Kavya Balaraman

The United States became a net exporter of crude oil to Nigeria in February and March, as crude demand on the U.S. East Coast slowed due to refinery maintenance and the Dangote refinery drove up Nigeria's demand for inputs, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a note on Tuesday.

Grid operators across the U.S. are revamping their forecasting methods, introducing reforms to power markets and streamlining interconnection processes to quickly connect more energy to the grid, as a potent combination of extreme weather and data center growth elevate power demand this summer.

The U.S. is poised to see supply shortages of 30% and 10%, respectively, of power and distribution transformers this year, as surging electricity consumption drives demand for power infrastructure, Wood Mackenzie said on Thursday.

(Reuters) -U.S. nuclear power generation is set to rise, analysts at Wood Mackenzie said, as surging demand driven by data centers strains grids across the country and a wave of tech companies sign deals to source power from the zero-carbon resource.

Morgan Stanley on Monday raised its Brent crude forecast for the first half of 2026 to $60 a barrel from $57.5, citing the decision by OPEC+ to pause quota hikes in the first quarter of next year and recent U.S. and EU sanctions on Russian oil assets.

Robust investment demand for silver, its inclusion on the U.S. critical minerals list, and a wave of momentum buying have propelled the white metal to a fresh record high, setting prices up to close out 2025 at more than double the level at which they began.

By Kavya Balaraman April 9 (Reuters) - Big Tech is reshaping the funding landscape for new nuclear technologies as it seeks to bolster

By Kavya Balaraman and Anjana Anil April 10 (Reuters) - The sharp hit to global oil production from the Iran war is poised to flip the oil