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Oil&Gas Drilling

Australian Offshore Oil Exploration Well Imminent for SapuraOMV

The Malaysian-Austrian joint venture company SapuraOMV Upstream will spud early next month the Kanga-1 oil exploration well offshore Western Australia.

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Looks at Extending Operational Life of Sizewell B

EDF has unveiled plans to extend the operational life of the Sizewell B power station by at least 20 years.

LNG

U.S. Gas Storage Emptied by Exports to Europe and Asia

U.S. gas prices have climbed to their highest level in more than a decade as strong demand from overseas has emptied storage and left inventories well below ave…

Nuclear Power Plant

Britain’s Torrid Love Affair with Nuclear Power Continues

Nuclear energy may well be a key part of the UK’s energy security, but establishing who carries the financial risk of such a high-cost venture is of the utmost…

Destination Earth: Digital Replica of the Planet to Help Tackle Climate Change

Supported with an initial €150m, it aims to help monitor, model and predict natural and human activity as well as develop and test scenarios for more sustainab…

ClearWELL Enters Geothermal Market

Aberdeen-based ClearWELL have stepped into the geothermal energy market for the first time to answer a growing cross-sector demand for its chemical-free, electr…

Electric Car

Graphite Is the New Material on the Block for EV Battery Production

Graphite is the most stable form of carbon, which most people associate with pencil lead but it has potential as material for anodes in batteries as well.

Coal Mine

Climate Impact From China’s Coal Push Visible From Space

China’s increased reliance on coal to combat an energy shortage was never going to bode well for its ambitions to cut planet-warming emissions.

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…

Coal Production

New Coal Mine Projects Seen Swelling Global Methane Emissions by a Fifth

Global methane emissions from the extraction of coal could rise by as much as 21.6% if all new mining projects now under development go into operation

Hydrogen Production

Has Russia Thwarted Its Hydrogen Future?

The hydrogen economy goes well beyond the production and export of low carbon hydrogen to encompass technology covering the entire hydrogen value chain — an ar…

Solar thermal

Convert Oil Wells to Solve the Solar Storage Problem

The odd coupling of oil wells and solar may lead to large-scale, long-term solar storage.

EV Technology

Interest in Electric Aircraft Grows as NASA Nears Test of X-57 Maxwell

NASA is planning its first crewed test flight of an all-electric plane, the X-57 Maxwell test aircraft, in the next few months as interest in electric aircraft …

Electric Car

Tesla Hikes Price of Long Range Model 3 and Model Y in US, China

Electric vehicle giant Tesla has lifted its car prices, again – this time of the US Model Y SUV and Model 3 Long Range sedan by $US1,000 each, as well of some …

World’s most Advanced Oil Rig Commissioned at ONGC Well in Bhimavaram

As the energy prices soar, the advanced rigs are very crucial for the Indian energy sector to drill oil and gas wells faster to increase the production for d…