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Daily (09.10.2020): NBP gas for month-ahead delivery hit an almost 10-month peak on Thursday tracking higher oil and LNG prices
Crude oil futures hit their highest level in more than a month on Thursday as Hurricane Delta forces paralyzed nearly 92% of crude output in the Gulf of Mexico, while Saudi Arabia envisages postponing OPEC plans to boost output. The prospect of more production outages in the North Sea due to a workers’ strike added further support to oil markets. Hence, Brent crude for December delivery jumped by $1.35, or 3.2% to settle at $43.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, U.S. WTI crude surged by $1.24 cents, or 3.1%, to end at $41.19 a barrel.
read more... 09/10/2020
Daily (31.08.2020): European carbon prices jumped to nearly €30 on Friday amid French nuclear outages
Oil prices ended slightly lower to flat on Friday as Hurricane Laura, which hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, caused less damage than feared on refineries, allowing infrastructure to start the recovery process. Hence, Brent crude stagnated at $45.05 a barrel, while U.S. WTI crude lost 0.2% to end at $42.97 a barrel. However, on a weekly basis, Brent and WTI rose by 1.5% and 1.6% respectively, as investors shifted their focus from the storm toward the fragile rebound in consumption amid the pandemic.
read more... 31/08/2020
EDF extends Bugey 3 outage, stops other units (4.8 GW)
EDF has extended an outage at its French Bugey 3 (910 MW) reactor by 10 days to 10 June, while stopping other units for modulation, reducing total capacity by 4.8 GW, transparency data showed on Friday.
read more... 22/05/2020
France to see new reactor maintenance calendar in days
French utility EDF will soon present an updated calendar of reactor maintenance outages, after the previous schedule had to be modified amid the health crisis, energy minister Elisabeth Borne said.
read more... 20/04/2020
German reactor enters decommissioning
During the shutdown process, output from the 1392 MWe pressurised water reactor was gradually reduced by the stepwise insertion of the control rods into the reactor core. EnBW said this process - the same as that carried out prior to planned annual maintenance and refuelling outages - went "technically as planned and without any special features".
read more... 03/01/2020