China on Tuesday released its first national guideline for the development of industrial standards for the production, storage, transport and use of hydrogen energy. According to the World Economic Forum’s latest white paper, China is the largest producer and consumer of hydrogen globally, but less than 0.1 percent of the …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced Tuesday that Russia and South Korea will soon start building nuclear power plants in the country. Addressing the 2nd G-25 Africa Coffee Summit, which is being attended by leaders and delegates from 25 African coffee-producing nations at Speke Resort Hotel in Munyonyo in the capital …

China’s crude oil imports in July fell 18.8 per cent from the previous month to the lowest daily rate since January, customs data showed on Tuesday, as major exporters cut back overseas shipments and domestic stocks continued to build. Crude shipments into the world’s biggest oil importer in July totalled …

A surge in U.S. crude oil exports is changing the face of the global market and how oil is priced, with the price of U.S. crude gaining weight against other benchmarks. This is what traders and analysts have observed this year, as Europe became a major destination for U.S. oil …

Iran has invested the equivalent of $1.35 billion in its natural gas sector in the two years to July this year, according to the CEO of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Majid Chegeni said on Monday that Iran had spent some 680 trillion rials to expand its natural gas …

Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday after China reported a sharp monthly drop in imports in July, which reinforced demand fears, though that was offset by supply concerns from Saudi Arabian and Russian output cuts. Oil imports to China, the world’s largest oil importer and second-largest consumer, in July …

Wheat extended gains after Ukraine used sea drones to cripple a Russian oil tanker and a naval vessel, threatening a key export route for Russian commodities through the Black Sea. Top wheat shipper Russia moves most of its grain through the waterway and is in the midst of a second …

Last year, China emerged as the world’s clean energy champ, with the country accounting for $546 billion, or nearly half, of the $1.1 trillion that flowed into the sector as countries everywhere rushed to beef up their energy security. But those mammoth investments will do little to change China’s tag …

Total electricity produced at Iran’s only nuclear power plant after some 12 years of activity has reached 60 billion kilowatt hours (kw/h), according to the country’s nuclear chief. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said on Sunday that the electricity produced at the Bushehr Nuclear …

Ukraine has warned Austria that it does not plan to extend the gas transit contract, DW economic expert Andriy Gurkov said. He notes that the Ukrainian route mainly serves Austria, with some small gas volumes that ship to Hungary and Italy. Therefore, the Austrian OMV company has already reserved transit …