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Baker Hughes wins long-term support agreement for ANOH gas project

June 23, 2026

(World Oil) – Baker Hughes has been awarded a long-term service agreement by ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC) to provide lifecycle services and digital monitoring support for the ANOH Gas Processing Plant in Nigeria. The agreement covers maintenance, repair services, engineering support and digital monitoring for critical turbomachinery equipment at the facility, including two NovaLT 16 gas turbines. Baker Hughes will also

America’s second oil boom

June 22, 2026

(By Oil & Gas 360) – The next great American oil boom may not come from discovering a new basin. It may come from recovering more oil from fields that have already been producing for decades. For more than a century, the U.S. oil industry has focused on finding new resources. From the giant conventional fields of Texas and California to the

Chevron signs 20-year Microsoft power deal for West Texas AI project

June 22, 2026

(World Oil) – Chevron has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft to supply electricity from a planned natural gas-fired power facility in West Texas, marking a major step in the growing connection between U.S. energy production and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The agreement calls for Chevron subsidiary Energy Forge One to develop a co-located power facility that will provide dedicated electricity to a

Clean energy investment hits $2.2 trillion, nearly double fossil fuels

June 18, 2026

(Oil Price) – Despite historic political headwinds against the global decarbonization effort, clean energy spending continues to see a meteoric rise around the world. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Investment 2026, published in May of this year, projects that of the $3.4 trillion dollars that the world will spend on energy investments this year, $2.2 trillion will go to clean

Big Tech’s nuclear future is creating a new uranium story

June 17, 2026

(By Oil & Gas 360) – The artificial intelligence revolution is creating an unexpected winner in the energy sector: uranium. For years, uranium and nuclear energy occupied a relatively niche corner of the investment landscape, supported primarily by utilities, governments, and a handful of long-term investors. Today, that picture is changing rapidly. The rise of artificial intelligence, hyperscale data centers, and

U.S. EV adoption slows while global demand accelerates

June 16, 2026

(Oil Price) – Electric vehicle sales in the United States are set to account for only 17% of all nationwide passenger vehicle sales in 2030, BloombergNEF said in its latest EV outlook, slashing its 27%-share projection from last year as the Trump Administration ended incentives for electric vehicles. Back in 2024, the year before President Trump won a second term in office, BloombergNEF

Nuclear and natural gas are teaming up to power the AI data center boom

June 10, 2026

(Oil Price) – Data centers are placing unprecedented strain on electric grids across the country and across the world as the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into virtually every market sector unleashes an energy monster that we are woefully unprepared to feed. Meeting projected demand growth in coming months and years will require creative solutions and cutting-edge energy innovation, but it will

Colorado’s energy experiment: The true cost of policy ambition

June 9, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – Colorado is not failing—it is becoming more expensive by design, and the data shows those costs are now starting to slow growth. Colorado presents itself as a model for the future: a clean-energy leader, a high-quality-of-life destination, and a forward-looking economy. On the surface, that narrative still holds. But beneath it,

Why solar power is booming under Trump

June 8, 2026

(Oil Price) – Despite the Trump administration’s pivot away from renewable energies, solar continues to dominate new energy additions in the United States. Newly released data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) shows that at the close of last year, solar energy additions were the single largest form of new energy capacity installations for the 28th straight month, starting in September

Big Tech’s next challenge isn’t AI, it’s energy

June 5, 2026

(By Oil & Gas 360) – For much of the past two years, the artificial intelligence boom has been viewed through the lens of semiconductors, software, cloud computing, and record capital spending by the world’s largest technology companies. Increasingly, however, AI is becoming something much larger. It is becoming one of the most important energy stories of the decade. The rapid

The real cost of computing: America’s data center boom, Colorado’s constraint, and the illusion of low-impact growth

June 3, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – The Energy Information Administration did not intend to write a thesis on the future of the American economy. Yet that is precisely what it has done. Hidden in a technical projection is a structural shift as consequential as electrification itself: data centers are rapidly becoming one of the dominant consumers of

U.S. Ethanol Policy: Measured outcomes versus stated intent

May 22, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – Ethanol has been embedded in U.S. fuel policy for more than a century, with modern support accelerating after the 1970s oil shocks and becoming structurally fixed through the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) enacted in 2005 and expanded in 2007. The stated objectives have remained consistent: improve energy security, reduce emissions, and support

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