OIL Oil steady near $70 on hopes of recovering demandShadia Nasralla, Reuters, March 11, 2021 Oil hovered near $70 a barrel on Friday, supported by production cuts by major oil producers and optimism about a demand recovery in the second half of the year. Benchmark Brent fell 22 cents, or 0.3%, to $69.41 a barrel by 1444 GMT while U.S. … read more

“Are we trying to address climate change, or are we only focused on picking winners and losers for some utopian vision that will never come to pass?” PERSPECTIVE: We need broad portfolio of energy optionsDan Haley, The Gazette, March 7, 2021 The image went viral. A helicopter flying above a frozen wind turbine in Texas, spraying “chemicals” onto its blades … read more

OIL The U.S. Lost 120,000 Oil & Gas Jobs In 2020Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.Com, March 10, 2021 Around 120,000 jobs were lost in the U.S. oil and gas industry last year due to the crash in oil demand and prices and subsequent massive downsizing of staffing levels, Rystad Energy said in a new analysis this week. The United States, the third-biggest employer in … read more