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Oil & Gas Trade

OPEC+ Seeks to Defend Oil-Market Gains as Demand Outlook Darkens

OPEC and its allies have achieved the oil-market equivalent of a high-wire act: increasing supply even as demand remains depleted, without crashing prices.

Energy Storage Technology

Using Liquid Air for Energy Storage and Maritime Propulsion

Initiatives are underway in the UK to develop grid-scale liquid air energy storage, with potential for a mega-scale plant at a coastal location being able to pr…

Hydropower Plant

Neelum Jhelum Hits Milestone in Power Generation

The Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority has announced that its 969MW Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Plant has achieved yet another landmark.

Nuclear waste

TVO Submits EIA Programme on Very Low-Level Waste Disposal

Rainoil Limited’s newly built 8000metric ton capacity Liquefied Petroleum Gas tank, with fleet capacity of 40 trucks, has been launched, targeted at deepening …

Nuclear Power Plant

Leningrad NPP-2 Unit 2 Successfully Passes WANO Pre-Start Review

Experts of the World Association of Nuclear Operators Moscow Centre have completed a pre-start-up peer review of the Leningrad NPP-2 Unit 2.

EV Market

UGANDA: Kiira Motors Set to Produce 5,000 Electric Vehicles Per Year by 2021

Rwanda's state-owned Kiira Motors Corp. is working hard to begin producing 5,000 electric vehicles a year, including buses, by 2021.

Solar Power Plant

Afghan Power Company Signs MoU to Develop Solar Plant with PAL 4

The government of Afghanistan has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UAE-based PAL 4 Solar Energy for construction of a solar power plant.

Russian Federation

Russia Doesn’t Expect OPEC+ To Change Course

The OPEC+ panels will not be discussing next week any revisions of the ongoing production cut pact and are not expected to make any major decisions to tweak the…

SPI Goes Fully Virtual as Las Vegas Trade Show is Cancelled

SPI, North America’s largest solar industry event, will now be fully virtual after the organisers cancelled an outdoor exhibition rescheduled for October.

ADB Backs Maldives’ $151.13 Million Waste-to-Energy Project

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping the government of Maldives to develop a waste-to-energy plant.

Nuclear Fusion

Chevron Announces Investment in Nuclear Fusion Start-Up Zap Energy

Oil major Chevron has announced an investment in Zap Energy, a nuclear fusion start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor.

Wind Turbine

Opdenergy Completes $103 Million Financing for Two Projects in Chile

OPDEnerg, a company that specializes in the development, financing, construction and operation of renewable assets, has announced the closing of a $103 million …

United Kingdom

OGA Highlights the Importance of Hydrogen to Achieve Net Zero

The integration of offshore energy systems could contribute to approximately 30% of the UK’s total carbon reduction requirements needed to meet the 2050 net ze…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russian Institutes Develop Welding Quality Control Method for ITER

Non-destructive testing specialists at Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic Institute is to develop methods for checking the reliability of seams on components of the IT…

Coal Mine

India Approves 41 Coal Mines Amid Environmental Concerns

Opposition parties and civil groups in India have criticized the government’s proposed changes to the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), a legal framework th…