North America’s biggest petroleum pipeline is in a race against time to overcome a cyberattack that’s frozen fuel shipments before regional reserves of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel run dry. Colonial Pipeline said segments of its Texas-to-New Jersey line are being brought back online in steps, and substantially all service …
Read More »Iran Produces Oil-Based Ozone Generator
An Iranian knowledge-based company produced an oil-based ozone generator to prevent the country from importing this device. Chief executive officer of the Iranian knowledge-based company, Shadi Azizi Ha said Iran produced a type of oil-based ozone generator that has much higher efficiency. Referring to the importance and usage of this …
Read More »South Korea Plans to Build Offshore Wind Farm
The South Korean Government has announced plans to build a 6GW floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Ulsan by 2030. President Moon Jae-in said that the project would require a KRW36tn ($32.8bn) investment and would create 210,000 jobs in the region. The wind facility is planned for the …
Read More »Fire at Kuwait’s Largest Oilfield Is Latest in Series of Blazes at Oil Sites Across Middle East, but ‘No Impact on Production’
Kuwait’s national oil company has said it is battling a blaze at one of its operational sites in the Burgan oilfield, the second largest in the world. The company says there has been no impact on oil production. In a statement on Monday cited by state-run media, Kuwait Oil Company …
Read More »France and Russia Form Nuclear Hydrogen Partnership
France and Russia’s EDF Group and Rosatom recently announced the signing of an agreement for nuclear hydrogen production. The purpose is to promote clean H2 projects taking place in both Russia and in Europe. According to Rosatom, developing H2 technologies will play an integral role in the Paris Agreement’s implementation. …
Read More »Global Oil Market Eyeing Iran
Beginning of the fourth round of talks in Vienna to revive the JCPOA and multilateral attempts to reach a win-win agreement as soon as possible has caught eyes in global oil market, making OPEC Plus ministers closely watch developments in Vienna, Iran Newspaper wrote in a report on Monday. Analysts …
Read More »Energy Demand Growth in ME Seen at Annual 3.35%
Demand for energy in the Mena region is set to grow by 3.35% per annum for the next 15 years in the region, as the population in the Mena region is estimated to grow by 20% to reach 581 million in 2030 and a further 24% by 2050 to hit …
Read More »US Oil Traders Rush to Find Alternative Options after Cyber Attack Shuts Down Pipeline
Fuel suppliers are rushing to secure alternative methods of delivery to avert fuel shortages from Atlanta to New York after a ransomware attack shut down the nation’s biggest oil-products pipeline. Traders and fuel shippers are seeking barges and ships to deliver gasoline that would have otherwise been shipped on the …
Read More »China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Exceed Emissions from all Developed Countries
China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 exceeded those of the U.S. and other developed nations combined, with the nation of over 1.4 billion people being responsible for more than 27 percent of total global emissions. The findings are in a report published on Thursday by the research and consulting firm, …
Read More »Cyberattack Forces Shutdown of a Top U.S. Pipeline
One of the nation’s largest pipelines, which carries refined gasoline and jet fuel from Texas up the East Coast to New York, was forced to shut down after being hit by ransomware in a demonstration of the vulnerability of energy infrastructure to cyberattacks. The operator of the system, Colonial Pipeline, …
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