Oil prices fell sharply on Friday amid declining European banking shares and after US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said refilling the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) may take several years, dampening demand prospects.
The Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber is calling on the government to reconsider the Growth and Sustainability Bill which seeks to impose a one per cent tax on gross production for oil and gas companies.
The Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber is warning that the proposed Growth and Sustainability Levy by government could trigger litigation through the international court as it breaches provisions in the petroleum agreements.
The proposed Growth and Sustainability Levy has the potential to dampen investments into oil and gas exploration and trigger litigations, if approved, the Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber, has warned
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman yesterday said that there is a possibility of imposing a price cap on Saudi oil exports and “we will not sell oil to any country that imposes a cap on our supplies.”
President Biden is planning to harm the domestic oil and gas industry and make them less globally competitive despite asking them to produce more energy. Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 is for the astounding amount of $6.9 trillion and includes withdrawing tax deductions from oil and gas businesses that other manufacturing entities receive and would harm the small mom-and-pop companies whose production is critical for meeting demand.
The energy transition is a multilayered process that is continually demanding progress in technology, government, work expertise, and economics. To rapidly deploy renewable energy across the United States, the transition requires workers at every level from boots on the ground to executive suite employees.
Russia expects its oil and gas production to fall this year compared to 2022, partly due to the production cuts announced for March, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Crude oil prices were on the rise Thursday after booking substantial losses earlier in the week following two bank collapses in the United States that ignited fears of an industry meltdown.
Last year, the United States leapfrogged Qatar and Australia to become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas. This was made possible thanks to the surge in LNG demand from Europe as it urgently sought an alternative to Russian pipeline supply.