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Oil Price

Oil Prices Stay Firm As Demand to Outstrip Supply in H2

Oil prices climbed in early Asian trade on Monday, underpinned by the bright outlook for fuel demand growth in the next quarter, while investors looked ahead to…

South Africa

South Africa’s Draft Green Paper On New Energy Vehicles Is A Step In The Right Direction

In 2019, we wrote an article raising the alarm that South Africa’s inertia in incentivising the adoption of electric vehicles could make it miss out on the inc…

Natural Gas

Brightmark Begins Construction of Arizona RNG Project

Brightmark, a global waste solutions provider, has broken ground on the Caballero Renewable Natural Gas project, which includes the construction of new anaerobi…

Nuclear waste

Swedish Utilities Urge Decision on Final Disposal of Waste

The application, originally submitted to the Swedish government in 2011, also requests a licence extension for the intermediary storage of used fuel at Clab, wh…

Market Analysis

How Safe is Fukushima’s Waste Water Disposal Plan?

Three independent UN human rights experts have expressed concern over Japan’s decision to discharge potentially radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Offshore Wind Power

Ørsted and Eesti to Build 1-2 GW Baltic Offshore Wind Power Plant

Eesti Energia’s renewable subsidiary Enefit Green and Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted have signed an agreement which outlines a vision for the developme…

Cooperation case

BRI to Enhance Regional Connectivity, Bring Brighter Future: Pakistani Experts

Pakistani international relations and foreign policy experts have said during a webinar that the China-proposed BRI will enhance regional connectivity and bring…

Philippines Ready To Claim Oil Resources With Military

The disputed South China Sea may soon see an escalation in tensions over oil drilling rights between China and the Phillippines

Hydropower Plant

Energy Ministry to Start Building Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project from Next FY

The Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation has planned to start the construction of Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project from the next fiscal year, desp…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Chinese Semi-Sub Becomes the World’s First Rig to get DNV’s Smart Notation

A semi-submersible drilling rig from China Merchant Heavy Industry, SHEN LAN TAN SUO, has become the world’s first offshore unit to receive DNV’s Smart notati…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Texas Regulator Issues Nearly 800 Drilling Permits

The Railroad Commission of Texas reported late last week that it issued a total of 798 original drilling permits in March 2021, which amounts to 54 more permits…

Wind Turbine

Samsung Shipyard Acquires Independent Technologies for Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

Samsung Heavy Industries, a major shipbuilder in South Korea, has acquired original technologies for the construction of a wind turbine installation vessel feat…

Hydrogen Project

Nuclear Plants could be the ‘Perfect Component’ for Green Hydrogen Production

Clean energy technology company AES-100 is investigating whether hydrogen production could, under the right conditions, offer a solution for US and European nuc…

Nuclear Power Plant

How Bill Gates’ Company TerraPower is Building Next-Generation Nuclear Power

When Bill Gates started learning about nuclear power innovation, “I was skeptical, but also intrigued,” he wrote on his Gates Notes blog in 2019.

Geothermal Power Plant

Australian Firm’s Mission to Repurpose North Sea Platforms for Geothermal Energy

An Australian company says its “unique” technology could lead to oil and gas rigs in the UK North Sea being repurposed as key infrastructure for geothermal en…