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Tech giant pledges to help communities affected by climate change access clean power through new initiative The number of Apple’s suppliers committed to using 100 per cent clean energy has more than doubled in the past year, the tech giant announced late last week, as it simultaneously launched 10 new …

How could carbon dioxide emissions reduce the carbon footprint of the production of solar panels? The Chinese petrochemicals corporation Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals Co has unveiled plans to build a project that will recycle an estimated 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year to use in the manufacture of solar panel …

Russia’s Gazprom said its Marshal Vasilevskiy vessel passed through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the first time ever. The Russian LNG cargo was delivered under long-term contract to Indian company GAIL. On September 23, Marshal Vasilevskiy collected an LNG cargo at …

Russian state oil major Rosneft is developing a new strategy centred on the transition to renewable energy resources. The move was announced by CEO Igor Sechin at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona, Vedomosti reports. “We are currently developing a new company strategy, with the central priority of adapting to …

Germany’s government has determined that the Nord Stream 2 poses no threat to European energy security, clearing a key obstacle to the pipeline’s commercial launch. Whether or not the pipeline is considered an energy security risk will be a key consideration as German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur decides whether or not …

Another big decline in Iran’s stock market on Sunday has highlighted the precarious state of the economy amid uncertainty over the future of nuclear talks. The Tehran stock market index dropped by about 30,000 points, bringing it close to 1.2 million points, down from more than 1.4 million in early …

First it was rental cars, then building materials. Then it was housing, food, petrol. We are experiencing price rises not seen since the 1970s, or at least since the introduction of the euro, as we used to complain. First, we tried to talk it down. It will be ‘transitory’, was …

Saudi Aramco’s earnings soared as oil prices and production climbed, allowing the company to easily cover its quarterly dividend of $18.75 billion with free cash flow. The world’s biggest crude producer’s third-quarter profit climbed to 114.1 billion riyals ($30.4 billion) from 44.2 billion riyals year ago. Free cash flow was …

European consumers’ applications for supplies of Russian gas are being fulfilled in full, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom said in a statement amid reports that pumping via the Yamal-Europe pipeline had been stopped. “Fluctuations in demand for Russian gas depends on the buyers’ existing needs,” Gazprom said. Gas pumping to Europe …

For the past year, oil consuming countries have become increasingly anxious at crude’s resurgence: first to $50 a barrel, then $75 and now to more than $85. And when Vladimir Putin, one of the leaders of the OPEC+ alliance, warned that $100 a barrel was a distinct possibility, the alarm …