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Coal Mine

Coal Producers Announce Layoffs, Market Dismal

The Powder River Basin's coal workforce shrunk by about 6% Thursday with the layoff of 300 workers from three mines.

Crude Oil

How the U.S. Could Use Taxpayer Dollars to Save Oil and Energy Companies

The U.S. federal government is looking at "a whole bunch of alternatives" to support oil and other energy companies.

Invited for Electricity for universal service

Tenders are invited for Electricity for universal service

PNP Wins Contract for Hydroelectric Station Booms from Ontario Power Generation

​Pacific Netting Products (PNP) has received an order from Canada’s Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for the supply of its MultiFunction Boom at four hydroelect…

SMR

CNL, Moltex Collaborate on SMR Fuel Development

Moltex's SSR uses fuel dissolved in a molten fluoride or chloride salt, which also functions as the reactor's coolant and operate at atmospheric pressure.

Wind Power Project

US Developer Closes 170MW Colorado Wind Deal

​US company Leeward Renewable Energy has closed tax equity and construction financing for the 170MW Mountain Breeze wind farm in Colorado.

Combined cycle power plant

GE Completes Major Inspection at Russian Combined Cycle Plant

GE has announced that its major inspection of the Siemens’s 60 MW SGT-800 gas turbine installed at the Ufa TPP-2 combined cycle power plant—owned by Bashkir G…

Leeward Secures $162.9m Financing for Colorado Wind Farm

US-based independent power company Leeward Renewable Energy has completed financing for its 170MW Mountain Breeze wind farm located in Colorado.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Putin: OPEC+ Deal Should be Complied with by all Participants

The deal stipulates the oil production cut by 9.7 mln barrels per day in total in May-June 2020, by 7.7 mln barrels per day in July-December 2020 within the all…

Thermal Plant

Analysis of the Potential for Hydrothermal Geothermal Energy in Germany

A study conducted in 2017 looked at the hydrothermal geothermal potential of Germany with its conclusion recently presented in a webinar by Enerchange in German…

Oil & Gas Trade

Trump Pledges to Support Oil, Gas Industries Amid Oil Futures Crash

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed his administration to work on a plan to get funding to the oil and gas industries as a steep sell-off in oil fut…

China Joins the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme

The IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP) has announced that the People’s Republic of China has joined the TCP, bringing the number of contrac…

Oil Price

Argentina Plans Higher Local Oil Price to Protect Sector Amid Rout

Argentina is home to the huge Vaca Muerta shale deposit, the size of Belgium. It is thought to hold one of the world's largest reserves of unconventional hydroc…

Crude Oil

Azerbaijan Imposes Oil Cuts on BP-Led Fields

Azerbaijan's BP-led Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli project will have to cut output sharply from May for the first time ever as the country moves to meet its commitment u…

Thermal Coal

Sweden Exits Coal Two Years Early

The Nordic nation is now the third European country to have waved goodbye to coal for power generation. Another 11 European states have made plans to follow sui…