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While Latin America and the Caribbean have shown the slowest growth in terms of energy transition in the last decade, Brazil and Chile performed extremely well, ranking in the top 20 performers worldwide, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Fostering Effective Energy Transition Report. Both Latin American countries now …

Microsoft, a company known for its public environmental commitments, is facing criticism for quietly selling AI services to fossil fuel giants. Although Microsoft has committed to being ‘carbon negative’ by 2030, it continues to work with oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron to provide the latter with AI technologies that …

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in its latest report has said Iran produced 3.277 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in August, registering a 4,000-bpd increase compared to the previous month. As reported, Iran has maintained its place as OPEC’s third-biggest oil producer after Saudi Arabia …

Iraq’s oil exports to the United States increased last week, according to data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Sunday. The EIA’s report showed that average US crude oil imports from nine major suppliers reached 5.787 million barrels per day (bpd) last week, an increase of 911,000 …

Australia looks to develop domestic green hydrogen industry and export clean hydrogen in a bid to become a global hydrogen leader, the government of one of the world’s top LNG exporters said on Friday. The Australian government today published its new National Hydrogen Strategy, which identifies objectives and actions to …

Several major oil-producing countries, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, are pushing back against talks on an agreement at the upcoming COP29 climate summit to mitigate the use of fossil fuels, negotiators from Western countries told the Financial Times. The group of oil-rich nations, which include Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Bolivia, …

A significant increase in EU electricity exports to Ukraine in the wake of Russian strikes on its grid has caused a surge in prices in Southeastern Europe, Greece’s Prime Minister has warned. In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cited by the Financial Times, Kyriakos Mitsotakis …

Libya’s crude oil exports are projected to fall by at least 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) in September, despite a modest recovery in production. Analysts at FGE have reported that Libya’s crude production has risen by around 200,000 bpd since the beginning of the month, now standing between 650,000 and …

The Grangemouth refinery, Scotland’s only crude processing facility, is set to close in the second quarter of 2025, its owners confirmed on Thursday, as the refinery has been struggling to compete with the new complex facilities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Grangemouth refinery, which was opened by …

Saudi Arabia is expected to increase its crude oil supply to China in October after the world’s top crude exporter cut the prices of the oil it sells in Asia, trade sources told Reuters on Thursday. The Kingdom is set to ship a total of 46 million barrels of its …