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Chevron and BP Hone Core Focus Amid Promising Oil Future

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Oil giants Chevron and BP made moves to refine their business, drilling down on core segments that crude demand assures will be worth it.

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Energy

Whom Should You Believe About Energy Demand?

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Fossil fuel producers and OPEC have rained on the IEA’s parade, offering wildly different projections for future energy demand.

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Energy

Saudi Arabia Gives Up Trying to Drive Oil Higher

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Saudi Arabia, the biggest and most influential member of OPEC, is abandoning its goal of driving the price of an oil barrel up to $100.

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Energy

OPEC+ Wants to Prop Up Falling Oil Prices

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Days after Brent crude oil prices fell under $74 per barrel, the member nations of OPEC+ agreed to delay a production increase for two months.

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Energy

Exxon Sees Oil Demand in 2050 Unchanged, Testing Net Zero Goals

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ExxonMobil forecast that oil demand will remain above 100 million barrels per day in 2050, roughly the same as current levels.

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Energy

Shell Pulls Back on Big Biofuel Plant

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Shell is hitting pause on a major biofuel project in the Netherlands, one of the biggest in Europe, to consider market conditions.

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Energy

Oil Executives Predict US Production Dip If Acquisition Spree Continues

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A quarterly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas polls around 140 energy firm executives in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico.

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Industries

When Will the Future Cities Get Here?

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We check in on two planned smart cities in Saudi Arabia and Guyana to see if the future is any closer to arrival.

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