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Daily: UK gas prices increase slightly on lower temperatures, low storages
Brent crude shed toward $110 a barrel on Wednesday, declining for a second straight day as increasing oil inventories in the United States and recent pessimistic data fuelled worries about demand from the world's top consumer. U.S. crude oil prices were under pressure on worries about a prolonged pipeline outage in the Midwest.
read more... 04/04/2013
Daily: Crude oil prices mixed on concerns about demand, U.S. pipeline outage
Crude oil futures were mixed on Tuesday on concerns about demand and the possibility of a prolonged pipeline outage in the U.S. Midwest.
read more... 03/04/2013
Daily: Brent crude settles higher in choppy trading, while U.S. crude declines on pipeline leak
Brent crude increased over $111 a barrel in choppy trading on Monday as Saudi Arabia forecasted strong demand coming from Asia, while U.S. crude prices dropped as a pipeline leak in Arkansas threatened to increase the oversupply of oil in the U.S. Midwest.
read more... 02/04/2013
Ireland reached new record level of wind output
According to the Irish Wind Energy Association, Ireland has currently reached a record level of wind power output of about 1,540 MW, corresponding to about 36% of the demand, which should be enough to power with electricity about 1 million households. The record was achieved at the same time as a new all-island record was also set for energy generation, with levels reaching 1,917MW on the island of Ireland, which should be enough to power more than 1,246,000 homes. The statistics also show that the average wind contribution on this day was almost 40% of system require.
read more... 29/03/2013
UK received LNG from Qatar
UK has received a liquefied natural gas shipment from Qatar, because of dwindling gas supplies due to the unseasonably severe March weather which continues to put increasing demands on the National Grid. Two more shipments from Qatar are due in the coming week.
read more... 26/03/2013