With roughly 50 days remaining until the European Union’s full ban on Russian LNG imports takes effect on January 1, 2027, the bloc has already spent more on Russian liquefied natural gas this year than it did in all of 2025. German campaign group Urgewald, analyzing Kpler vessel-tracking data, estimates that EU ports received 12.89 […]
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Four tankers that left Russia declaring U.S. destinations have turned away, the Wall Street Journal reports. Two are headed to Brazil, one has reached Egypt, and the fourth was listed for South America in Kpler data cited by the Journal on Nov. 10. No barrels have landed here. Diesel is still $6.13 a gallon — […]
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Energy Security Starts at Home By the Energy News Beat Team, drawing on reporting and analysis in the spirit of Stu Turley On November 4, 2026, the UK Labour government under Prime Minister Andy Burnham introduced its Energy Independence Bill. Scottish Conservative MP Douglas Lumsden stood outside Parliament holding the bill and called it exactly […]
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New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has formally warned the state’s port and terminal operators against accepting Russian diesel cargoes authorized under a Trump administration deal, arguing the imports violate a 2022 federal statute and could expose businesses and individuals to substantial civil and criminal penalties. In a November 2 letter to operators, Sherrill stated that […]
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The United States has solidified its position as Europe’s top crude oil supplier. According to Eurostat data highlighted in a recent analysis by commodity markets observer Jack Prandelli, the US accounted for 18.8% of the EU’s petroleum oil imports by value in the second quarter of 2026. That marked a rise from 15.1% in 2025 […]
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Japan is on track to reclaim the title of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer in 2026 for the first time since 2022, narrowly ahead of China. Analysts at ICIS and Kpler both forecast a slim Japanese lead driven by weak Chinese spot buying amid high prices, full storage, and structural shifts toward […]
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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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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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Moscow says three cargoes are on the water under the Trump-Putin diesel deal. Diesel is $6.34 a gallon, up $2.70 in a year, and Russia’s drone-battered refineries are the real bottleneck. Why Russia has so little to sell Russia has about 6.5 million barrels a day of installed refining capacity across 32 major refineries, but […]
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Virginia’s new Energy Plan promises to protect family budgets but never shows a household bill. It models 10,000 MW of import capacity, while PJM lists 5,992 MW; prices solar 41% below Dominion’s own filing; and leaves about $40.6 billion of Dominion spending outside the proposed rate freeze. Here are the six biggest holes. The full […]
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