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The European Parliament’s endorsement on July 18 of German Ursula von der Leyen for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission marks a bid for continuity in the EU’s executive branch with a seasoned politician whose European tenure has been inextricably bound to the fortunes of the …

China has long dominated the renewable energy space, as the government has been investing in ramping up the country’s green energy capacity for several decades. It is already the biggest solar and wind producer, as well as the biggest lithium miner, in the world, and its expansion plans show no …

After years of being more or less isolated from the rest of the world, U.S. benchmark natural gas prices are becoming an influential force in shaping the structure of many contracts on the global LNG market. The price at Henry Hub in the United States will give increasingly important price …

Russia’s four-week average seaborne oil exports fell to 3.11 million barrels a day as of July 14, down by almost 600,000 barrels or 17% from their recent peak in April, Bloomberg has reported. The country’s seaborne crude shipments have now sunk to the lowest since January and are likely to …

The world’s demand for electricity is rising at its fastest rate in years, driven by robust economic growth, intense heatwaves and the increasing uptake of technologies that run on electricity such as EVs and heat pumps, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). At the same …

Nevada is now hosting the largest solar plus battery energy storage system project in the United States after Primergy Solar and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners announced that the Gemini Solar + Storage project in Clark County is now fully operational. Gemini is one of the latest such sites in the U.S. …

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count rose by 2 to 586 this week, compared to 669 rigs this same time last year. The number …

China’s largest oil refining company, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., aka Sinopec, processed 126.69 million metric tons of crude oil or 5.08 million barrels per day (bpd) in the first six months of the current year, good for a mere 0.1% Y/Y increase, the company has reported. That compared with …

Aramco has signed definitive agreements to acquire an equity interest in the Jubail-based Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases Co. (BHIG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air Products Qudra (APQ). The transaction, which is subject to standard closing conditions, will also include options for Aramco to offtake hydrogen and nitrogen. Building on its …

Eni and ITQuanta have agreed to form a joint venture, Eniquantic1, with the aim of developing an integrated hardware and software quantum machine2 capable of solving complex problems (mathematical optimisation, modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence) and initiating specific and significant quantum computing applications to support the energy transition. In developing …