Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP report this week. Crude slipped last quarter, but diesel did not. Refiners’ margins roughly tripled from a year ago, and EIA data show refining now takes a bigger slice of every gallon you buy. By Energy News Beat. AAA prices read Oct. 27, 2026, 6:57 a.m. CT; EIA data checked […]
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PJM wants up to 6.8 GW of new backstop power to cover a shortfall driven by data centers. FERC put the plan on hold over who gets the bill, and DOE says households should not. This was first run on the Energy News Beat Substack. Here is what is at stake for the 13 states […]
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Trump’s tariffs and China’s steel glut are squeezing Canadian mills from both sides. Algoma’s blast furnace is shut, Stelco lines sit idle, and LNG Canada Phase 2 is going back to a Chinese fabrication yard. By the ENB Research Desk for Stu Turley. Data as of Oct. 26, 2026 (CT). Bottom line up front The […]
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In this episode of the Energy Newsbeat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Dr. Beatriz Canamary, CEO of Sure Strategy Group and a leading voice in maritime infrastructure, to discuss the urgent need to rebuild America’s commercial shipbuilding industry. With the U.S. producing less than half a percent of the global fleet today—a dramatic […]
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In this Energy Realities podcast roundtable, hosts Dr. Tammy Nemeth, David Blackmon, and Stu Turley examine the rapidly shifting global energy landscape and the contradictions embedded in Western climate policy. The discussion spans from Qatar Energy’s landmark 23-year LNG supply agreement with Chenier—signaling natural gas as a permanent fixture in the global energy mix—to the […]
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Henry Hub futures slid to about $2.51 as warm forecasts trimmed heating demand. Here’s what that means for your heating bill, your power bill, and EQT’s all-stock deal for Range Resources. By Energy News Beat Natural gas fell Monday morning. The front-month Henry Hub futures contract fell more than 4% to about $2.51 per million […]
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Saudi Arabia hasn’t confirmed the East-West pipeline attack, and Brent slipped about 1.5% as hopes rose for talks in Tehran. What it means at the pump and in your portfolio. By Energy News Beat Futures as of about 7:05 a.m. CT Monday, Oct. 26 (Yahoo Finance; OilPrice.com); attack status as of 7:15 a.m. CT. If […]
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We checked all six claims against EIA, DOE, EPA and IEA records. Three are moving real barrels today, but only one at scale. The rest are small, slow, disputed or not about gasoline at all. By Energy News Beat If you filled up this weekend, you paid about $4.29 a gallon for regular and $6.35 […]
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The county still counts Bellflower’s 1,768 acres, a project it revoked on Oct. 7. Here’s what that means for neighbors, for your power bill, and for anyone watching Southside Virginia energy. By Stuart Turley, Energy News Beat A reader asked us a simple question: how much more solar can Brunswick County, Virginia, actually take? The […]
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Data centers are being built where land, fiber and tax breaks are, not where the power plants are. Moving that power takes new capacity, new high-voltage lines and new substations. This report follows the money from the PJM capacity auction to the Dominion transmission rider, the MISO, SPP and ERCOT long-range plans, the FERC rules […]
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