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India’s Iraqi oil imports in January rose to a seven-month high of 983,000 barrels per day (bpd), up 11% from December, data from trade sources showed. However, it only comes second to Moscow as India’s oil imports from Russia climbed to a record 1.4 million bpd in January, up 9.2% …

Europe’s increased need for liquefied natural gas (LNG) looks set to intensify competition with Asia for limited new supply available over the next two years and may dominate LNG trade over the longer term, according to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2023. European countries, including the UK, imported 121 million tonnes of …

(FSRU) is being carried out at BOTAS Dortyol FSRU Terminal in Hatay [Burak Milli – Anadolu Agency] Ertugrul Gazi, the first Turkish-flagged floating storage and gasification unit (FSRU), has been put to work at full capacity to meet the demand for natural gas after the devastating earthquakes that hit the …

Norwegian energy company Equinor on Friday said it joined Germany’s EnBW to develop wind farms off the German coast, part of a growing regional energy shift. The German government increased its target for offshore wind energy capacity from 20 gigawatts to 30 GW by 2030, with eyes set on 70 …

Oil prices increased on Thursday on expectations of a surge in oil demand in China, the world’s largest oil importer. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $85.85 per barrel at 09.46 a.m. local time (0646 GMT), up 0.55% from the closing price of $85.38 a barrel in the previous trading …

Russia’s nuclear exports were already booming well before the war in Ukraine started but now they are growing even faster. After the disaster of Chernobyl in the 80s, Russia has fully modernised its nuclear technology and switched to the VVER 1200 reactors (water-water energetic reactor) that are compliant with the …

University of Surrey researchers have found that a type of metal-free catalysts could contribute to the development of cost-effective and sustainable hydrogen production technologies. The results entitled ‘First-Principles Microkinetic Modeling Unraveling the Performance of Edge-Decorated Nanocarbons for Hydrogen Production from Methane’ have been published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. …

For years, Egypt has been performing a tough balancing act between the West and Russia, with Cairo casting itself as an actor that both parties can lean on. Egypt was the Soviet Union’s principal ally in the Middle East during the Cold War and remains an important partner today. Last …

An EU regulation on a gas price cap has come into effect. Two months ago, EU energy ministers agreed on a European Council regulation that sets a market correction mechanism to protect households and businesses against excessively high prices. The measure, which is temporary and will apply for one year, …

The United States should try to prove it was not behind the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines that connected Russia to Western Europe, the Russian embassy to the United States said on Thursday. Moscow considers the destruction of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines last September …