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US daily imports of Russian oil have hit new highs, despite tough talk on a wide range of issues, including energy. In March, the nation purchased Russian crude and oil products in volumes not seen since 2009. According to the latest data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), …

According to the EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, U.S. LNG exports decreased for the period between 20 May and 26 May 2021. This reflects lower feed gas deliveries into LNG liquefaction facilities the prior week. Eighteen LNG ships departed the United States in this period. Seven were from Sabine Pass, …

The world’s first 100,000-ton deep-sea semi-submersible oil production and storage platform, China’s self-developed “Deep Sea No 1” energy station, has successfully completed installation of all equipment and is expected to start production at the end of June, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) said on Saturday. It once again demonstrated …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …