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Russia will likely complete by next year the undersea Nord Stream 2 (NS2) natural gas pipeline to Germany despite ongoing U.S. efforts to scuttle the $11 billion project, analysts said. The start-up of the 5.3 Bcf/d NS2 could curb a potential recovery of U.S. LNG exports even if the Covid-19 pandemic recedes next year, said…

U.S. lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to expand sanctions targeting the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) natural gas pipeline as Russia pushes ahead to complete the project and move more supplies into Europe.

Following a record year of low prices driven by increasing liquefied natural gas (LNG) production in 2019, the global supply glut is likely to persist for at least another two years, according to the International Gas Union (IGU) in its annual report this week.

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, is urging the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) to publish data on oil storage capacity as a warning indicator of potential shut-in oil production.

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, is urging the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) to publish data on oil storage capacity as a warning indicator of potential shut-in oil production.

The Trump administration is considering a host of potential resolutions to the oil price war currently wreaking havoc on global markets, including luring Saudi Arabia away from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and into an alliance with the United States, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.

With the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)-plus alliance having failed to reach an agreement earlier this month to extend production cuts and boost prices, the Saudi-led cartel and former oil ally Russia are entrenched in a battle to see which one can hold out longer in an oversupplied global market, Fitch Solutions Inc. analysts said Thursday.

The United States should embargo oil from Russia and Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations in response to their efforts “to distort energy markets,” according to Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND).

Despite a wave of announcements by oil and gas producers to cut spending and activity in the wake of collapsing oil prices, Enverus expects to see a more significant pullback this summer as the market comes to the realization that a recovery will not come quickly.