Italian oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A has launched its next-generation supercomputer that will help it to ramp up oil and gas discovery technology and support its decarbonization strategies. Based at Eni’s Green Data Center in the small town of Ferrera Erbognone, the €100m High-Performance Computing 6 (HPC6) machine is …
Read More »South Africa Looks to Attract Chinese Firms to Its $27-Billion EV Industry
South Africa’s recently adopted tax breaks for electric vehicle production have already piqued the interest of three Chinese EV manufacturers to invest in new-energy vehicles in the African country, an official at the local automotive association told Bloomberg. Three car makers from China have already signed non-disclosure agreements with the …
Read More »Europe Faces Coldest Winter Spell as Gas Supply Concerns Mount
Northwest Europe is bracing itself for what is expected to be later this week the coldest snap so far this winter, hours ahead of the expiry of the deal for Russian gas transit via Ukraine to central Europe. Temperatures in the UK, France, and Germany are expected to plunge at …
Read More »Turkey Says It’s Ready to Supply Electricity to Syria and Lebanon
Turkey is working to resolve the energy supply issues in Syria and is ready to provide electricity to the country, where Ankara supported the rebels who toppled Bashar al-Assad earlier this month, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday. “The vast majority of people meet their electricity needs with …
Read More »Eni Raises Oil and Gas Production Offshore Cote d’Ivoire
Italian energy major Eni has started production from the second phase of its oil and gas development Baleine offshore Cote d’Ivoire, boosting output from the field in West Africa. This weekend, Eni announced the successful start-up of Phase 2 at the Baleine field, which will raise production to 60,000 barrels …
Read More »China Issues Second Batch of Crude Oil Import Quotas
China has just given a potential boost to its crude oil imports as it has issued a second batch of import quotas for 2025 to its independent refiners, trade sources told Reuters on Monday. Unlike the state refiners, private refiners in China need to be granted import quotas to be …
Read More »Asia Dominated Global IPO Landscape in 2024
Asian stock markets continued to surge in popularity in 2024, outperforming the languishing UK market in IPOs. Throughout this year, Asia has dominated on stock exchange floats, with over 600 IPOs throughout the year, more than two thirds of the 867 floats globally in 2024, according to data from Globaldata. …
Read More »Sanctioned Russian LNG Cargo Stranded at Sea
The shadow fleet of liquefied natural gas carriers transporting blacklisted Russian LNG has encountered a major setback, with at least one ship’s cargo traveling around the world, finding no buyers as the cargo was deemed too risky. Bloomberg reports that an LNG carrier called “Pioneer,” carrying a sanctioned shipment of …
Read More »U.S. Oil, Gas Drillers Hold the Line during Holiday Week
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States stayed the same again this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, after seeing no change in the two weeks prior. The total rig count remained flat at 589 total rigs, …
Read More »Shell Closes Oil Unit at Singapore Refinery to Investigate Leak
Shell has shut down one of its oil processing units at its refinery complex in Singapore to investigate a suspected leak in the system, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Friday. The Shell Energy and Chemicals Park at Pulau Bukom, Singapore, is the supermajor’s only energy …
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