Iranian oil minister announced on Thurs. that the country’s petrochemical income is expected to reach $25 billion at the end of the next Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2022), Trend reports citing Mehr. According to Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Iran could earn $11 billion of revenues in the first boom of …
Read More »UAE Sees Gradual Oil Demand Recovery in 2021
The United Arab Emirates is optimistic about a recovery in oil demand in 2021, but says it won’t be immediate. Rollout of coronavirus vaccines and improvement in ties between the United States and China are likely to improve demand for oil, Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei told Sky News Arabia. “Recovery …
Read More »Samsung Wins W815b Order to Build 4 LNG Ships from Africa
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s second-biggest shipbuilder by orders, said Wednesday it has won a 815 billion-won ($734 million) order to build four liquefied natural gas ships for an African customer. Samsung Heavy plans to supply the ships by May 2024, the company said. Since Monday, the company has …
Read More »Gazprom, Turkish Partners Discuss Using TurkStream to Supply Gas to more of Europe
Russian energy giant Gazprom is currently in talks with its Turkish partners to carry natural gas deliveries via the TurkStream pipeline to more European markets. “We are now in talks on the issue with our Turkish colleagues,” said Elena Burmistrova, chief executive of the Russian holding’s export arm, Gazprom Export, …
Read More »2020: A Year of Crisis, Crossroads, and Alternative Histories
There is an alternative history to 2020. It was the year the world’s largest polluter pledged to fully decarbonise its economy within 40 years. The year voters in the planet’s pre-eminent superpower rejected a racist, misogynist, climate denier in favour of a man who pledged to engineer a net zero …
Read More »Iran, Azerbaijan Discuss Oil Market Developments
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh met Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov in Tehran on Tuesday night to discuss the recent developments in the region and the global oil market, Shana reported. Speaking in the meeting, Zanganeh underlined Azerbaijan’s positive role as one of the members of the alliance between …
Read More »Nord Stream 2 Priority Project for Russia, Its Implementation Going Ahead
The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a priority project for Moscow, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS, adding that Russia is going ahead with its implementation. “That is a priority project and we are going ahead with its implementation,” he said.
Read More »2020: A Year of Crisis, Crossroads, and Alternative Histories
There is an alternative history to 2020. It was the year the world’s largest polluter pledged to fully decarbonise its economy within 40 years. The year voters in the planet’s pre-eminent superpower rejected a racist, misogynist, climate denier in favour of a man who pledged to engineer a net zero …
Read More »Rumor: Apple will Start Production of Its Self-Driving Car by 2024
Apple is moving forward with its electric self-driving car technology after all, and will start production in 2024, according to a report from Reuters. Apple plans to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own battery technology. Apple first started to design its own vehicle way back in 2014, …
Read More »China to Abolish Access Restrictions on Foreign Investment in Energy Sector
China will fully lift access restrictions on foreign investment in coal, oil, gas, power generation, excluding nuclear, as well as the new energy businesses, according to a sector white paper released on Monday, reported Reuters. Separately, a top energy official told reporters that recent power shortages in some Chinese regions …
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