Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said his country is ready to increase gas exports to Iraq. “We are ready to increase the gas exports to Iraq,” Zangeneh said in a meeting with a visiting Iraqi delegation led by Finance Minister Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi on Saturday. In a relevant event in …
Read More »ExxonMobil Strategy for Climate Change
Dissident shareholders of ExxonMobil have won two seats on the company’s board of directors. The election “will likely force it to alter its fossil-fuel focused strategy and more directly confront growing shareholder concerns about climate change,” according to The Wall Street Journal. Fossil fuels are probably on the decline long-term, …
Read More »Saudi Arabia’s Oil Exports Soar Ahead of OPEC+ Meeting
After over a year of pandemic-driven volatility and weak oil demand, Saudi Arabia is now experiencing an oil export boom. Saudi Arabia’s oil exports increased in March by 75 percent year-on-year, at a value of almost $14 billion, according to a General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) report, with crude oil …
Read More »Germany Pumps $10 Billion in Hydrogen in Bid to Become Global Leader
Germany will fund 62 large-scale hydrogen projects with as much as $10 billion in federal and state funds as it aims to become the world’s leader in hydrogen technologies, the German ministries of economy and transport said. Germany will provide $9.72 billion (€8 billion) to the 62 projects it has …
Read More »Non-Oil Exports from Arvand Free Zone Stands at $61m in 1.5 Months
Non-oil products worth $61 million were exported from Arvand Free Trade Zone (FTZ), in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan, during the 1.5-month period since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21), according to a provincial official. Seyed Ali Mousavi, the deputy head of Arvand Free Zone Organization …
Read More »Iran’s Yazd Province Generating 71.5 MW Solar Energy
Yazd Province in the middle of the Iranian plateau enjoys the opportunity of generating solar power in nine months of a year, so for an eight-year period, President Hassan Rouhani’s administration has attached importance to developing solar power plants with the capacity 71.5 megawatt of energy. Utilizing renewable energies has …
Read More »Iran to Use $125m of Assets Held in Iraq to Buy Covid-19 Vaccines
Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian, who is the chairman of the Iran-Iraq Joint Economic Committee, has said Iraq is going to transfer $125 million of its energy dues to Iran to a European bank to be paid for 16 million COVAX Covid-19 vaccines. “The necessary license has been issued to …
Read More »Gazprom Resumes Oil Production in Libya
The Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation Gazprom has resumed oil production in Libya following a ten-month hiatus. The ports, export terminals and production facilities in Libya have gradually restarted operations, according to a report by the Russian news agency Tass. The managing director of Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazprom EP International, …
Read More »IEA, World Bank Call for Carbon Price to Speed Up Energy Transitions
National carbon prices and similar mechanisms are urgently needed as a part of countries’ concrete national net-zero policies, International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol told the World Bank Group’s virtual climate action event Innovate4Climate on 26 May. The IEA recently released a report describing how a rapid rise …
Read More »Russia and Pakistan to Build Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline
Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulguinov and Pakistani Ambassador in Moscow Shafkat Ali Khan signed an agreement for the future construction of the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline on Friday. According to the energy portfolio, the parties penned a protocol of amendments to an intergovernmental agreement that provided for the construction of …
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