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Energy Security

Rush to Contain Large Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico After Storm Ida

Clean-up crews and the US Coast Guard are trying to locate the source of an oil spill spotted in the Gulf of Mexico after deadly Hurricane Ida.

Crude Oil

Nigeria Struggles to Meet OPEC’s Crude Oil Quota

Despite requesting for a higher baseline in August, Nigeria failed to meet the existing crude oil supply quota allocated to it by the Organisation of Petroleum …

Oil & Gas Supply

Gulf Of Mexico Shut-In Production Rises To 1.7 Million Bpd

The amount of shut-in oil production in the Gulf of Mexico rose by 240,000 bpd between Wednesday and Thursday, to over 1.7 million bpd, the Bureau of Safety and…

Nuclear Fuel

US, Norway Work Together to Eliminate HEU

The MoU calls for downblending activities to begin in 2022 using Norway's existing infrastructure, followed by the eventual deployment of the DOE's Mobile Melt-…

Russian Federation

The Novovoronezh NPP: A Team of International Experts Completed an Operational Peer Review of Operating Power Units

From 13 to 27 August 2021, a group of international experts from the World Association of Nuclear Operators, headed by Maxim Dyrovaty, Peer Review Team Leader f…

China

Xi's Vision on Anti-Pollution Fight, Green Development

Xi stressed targeted, scientific and law-based measures in the fight against pollution while presiding over the the 21st meeting of the central committee for de…

Electricity Reform

Mexico’s President to Present Key Energy Reform This Month

AMLO limiting privatizations, prioritizing state entities

Crude Oil

Pemex Restores Oil Output Suspended Due to Platform Fire

Its has resumed 421,000 barrels per day in oil production and brought back online 125 wells following a deadly fire at an offshore platform on Aug. 22.

Solar Power Plant

Solar Park Under Construction at Chinese Fishery

A 50 MW unsubsidized solar PV plant is being developed by Chinese mounting system provider Chiko Solar at a fishery in China’s Jiangxi Province.

CCS

China's CNOOC Launches First Offshore Carbon Capture Project

As one of the auxiliary facilities at Enping 15-1 oilfield in the Pearl River Mouth basin of the South China Sea, about 190 km southeast of Hong Kong, the CCS p…

Wind Power Project

NM Wind Project of Historic Size Nearly Complete

Renewable power developer Pattern Energy is nearing completion of a mammoth wind project in east central New Mexico that, once fully operational in December, wi…

Crude Oil

Mexico’s Pemex Struggles To Restore Oil Output Lost After Fatal Fire

Mexico’s state-owned oil firm Pemex has restored part of the oil production suspended after Sunday’s fatal fire that killed seven people,

Oil Exploration

Chinese Oil Major Sinopec Announces Oil, Gas Discovery

China’s state-owned oil and gas major Sinopec has struck oil and gas at a field in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, Reuters reports, adding that the rese…

Oil Field

Iraq Approves BP's Plans to Spin off Rumaila Oilfield

Iraq's Cabinet has approved plans submitted by BP to spin-off the development of the Rumaila oilfield, the country's largest, as the oil company exits the count…

CCS

South Africa Aims to Bring Pilot Carbon Capture Project Online in 2023

Releasing around 470 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, South Africa is the continent's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and coal provides the bulk of…