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IAEA Verifies Iran’s 60% Enrichment

Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Kazem Gharibabadi said on Sunday that IAEA has verified Iran’s 60% uranium enrichment. The IAEA released a report to verify that on April 17 that Iran has started producing UF6 with 60% purity through feeding UF6 gas with 5% purity simultaneously …

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US Production Rebound will Lead to New Oil Price War

The US oil industry faces a new oil price war if shale production rebounds next year by rising 1 million bpd compared to this year, chief executive at shale giant Pioneer Natural Resources said at BloombergNEF’s annual summit. Last year, the OPEC+ group broke up their production pact in March …

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Is the Cryptocurrency Really as Bad for the Environment as Critics Make It Seem?

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have received a lot of negative attention in recent months and years for their absolutely staggering energy consumption. Bitcoin alone consumes approximately the same amount of energy the Netherlands thanks to the extremely energy-intensive “mining” process in which miners hook up computers–in some cases entire warehouses …

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Biden Plans Big Pledge on U.S. Emissions Cuts

President Joe Biden has assured foreign governments that the United States will make steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, a pledge designed to reassert U.S. leadership on climate change and spur other industrial powers to make similar commitments in the run-up to Biden’s climate summit next …

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Iran’s Petrochemical Output to Reach $40b

Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said in the inauguration ceremony of several oil-related plans that Iran’s petrochemical output would reach 40 billion dollars in 2027, Trend reports citing IRNA. Zanganeh said that the required feed for the super projects launched as part of Iran’s so-called ‘third surge’ plan to increase …

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Higher U.S. Shale Output could Spark an OPEC Price War

U.S. shale producers risk another oil-price war with OPEC and its allies if they resume the breakneck production growth of the last decade, according to Pioneer Natural Resources Co. Shale, and not the pandemic, was responsible for the initial oil-market crash of 2020, CEO Scott Sheffield said at BloombergNEF’s annual …

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