In France, government support for renewable energies will rise by 25% in the upcoming 2021 budget to exceed a record €6 billion, the country’s ministry for ecological transition announced on Sep. 17. The financial injection will be aligned with the government’s longer-term energy roadmap, released in April of this year, …

BP is probably the first oil major that has made concrete plans for the end of oil — or at least the shrinking of its role. The company announced a big strategic pivot in August that would see it turn from an “integrated oil company” to an “integrated energy company”. …

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Mohsen Baharavand and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretary-General Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo in a meeting in Vienna on Saturday reviewed bilateral relations in the field of energy. The meeting was held on the occasion of the 60th establishment anniversary …

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has trimmed its 2020 oil demand forecast on Tuesday, citing caution about the pace of economic recovery from the pandemic. Oil prices slumped further below $40 per barrel on Monday, close to their lowest in over 2 months, as some oil firms like British Petroleum …

Amid growing ‘crude’ concerns, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) are preferring to keep their cards to the chest. After their virtual meeting last Thursday, the Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman underlined, ‘OPEC+ would take a pro-active and pre-emptive stance in addressing oil market …

The Government of India reportedly plans to shut 32 units across 12 power plants in the country as they have failed to meet emissions targets. The Financial Times reported that the units, which have a combined capacity of 5.019GW, failed to submit plans to meet the prescribed emission control norms. …

Turkmenistan on Friday announced that it intended to start building a gas pipeline from the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border to the Herat offtake point in Afghanistan. Turkmenistan also assured Pakistan of addressing its concerns over different issues pertaining to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Petroleum …

Five years after abandoning an ambitious multibillion-dollar offshore Arctic exploration program, Royal Dutch Shell is again proposing to drill for oil in Arctic Alaska — but this time, in a more modest fashion. Company unit Shell Offshore Inc., in an Aug. 27 application to the Alaska Division of Oil and …

The EU’s relations with Russia in connection with the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline are unlikely to improve in the future. Therefore, the approach to this project should be changed, said the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, reports the newspaper Les Echos. “Russia’s …

The B20 – which represents the global business community within the Group of 20 (G20) countries – and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have called on political and industry leaders in the global forum to seize the “unique opportunity” presented by the coronavirus pandemic to put in place policies that …