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United States

US Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Sale Draws $82.7 Million in High Bids

Aug. 12 — The Trump administration’s latest sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico attracted nearly $82.7 million in high bids on Wednesday…

United Kingdom

UK Grants Cornish Lithium £7.2 Million for Cross Lanes Geothermal Lithium Project

Cornish Lithium has secured a £7.2 million grant from the UK Government’s DRIVE35 programme to support drilling, testing and demonstration work at its Cross L…

Denmark

Vattenfall Wins Danish Tender for Hesselø and North Sea I Mid Offshore Wind Projects

Vattenfall has been awarded the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind projects in Denmark’s latest offshore wind tender, expanding the company&…

France

PNE Group Wins French Tender for 22 MW Oinville-Saint-Liphard Wind Farm

PNE Group has secured a success in the latest French wind power tender, with its Oinville-Saint-Liphard wind farm selected among 39 awarded projects.The tender,…

Austria

Vienna Geothermal Test Exceeds Expectations, Could Heat 25,000 Homes

Wien Energie and OMV have reached a major milestone in their deep geothermal project in Aspern, bringing Vienna closer to year-round, climate-neutral heat gener…

Gas turbine engine

US lab’s rotating detonation engine breakthrough could boost gas turbine efficiency

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have designed and tested a key component for rotating detonation engines (RDEs), an emerging com…

China

Xudabao Nuclear Plant: Unit 3 Passes Hot Tests, Unit 2 Vessel in Place

Hot functional tests have been completed at unit 3 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning Province ahead of the reactor's start up, whil…

Germany

GE Vernova announces new wind turbine orders from BBWind and Greenvolt Power in Germany

GE Vernova’s Wind segment announced on April 23 that it has secured agreements to supply 71.5 MWs of onshore wind turbines to BBWind and Greenvolt Power f…

United States

USA Rare Earth buys Brazil's Serra Verde for $2.8 billion

USA Rare Earth said on April 20 it will buy Brazilian rare earths miner Serra Verde in a ‌cash-and-stock deal worth $2.8 billion, the latest in a string of…

Greece

ExxonMobil, Energean to sign contract for first test gas drilling off Greece in years

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil, Energean and Helleniq Energy will sign ​a contract on April 14 with ‌Stena Drilling to start exploratory drilling in a western Gree…

United Kingdom

Pulsar Fusion achieves first plasma in nuclear fusion rocket test

A team of British scientists has achieved the first ever plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket, marking a major milestone towards a new era of interste…

CCS

IKM Testing to gauge pipeline for first offshore CCS project in UK

North east Scotland-based IKM Testing UK has been appointed to deliver pipeline pre-commissioning services for the UK’s first offshore carbon capture and …

Philippines

President announces successsful drill, test of second Malampaya well

President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on March 26 announced that the Camago-3 well has been successfully drilled and tested, producing up to 60 mill…

Nuclear Reactor

Aalo completes assembly of experimental reactor

Aalo Atomics has held a ceremony to unveil its completed Critical Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company said it expects the reactor to achi…

United States

Google Inks Deals with Five US Utilities to Cut Data Center Power Use at Peak Demand

Google said on Thursday it has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities across states from Arkansas to Minnesota to reduce its electricity consumptio…