India is gearing up for an energy investing boom as Narendra Modi’s government courts foreign and domestic investments. India’s economy has been growing rapidly, recently overtaking the United Kingdom to become the fifth biggest economy in the world. And it’s expected to keep rising through the ranks, surpassing both Germany …
Read More »Russia Tests Sanctions with Oil Shipments to India
Russia seems to be having little difficulty skirting US Treasury sanctions when it comes to its oil industry, with the country managing to send shipments of sanctioned oil aboard sanctioned tankers to India. The U.S. Treasury’s January crackdown on Russian crude exports doesn’t appear to be a problem for Moscow, …
Read More »Coal Continues to Dominate China’s Energy Landscape
Coal is still king in China despite the renewables boom with record additions of solar and wind power generation. Thermal power generation, which is overwhelmingly dominated by coal, rose by 1.5% in 2024 from a year earlier, to a record high of 6.34 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), data from China’s National …
Read More »Saudi Arabia to Become Global Data Hub Exporting Data
Saudi Arabia plans to treat data centers within the Kingdom with the same level of protection as embassies, Finance Minister Mohammed Al Jadaan said, as the kingdom seeks to position itself as a global hub for data exports rather than oil. Al Jadaan highlighted concerns from European and American stakeholders …
Read More »Turkish Steelmaker to Invest nearly $1B in Solar Energy for ‘Green Steel’ Production
Turkish steelmaker Tosyali Holding will invest nearly $1 billion in solar energy in eight different provinces of Turkey to be able to use solar power for green steel production, the firm’s chairman, Fuat Tosyali, told Anadolu. Tosyali, while attending the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in …
Read More »Saudi Oil Giant Aramco Buys Its First U.S. WTI Midland Crude Cargo
The world’s biggest crude oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, bought this week its first cargo of U.S. WTI Midland, the crude grade which is now part of the dated Brent benchmark, S&P Global Commodity Insights told Reuters. The Saudi oil giant, which is also the world’s biggest oil company, bought the …
Read More »Shale Investors Unlikely to Heed Trump’s Call for an Oil Boom
Despite President Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” policies, it will be oil prices and Wall Street that will determine how much U.S. oil production will grow in the near term, shale investors and executives say. President Trump signed on his first day in office an executive order to unleash America’s energy …
Read More »China’s 2025 Crude Oil Output to Exceed 200 Million Tons
China aims to maintain crude production in 2025 little changed from 2024, with output expected to come in above 200 million tons. In 2024, China’s total oil and gas output exceeded 400 million tons of oil equivalent for the first time, the National Energy Administration (NEA) has revealed. China’s crude …
Read More »Trump’s Crypto Launch Sparks Debate about U.S. Regulation
Bitcoin hit record highs on Monday, as President- Donald Trump, and First Lady-again Melania Trump launched their meme coins, days ahead of the inauguration. The cryptocurrency leader reached above $108,000(£88,668) for the first time ever on Monday morning, ahead of Trump’s official return to office. Susannah Streeter, head of money …
Read More »European and African Countries Back Green Hydrogen Pipeline Project
Italy, Austria, Germany, Algeria, and Tunisia reiterated on Tuesday their intention to develop a pipeline that would carry renewable hydrogen from North Africa to Europe, the Italian energy ministry said. The 3,300-km (2,050 miles) hydrogen pipeline, named SouthH2 Corridor, is planned to ship green hydrogen from the African coast to …
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