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Natural Gas

IOG Starts Gas Production from Another Saturn Banks Field

UK-North Sea-focused oil and gas firm IOG on Wednesday confirmed first gas production from the Elgood field, part of Phase 1 of its Saturn Banks Project.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Nigeria’s Rig Count up as OPEC Warns of Uncertainty from Impact of Ukraine Conflict

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has kept its key oil market projections for 2022 unchanged, but it expects to adjust the forecasts in t…

Coal Mine

Balkan States Say Supply Security more Pressing than Ditching Coal

A surge in power costs and concerns about reliance on Russian energy have prompted Balkan utilities to reassess plans to shut down coal-fired power plants, desp…

Crude Oil

Oil PSUs Readying to Buy Discounted Russian Crude

Companies would make the move in a day or two after they achieve clarity on insurance, freight and payment for the Russian oil in view of the Western sanctions …

Crude Oil

IEA: 3 mbpd of Russian Oil may not Reach Market from April

Rising commodity prices and sanctions on Russia "are expected to appreciably depress global economic growth" and impact inflation, said the Paris-based IEA, off…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Japan's Fukushima Earthquake Shuts Dozen Power Plants, Sendai, Chiba Refineries

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred offshore Fukushima in northeastern Japan late March 16, shutting a dozen coal, gas and oil-fired power plants along with the…

Hydrogen Project

Spain Gets its First Industrial Renewable Hydrogen Plant in Mallorca

Spanish Vice President Teresa Ribera was in Lloseta for the inauguration of the new facility.

Thermal Coal

India Looks to Russia to Solve the Energy Crisis Moscow Created

​Can Russia rescue India from the high energy prices caused by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine?

Electric Car

Tesla Raises Prices of EVs as Supply Chain Worsens

The crisis in Russia and Ukraine has led to key materials in EV production rising by up to 250%.

Nuclear Power Plant

Belarus Grid Supplying Electricity to Chernobyl: Local Authorities

Belarus is supplying electricity to Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, local Belarusian authorit…

SMR

Ukraine, Climate, SMRs: EU and IAEA Nuclear Talks

The eighth European Union-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Senior Officials Meeting discussed opportunities to deepen cooperation in a range of areas, …

Nuclear Reactor

Newcleo, ENEA to Cooperate on Advanced Reactors

UK-based innovative reactor developer Newcleo has signed a framework agreement with ENEA - the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustaina…

Electric Car

China: BYD Follows In Tesla Footsteps By Raising Car Prices

Tesla's recent price increases attracted a lot of attention, but the rises are not exclusive to Tesla.

Electric Car

Volkswagen to Launch all-Electric Mid-Size Sedan in 2023

Hot on the heels of the ID.Buzz electric microbus debut, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has let drop that the German carmaker will launch a new mid-sized electric…

PV Moisture-Wicking Tech Gives New Meaning to “Solar Farm”

Researchers at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology now report a more sustainable and low-cost solution to produce enough water fr…