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Oil & Gas Trade

U.S. Oil Exports to China Soar 139% in July

U.S. crude oil exports to China grew by 139 percent on the year in July thanks to bargain hunting among Chinese buyers, making the U.S. the fifth-largest suppli…

United States

ESA Wants to See 100 GW of Energy Storage in the United States by 2030

The U.S. Energy Storage Association today issued an expanded vision for energy storage: 100×30: Enabling the Clean Power Transformation.

Power Construction

California’s Renewable Energy Conundrum

Amid a heatwave in the West, the largest U.S. solar state, California, is grappling with power issues and with keeping its electricity grid stable as demand exc…

Energy Storage Battery

LS Power Energizes World’s Biggest Battery, Just in Time for California’s Heat Wave

Gateway Energy Storage heralds the arrival of a new era of mega-batteries on the U.S. grid.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Trump Administration Looks at Allowing Longer Extensions to Remote Offshore Wells

The U.S. government is considering changes to policies for oil companies operating in the offshore Gulf of Mexico that might allow existing platforms to lengthe…

Gas power plant

Natural Gas Leads US Power Generation in H1

Cheaper U.S. natural gas prices helped the U.S. Lower 48 states to increase gas-fired power generation by 9% year-on-year in the first half of 2020.

United States

Solar Modules with Gass-Enameled Steel Backs

U.S.-based Toledo Solar has secured a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct research on lighter, steel-backed solar modules.

Oil & Gas Trade

Russia's Oil Product Exports to the U.S. Jump to 16-Year High

Russia's exports of petroleum products to the United States more than doubled in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year.

United States

Sasol Sees Loss With $6.3 Billion in Writedowns, Oil Slump

Sasol Ltd. said it will swing to a full-year loss per share after writedowns on U.S. chemical assets contributed to 112 billion rand ($6.3 billion) of charges a…

Geothermal Power Plant

$7.2m DOE Grant to Fund Geothermal Exploration at Cornell University

Announced last week, the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded funding of around $28 million to 5 projects on various elements of geothermal development and tec…

Saudi Arabia

Oil Rises on Saudi Aramco's Upbeat Demand View

Oil prices climbed on Monday, supported by Saudi optimism about Asian demand and an Iraqi pledge to deepen supply cuts, although uncertainty over a deal to shor…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

U.S. Rapidly Shutting Coal in Favour of Natural Gas

Since 2010, utilities have retired or announced the closure of more than 500 coal-fired power plants in the U.S.

Oil & Gas Trade

U.S. Sends Crude Oil To World’s Top Exporter Saudi Arabia

The U.S. sent in June its first crude oil shipment to Saudi Arabia since the ban on crude export was lifted in 2015, which was also the first shipment since one…

Oil & Gas Trade

US Firm Secures Oil Deal with US-Backed Forces in Syria

A U.S. company has reportedly reached a deal with Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria to develop and export crude oil in areas under their control in the…

Biobattery

Department of Energy Announces $97 Million for Bioenergy Research and Development

The U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development.