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Energy Storage Project

Enfinity Partners With European Investor to Complete 486MW BESS Project in Italy

Enfinity Global, a renewable energy company based in the United States, has signed an equity and development agreement with a European investor to advance a 486…

Botswana

Botswana Enforces New 24% Local Ownership Rule for Mines

Botswana’s Ministry of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday that a new regulation has taken effect, requiring mining companies to allocate a 24% owners…

LNG

Argentina’s YPF, ENI Finalize Vaca Muerta LNG Deal

Italy’s Eni and Argentina’s state-controlled energy company YPF announced on Friday that they have finalized an engineering agreement for a major liquefied na…

Wind Turbine

Chinese Wind Turbine Maker to Invest up to $2 Billion in Scottish Factory

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Ming Yang Smart Energy announced on Friday that it will invest up to 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) to establish a wind turbi…

United States

Exxon Restarts FCCU at Beaumont, Texas, Refinery, Sources Say

Exxon Mobil has restarted the gasoline-producing fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) at its Beaumont refinery in Texas after a temporary shutdown earlier in th…

United States

Intel Debuts First Chip Built on 18A Process in Make-Or-Break Moment for Turnaround Bid

Intel, the US-backed chipmaker, unveiled new products and manufacturing technology on Thursday as part of its strategy to regain competitiveness. The company an…

United States

Port Freeport Receives New Super Post-Panamax Cranes

Port Freeport received two Super Post-Panamax Ship-to-Shore Gantry Cranes on 22 September, marking a major milestone in the port’s infrastructure expansio…

Oil Refinery

BPCL Secures Land for $11 Billion Refinery Project in Southern India

India’s state-run Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) will invest nearly $11 billion to construct a new refinery with a capacity of 180,000 to 240…

Coal Mine

US Postpones Wyoming Coal Lease Sale After Disappointing Montana Auction

The U.S. Interior Department announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration had postponed a planned sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming, just …

Brazil

Brazil’s Petrobras Set to Supply 20% of Country’s Demand for Nitrogen Fertilizers in 2026

Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras announced that it will be able to supply about 20% of the nation’s nitrogen fertilizer demand next y…

Nuclear waste

Holtec Walks Away From Nuclear Waste Project in New Mexico

Private nuclear power company Holtec announced this week that it will withdraw from its planned nuclear waste storage project in New Mexico, despite a June ruli…

China

Corn Production in China Continues to Grow

China’s corn production for 2025/26 is projected at 298 million tonnes, up 3 million tonnes from 2024/25, supported by stable plantings and higher yields.…

Metal

Titan Mining Announces $120M Financing Interest From Exim for Graphite Project

Titan Mining Corporation has announced that the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) has expressed interest in providing up to $120 million in financi…

Saudi Arabia

Songwon Announces Investment to Establish Production Facility for Polymer Additives in Saudi Arabia

Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd. (Ulsan, South Korea; www.songwon.com), a leading global manufacturer of polymer stabilizers, has announced a major investment to es…

United States

AMD and OpenAI Forge Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6GW of GPUs for AI Infrastructure

AMD and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, multi-generation strategic partnership, under which OpenAI will deploy six gigawatts of AMD GPUs to power its next-g…