The explosive growth of artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of energy demand. Hyperscale data centers powering AI training and inference are projected to consume vast amounts of electricity—much of it reliably supplied by natural gas-fired generation. Yet the real enablers aren’t the chipmakers or the hyperscalers themselves. They are the midstream operators who own […]
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Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, is embarking on its most ambitious privatization and asset monetization drive in its 93-year history. The company aims to raise up to $35 billion by opening midstream, downstream, and non-core assets to Wall Street investors through sale-leaseback deals, minority stake sales, and infrastructure partnerships. This move is explicitly […]
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In a decisive move that underscores its strategic pivot amid ongoing regional tensions and its recent departure from OPEC, the United Arab Emirates is accelerating infrastructure to dramatically expand its oil export capacity, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. On May 15, 2026, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan directed […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was originally posted on the Hill by Sen. Alan Armstrong. I am reaching out to him to get him on the podcast. We recommend reading The Hill. I didn’t come to the Senate from politics — I came from the field. I started as an engineer in Oklahoma’s energy sector […]
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Europe’s natural gas market is once again on the brink of turmoil as traders place aggressive bets that benchmark prices could more than double ahead of the 2026/2027 winter. Options contracts for the October–March delivery period have traded as high as €100 per megawatt-hour (MWh), compared to the current front-month TTF price hovering around €45/MWh. […]
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Oslo, Norway – In a significant move to bolster European energy security, Norway’s Ministry of Energy has approved the reopening of three long-idle North Sea gas fields that were shut down in 1998. The fields—Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma—are located less than 10 km west of the giant Ekofisk complex and will resume production […]
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ENB Pub Note: I wrote about this a few days ago, and Andrew Korybko, Substack Author, just put out his article with some key points. Geopolitical choke points for energy are heating up around the world. The strategic stakes are simply too high as NATO encroaches on Russia’s entire southern periphery via TRIPP and Turkiye […]
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Europe’s ongoing quest for energy security—diversifying away from Russian supplies amid geopolitical tensions—has spotlighted the Eastern Mediterranean as a promising alternative source of natural gas. At the heart of this potential lifeline lies Israel’s Leviathan gas field, one of the region’s largest offshore discoveries. While current exports primarily flow to neighboring Egypt and Jordan (with […]
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In a major win for North American energy infrastructure and U.S. energy security, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit on April 30, 2026, authorizing the cross-border segment of the Bridger Pipeline Expansion project. This initiative effectively revives key elements of the canceled Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline, enabling the transport of Canadian crude oil into […]
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As Europe races to eliminate its remaining dependence on Russian natural gas by late 2027, a long-dormant project is suddenly back in the spotlight. The proposed Trans-Caspian Pipeline (TCP) — a roughly 300-kilometer subsea link across the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan — could deliver a significant new source of non-Russian pipeline gas to […]
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