Private Chinese refiners, who buy most of Iran’s crude, have recently scoured West Africa and the Middle East for supply unsold in previous trade cycles, as flows of Iranian crude have dropped amid higher prices and preparation for the incoming Trump Administration. China’s independent refiners, the so-called teapots, are key …

Germany might exceed 100 GW of cumulative solar capacity in 2024, as new projections from Bundesverband der deutschen Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW) estimate 17.5 GW in new PV installations. Germany’s renewable energy association, BDEW, said it expects 17.5 GW of new PV capacity in 2024, up from 15.3 GW in …

OPEC will likely remain committed to production curbs for yet another month, the energy minister of Azerbaijan told Reuters ahead of the group’s Sunday meeting. “OPEC+ could or couldn’t discuss oil output rollover at its next meeting. It is difficult to prejudge,” Parviz Shahbazov told the publication. OPEC has been …

Iranian Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi has announced that there are no power outages currently across the country as the electricity supply has been stable, and sufficient fuel has been secured to prevent any blackouts. During a parliamentary session on Tuesday, Aliabadi highlighted the significant differences between electricity production and consumption …

Global oil demand continues to surprise on the upside, BP Plc  Chief Executive Murray Auchincloss told the Energy Intelligence forum in London on Monday, saying that oil demand kept rising on average by more or less 1% each year, with BP predicting robust oil consumption for the next 5-10 years. …

The transition team of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is drafting an energy package to expand domestic oil and gas drilling on federal lands and offshore lease sales, in addition to expediting LNG export permits, Reuters reported on Monday, citing sources with knowledge of the plans. President-elect Trump has vowed …

Austria’s energy firm OMV has seized $241 million (230 million euros) of Gazprom natural gas deliveries for October as a means to recover the arbitration award, which prompted Gazprom to cut off supply, sources close to OMV and Gazprom have told Reuters. Earlier this month, OMV said that it had …

Kazakhstan continues to discuss the possibility of oil shipments via the Baku-Supsa pipeline, Almassadam Satkaliyev, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan, said in a report during the government hour in the parliament, Trend reports. “Discussions are underway regarding the Baku-Supsa pipeline. The pipeline has a capacity of 5 …

Researchers from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom have developed a residential ice-source heat pump system that uses repurposing existing gas pipelines to transport water for the ice-source heat pump’s operation. “Our heat pump demonstrates superior performance compared to all existing types, based on our claims. We have …

Lebanon has been facing an energy crisis for several years, with regular blackouts leading to an overreliance on diesel generators for power. This is largely due to years of misspending public funds and underinvestment in the country’s energy infrastructure. Now, there are concerns that Lebanon’s ongoing conflict with neighbouring Israel …