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Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to release 400 million barrels between them after Iranian attacks slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The American share was 172 million barrels, the largest US release ever ordered, and Secretary Wright said it would take about 120 days to deliver.

The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.

Sable Offshore hat am 14. März 2026 den Transport von Rohöl vom Las Flores Canyon zur Pentland Station über das Santa Ynez Pipeline System wieder aufgenommen und damit eine Anordnung von Energieminister Chris Wright nach dem Defense Production Act (DPA) befolgt. Das Unternehmen erwartet erste Verkäufe bis zum 1. April 2026 bei einer Bruttoförderrate von 50.000 Bbls/d, was das inländische Rohölangebot auf dem kalifornischen Markt nach eigenen Angaben um etwa 17 % erhöhen würde.

DOE went back to the market on 1 April 2026 for a third exchange, this one drawn entirely from the Bryan Mound caverns outside Freeport, Texas. Bidders had until the following Monday, and a limited Jones Act waiver let them move the crude on foreign-flagged ships to get it to refiners faster.

DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.

Donna Geck, Richterin im Santa Barbara County, hat es abgelehnt, die einstweilige Verfügung aufzuheben, die Sable Offshore Corp. den Neustart der Pipelines ihrer Santa Ynez Unit untersagt, und damit erstmals das Argument des Unternehmens zurückgewiesen, eine Anordnung des Bundes nach dem Defense Production Act habe Vorrang vor kalifornischem Recht. Für den 22. Mai setzte sie eine Anhörung dazu an, ob Sable, das im März den Öltransport wieder aufgenommen hat, wegen Missachtung des Gerichts belangt werden soll.

Sable Offshore hat im ersten Quartal 2026 einen Nettoverlust von 197,0 Millionen Dollar ausgewiesen, nachdem das Unternehmen auf Anordnung des US-Energieministeriums nach dem Defense Production Act die Ölverkäufe aus der Santa Ynez Unit wieder aufgenommen hatte; zum Quartalsende standen kurzfristige Schulden von 956,3 Millionen Dollar einem Kassenbestand von 52,2 Millionen Dollar gegenüber.

After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.

First-quarter revenue rose 44% to $214.4 million and adjusted EBITDA rose 296% to $16.1 million, while $81.8 million of non-cash warrant and stock costs left a $79.6 million net loss. Backlog stood at $2.7 billion and the pipeline passed $14 billion.

B&W sold 12.4 million new shares at $18.50 each, raising about $230 million with the underwriters' extra shares, and Applied Digital bought about 540,500 of them. The money is meant to expand steam turbine and boiler production for AI data centre power plants.

Babcock & Wilcox is collaborating with TerraSpark on the TerraSpark Energy Campus near the Mount Storm power complex in Grant County, West Virginia, with an expected scope of four 400 MW supercritical boilers, full emissions controls and construction. The campus pairs a 1.6 GW coal plant with Mantel's carbon capture.

B&W's board authorised buying back up to $50 million of its common stock, starting after its second-quarter 10-Q, with no expiry date and subject to its lenders. The same day it called its last $61.4 million of 2026 notes for redemption.

Weekly Energy Department data published on 10 August 2026 put the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 298.7 million barrels, down 6.1 million in a week and the lowest reading in the EIA series since January 1983. The stockpile had held about 415 million barrels before the Iran war began.

Sable Offshore hat im zweiten Quartal 2026, dem ersten vollen Verkaufsquartal seit dem Neustart der Santa Ynez Unit, einen Umsatz von 137,1 Millionen Dollar und einen operativen Cashflow von 9,4 Millionen Dollar erzielt und Ende Juni rund 40.000 Barrel Öl netto pro Tag verkauft.

Revenue rose 130% to $319.7 million, $100.7 million of it from the Base Electron data-centre power project, and B&W swung to a $14.3 million net profit. It raised the top of its 2026 adjusted EBITDA target range to $105 million.

Babcock & Wilcox signed for Siemens Energy to start work on 20 steam turbine generator sets of 50 MW each, 1 GW in all, for its FastPower data-centre program, on top of the turbines already ordered for the Applied Digital project.

B&W redeemed all $61.4 million of its 6.50% Senior Notes due 2026 at full face value plus interest, so none of them remain outstanding. Its CFO said the company now has its strongest balance sheet in recent history.

NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.

Das US-Bezirksgericht für den Central District of California hat Kaliforniens Antrag abgelehnt, eine Anordnung nach dem Defense Production Act auszusetzen, die den Betrieb der Santa Ynez Pipeline von Sable Offshore vorschreibt; die Bundesanordnung habe rechtmäßig Vorrang vor den Bemühungen des Bundesstaats, die Leitung stillzulegen. Außerdem übertrug das Gericht die im Consent Decree geregelte Sicherheitsaufsicht über die Pipeline vom kalifornischen Office of the State Fire Marshal auf die Bundesbehörde für Pipeline- und Gefahrstoffsicherheit PHMSA.

Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

Google announced at least €13 billion for data centres in Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos and Vaala in 2027 and 2028, its largest single investment in Europe, with a 22-year nuclear power deal to extend the Loviisa plant.

Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on an approximately $130 million air quality control project for an unnamed US coal-fired power plant, starting engineering and long-lead purchasing, with its construction arm expected to install it. The plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

A coalition for AI data centers that throttle their grid draw when the power system is stressed, in exchange for faster and larger grid connections; its backers say flexibility could unlock 100 GW on the existing US grid.

Ein Qualifizierungsprogramm für Partnerprodukte, die NVIDIAs DSX-Referenzdesign für KI-Fabriken erfüllen – zum Start mit Batteriespeichern von Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution und Tesla sowie Kühlmittelverteilern von LG Electronics, LiquidStack und Vertiv.

Sable Offshore erwartet, dass die Plattform Hondo vor der Küste Kaliforniens im September 2026 wieder in Betrieb geht – als dritte Plattform der Santa Ynez Unit nach Heritage und Harmony. Hondo soll schwefelärmeres Rohöl fördern, wodurch der Schwefelgehalt des gesamten Feldes wieder auf ein normales Niveau sinken dürfte.

Tesla is expected to publish its third-quarter 2026 vehicle production, deliveries and energy-storage deployments on 2 October, after a 480,126-delivery second quarter; Q3 forecasts run from Goldman Sachs' 435,000 to a 456,000 Visible Alpha consensus.

B&W's third-quarter 2026 report and its 5 p.m. ET call, estimated for Monday 9 November from its pattern of Monday-evening calls; the company has not announced the date yet. The quarter will be measured against its raised $80-105 million 2026 adjusted EBITDA target.

Finland's Posiva began drilling the first deposition hole at the Onkalo repository, a step toward becoming the world's first facility to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel.

At 3.6 GW, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, sited over a shallow sandbank 130 km off the Yorkshire coast. Estimated date.

Constellation Energy is working to bring the former Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor back online to supply carbon-free power under a 20-year deal with Microsoft.

Lithium Americas peilt die mechanische Fertigstellung von Phase 1 des Projekts Thacker Pass für Ende 2027 an – eine Anlage für 40.000 Tonnen Lithiumcarbonat pro Jahr im Norden Nevadas.

At a planned 335 metres, Tajikistan's Rogun would be the tallest dam in the world. Estimated date.

A 2,200 MW underground pumped-storage scheme linking two existing reservoirs, meant to backstop Australia's renewables. Estimated date.

Tajikistan's Rogun Dam, a Soviet-era project restarted after independence, is targeted to reach full completion around 2029 as the world's tallest dam at roughly 335 metres.

Britain's first new nuclear plant in a generation, intended to supply roughly 7% of UK electricity. Estimated date, repeatedly revised.

A €23M EBRD-backed grant funds a seven-year project to relocate radioactive uranium tailings from Mailuu-Suu's most dangerous dam, away from the Fergana Valley's water supply.

The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.

EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it will build ARC, its first commercial fusion power plant, on a Dominion Energy-owned site in Chesterfield County, Virginia, targeting roughly 400MW of grid power in the early 2030s.

The world's largest tokamak, built by 35 nations in southern France, aims to show fusion can produce ten times the power it consumes. Estimated date.

ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.

ITER, the largest and most powerful nuclear fusion reactor ever attempted, built in southern France by 35 partner nations, has pushed its first scientific operations back to 2034 after years of delays.

Britain's second new-build nuclear station, a near-copy of Hinkley Point C intended to power six million homes. Estimated date.