Gas

Energy Storage Project

Siemens Energy to Build Black-Start Battery Storage for Gas-Fired Plant

Siemens Energy will handle engineering, procurement and construction duties to build a battery-based, black-start generation system at a California power plant,…

Oil Exploration

Exxon and Chevron CEOs Discussed Potential Merger

Talks were "preliminary" and are not ongoing, but could be rekindled later.

Oil Field

Military Seizes Power in Resource-Rich Burma

The elected leaders of Myanmar have been arrested by the military, sending the resource-rich southeast Asian nation into a fresh political crisis.

Paris Climate Agreement

Australia Hints at Net-Zero Emissions Target by 2050

Australia has hinted that it may adopt a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050, moving away from its prevailing stance of achieving this in the secon…

Oil Field

Petrobras Inks Deals for Sale of Shallow-Water Fields

Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras is selling its whole interest in two shallow-water fields located in the Espírito Santo Basin offshore Brazil.

Power Construction

Sierra Leone Secures $50m Grant to Boost Access to Electricity

The World Bank board of executive directors has approved a $50 million grant from the International Development Association to improve access to electricity in …

Thermal Plant

SK E&C to Modernize Mubarek Thermal Power Plant in Uzbekistan

SK Engineering & Construction announced on Feb. 1 that it has won a US$600 million project to modernize and upgrade a gas-fired power plant in Mubarek, Uzbekist…

LNG Carrier

Demand for Safe Eco-friendly Fuels Rising, LPG-Propelled Ships Expected to Be Built

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on Jan. 31 that it approved the Korean Register of Shipping’s vessel inspection regulations regarding LPG-propel…

Crude Oil

Occidental Delivers World First Carbon-Neutral Oil

A unit of U.S. Occidental said this week it had delivered the world’s first shipment of carbon-neutral oil, or oil where emissions associated with the entire c…

Combined Heat and Power

GE Secures Equipment Contract to Power 300MW Plant in Senegal

GE announced today that it has secured an order to supply gas power generation equipment for West African Energy’s 300MW combined-cycle power project in Cap de…

Natural Gas

Energean Could Push Back First Gas from Karish to 2022

Oil and gas company Energean has informed that first gas from its Israeli fields could start flowing in the first quarter of 2022, instead of the current target…

LNG

Delta Offshore Energy Signs PPA for Vietnam Project

The plant is expected to be fully operational by 2024.

Net Zero Emission

Japan Energy Firm Inpex Sets 2050 net Zero Emission Goal

The move comes after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged to make Japan carbon-neutral by 2050 and with global oil and gas companies shifting away fro…

Oil Exploration

Colombia Aims to Sign 15 Oil Exploration Contracts in 2021

Colombia aims to sign 15 oil exploration contracts in 2021, Mines and Energy Minister Diego Mesa said on Wednesday, while setting the country's crude production…

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: Three Rounds of Tendering for 6.8 GW of Renewable Energy

The South African government is about to launch three qualification cycles for the production of 6,800 MW of renewable energy in the country.