Apple is moving forward with its electric self-driving car technology after all, and will start production in 2024, according to a report from Reuters. Apple plans to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own battery technology. Apple first started to design its own vehicle way back in 2014, …
Read More »China to Abolish Access Restrictions on Foreign Investment in Energy Sector
China will fully lift access restrictions on foreign investment in coal, oil, gas, power generation, excluding nuclear, as well as the new energy businesses, according to a sector white paper released on Monday, reported Reuters. Separately, a top energy official told reporters that recent power shortages in some Chinese regions …
Read More »Iran Oil Minister Leaves Russia after Intensive Talks on Oil Market
Iranian Minister of Peroleum Bijan Namdar Zangeneh left Russian capital late on Monday after holding intensive talks on the situation of global oil market. In Moscow, Zangeneh held talks with Russian Minister of Energy Nikolai Shulginov, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and other oil officials in the host country. At …
Read More »Oil Declines Amid Spread of New COVID-19 Strain
Oil prices continued their downward momentum on Tuesday, following the sharp losses in the previous session as several countries closed their borders to British travellers and freight after the spread of a new strain of the novel coronavirus in the United Kingdom. Brent crude was trading down 0.4 percent at …
Read More »Russia Favors Further OPEC+ Output Hike in February
Russia intends to support a further increase in OPEC+ production at the group’s meeting next month, even as a new strain of the coronavirus raises concerns about demand, said officials familiar with the country’s oil policy. As of now, Moscow believes it makes sense to raise OPEC+ output by 500,000 …
Read More »Russia to U.S. President-Elect: Don’t Upset the Oil Market
Russia hopes the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will not derail producer nations’ action to boost oil markets, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday. Russia, other leading oil producers and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a group known as OPEC+, have joined forces …
Read More »Clean Energy and Total to Develop Additional Carbon-Negative Fuel, Infrastructure
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and its largest shareholder, Total SE, entered a memorandum of understanding on Dec. 21 to create a 50/50 joint venture to develop carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities in the United States, as well as credit support to build additional downstream RNG fueling infrastructure. Total …
Read More »Kremlin Sees US Sanctions on Nord Stream 2 as Manifestation of Hybrid War
The Kremlin sees US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, expected to pump gas from Russia to Europe, as a sign of a hybrid war, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has recently said that “sanctions are a tool of a very real modern hybrid …
Read More »Russian Oil Company Tatneft Considering Return to Libya
The Russian oil company Tatneft is examining the possibility of resuming its operations in Libya, having ceased its works following the revolution of the 17 February, 2011. The Media East Monitor website reported that the company wished to return and resume production and exploration operations in several locations in Libya. …
Read More »IAEA Prepared to Send Team to Monitor Fukushima Water Release
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said his body is ready to send a monitoring team upon request to check treated radioactive water set to be discharged from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to address concerns over environmental impact. “We can cooperate if the government of …
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