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Equinor has made a new oil discovery near Norway’s giant Troll oil and gas field together with partners DNO, Wellesley and Petoro, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Friday. Equinor said in a separate statement the reservoir was expected to contain between 44 million and 69 million barrels of oil …

A new technology using drones, developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency for use by authorities in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, has been tested and validated under real conditions in Fukushima and is available for practical use in routine or emergency situations. The IAEA said the drones, or unmanned aerial …

The price of OPEC basket of thirteen crudes rose at $56.80 a barrel on Wednesday, compared with $55.13 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. Experts said OPEC rising prices are affected by Brent and US crude oil which also rose today hitting their highest in about a year …

Oil hit an 11-month high on Wednesday, boosted by a draw in U.S. crude and gasoline stocks, which fuelled demand recovery hopes as OPEC+ has forecast that the market will be in deficit in 2021. Brent crude futures were up 48 cents, or 0.8%, to $57.94 a barrel at 0839 …

Iran’s daily gas refining capacity stood at 36 million cubic meters before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, which experienced a 28-fold increase within 42 years. As the Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh mentioned, the gas industry developed after the victory of the Islamic Revolution; so, the daily gas …

In recognition of their shared objectives to increase the uptake of renewable energy, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Hydropower Association (IHA) have today signed a formal partnership agreement. Hydropower is the world’s largest source of renewable energy, contributing over half of global renewable energy installed capacity, …

The Gazprom Neft ’s “Green Seismic” and “Green Seismic 2.0” projects won the “Science for Ecology” nomination, awarded the Vernadsky National Ecological Prize. The purpose of the ecological prize is to recognise and popularise completed projects in environmental protection. This technology is widely used throughout the company in investigating heavily …

BP plunged to a $5.7 billion annual loss in 2020, its first in a decade, as the pandemic took a heavy toll on oil demand, with fuel consumption continuing to slide so far this year amid global travel restrictions. For the final quarter of 2020, BP reported a profit of …

China, the world’s largest polluter, launched on Monday an emissions trading scheme as part of its efforts to become a carbon-neutral economy by 2060. The Chinese authorities introduced as of February 1 a set of rules for carbon emissions trading management, a step toward creating a nationwide unified emissions trading …

The U.S. oil industry has a message to President Joe Biden’s recent climate executive orders involving the oil and gas sector—restricting America’s oil production would increase its reliance on foreign imports of oil with more emissions than the crude pumped from America’s oilfields. Over the past two weeks, President Biden …