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Energy Storage Material

IEA: These Minerals Are Essential For The Energy Transition

​The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of global supply chains, including those of critical minerals essential for a number of clean energy t…

Shell Wants to Create a Green Hydrogen Hub in the Port of Rotterdam

Hot on the heels of last month’s announcement to become a net zero energy business by 2050, Shell has today revealed its intention to create a green hydrogen h…

Oil&Gas Drilling

PTTEP Makes New Oil Discovery Offshore Mexico

PTTEP and its joint venture partners made two successful deep-water oil discoveries in Block 29, offshore Mexico, with good quality reservoirs. Commercial poten…

Solar Power Panel

Approach Developed by Physicists to Increase Performance of Solar Energy

Physicists have developed an approach to circumvent a major loss process that currently limits the efficiency of commercial solar cells.

Thermal Coal

Anglo American Considers Spinning off South African Coal Operations

Anglo American, the diversified miner, prefers to spin off its thermal coal business in South Africa and list it in the next two to three years.

Renewable Energy Projects in India

Expressions of interest for Pre-feasibility Studies for Renewable Energy Projects in India.

Nuclear Technology

Westinghouse Electric Company Installs 3D Printed Part in Commercial Nuclear Reactor

A significant milestone for additive manufacturing has been achieved in the nuclear industry: a first-of-its-kind 3D printed component has successfully been ins…

Oil & Gas Trade

Why Russia Finally Accepted Deeper Oil Output Cuts

When Russia refused two months ago to join the deeper OPEC oil cuts, it was because Moscow found them unnecessary. Two months later, Russia agreed to cut quite …

Crude Oil

Equatorial Guinea set to Construct Modular Crude Oil Refinery in Punta Europa

The contract was awarded to Houston based VFuels Oil & Gas Engineering (VFuels),a full service oil and gas engineering, design, and fabrication firm that specia…

SunPower Bolsters Residential Solar Loan Programme with USD-1bn Partnership

SunPower Corp has entered into a USD-1-billion (EUR 919m) partnership with Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) that gives the Silicon Valley-based solar company a…

Oil & Gas Trade

Venezuela Oil Exports Climb As OPEC Agreement Kicks In

​While OPEC begins to scale back oil production to offset at least partially some of the world’s excess oil supply, Venezuela was busy ramping up its oil expo…

Local Company Seeking Permit for Geothermal Project at Noville, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

​Reported locally before the weekend, company Petrosvibri wishes to develop a deep geothermal energy project under Lake Geneva in Noville (VD), Switzerland. Th…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

India Investigating Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles in a Bid to Decarbonise Mobility

​In a first-of-its-kind project in India, the country’s largest power utility NTPC is inviting global Expressions of Interest to develop hydrogen fuel cell el…

Market Analysis

Largest Solar Project in Eastern US Progresses Despite Market Uncertainty

​Mega-solar projects topping 500 megawatts have cropped up in many regions of the U.S., but land constraints have mostly kept such behemoths out of the Southea…

Oil Price

Canada’s Oil Patch Struggles To Survive The Worst Recession Ever

Canada is likely going through its worst-ever recession, with more pain to come in May when the statistics authorities and analysts will have a fuller picture o…