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SMR

Panellists Address SMR Supply Chain Challenges

The commercial deployment of small modular reactors will bring new supply chain opportunities as well as challenges.

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Energy to Replace Natural Gas at Hospital in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Dutch news portal Gawalo has published an interesting article about efforts by a hospital in the Netherlands looking at replacing natural gas with geothermal en…

Crude Oil

Shell Set To Load First Oil From One Of Libya’s Open Ports

Supermajor Shell has provisionally chartered an oil tanker to load crude from one of Libya’s three open ports at the end of next week in what could be the firs…

Solar Power Plant

Total Buys 3.3GW Solar Portfolio and Signs World’s Largest Corporate PPA

Oil major Total has acquired a 3.3-gigawatt solar project pipeline in Spain and will be the offtaker for 3 GW, enough to power its European operations.

Energy Investment

Canadian Government Commits C$320 Million to Aid Offshore Oil Industry

Canada will spend C$320 million to support its offshore oil industry, which has struggled as coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions reduced demand.

Oil & Gas Trade

Iraqi Oil Ministry Denies Deal to Up Oil Exports

Iraq's oil ministry on Thursday denied a media report citing Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar as saying an agreement was imminent with the OPEC+ group to increas…

Market Analysis

Report Highlights Need for Nuclear Flexibility in Clean Energy Systems

As the growth of variable generators, like wind and solar, continue to gain traction around the world, it’s important to question the level of flexibility of a…

Coal Mine

VGK Starts Work on Conveyor Support Foundations

VGK has recently started work on the construction of the foundation as part of the project for the construction of a 23 km main coal conveyor on Sakhalin.

Biobattery

UK Opens Consultation on Green Gas Levy to Support Biomethane

The U.K. government has opened a public consultation an initiative that aims to scale up the production of renewable natural gas, also referred to as bioemethan…

Market Analysis

ConocoPhillips Sees Global Oil Demand Returning, Executive Says

U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips COP.N sees global demand returning to 100 million barrels per day and growing from there, with oil an "important part of the en…

Oil & Gas Trade

Iran Opens Navy Base At World’s Most Crucial Oil Chokepoint

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran opened this week a new naval base in a coastal town along the world’s most important oil chokepoint, the Strait of …

Russian Federation

Nuclear Icebreaker Arktika is Heading to Murmansk

On September 22, Arktika, the lead universal nuclear-powered icebreaker, departed from the completion embankment of the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg toward…

China

China's First Domestic-Support Deepwater Oilfield Cluster Begins Production

​China's first domestic-support deepwater oil and gas project, Liuhua 16-2 offshore oil fields cluster, has started operation after 30 months of construction. …

Portugal

Portugal and the Netherlands Sign Green Hydrogen Agreement

The transportation of green hydrogen from Portugal to the Netherlands will be explored thanks to a new memorandum of understanding signed between the countries.

Energy Transition

Shell and Microsoft Expand Partnership for Net-Zero Emissions

Shell and Microsoft have jointly announced a strategic energy and technology alliance to support each other in achieving net-zero targets.