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Nigeria says oil ship fire extinguished
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
Despite being Africa's largest crude producer, accidents are frequent in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, although they usually occur on land. "The fire was stop...
Massive methane emissions by oil and gas industry detected from space
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
A major contributor to climate change, methane (CH4) has a global warming potential approximately 30 times higher than that of CO2, over a 100-year period. One ...
Mauritian tanker runs aground off cyclone-hit Reunion
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
The French government's representative on the island tweeted that rescue workers were trying to reach the sailors on the TrestaStar tanker in "very difficult co...
Oil everywhere: Ecuador Amazonians seethe over new spill
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Residents of Puerto Maderos make no effort to hide their anger at the latest crude spill to hit the Ecuadoran Amazon. "This damage is not for a month, two month...
Round-the-clock care for Peru's oil-stained sea birds
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Of about 150 oil-stained birds rescued alive after the January 15 spill of some 12,000 barrels of oil, half later died. The survivors -- penguins, cormorants an...
SwRI adds capability for testing hydrogen and natural gas blends
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
"Hydrogen is an excellent alternative to existing fossil fuels such as natural gas and has the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of the energy sector and...
Amazon oil spill in Ecuador was 6,300 barrels
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
The firm OCP said it had "collected and reinjected 5,300 barrels of crude into the system" since the accident on Friday when heavy rains caused a boulder to fal...
EU presses on with green label for gas, nuclear
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
The fight over the European Union's classification of power sources is the latest dust-up in discussions between the 27 member states on how to achieve a net ze...
Investors agree $10 billion for controversial Uganda oil project
Feb 01, 2022 (AFP)
The so-called Final Investment Decision should pave the way for the export of millions of barrels of black gold that was first discovered in 2006 in Uganda, one...
Mexico's energy reforms test relations with US
Feb 01, 2022 (AFP)
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to strengthen the state-owned electricity provider and roll back the effects of liberalization under previous govern...
Ukraine tensions jumble up Germany's energy puzzle
Jan 31, 2022 (AFP)
As Germany pursues its target to transition to cleaner energy sources over the next decade, Europe's biggest economy has counted on gas temporarily filling the ...
Qatar looks to profit from Europe gas fears over Ukraine
Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will ensure some kind of assistance, however, as he seeks a bigger share of the European market for Qatar's burgeoning offshore ...
Repsol executives barred from leaving Peru over oil spill
Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement came hours after a court banned four directors from the Spanish oil company Repsol, which owns the refinery where the accident took place, from...
A game changer in water electrolysis technology for production of green hydrogen energy
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
The proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) technology, which is currently present in some handful of advanced countries holds core material technol...
Judge cancels major US oil and gas exploration sale
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
Federal District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras declared existing contracts invalid, saying the Department of the Interior did not adequately consider the leases...
Greenpeace says abandoned Yemen oil tanker a 'grave threat'
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
The 45-year-old fuel vessel FSO Safer has 1.1 million barrels of crude on board and has been moored out at sea about six kilometres (four miles) off Yemen's wes...
Thailand rushes to contain oil spill after undersea leak
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
The kingdom's Pollution Control Department has warned that the spill in the Gulf of Thailand, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) off the coast of Rayong province, c...
Los Angeles set to ban oil drilling in city
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
While Hollywood, palm trees and sunny skies may be the popular image of the second biggest city in the United States, the metropolis is also the largest urban o...
Peril and promise: gas from 'killer lake' powers Rwanda
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
It was not the lava shooting from Mount Nyiragongo last May that spooked them, but the enormous concentrations of potentially explosive gases within Kivu, one o...
Estimating the future cost of hydrogen fuel for transport in India
Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)
"Green hydrogen produced from 100% additional renewable electricity has almost zero greenhouse gas emissions and this study illuminates how exploiting economies...
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