Algeria, which has cut off diplomatic ties with Morocco, will stop supplying natural gas to the country through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline on the 1st November, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The 13.5 billion cubic-metre (Bcm) Maghreb-Europe pipeline links Algeria to Spain. Algeria will…
Repsol Norge has achieved first oil from the Yme field restart after it was shut down in 2001 in response to low oil prices. Yme includes production licence (PL) 316 and PL 316 B in the south-eastern part of the Norwegian North Sea in…
Qatar’s state-owned oil and gas company QatarEnergy has signed a farm-in agreement with ExxonMobil Canada for an exploration licence offshore Canada. Recently, QatarEnergy changed its name from Qatar Petroleum to reflect its new strategy focused on the energy transition. On the 24th October, the…
China aims to have non-fossil energy consumption exceed 80% of its total mix by 2060, when the world’s second-biggest economy plans to be carbon neutral, according to guidelines published by the official Xinhua News Agency. The measures are part of China’s larger plan for…
Germany’s energy regulator said on the 22nd October that it is in touch with the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline consortium and expects it will provide assurances that the project meets the regulator’s requirements. The regulator also said that it was looking at processing applications by Ukrainian gas company…
Meeting society’s ever-increasing energy demands while also striving for sustainability goals has become a worldwide challenge, and scientists are exploring a variety of technologies to produce clean, renewable energy that can replace fossil fuels. Besides wind and solar power, electrochemical approaches using fuel cells…
Britain could store 100 million metric tons (110 million tons) a year of CO2 in rock formations beneath the North Sea and East Irish Sea by 2050, according to Oil and Gas UK (OGUK). The association’s Energy Transition Outlook report claims the total capacity…
Russia will seek sanctions relief on green investment projects for state-run energy giants such as Gazprom at next month’s COP26 climate summit (COP26 means the annual UN Conference of the Parties), as it comes under growing pressure to join a commitment to slash methane emissions….
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to Equinor for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea. The well 6407/9-13 will be drilled from the West Hercules semi-submersible drilling rig, the NPD said on the 22nd October. The drilling programme…
GE Renewable Energy has received an order from JSW Energy, one of India’s leading power companies, to supply 810 MW of onshore wind turbines for their upcoming wind farms in Tamil Nadu province. The turbines will produce enough green energy to meet the annual…
