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Oil & Gas Trade

Iran's Foreign Minister Arrived at the G7 Summit for Surprise Side Talks

Iran's foreign minister flew in for side talks at the G7 summit on Sunday as host France ramped up efforts to ease tensions between Tehran and Washington, a dra…

Oil & Gas Trade

Is China Blocking Vietnam’s Access To $2.5 Trillion In Oil & Gas?

The United States has China of interfering with oil and gas drilling operations off the coast of Vietnam in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. This is …

Oil&Gas Drilling

U.S. Crude Oil Rig Count Plunges To Near 2-Year Low

The US oil and gas rig count fell sharply on Friday, decreasing by 19 for the week, according to Baker Hughes. The total oil and gas rig count now stands at 916…

Nuclear Power Plant

Control Room Launched at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japan's Tepco to Submit Decommissioning Plan Regarding Five Reactors

Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) will submit to a municipal official on Monday a plan regarding the decommissioning of five reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nucl…

Oil and Gas Technology

The Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline Dispute: Opportunity in an Arbitration

Fatigue and frustration aside, U.S. focus and engagement in Iraq remains critical to the national- and energy-security interests of the United States and its al…

Power Construction

It is Time for a Massive Public Takeover of the Nation’s Electric Grid

He held a town hall the same day he released a new climate plan, in which he declared that the days of investor-owned utilities—with their profit incentives to…

Solar Power Panel

Heat Is Actually Bad for the Performance of Solar Panels

Solar power has emerged as the dominant renewable source of energy in many places with a lot of sunny days during any given year.

Solar Power Plant

A Ground-Mounted Solar Project Billed as Saudi Arabia's Largest

A ground-mounted solar project billed as Saudi Arabia's largest to date has reached the finish line, and is now set to power the operations of a food and bevera…

Germany Continues to Rely on Hydrogen as Energy Source of the Future

At the beginning of August, the European Union (EU) announced that the funding for the “H2 Valley” project will not go to the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region…

Microgrid

Don't Follow One-time Disasters to Find Microgrid Opportunities

Don’t follow one-time disasters to find microgrid opportunities; look instead to areas with recurring power outages and businesses interested in resilience, sa…

Ameresco Sees The Growing Opportunity for Solar And Storage to Meet Customers' Holistic Energy Needs

Ameresco is best known as a commercial and industrial energy services company, or ESCO, competing against giants like Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls and a…

Wind Turbine

How Are Animals Protected From the Impact of Wind Turbines?

From bat-deterring acoustic whistles to advanced radar detection and a ‘kill list’ for Golden Eagles, Jack Unwin looks at five ways animal safety is being tak…

Nuclear Power Plant

Rosatom Insists 2-Reactor Unit is Safe as Tests are Planned in the Arctic

On Friday, three tugs will tow the Akademik Lomonosov barge out of Murmansk to begin a 5,000km voyage to a remote port on the other side of Russia’s Arctic coa…

Oil Price

US Refined Product Stocks Build Higher than Expected

Oil prices slipped on Thursday, paring earlier gains, weighed down by lingering worries about the global economy and bigger-than-expected builds in oil product …