Oil and Gas Industry

Crude Prices Climb on Signs of Strong US Energy Demand

Oil & Gas‚ Oil and Gas Industry | intent | January 6, 2025 | Comment off

Crude oil and gasoline prices today are climbing, with crude oil posting a 2-1/2 month high and gasoline posting a 6-week high. Signs of US economic strength support energy demand and crude prices after weekly jobless claims fell to an 8-month low, and the Dec S&P manufacturing PMI was revised higher. Also, strong US jet fuel demand is bullish for crude after US jet fuel demand in October rose to a 7-year monthly high. Crude prices fell back from their best levels after the dollar index (DXY00) rallied to a 2-year high, and weekly US EIA crude inventories fell less than expected.

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Eni Launches Europe’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

Oil & Gas‚ Oil and Gas Industry | intent | January 6, 2025 | Comment off

Italian oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A (NYSE:E) has launched its next-generation supercomputer that will help it to ramp up oil and gas discovery technology and support its decarbonization strategies. Based at Eni’s Green Data Center in the small town of Ferrera Erbognone, the €100m High-Performance Computing 6 (HPC6) machine is estimated to operate at the peak of 606 petaflops, powering a number of artificial intelligence functions, as well as highly sophisticated calculations, with the help of nearly 14,000 graphics processing units (GPUs). Eni’s latest supercomputer is the world’s 5th most powerful, achieving nearly half an exascale of performance on the LINPACK benchmark.

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China and U.S. Shape 2025 Oil Predictions

Oil & Gas‚ Oil and Gas Industry | intent | December 19, 2024 | Comment off

Doubts about oil demand growth will persist beyond 2024, and fears of a price slump will be there to keep them company. That’s according to some recent predictions about the state of the oil market in 2025, which see demand growing, China directing the market, and OPEC still likely to unwind its production cuts.

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