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Oil Field

China's Changqing Oilfield Exceeds 60 million tonnes of Annual Output

Changqing Oilfield, China's largest oil-and-gas field, has produced over 60 million tonnes of oil equivalent of crude oil and natural gas so far this year to hi…

Oil Field

Saudi Arabia Makes Four Oil and Gas Discoveries

Oil was discovered in the Al-Ajramiyah well, northwest of the city of Rafhaa, with tests showing a rate of 3,850 barrels per day (bpd).

Electric Vehicle Battery

Future Material Demand for Automotive Lithium-Based Batteries

As the world shifts to electric vehicles to reduce climate change, it is important to quantify future demands for key battery materials.

Hydrogen Technology

Hydrogen Sensor is Inspired by Butterfly Wings

Photonic nanostructures found on the wings of some butterflies have inspired researchers in Australia to create a new and highly accurate sensor for measuring h…

Nuclear Power Plant

White House Paves the Way for Nuclear Reactor on Moon by 2026

On December 16, outgoing President Donald Trump, as a parting shot, issued the “National Strategy for Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion”

Oil&Gas Drilling

The ANH Approved the Assignment of Ecopetrol's 50% Interest to Shell

The ANH approved the assignment of Ecopetrol's 50% interest to Shell and the operation by the latter in 3 blocks off the Colombian Caribbean coast

Nuclear Technology

Rosatom Launches its First Additive Technologies Center in Moscow

Additive Technologies opened its first Additive Technologies Center at the site of the Moscow Polymetal Plant.

Energy-Eficient Building

DDEC Selects Developer for PROtech Project in Yabucoa

DDEC Selects Developer for PROtech Project in Yabucoa

Nuclear Power Plant

SMR Nuclear Power Plant to be Bult in Yakutia by 2028

ROSATOM and the Government of the Republic of Sakha signed an agreement on electric power tariff formation principles for the SMR power plant construction proje…

Coal Mine

VGK Starts Installation of Largest Main Coal Conveyor in Russian Federation

The object under construction is a complex of main conveyors, including reloading nodes and an overpass, consisting of three sections.

Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Nuclear Debris Removal Delayed by Virus

The removal of nuclear debris from Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant will be delayed by about a year, because the pandemic has set back development of spec…

Spent Fuel

Ukraine to Stop Sending Spent Nuclear Fuel to Russia

Ukraine plans to stop sending its spent nuclear fuel to Russia next year after opening a storage depot at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the state operator of at…

Nuclear Power Plant

Mochovce New-Build Project Receives Loan Boost

They and EP Slovakia BV have signed a new agreement that modifies some of the terms and conditions of the 2015 contract concerning the sale of the stake held by…

South Africa

AFRICA: AfDB Allocates $5 million to Renewable Energy Projects in the G5 Sahel

The "Desert to Power" initiative has just received a grant of 5 million dollars from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, managed by the African Development …

Smart Meter

Smart Metering in US Reaches 57% Penetration

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 2020 assessment of smart metering and demand response indicates continuing increasing penetration.