Matanzas, where the fire broke out after an explosion on Aug. 6, is Cuba’s largest port for receiving crude oil and fuel imports. Cuba relies on oil to generate much of its electricity.
CapturePoint Solutions and Energy Transfer's partnership is anticipated to capture millions of tons of CO2 emissions annually from the Haynesville shale to be permanently sequestered in its facilities.
“There’s nothing good in this report for anybody unless you’re waiting for things to fall apart and to be a buyer on the downside,” Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho, said of the EIA report.
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures subsidiary 1PointFive will continue its carbon capture and sequestration hub expansion with the leasing of 27,000 acres of timberland from Manulife Investment Management in Louisiana.
Three companies with proven CCS solutions explain how their technologies are at work today to reduce the carbon footprint of industrial operations including for Chevron in Bakersfield, Calif.
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) held about 618 million barrels last September and its stocks have declined due to sales from congressional mandates and Biden’s price initiative.
The decline in U.S. crude oil inventories was in large part the result of a surge in crude exports to a record 4.5 million bbl/d in the latest week.
The U.S. Department of Energy will soon propose a rule to help put oil back into the SPR, where levels have sunk to 475.5 million barrels, the lowest since June 1985
“The demand destruction is only still two weeks but sufficient to say it’s there. That's the big takeaway,” analyst John Kilduff, said after U.S. gasoline inventories posted a larger-than-expected build on weakened demand.
“Today’s inventory stats and overall builds in crude and products are indicative of investor worries on the overall economy,” said Tony Headrick, energy markets analyst at CHS Hedging, following the EIA report.