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Trump mulls cutting billions in funds from list of clean energy projects

October 8, 2025

(Investing)– The U.S. government is considering canceling billions of dollars in funding for clean energy programs, including awards for auto manufacturing and carbon capture, according to a list of targeted projects seen by Reuters. Projects on the list include two major direct air capture hubs that received billion-dollar awards from former President Joe Biden’s administration, including one that involves oil

Cold War plutonium could power future U.S. reactors

August 27, 2025

(Oil Price)– Plutonium material from dismantled U.S. nuclear warheads from the Cold War could be offered to American power firms as a fuel to potentially use in advanced nuclear technologies, under a draft plan of the Trump Administration. The U.S. does not use plutonium in nuclear power facilities. In the past, plutonium has been converted into fuel for commercial reactors

Keynote Speakers: Andrew Rapp, Senior Advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy, Chad Zamarin, CEO of Williams and Craig Bealmear, CFO of Oklo at EnerCom’s 30th Anniversary Energy Investment Conference- oil and gas 360

Keynote Speakers: Andrew Rapp, Chad Zamarin, Ron Gusek and Craig Bealmear at EnerCom’s 30th Anniversary Energy Investment Conference

August 18, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – We welcome confirmed Keynote Speakers at EnerCom Denver – The Energy Investment 30th Anniversary Conference, August 17-20, 2025. It’s here, login to join us. Andrew Rapp, Senior Advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy, has been confirmed as the Keynote luncheon speaker on Monday, August 18th Ron Gusek, CEO of Liberty Energy, has been confirmed

U.S. Department of Energy pledges $1 billion in critical mineral funds

August 14, 2025

(Oil Price)– The U.S. Department of Energy has announced close to $1 billion in funding opportunities for stimulating domestic mining, processing, and manufacturing ventures involving critical minerals in a bid to reduce the country’s dependence on imports. About half of the total will be spent on battery manufacturing and recycling, despite the Trump administration’s negative attitude to electric vehicles, which drove

EnerCom announces Andrew Rapp, Senior Advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy, as Keynote Speaker on August 18th at EnerCom’s 30th Anniversary Energy Investment Conference

August 8, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – Qualified Investors and Analysts Can Register at No Cost at www.enercomdenver.com – Deadline to Submit One-on-One Meeting Requests to Presenting Companies is Friday, August 8th – Registration still available for EnerCom Denver – The Energy Investment Conference, featuring a broad group of public and private energy companies at www.enercomdenver.com DENVER – August 6, 2025 – EnerCom,

DOE okays exchange from SPR to Exxon to ease crude quality issue

July 14, 2025

(Oil Price)– The U.S. Department of Energy has authorized the exchange of up to 1 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to ease the crude shortage at Exxon’s refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after quality issues with the Mars crude grade emerged last week. DOE has authorized an exchange from the SPR with ExxonMobil Corporation “to address logistical challenges impacting

US will not complete oil deliveries into its reserve until year-end

June 27, 2025

(BOE Report) – The U.S. will not complete scheduled deliveries of crude oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the end of the year due to maintenance, as much as seven months behind schedule, the Department of Energy said on Thursday. Former President Joe Biden’s administration scheduled 15.8 million barrels of deliveries to the SPR from January through May. So

Department of Energy proposes billions in savings through deregulation

May 13, 2025

(Oil Price) – The Department of Energy has proposed to eliminate or shrink regulations that it says would result in savings worth $11 billion and stimulate energy industry growth. The department said this was the biggest deregulation push in its history. “While it would normally take years for the Department of Energy to remove just a handful of regulations, the Trump Administration assembled

DOGE hands US DOE the budget axe to slash $10B in clean projects

April 17, 2025

(Oil Price) – If Big Oil was starting to feel good about its government-sponsored climate-era glow-up, they may be in for a rude awakening, with the U.S. Energy Department reportedly preparing to pull the plug on nearly $10 billion in clean-energy funding, according to new memos seen by the Wall Street Journal. The DOE’s move could put everything from hydrogen hubs

Could Texas become a geothermal energy hub?

January 2, 2025

(Oil Price) – Geothermal could soon be the hottest new thing in the United States energy mix. The naturally clean energy source has traditionally enjoyed broad bipartisan support in the United States, which is an increasingly impressive feat for any item of legislative interest. But while geothermal has a lot of things going for it – zero emissions, constant productivity – but it

Nuclear nerds needed: Big pay awaits

October 3, 2024

(Oil & Gas 360) – A talent deficit may be the biggest drag on the momentum behind a global nuclear resurgence as the technology is increasingly recognized as an efficient and proven way to produce reliable emissions-free electricity. A similar talent dearth has long been an oil and gas industry topic and potential threat to the United States’ dominance in

Biden administration grants first LNG export approval post-ban to New Fortress Energy’s Fast LNG project

September 4, 2024

World Oil (Bloomberg) – The Biden administration granted the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) export license since a federal court overturned a temporary moratorium on issuing permits to ship the fuel. The U.S. Energy Department granted a five-year license Tuesday to Wes Edens’ company New Fortress Energy Inc., which is developing the small-scale LNG export plant known as Fast LNG

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