Norway’s state-controlled energy company Equinor is confident there is a long-term role for hydrogen produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, the company’s senior vice president for low-carbon solutions Grete Tveit told S&P Global Platts. The development of “blue” hydrogen from fossil fuels with CCS would pave the …
Read More »Oil Prices Loom over Biden Bid to Throttle Drilling Rights Sales
The Biden administration is preparing to release a blueprint for limiting sales of U.S. drilling rights that falls short of the outright ban sought by some environmentalists, as rising oil and gasoline prices highlight the risks of curtailing domestic crude production. A draft of the leasing report has already been …
Read More »Iran’s Extraction from South Pars Gas Field Tops 1.8 tcm
Petropars says gas recovery from the Iranian side of the world’s largest gas field has reached 1.8 tcm. The Iranian giant company Petropars said in a statement Sunday that natural gas recovery from the South Pars gas filed had reached a total of 1.8 trillion cubic meters since production started …
Read More »Europe’s Climate Masterplan Aims to Slash Emissions within a Decade
The European Union is set to take the lead in climate policy action among the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters this week, with a raft of ambitious plans designed to cut emissions drastically over the next decade. The policies, if approved, would put the bloc – the world’s third-largest economy …
Read More »India Wants Rich Countries to Pay More for Green Energy Shift
India can’t prioritize eliminating greenhouse gas emissions without sufficient financing from richer nations to help offset the high cost of transitioning to clean energy, according to a senior government official. In laying out its position ahead of key global climate talks later this year, the top bureaucrat in India’s environment …
Read More »Iran Kicks Off Drilling Operation in Joint Forouzan Oilfield
Managing Director of Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) Alireza Salmanzadeh announced on Sunday that drilling and repairing of oil wells have started at Forouzan joint oilfield with the purpose of increasing oil extraction. Salmanzadeh made the remarks after the completion of the installation project of the giant offshore rigs. “Installation …
Read More »Nord Stream 2 98% Ready, Construction Works to be over in August
Construction works under the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project may be finished already in August, Matthias Warnig, managing director of Nord Stream 2 AG, the project operator, said in an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper on Sunday. “We believe that construction works will be over by the end of …
Read More »No Energy Company will be Unaffected by Clean Energy Transitions
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a peer-reviewed report today, focussed on the efforts of oil and gas companies to reduce their environmental footprints, concluding that companies’ failure to address growing calls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could threaten their long-term social acceptability and profitability. The International Energy Agency …
Read More »Iran, Oman Determined to Boost Trade Ties
Iran shares borders with fifteen countries, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Oman, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. Expansion of trade with these neighbors, specially increasing non-oil exports to them, is one of the major plans that the Iranian government …
Read More »OPEC’s Spat Isn’t even about Oil – It’s about What Comes after Oil
The UAE took oil market watchers by surprise this month when it dug its heels in and refused to agree to an extension of the current OPEC+ production control deal under its original terms. The emirates demanded an adjustment of baseline production levels, noting that November 2018 was hardly reflective …
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