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Oil Refinery

U.S. Oil Refiners, Pipeline Companies Expect Strong Demand for Rest of 2022

U.S. oil refiners and pipeline operators expect energy consumption to be strong for the second half of 2022, even though analysts and industry watchers have wor…

CCS

Carbon Storage: The Future of Residential Homes

Wood has countless uses, and trees store carbon. Some of that carbon is still stored after trees are cut down for wood products like lumber: A wood product cont…

Oil Price

Goldman Sees Strong Case for Higher Oil Prices Despite Negative Shocks

Goldman Sachs said the case for higher oil prices was still strong with current supply shortfalls well above its expectations in recent months, despite a recent…

CCS

Oil Major BP Drilling Appraisal Well in Texas for Carbon Sequestration

Oil major BP has begun drilling an appraisal well in Texas for its U.S. carbon capture and sequestration business, an executive said on Monday.

Pumped Storage

Bechtel Wins Work on Australian Pumped Hydro Facility

BE Power and GE Renewable Energy have selected Bechtel to support the planning for a new pumped storage hydro energy facility named Big-T at Lake Cressbrook in …

United States

US Launches Research Group to Grow Domestic Solar Industry

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more …

Wind Turbine

Siemens Energy Warns of Deeper Net Loss Over Russia Restructuring

Siemens Energy, which supplies equipment to the power industry, on Monday warned of a deeper than previously expected net loss in 2022, on a charge of around 20…

Carbon Emissions

U.S. Fuel Retailers Rail Against Green Aviation Fuel Tax Credit

U.S. fuel retailers are fighting the inclusion of a tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Democrats' $430 billion spending bill, arguing SAF is more…

Adnoc Distribution’s Second-Quarter Net Profit Surges 71% On Strong Revenue

Growth in both fuel volumes and non-fuel business of the company boosted revenue

Natural Gas

UK Investigates Sale of National Grid’s Gas Transmission Business, Report Says

Britain has launched an investigation under new national security rules into the sale of a 60% stake in National Grid's gas transmission and metering business t…

Carbon Emissions

Inexpensive Melamine Used to Capture Carbon Dioxide in Energy-Efficient Process

Chemists have used melamine to create an inexpensive and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide, an advance that could one day be scaled down and employ…

Novel Technology can Help to Tackle Climate Change

Northumbria University's Dr Shafeer Kalathil is among a team of esteemed academics behind the project, which uses a chemical process that converts sunlight, wat…

Hydrogen Production

NFE Enters Agreement with Plug Power for Green Hydrogen Plant

New Fortress Energy (NFE) has announced that it has entered an agreement with Plug Power Inc (Plug), a provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global gre…

European Consumers Want More Renewable Power to Ease Climate and Affordability Concerns

New research commissioned by Statkraft found that three quarters of the 18,000+ respondents say they’re worried about the negative effects of climate change, …

Carbon Emissions

Novel Photocatalyst Sheet Helps Curtail the Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Addressing the global energy crisis and moving away from a dependency on fossil fuels is key to combating climate change and thus moving towards a more sustaina…