The UK and France have signed a deal to increase energy security by shifting towards renewable and nuclear power. Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps and France’s Energy Minister, Agnes Pannier Runacher have signed the agreement, following the two nations’ longstanding partnership on nuclear power. French company EDF is leading the …

The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation board of governors on Friday backed the reappointment of Argentina’s Rafael Grossi to a second four-year term as director general, diplomats at the closed-door meeting said. The decision was a formality since there was no challenger, Reuters reported. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board approved …

Japan should stop perpetuating nuclear colonialism, and instead respect the sovereignty and self-determination of Pacific nations regarding the planned discharge of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a New Zealand sociologist has said. The social aspects and major country relations around Japan’s decision to release the radioactive …

The transportation of Kazakh oil through Azerbaijan will begin this year, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Roman Vasilenko said at a briefing, Trend reports via Kazakh media. “The transportation of Kazakh oil through in the direction of Aktau – Baku will start in 2023,” he said. The deputy …

PetroChina announced on Friday that it has completed drilling a well at a depth of 9,396 meters in Tarim Basin, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the deepest horizontal well in Asia. It marks the Tarim Oilfield entering a new phase of oil and gas exploration at a …

Russia is accelerating its exports of diesel to Saudi Arabia by both direct shipments and ship-to-ship transfers, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting trade sources and shipping data from Refinitiv. Using STS loadings, Russia is shortening the routes for tankers headed to Africa and Asia after Moscow is now banned from …

Latin America is set to become a global leader in renewable energy development by the end of the decade as a slew of major solar and wind projects come online, according to independent think tank Global Energy Monitor (GEM). But the region must overcome environmental, economic and social obstacles to …

Iran’s Oil Minister announced that Iran has reached new oil and gas agreements with Chinese companies. Javad Owji made the remarks on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the 16-inch Torbat-e- Jam transmission line project in the Khorasan Razavi province in the northeast adding that “We have defined various …

Iran’s gross domestic product (GDP) including oil grew 3.3 percent in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – December 21, 2022) compared to the same period last year, according to the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI). Based on the SCI data, the figure excluding …

BP chief executive Bernard Looney’s pay more than doubled to £10 million (€11.3 million) last year after the UK-listed energy major delivered a record $28 billion (€26.4 billion) in profits. The payout follows a tumultuous year in energy markets driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that led to historic earnings …