After the Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) in the east of Russia, which is 66% complete, reaches its full capacity, Gazprom will a major player in the international helium market, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller said on September 23. At the GPP, the multi-component gas extracted from the …
Read More »German Minister Urges to Not Question Nord Stream 2 Completion in Light of Navalny Case
German Economic Affairs and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier on Friday opposed stopping the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline because of the situation with Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, adding that it is problematic to question future-oriented projects every two months. “It is problematic to question projects that …
Read More »UAE Re-Elected to IAEA Board of Governors
The UAE has been re-elected to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for another two-year period during the group’s annual general conference. The UAE recently activated the reactor of Unit 1 of the Barakah nuclear facility, the first Arab country to develop and operate a …
Read More »IEA: The World Needs to Build on Growing Carbon Capture Momentum
A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, launched at an event opened by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, shows carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) can play vital roles of both reducing emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere. After years of slow progress, technologies to capture carbon emissions and …
Read More »Russia Slams US Attempts to Forge Coalition against Nord Stream 2
Russia rejects US attempts to oppose the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project by forging a coalition of project opponents, Spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova noted on Wednesday. “We condemn calls for forging a certain coalition against the pipeline, wherein German and other companies have already made multi-billion …
Read More »Iraq Oil Minister Expects Deal to Up Oil Exports
Iraq’s oil minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar expects an agreement with the OPEC+ group to increase Iraq’s crude oil exports, state news agency INA cited him as saying on Thursday. The agency was quoting the minister’s comments to state-owned newspaper Al-Sabah. It did not give more details.
Read More »China Eyes Climate Battle Leadership with 2060 Carbon Neutral Goal
Chinese President Xi Jinping moved to seize the climate agenda from the US, vowing that the world’s largest polluter will go carbon neutral by 2060, a target hailed by environmental activists as a major stride forward. The goals, which included a pledge to reach peak emissions in 2030, are the …
Read More »EIA Sees Global Oil Market Balancing By End-2021
The OPEC+ production cuts and curtailments in the United States are set to help global inventories to continue drawing down for the rest of the year and most of next year, resulting in a relatively balanced market by the end of 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on …
Read More »Africa, the Undeniable Final Frontier for Oil
The pandemic has been devastating for the oil industry globally. Explorers suspended drilling, producers idled wells, Big Oil majors put up assets for sale. But the world continues to need oil, albeit lower amounts of it than a year ago, and it will continue to need it. Exploration is not …
Read More »The United States Is Building a Coalition against Nord Stream 2
The United States is building a coalition aimed at preventing the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will substantially increase the flow of Russian gas into Europe, the U.S. Secretary of State told German daily Bild in an interview, Oilprice analysed.. “From the US point of view, Nord …
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