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US Natgas Prices at Waha Turn Positive for First Time Since February as Pipeline Constraints Ease

U.S. spot natural gas prices for Tuesday at the Waha Hub in West Texas turned positive for the first time since early February as demand for the fuel rises with the coming of the summer air conditioning season and energy firms start to wrap up spring pipeline maintenance. Electric companies burn more gas as homes …

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TACO CONFIRMED: Oil Markets Bet Trump Would Chicken Out on Iran. They Won: Bousso

Never bet against Donald Trump? The oil market appears to have made a risky wager from day one of the Iran war: The U.S. president would not allow the conflict to spiral into a full-blown economic crisis. So traders wouldn’t price one in, no matter what was happening with physical supplies. It was a risky …

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LNG Tanker Heads Toward Hormuz as Deal Raises Hopes of Reopening

A liquefied natural gas tanker that has been trapped in the Persian Gulf for over three months appears to be heading toward the Strait of Hormuz, just as the US and Iran say they have reached a deal to reopen the waterway. Disha, which is under a long-term charter with an Indian state-owned importer, is north of …

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Iran Says Draft US Deal Includes Oil Sanctions Waiver, Nuclear Limits and Asset Release

Reuters A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range of issues, from Tehran’s nuclear work to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two …

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US Energy Firms Cut Rigs for First Time in Eight Weeks, Baker Hughes Says

(Reuters) – U.S. energy firms cut the number of rigs operating for the first time in eight weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in a closely followed report on Friday. The total oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by 1 to 562 in the week to June 12. …

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Iran War Adds to AI Boom as Demand for Gas Turbines Rises Further, Siemens Energy Says

(Reuters) – The Iran war has become an additional driver of demand for gas turbines, Siemens Energy executives said on Thursday, at a time when manufacturers are already flooded with orders due to the massive data centre expansion in the United States. Along with rivals GE Vernova and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Siemens Energy has seen …

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Iran Rejects Idea of its Assets Being Used to Pay Damages to US Allies

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Sunday that regional governments were “not in a position to demand reparations”, responding to reports the U.S. could use Iranian assets to compensate regional allies for war-related damages. Gharibabadi added in a post on X that Iran’s assets were “neither war spoils for Washington nor a payment …

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“I’M NOT JOKING” – Putin Urges Germany to Make Decision on Buying Russian Gas Again via Nord Stream

  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was ready ​to resume gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream ‌pipeline that was heavily damaged by undersea explosions in 2022, and the onus was on Berlin to make up its mind. Putin told journalists in St. ​Petersburg that one of the two …

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US Natural Gas Futures Dip on Lower Flows to LNG Export Plants

By Julian Hast US natural gas futures ended lower as domestic gas flows to liquefied natural gas export terminals along the US Gulf Coast dropped for a third consecutive day. The reduction is concentrated at Sabine Pass LNG in Louisiana and Corpus Christi LNG in Texas. Lower gas flows to terminals leaves more supplies in …

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Princeton Endowment Backs Out of Oil and Gas Divestment Pledge

By Janet Lorin People walk on the Princeton University campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg Princeton University’s endowment is backtracking on its pledge to divest from publicly traded oil and gas companies, four years after it said it would exit such holdings as way to move toward a net-zero portfolio. A trustee-mandated decision …

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