The number of geothermal power plants in Japan has quadrupled since the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, according to industry data. Despite the surge, showed in the Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering Society data, geothermal power accounts for only 0.3 percent of the country’s total power output because …

The top diplomats from Iran and China discussed upcoming nuclear talks in Vienna on Saturday and Iran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. Foreign Minster Hossein Amir-Abdollahian expressed hope to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in a telephone call that the US and the Europeans would “enter the negotiations realistically,” …

Saudi Arabia’s state-run energy giant, Saudi Aramco, has increased the official selling price of the Kingdom’s crude to Asian and US buyers. Global oil prices reportedly saw a smaller weekly loss as a result. In particular, Aramco increased pricing for its key Arab Light grade of crude for Asian customers …

Head of Iran Grid Management Company (IGMC) has said the liquid fuel storages of the country’s power plants are 71 percent full on average, which means that currently there is 400 million liters more liquid fuel available compared to the previous year. According to Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, the amount of …

Iran registered a monthly non-oil trade balance of $650 million in the seventh Iranian calendar month Mehr (September 23-October 22), the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced. Ruhollah Latifi put the monthly non-oil trade at 19.554 million tons worth $9.886 billion. The non-oil export was …

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Data showed, on Saturday, that Iraq’s export oil to the United States increased to 187 thousand bpd in the last week. EIA stated in a report, “The United States oil exports recorded 5.319 bpd in the first week of November.” The top three source countries …

U.S. President Joe Biden is considering a release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as a possible move to reduce gasoline prices in the United States, after OPEC+ ignored on Thursday calls for putting extra barrels on the market, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told Bloomberg on Friday. “The SPR …

The UK, Germany, Italy, South Korea, and Indonesia are among the 40 countries that signed a pledge to phase out coal. That seems a positive development for the climate. But on closer inspection, it appears that the global ‘coal to clean power transition’ commitment failed to rally the support of …

Current oil prices at around $80 per barrel adequately reflect the situation on the market, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told local TV Rossiya-24 in an interview after the OPEC+ meeting. There are a number of both bullish and bearish factors that will determine where prices will go in …

Saudi Arabia sent another bullish jolt into the oil market a day after OPEC+ ignored Biden’s calls for more oil, raising the official selling price of all the nation’s crudes to all buyers. Aramco increased pricing for its key Arab Light grade of crude for Asian customers in December by …