Ordos in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a major coal production hub, is making efforts to raise production to cope with the country’s rising energy demand in the coming winter and spring. The regional departments of energy and land resources have jointly facilitated the approval procedures for new coal …
Read More »Russia Supplying Additional Gas to Europe Using all Available Routes
Russia has been gradually increasing gas deliveries to Europe over the past nine months, boosting exports by 15% compared to last year and edging toward record gas deliveries via all routes, including Ukraine, Gazprom Export says. According to company CEO Elena Burmistrova, from January to September this year Russia’s state …
Read More »Covid-19 Pandemic Boosts Interest in Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Meeting the net zero carbon emissions target by 2050 is a “massive challenge” for the aviation industry but it offers a huge opportunity for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) sector, which is already being propelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, industry experts said. Investments in the SAF industry and work towards …
Read More »Oil Climbs on Switch from Gas and Doubts over U.S. Releasing Reserves
Oil prices rose on Friday, tracking towards a 4.2% gain for the week on signs some industries have begun switching fuel from high priced gas to oil and on doubts the U.S. government would release oil from its strategic reserves for now. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures climbed …
Read More »Germany’s Green Energy Revolution Reaches a Dead End
In 2021, Germany seems to be heading towards producing the largest increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the last 30 years. According to the observations of the first half of the year, the recovery from the coronavirus epidemic will be carried out at the cost of higher pollution than the …
Read More »Google Is Updating Maps, Search and other Products to Help Consumers Save Energy and Reduce Emissions
On Wednesday, Google launched a suite of changes to many of its core products to help consumers make sustainable choices more easily. “Today, climate change is more than a threat,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a prerecorded video during a virtual press event …
Read More »Germany Seeks Competition Assurances over Nord Stream 2
Germany’s energy regulator said the Nord Stream 2 pipeline must show it would not break competition rules by limiting which suppliers used it and could face a fine if it started pumping Russian gas to Germany without securing necessary approvals. Nord Stream 2, a project led by Gazprom, which has …
Read More »OPEC+ Countries Keep Plan to Increase Oil Production Gradually
On Monday, OPEC and non-OPEC oil-producing countries (OPEC+) confirmed that they will increase their joint production by 400,000 barrels per day in November. They left unchanged their plan to increase supplies progressively. It was announced by the 23 member countries of the alliance in their final declaration. They also decided …
Read More »Iran to US, EU: End Sanctions to Help Address Global Energy Crisis
Iran has called on the decision-makers in the US and the European countries to end anti-Iran sanctions to help ease the global energy crisis. The multiplication of the natural gas prices in Europe as a result of a drop in the fuel’s reserves there, was unprecedented, said Oil Minister Javad …
Read More »Iraq in Talks on Gas Exploration in Western Desert
Iraq’s Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail has said that the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC) has opened a dialogue about gas exploration in the Western Desert in Anbar Governorate. The company involved was not named, but was described as “one of the major international companies”. The Minister said Iraq is …
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