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Nuclear Power Plant

China Starts Building Second CFR-600 Fast Reactor

Construction work has started on the second CFR-600 sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron nuclear reactor in Xiapu County, in China's Fujian province.

LNG

China’s Sinopec Plans Record LNG Imports to Battle Cold Snap

Sinopec Corp pledged on Tuesday to maximise domestic gas productions and raise imports of liquefied natural gas to record rates as a cold spell hitting large pa…

United Kingdom

UK-EU Brexit Agreement – Energy Sector Business as Usual

Under the UK-EU ‘Brexit’ trade and cooperation agreement little if any changes are anticipated to the evolution of the respective energy sectors.

Hydropower Plant

China's Largest Pumped Storage Plant: Last Unit of Jixi Pumped Storage Connected to the Grid

On December 20, the last unit of the Jixi Pumped-storage Power Station in Anhui Province was connected to the grid for power generation, marking that all 6 unit…

Brexit

RenewableUK Calls for Future EU Interconnection Benefits

Framework for post-Brexit electricity trading will not be in place for 1 January 2021.

LNG

China Grabs Control Of LNG Infrastructure In Move To Bolster Energy Security

In recent months China has earned itself a prime spot in lots of energy headlines thanks to President Xi Jinping’s ambitious carbon curbing and clean energy go…

Brexit

Finnish-British Trade has Declined Before Brexit

Imports from January to September totaled 1.2 billion euros, a drop of less than 4%.

Energy Storage Battery

Yibin Tianyi Commissions a 20ktpy Lithium Hydroxide Plant in First Phase of 100 ktpy Plan

Yibin Tianyi Lithium—a joint venture of Canmax, CATL and Tianyuan Group established in 2018—has formally commissioned a 20ktpy lithium hydroxide plant in Yibi…

Crude Oil

Talos Continues Talks With Pemex Over Massive Shared Oil Discovery Off Mexico

Talos Energy, leading a consortium of foreign oil companies, discovered the large Zama oil deposit in 2015.

Brexit

Brexit Process Finally Ends in Deal

The United Kingdom and the European Union have agreed a narrow post-Brexit trade deal that will shape their economic relationship for years to come.

Oil Price

Oil Moves Higher on Brexit Deal, U.S. Inventory Draw

Oil prices moved higher on Thursday as news that Britain and the European Union had signed a post-Brexit trade deal, as well as a draw in U.S. inventory sparked…

Hydrogen Project

Castleton Commodities Backing Green Hydrogen Project in Europe

Castleton Commodities International LLC, an energy commodities firm, has announced that it is backing the first green hydrogen project in Europe co-located at a…

Biofuel

Canada Publishes Proposed Clean Fuel Standard Regulations

The government of Canada on Dec. 18 published proposed regulations for its Clean Fuel Standard. Final regulations are expected to be published next year, with t…

Natural Gas

PetroChina Strikes Big Gas Find in China Xinjiang's Junggar Basin

This marks another breakthrough in the state oil firm's natural gas development in the region, following a similar-sized discovery at Tarim basin in September l…

Cooperation case

Making the World's Energy Industry Clean and Efficient

SPIC's Mexican foray heralds commitment to add value and high-tech to power