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Oil & Gas Trade

Global Oil Demand Will Surge to Record This Year as China Reopens, Iea Says

A drilling platform at Norway's giant offshore Johan Sverdrup field.Global oil demand will surge to a record this year following the end of coronavirus rest…

Ammonia

Japan’s Largest Power Generator Signs Deals in Pursuit of Ammonia for Coal Power Plant Co-firing Project

JERA Co. Inc., Japan’s largest power generation company, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for potential collaboration for the joint…

China news

EDPR Sunseap Grows Solar Capacity to 130MWP in China

This includes 30 solar projects in various stages of development.EDPR Sunseap reported its solar capacity in China has reached a total of 130 megawatts-peak (MW…

Ammonia

Ammonia Co-firing Study Planned for Thai Thermal Power Plant

Hiromi Ishii (Director, Power Systems Project Engineering Department, Steam Power Maintenance Innovation (SPMI) Business Division/MHI) (1st from bottom right) a…

Tidal Energy

Projects, Pipelines and Power: Around the World’s Tidal Projects

Giles Crosse reviews the world’s tidal power projects, to ask what the future could hold for this as-yet-undeveloped energy source.Earlier this year, the …

Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Giant Aramco Says Windfall Taxes ‘Not Helpful’ and Could Stifle Decarbonization

KEY POINTSPolicymakers in a number of countries are calling for windfall taxes on major oil and gas companies, many of which saw record profits in the last year…

Solar Technology

Solar Proves Common Thread Among Zayed Sustainability Prize Winners

The opening ceremony of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023 was not short of inspirational rhetoric, but the winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize provided s…

Biobattery

USD Clean Fuels to Develop New Biofuels Terminal in California

USD Clean Fuels LLC (USDCF) announced its intention to build a new biofuels terminal in National City, California, that will have the capability to transload re…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Proposes Power Plant for Lunar Base

Scientists at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU) and the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM, part of the Kurchatov Inst…

SMR

French Bill on Accelerating Nuclear New Build Progresses to Senate

The French Senate has begun discussing a bill aimed at accelerating procedures related to the construction of new nuclear facilities near existing nuclear sites…

Nuclear Technology

South Korean Investment in X-Energy

X-energy of the USA - developer of the Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled small modular reactor (SMR) as well as TRISO advanced nuclear fuel - has announced a s…

Tidal Energy

US DOE Funds Ocean Energy Systems Research in Guam

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is allocating $400,000 in funding for research at the University of Guam to explore the potential for ocean energy systems…

Solar Power Plant

Australia Connects 3GW of New Capacity in 2022, Must Double That to Reach Renewable Target

Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park. Source: Iberdrola.The Australian Energy Market Operator has published its latest connections data, showing 2.9 gigawatts (GW…

Oil&Gas Drilling

UK Firm Chosen to Drill Well Offshore Isle of Man

Isle of Man-based Crogga Limited has awarded Aberdeen-based energy services company THREE60 Energy with a contract to drill an appraisal well this year in the C…

Energy Transition

UAE and Japan Sign Agreements to Support Energy Transition

The deals were signed at a meeting between Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and UAE special envoy to Japan, and Yasutoshi Nishim…