The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has launched the spring 2021 edition of its training programme. Eligible students are now encouraged to apply for the virtual training initiative. IRENA Virtual Renewable Energy Training is IRENA’s response to the growing interest in renewables among young people. The programme aims to prepare …

China’s first domestically-built, semi-submersible deep-water oil production unit has been completed after 21 months of construction. The platform is now ready to set off to the country’s first deep-water gas field in the South China Sea. The gas field, called Lingshui 17-2, is 150 kilometers off the city of Sanya …

Global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas production dropped 10% in 2020 mainly because of lower output as opposed to concerted climate action, a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) found. Methane has more than 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide in …

Hydrogen is turning into the next media star after solar and wind. In its latest claim to fame, two spinoffs of German tech conglomerate Siemens are joining forces to advance green hydrogen technology by building wind-to-hydrogen systems to help decarbonize the global economy. Green hydrogen is touted as a solution …

Despite threats of new sanctions from the United States, Nord Stream 2 AG will resume construction of the Nord Stream 2 underwater gas pipeline, which would double the capacity of the existing undersea Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. Ture Falbe-Hansen, who heads the Danish Energy Agency’s press …

Turkey has invested 27 billion Turkish liras ($3.6 billion) on natural gas distribution since 2002, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. “Since the day we took office, investment in natural gas distribution across Turkey has reached a total of 27 billion Turkish liras,” Erdogan said via video link at …

It is barely two weeks old, but 2021 is already shaping up as another year of stunning ambition and growth for the emerging global hydrogen sector in its full spectrum of colours. The hue dearest to Recharge’s heart is, of course, green, and the renewable hydrogen sector got a huge …

The operator of Russia’s natural gas pipeline to Europe, Nord Stream 2 AG, has secured permission to continue work in the Baltic Sea and may finish one of the two branches of the route in the first half of the year. Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) said on …

Total will not renew its membership in the American Petroleum Institute (API) for 2021 due to divergences with the main U.S. oil lobby over climate policies, the French oil and gas supermajor said on Friday. For 2019 and 2020, Total found API’s positions “partially aligned” to its own, but some …

Iran’s non-oil exports to the Caucasus region will boom as Armenia is more interested in importing products from Iran rather than Turkey, a commercial official said. “Armenia’s interest in increasing imports from Iran instead of Turkey is considered as a golden opportunity for Iranian traders so that they should take …