Oil & Gas Trade

Azerbaijan's SOCAR Says BP to Cut Oil Output by 76,000 Bpd in May-June

​ Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR said on Thursday that BP, which leads a number of big energy projects in the former Soviet country, will cut its oil…

Oil Price

Australia's Woodside Sees Low Oil Prices into 2021

Australian independent Woodside Petroleum expects low oil prices to persist for the rest of 2020 and into next year.

Solar Power for Home

COVID-19 to Accelerate Solar Adoption Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-saharan Africa is accelerating the adoption of solar power.

Solar Technology

New Material Processing Steps Significantly Improve Operational Stability of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

Silicon has long been the conventional material of choice for solar cells, which convert energy from the sun into electricity. However, because light absorption…

Wind Farm

Vattenfall Green Lights Its Largest Onshore Wind Farm in the UK

Vattenfall enters a partnership with Greencoat UK Wind and gives the green light to the construction of South Kyle.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Fenja, Neptune's First Operated Development Project on the Norwegian Shelf

On April 28, Neptune Energy announced the drilling campaign on the Fenja field is now underway.

Energy Storage Battery

SK Innovation to Additionally Invest US$727 Mil. to Build 2nd EV Battery Plant in U.S.

SK Innovation has decided to invest US$727 million to build a second electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Georgia, the United States.

Coal Production

Coal Exit Plans on the Rise in Asia

Lenders could follow after Mizuho's move to shun financing of coal-fired power.

Coal Production

Coal Generation in Australia's NEM Fell by 1.11GW in Q1

A surge in power outages in February and March in New South Wales drove the decline.

Oil & Gas Trade

Belarus Buys First Oil from Saudi Arabia: Refiner Belneftekhim

Belarus, long dependent on Russian oil, has bought its first barrel of crude from Saudi Arabia.

Crude Oil

Oil Major Chevron Could Be Forced To Cut Oil Production In Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is in talks with the companies operating its two sizeable offshore oil projects to reduce total output by 22 percent in compliance with the latest OP…

SMR

Holtec SMR to Use Commercially-Available Framatome Fuel

The selection of Framatome's widely consumed fuel has substantially reduced the majority of the first-of-a-kind-engineering for the fuel system, Holtec said.

Nuclear Policy

NGOs Demand Place for Nuclear in EU Taxonomy

A group of more than 100 scientists and environmentalists have written to the European Commission calling for a "timely and just assessment" of nuclear energy i…

Nuclear Power Plant

Finland Performs Remote Inspection of New Nuclear Plant Project

Finnish nuclear regulator STUK has carried out a scheduled inspection of RAOS Project Oy - a subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom - via Skype, in line with social dis…

Energy Transition

Invest in Nuclear for a Clean Economic Recovery

"Governments need to take urgent action to ensure that the recovery from the economic effects of the coronavirus brings long-lasting good," World Nuclear Associ…