Fossil fuel

Market Analysis

EIA Forecasts US Fossil Fuel Production to Reach New Highs in 2023

After declining in 2020, the combined production of US fossil fuels increased by 2% in 2021 to 77.14 quadrillion British thermal units.

Green Energy: Which Sources are the Most Sustainable?

Fossil fuels still supply about 80% of the world’s power.

Coal Trade

India’s Adani Group to start exports from Australia’s Carmichael coal mine

First shipment expected before end of year despite global pressure to phase out fossil fuel

Net Zero Emission

IEA Warns Coal Rebound Threatens Net Zero

Global power generation from fossil fuel is to hit all-time high of 10,350 terawatt-hours for 2021

Thermal Coal

HSBC Says It will Phase out Financing of Thermal Coal by 2040

HSBC Holdings is planning to phase out the financing of coal used for generating electricity by 2040, the latest bank to commit to ending support for the greenh…

Electric Car

Chinese Car Makers Mull Over Taking Lead in Thailand's EV Market

Driven by global zero emissions targets and Thailand's ambitions to gradually phase out fossil fuel cars, Chinese automakers are trying to shake a market that h…

Hydrogen Project

IEA: 'The Relative Lack of Demand for Green Hydrogen Makes Sector's Progress Uncertain'

The fact that H2 produced from fossil fuels is generally cheaper than renewable hydrogen — and that few buyers have been lined up to purchase the greener fuel …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Shanghai Port Test ‘World’s First’ Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Mobile Crane

The ‘world’s first’ hydrogen fuel cell mobile crane has been put into trial operation by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries as its transitions away from fossi…

Oil Refinery

Reliance to Use Gasification Unit at World's Largest Refinery to Produce Hydrogen

The move follows the company's decision to transition away from fossil fuels and tap renewables as its primary source of energy

Hydrogen Project

H2 Technologies to Contribute to Carbon Neutrality

A new UN Policy Brief shows that hydrogen technologies can contribute to carbon neutrality if the current production of hydrogen will shift from fossil-fuel to …

Oil Refinery

Refinery Closures About To Happen In Europe

Shell plans to end crude processing at the Wesseling site within the Rhineland refining complex in 2025 as the facilities are repurposed for non-fossil fuel fee…

Energy Subsidies

German Reactions to the COP26 Climate Summit Results

The UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow has heralded in the end of the fossil fuel era, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze shortly after the confere…

Coal Mine

U.S. Coal Industry Says Almost Sold-Out For 2022

U.S. coal miners are enjoying the surge in demand for the fossil fuel, with almost all of their production through the end of next year

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Construction on Vietnam's Vung Ang 2 Coal Plant to Begin in December

Vietnam will begin construction on the controversial Vung Ang 2 coal-fired power plant this December, a company spokesman and local media said on Tuesday, as th…

Natural Gas

Defining Moment for the World on Natural Gas: GECF Annual Workshop

The cleanest of all the fossil fuels has entered its most defining moment as the world gets back to the twin ambitions of economic recovery and sustainable prog…