Iraq’s oil exports to the United States increased last week, according to data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Sunday. The EIA’s report showed that average US crude oil imports from nine major suppliers reached 5.787 million barrels per day (bpd) last week, an increase of 911,000 …

Australia looks to develop domestic green hydrogen industry and export clean hydrogen in a bid to become a global hydrogen leader, the government of one of the world’s top LNG exporters said on Friday. The Australian government today published its new National Hydrogen Strategy, which identifies objectives and actions to …

Several major oil-producing countries, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, are pushing back against talks on an agreement at the upcoming COP29 climate summit to mitigate the use of fossil fuels, negotiators from Western countries told the Financial Times. The group of oil-rich nations, which include Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Bolivia, …

A significant increase in EU electricity exports to Ukraine in the wake of Russian strikes on its grid has caused a surge in prices in Southeastern Europe, Greece’s Prime Minister has warned. In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cited by the Financial Times, Kyriakos Mitsotakis …

Libya’s crude oil exports are projected to fall by at least 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) in September, despite a modest recovery in production. Analysts at FGE have reported that Libya’s crude production has risen by around 200,000 bpd since the beginning of the month, now standing between 650,000 and …

The Grangemouth refinery, Scotland’s only crude processing facility, is set to close in the second quarter of 2025, its owners confirmed on Thursday, as the refinery has been struggling to compete with the new complex facilities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Grangemouth refinery, which was opened by …

Saudi Arabia is expected to increase its crude oil supply to China in October after the world’s top crude exporter cut the prices of the oil it sells in Asia, trade sources told Reuters on Thursday. The Kingdom is set to ship a total of 46 million barrels of its …

Chinese authorities have asked local carmaking companies to make sure key electric vehicle technology stays home even as they expand their manufacturing capacity across the world. The government is recommending carmakers to produce the key parts of the cars domestically and then export the so-called knock-down kits to the factories …

Turkmenistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday resumed work on the multibillion-dollar Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. The inaugural ceremony was held in Turkmenistan’s Salim Cheshma area and attended by the Taliban administration’s acting Prime Minister, Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, the chairman of Turkmenistan’s upper chamber of parliament and former Turkmen President …

Saudi Arabian energy giant Aramco has announced a series of new initiatives aimed at bolstering digital development within its operations. These initiatives, unveiled at the Global AI Summit in Riyadh, include partnerships and the deployment of an AI supercomputer. At the summit, Aramco signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Cerebras …