’s oil sands sector reaches a major economic milestone, a new report shows that emissions growth continues to slow. There is a clear “structural break” for the industry where …

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Fossil Fuels Initially Needed for AI Boom, Nuclear Expert Says

Tepco adviser Klein says gas likely required in the short term Japan is going to need ‘more and more electricity,’ he says The rise of artificial intelligence will drive a surge in electricity demand that’ll initially be met by fossil fuels, before nuclear replaces that source, the head of a body advising Japan’s top utility …

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US Crude Stocks Fall, Fuel Inventories Rise on Robust Refining, EIA Says

(Reuters) – U.S. crude inventories fell for the third time in a row, while fuel stockpiles rose in the week ending December 6, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday, as refinery activity remained seasonally strong. Crude inventories fell by 1.4 million barrels to 422 million barrels, the EIA said, compared with analysts’ expectations …

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Chevron Working on Supply of Power to Data Centers, Executive Says

U.S. oil major Chevron Corp is considering ways to supply lower carbon power for data center operators, Jeff Gustavson, president of Chevron New Energies said in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York. Gustavson’s comments follow a similar announcement by Exxon Mobil on Wednesday, which said it is working to help advance …

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OPEC Gives Haitham Al-Ghais Second Term as Secretary-General

Kuwaiti’s tenure as OPEC’s top official extended to mid-2028 OPEC+ delayed output restart last week to defend oil prices OPEC appointed Haitham Al-Ghais for a second three-year term as its secretary-general, extending his tenure until mid-2028. The Kuwaiti oil executive has been the top official at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries since mid-2022. OPEC and its allies agreed …

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