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British aviation company Rolls-Royce has big plans for nuclear power, as well as other major energy projects, having been selected as the United Kingdom’s preferred bidder to build the country’s first small modular reactors (SMRs) last year. The company is expected to fast-track the development of the U.K.’s first SMRs, …

A tanker carrying liquefied gas is sailing to Europe from China in a rare move that was last made four years ago. The Seapeak Glasgow loaded the liquefied gas at the Zhejiang Ningbo terminal, Bloomberg reported, citing tanker-tracking data, and is signaling Europe as its next destination. European LNG imports …

Libya will step up its natural gas production to be able to supply more of the commodity to Europe, the chairman of the national Oil Corporation said today, as quoted by Reuters. Masoud Sulaiman said the country’s national oil company will aim to ramp up natural gas production to almost …

The European Union’s plan to ban LNG imports from Russia will prompt a surge in demand for LNG carriers to the tune of 30 new vessels, a senior Vortexa analyst said ahead of the LNG Qatar gathering that starts today. According to Ashley Sherman, senior LNG analyst at the company, …

Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices were headed on Friday for their largest monthly gain since 2023 as cold snaps in January boosted heating and power demand and fast-draining storage sites fueled a market rally. The front-month Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures, the benchmark for Europe’s gas trading, were on track …

Europe has been trying to reduce its reliance on imported energy for four years now. It has had partial success, notably through demand destruction resulting from excessive prices. This month, part of Europe doubled down on that plan just as the United States grid presented an object lesson in the …

Over two days during the short 2025 summer beyond the Arctic Circle, a mining company moved a 113-year-old timber church building in its entirety nearly two miles away, in an engineering feat that made international headlines. The moving of the Kiruna Church from the Swedish town of the same name, …

Russia’s pipeline gas exports to Europe collapsed by 44% in 2025, falling to their lowest level since the mid-1970s, according to Reuters calculations. The drop marks the clearest statistical endpoint yet for what was once Moscow’s most lucrative and politically potent energy relationship. The decline was driven primarily by the …

The European Union is looking to expand its rare earths production to help fuel an accelerated green transition, as the demand from countries in the bloc continues to grow in line with the deployment of more renewable energy capacity. Ramping up production would also help the EU reduce its reliance …

The European Union is backtracking on its plan to prohibit the sale of new combustion-engine passenger cars after 2035, as the de facto ban came under fire from major carmakers and strong auto industry lobbies in Germany and Italy. The EU’s executive arm, the European Commission, is expected on Tuesday …