EV Slowdown

Daily Standup Top Stories EV Slowdown Steers the World Further Off Course From Net Zero June 16, 2024 Stu Turley Electric vehicles have swiftly gone from a bright spot in the global climate fight to cause for concern, leading BloombergNEF to slash sales estimates and warn that the auto industry is falling further off the track toward [… API, […]

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Refineries are BACK!

Daily Standup Top Stories ADNOC Moves Ahead With Huge LNG Export Project in UAE June 12, 2024 Mariel Alumit Abu Dhabi’s national oil company ADNOC has taken the final investment decision to move forward with the Ruwais LNG project, which will more than double the existing LNG production capacity in the United Arab Emirates. […] U.S. LNG […]

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Is the dollar here to stay?

Daily Standup Top Stories The Myth of the Inevitable Rise of a Petroyuan June 11, 2024 Stu Turley In diplomacy, what’s left unsaid often matters more than what’s said. After Chinese President Xi Jinping met the king of Saudi Arabia in December, both nations issued lengthy readouts extolling the burgeoning Saudi-Sino relationship in […] Don’t Bet Against […]

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More Blackouts in TX?!

Daily Standup Top Stories New Zealand to lift oil drilling ban amid blackout fears in blow to Starmer June 9, 2024 Stu Turley New Zealand was on Saturday night expected to revoke a ban on drilling for oil and gas amid fears of blackouts, as Labour plans to impose a similar crackdown on the North Sea. The country’s […]

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Shell CEO Talks Reasonable Politics?!

Daily Standup Top Stories Senator Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Repeal Biden’s Natural Gas Tax June 5, 2024 Mariel Alumit U.S. Senator Ted Cruz introduced legislation to repeal the natural gas tax included in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, a release posted on Cruz’s website recently announced. Rigzone asked the Cruz camp what effect […] China […]

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Larry Fink All In on AI

Daily Standup Top Stories Blackrock’s Larry Fink Jumps On “Next AI Trade”, Warning World Will Be “Short Power” June 1, 2024 Stu Turley At the start of April, we penned a lengthy report for premium subs discussing why artificial intelligence data centers, the electrification of the economy, and onshoring trends will result in a major upgrade of the nation’s […]

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Big Tech Helped Bring On An Energy Crisis

Daily Standup Top Stories Shell plans job cuts in offshore wind business as CEO refocuses on oil and gas May 29, 2024 Mariel Alumit (Bloomberg) – Shell Plc is preparing to cut staff from its offshore wind business as Chief Executive Officer Wael Sawan moves the company away from the capital-intensive renewable energy sector. The British […]

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Free Wind Energy = Free Lunch?

Daily Standup Top Stories Who is paying for the Free Energy Wind?- or as Penguin Empire Reports – “Who’s paying for lunch?” May 18, 2024 Stu Turley ENB Pub Note: This is a guest post from the Pengquin Empire Reports Substack. We highly recommend supporting and following them. “In the financial world, it tends to be […]

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Will Geopolitics Kill The Markets?

Daily Standup Top Stories U.S. produces the energy everyone is looking for: 900 MW at the largest plant in the world April 30, 2024 Mariel Alumit It is a common misconception that renewable energy is hidden in large production plants. Instead, it is found in the sun, in the wind or in an unprecedented source that the […]

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