International

Japan will keep its investment in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia, said the nation’s trade chief. The government has requested a Japanese consortium to keep its stake in the project, the nation’s Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told the press on Tuesday. Japan has few resources of its …

President Joe Biden said he’d seek to impose higher taxes on oil companies that record “windfall” profits without reinvesting in production, with US gasoline prices still high a week ahead of midterm elections. “The oil industry has not met its commitment to invest in America and support the American people,” …

After a contract with American Westinghouse company to build the country’s first nuclear plant was announced by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the Left opposition warned that the investment could face problems due to non-compliance with EU rules. The Warsaw government chose Westinghouse for the nuclear project, Morawiecki tweeted on Friday, …

The 2022 OPEC World Oil Outlook (WOO) will be launched at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2022 in Abu Dhabi Today (Monday, 31 October 2022). OPEC’s Secretary General, Haitham Al Ghais, along with OPEC experts, will present the major findings of the WOO 2022, as well …

If Finland were to cancel its planned rotating blackouts in winter, it could lead to a large-scale national disruption, the country’s electricity grid operator has warned, according to Bloomberg. If the outages do not continue, the resulting uncontrolled blackouts would mean “people could die,” Arto Pahkin, a network manager at …

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) has maintained its view that global oil demand will rise for another decade, longer than many other forecasters predict, in a forthcoming major report, despite the growing role of renewables and electric cars, two OPEC sources said. The OPEC, is scheduled to update …

Germany has agreed to sell a stake in the port of Hamburg to a Chinese company in what is bound to be seen as a highly controversial deal putting Germany in a position of dependency to Beijing. Euronews reported that the German government had given COSCO the green light to …

Fossil fuel consumption is expected to peak or plateau within this decade, accelerated by the policy and trade flow shifts following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. For the first time ever, a World Energy Outlook scenario from the IEA based on the …

US President Biden on Tuesday warned Russia against using a tactical nuclear weapon amid concerns Moscow may be creating a pretext to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Hill reported. “Russia would be making an incredibly serious mistake for it to use a tactical nuclear weapon,” Biden told reporters after …

Taiwan is stocking up on natural gas and coal in anticipation of more military action from Beijing, Reuters has reported, citing a Taipei government official. In case of a Chinese attack on the island or a blockade, Reuters wrote, the Taiwan government wanted to boost its resilience since it is …