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The United Arab Emirates has launched a nuclear energy plant on Saturday, the first such project in the oil-rich Arab world. Unit 1 of the Barakah plant in the Al Dhafrah region of Abu Dhabi started producing heat on Saturday, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation said in a statement. Unit …

Unstable global energy demand outlook, combined with looming geopolitical threats, is seeing regional oil and gas producers ramp up transport and storage capacities The fall in oil prices as a result of the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the Chinese economy has highlighted the fragile state of the world’s …

The United Arab Emirates wants Libya to “return to oil production” as soon as possible, a top Emirati official said Monday, after officials with Libya’s U.N.-supported government in Tripoli accused the UAE of ordering rival Libyan forces to block oil sales. Anwar Gargash, the Emirates’ minister of state for foreign …

Brooge Energy Ltd. expects new tanks at its oil-storage terminal in the United Arab Emirates to be fully operational by the end of the year, with a single customer booked to lease all the additional capacity. The US-listed storage operator is adding eight tanks at the site in the UAE …

The novel coronavirus drastically changed the consumption patterns of hydrocarbon products across the globe.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE introduced the five percent Value Added Tax (VAT) in January of 2018, a first for the Persian Gulf region which had long prided itself on its tax-free, cradle-to-grave welfare system. On the same day, Saudi Arabia announced a petrol price hike of 127 percent.

While Expo 2020 Dubai has been postponed one year due to the coronavirus pandemic, some experts believe that the postponement will have a big impact on the UAE economy and derails at least temporarily a range of tech projects.

United Arab Emirates’ energy minister Suhail Al Mazrouei said on Saturday that an OPEC+ decision to cut oil supply will have a major impact on rebalancing the oil market amid the coronavirus outbreak. “The group’s decision to cut supply will be the largest ever cut in the history which will …

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is building the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, capable of generating 700 megawatts. During daylight, solar power will provide cheap electricity, and at night the UAE will use stored solar heat to generate electricity. But at the same time, four nuclear reactors are nearing …

The UAE Minister of Energy and Industry, Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, expressed his disappointment after the collapse of the OPEC+ oil cuts agreement, which expires at the end of March. In a series of tweets, Al Mazrouei said that the UAE has ample production capacity that will be quickly …