Unioil chief executive Janice Co Roxas-Chua said separately, “We are confident that this [the partnership with Aramco] will equip ourselves in accelerating our growth and development, further innovate, and strengthen our position as a leader in the wholesale and retail fuels market”.
In a letter addressed to the Managing Director of VRA on Tuesday, February 18th, 2025, sighted by myjoyonline.com, the company stated that effective March 6th, 2025, it would cease further gas deliveries in accordance with Clause 13.6(a) of the Takoradi Gas Sales Agreement.
The Macquarie strategists highlighted in the report that, last week, the EIA “reported builds in commercial crude (+4.1 million barrels) and at Cushing (+0.9 million barrels), with mixed product stats (gasoline -3.0 million barrels, distillate +0.1 million barrels, jet +0.9 million barrels)”.
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.
TotalEnergies SE and Air Liquide SA plan a €600 million ($628 million) joint venture to produce green hydrogen for the French oil giant’s refinery in the Netherlands, along with a supply deal for its petrochemical plant in Belgium.
The three companies said in a joint media release that under the Framework for Action agreement, Masdar and TotalEnergies will strengthen their cooperation to provide reliable and sustainable electricity to local communities in Africa and support its long-term energy systems transformation, and jointly develop new clean energy opportunities in Southeast Asia.
An increase in ship-to-ship transfers, plus the emergence of alternative receiving terminals, led to the jump, according to traders who participate in the market and asked not to be identified because the matter is sensitive.
Galp said that its investments during the fourth quarter reached EUR 500 million ($522.3 million), mainly channeled toward the execution of upstream projects, such as the Namibia appraisal campaign and Bacalhau. The company also said it continued pursuing industrial low-carbon projects.
Germany’s year-ahead power futures prices fell this week to the lowest level since the beginning of the year amid falling European natural gas prices as talks on a peace deal in Ukraine began.
Europe’s diesel markets are flashing signs of tightness, with near-term diesel contracts on Tuesday hitting the steepest backwardation–a situation where futures contracts for prompt delivery are more expensive than those further down the curve–since March. Backwardation is often interpreted as a sign of limited supply, with traders now willing to pay a premium for fuel that’s available sooner.