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Oil & Gas Trade

Russia, Turkey Open TurkStream Gas Pipeline

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Wednesday opened the taps of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline, officially…

World's First System Using Solar Energy to Split Water into Hydrogen

Technion researchers have developed the world’s first system using solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen at two separate sites.

Energy storage technology

U.S. Department of Energy Launches Energy Storage Grand Challenge

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced the launch of the Energy Storage Grand Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commerc…

Energy Storage Project

Google Inks Huge Corporate Solar-Plus-Storage Deal in Nevada

NV Energy will provide 350 megawatts of solar and as much as 280 megawatts of battery storage for a new Google data center.

Offshore Wind Power

Siemens Gamesa Selected as Preferred Supplier for 2.6GW US Offshore Wind farm

Dominion Energy, a Virginia-based energy company, has selected Spanish wind turbine-maker Siemens Gamesa as preferred supplier for its 2.64GW offshore wind proj…

Nuclear Fuel

Scientists Exploring How Nuclear Waste from Berkeley will be Safely Stored

Work has begun on removing nuclear waste from Berkeley power station, 30 years after it was decommissioned. The disused Magnox generator, situated on the banks …

Oil & Gas Trade

China Opens Oil and Gas Exploration to Foreign Firms

China will allow foreign companies to take part in oil and gas exploration and production in the country, in what officials hailed Thursday (Jan 9) as a "major …

Nuclear Power Plant

Construction at India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Takes Step Forward

Kudankulam is one of the largest nuclear power projects in India and is eventually scheduled to have six Russian VVER-1000 reactors

Nuclear Fuel

Uzbekistan Signs U Supply Deals with Japanese Firms

Uzbekistan has signed contracts worth more than USD1 billion for the supply of uranium to Japan, Kun.uz reported yesterday, without stating its source. The cont…

Signs Show We've Passed a Global Warming Tipping Point In Australia's Burning Forests

As extreme wildfires burn across large swaths of Australia, scientists say we're witnessing how global warming can push forest ecosystems past a point of no ret…

Ammonia

An Easier And Greener Way to Create Syngas

Syngas (the term is short for "synthesis gas") is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gases. It is used to make ammonia, methanol, other industrial chemic…

Coal Power

Shutdown of U.S. Coal Power Facilities Saves More Than 26,000 Lives

The shutdown of scores of coal power facilities across the US has reduced the toxic brew of pollutants suffered by nearby communities, cutting deaths from assoc…

CCS

US Leads New Wave of Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment

As we ring in the new decade, it has become ever more apparent that the next ten years will be crucial to leaping on decarbonization efforts. Time is not on our…

Dubai's Logistics Firm Tristar Buys Land in Oman's Duqm Port to Expand Operations

Dubai's Tristar Group, an oil and gas sector-focused logistics company, acquired more than 11,000 square metres of land in Oman’s Duqm port as it expands its o…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Woodside Gets Green Light for $6 Billion Senegal Oil Project

Australian oil and gas producer Woodside has won approval from the Senegalese government to develop the nation's first oil project, clearing the way for final i…