OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Macron Calls for Another Emergency Oil Release as Europe Loses Supply

French President Emmanuel Macron is calling the G7 back to the table to discuss another release of emergency oil stocks as Europe loses Saudi crude deliveries and diesel prices push deeper into record territory.

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Space-Based Solar Power Could Reach the Grid by 2028

The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data cente...

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Global Shipping Costs Explode as Hormuz Disruptions Hit Key Trade Routes

The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz.

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Kazakhstan Turns to Russian Gas as Domestic Demand Surges

Kazakhstan intends to increase natural gas imports from Russia. The purchase price may be low, but the overall cost could turn out to be steep because of pending new US sanctions on Russia.

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Saudi Arabia Cuts Europe Off From October Crude as Gulf Exports Surge

Saudi Aramco has told European term customers they will receive no Saudi crude in October, even as the kingdom pushes roughly 60 million barrels back through the Persian Gulf after damage to its East-West pipeline.

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

U.S. Oil, Gas Rig Count Creeps Up With Strong Prices

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 595, up 53 from this same time last year...

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

TotalEnergies and BlackRock Sign $1.8B Deal for African Oil and Gas Assets

TotalEnergies and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have signed a partnership agreement under which GIP will invest $1.8 billion in capital contribution toward some of the French supermajor’s oil and gas infrastructure assets...

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Saudi Export Pivot Sends Brent Below $105

Saudi Aramco shifts crude exports to the Persian Gulf, easing supply fears and pushing Brent below $105.

OilPrice.com / 18 September 2026

Russia’s $118 Billion Arctic Oil Bet Pushes Ahead Despite Sanctions

For the Kremlin, the giant Vostok Oil project in the frigid Far North is crucial to two goals: bolstering Russia’s presence in the Arctic and keeping production of the key export commodity going as reserves in more accessible parts of the c...

13 September 2026

Pernis commissions 40,000 m³ tank pit at Terneuzen

The new pit adds independent containment and twenty-four simultaneous road-loading positions, lifting Sluiskil throughput capacity by roughly a third.

29 August 2026

Vapour recovery retrofit completed across Westpoort

Every loading operation at the Amsterdam terminal now routes displaced vapour through an enclosed recovery unit, cutting volatile organic compound emissions by an estimated 96 percent.

16 August 2026

Safety performance: rolling twelve-month LTIF at 0.14

A third consecutive year of improvement in lost-time injury frequency, with process-safety near-miss reporting up sharply.

29 July 2026

Pernis joins Rhine corridor hydrogen feasibility study

The consortium will assess conversion of existing Duisburg tankage and pipeline connections for hydrogen carriers.

8 July 2026

Flushing completes 21-metre draft dredging programme

The Westerschelde berths now accept the largest crude carriers in the North Sea trade without tidal restriction.

16 June 2026

Seveso III inspection: all sites compliant, no findings

The competent authority completed its scheduled Seveso III inspections across all upper-tier sites with no non-conformities raised.