Oil prices increased by about 2% on Thursday, hitting their highest level in four months, boosted by new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) warning of potential supply shortages until year-end. The EIA report also revealed a notable 5.7-million-barrel decrease in gasoline stocks, the steepest decline since early November. Thus, the Brent crude oil stood at $85.42 a barrel, while WTI crude settled at $81.26 a barrel.
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Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a trilateral “solidarity” agreement with Italy and Switzerland, through which the nations agreed to support each other during a potential gas supply crisis.
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Oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday, boosted by strikes on Russian refineries and a larger-than-expected drop in US crude and gasoline inventories. As a result, the Brent crude oil stood slightly above $84 a barrel, while WTI crude settled at $79.72 a barrel.
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Norway has big plans to pump waste carbon from oil and gas operations and heavy industry under the seabed of the North Sea to be stored safely underground. It believes this method will be key to decarbonizing its fossil fuel activities in the coming years and supporting a green transition. However, some fear that this process cannot be done safely without risk to the environment. Others believe that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is merely a band-aid on a bullet wound and that countries should be fixing their carbon problem at the source rather than mitigating the effects of fossil fuel production. Nonetheless, so long as the world relies on oil and gas, companies will be looking for ways to produce lower-carbon fossil fuels through innovative methods, such as CCS technology.
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Low natural gas prices this winter season will result in significant declines in regulated electricity prices for households in Italy in the second quarter of the year, according to the Italian energy authority ARERA.
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