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Putin Says Global Energy Market Needs Russia-US-Saudi Talks

“I still remember the conversation by phone between three of us: your humble servant, the US President Trump and the King of Saudi Arabia participated,” Putin told reporters on Wednesday in comments broadcast by state TV channel Rossiya 24. “The three of us talked on the phone and discussed the global energy market. Discussing these issues in such format is still in demand today.”

WTI Tops $72 Amid Crude Supply Concerns

OPEC+ is considering pushing back its planned output increase due in April, potentially the fourth time it has delayed bringing back production. Adding to the prospect of tighter supplies, as much as 30% of oil exports from a major Kazakh pipeline to the Black Sea may be halted after a Ukrainian drone attacked a pumping station in Russia. The Group of Seven also is considering tightening the price cap on Russian crude exports, possibly curbing supplies further.

Ecopetrol Boosts Investment in Colombian Eastern Plains

The company said this month that it now has full ownership of the CPO-09 block in the nation’s oil-rich eastern plains after completing its $452 million acquisition of Repsol SA’s 45 percent stake. That investment’s strategic location near Castilla and Chichimene, among the country’s top five fields, allows the company to benefit from synergies, a top executive said in an interview.

Petrobras Taps SBM Offshore to Study FPSO Carbon Capture Solutions

SBM Offshore is developing a compact, modular carbon capture solution designed to significantly reduce emissions from oil and gas production on FPSOs, as part of its emissionZERO program. The study for Petrobras encompasses the design and commercial assessment of diverse carbon capture system configurations for future FPSOs deployed in Petrobras fields, considering varying turbine types and machinery setups, gas flow rates and installed gas turbine power, and CO2 concentrations and gas compositions, SBM Offshore said.

Oil Settles Higher as OPEC+ Weighs Supply Delay

It would be the fourth time the Saudi Arabia-led producer group has delayed plans to revive output. That’s eased worries about a supply surplus developing this year. The International Energy Agency is calling for an overhang of 450,000 barrels a day and, in the US, inventories are sitting at a three-month high while one measure of market tightness is flashing signs of oversupply.