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bneGREEN: Russia drafts hydrogen development plan

Russia plans to emerge as an exporter of hydrogen within the space of a few years and supply as much as 12mn tonnes per year (tpy) of the fuel by 2035, under a draft development plan approved in August.

On Guyana’s future prospects

IEEFA, a US-based non-profit, says the Stabroek contract may unfairly curb Guyana’s earnings from oil sales. Its arguments may have the effect of drying up funding for future investors seeking to follow ExxonMobil’s example.

Enagas, Acciona Energía, GNL Quintero team up for green hydrogen project

Two Spanish companies are looking to build a green hydrogen production facility at Chile’s Quintero LNG import terminal.

Renergen signs LNG supply agreement with Consol Glass

South Africa’s Renergen revealed last week that it had agreed to supply LNG to Consol Glass, a Johannesburg-based supplier of glass packaging materials.

AfrElec: Siemens seals 200-MW green hydrogen deal in Egypt

Siemens and Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) are to develop a 200-MW pilot green hydrogen production as part of a long-term effort to tap Egypt’s large renewable power resources for hydrogen production and export.

Nord Stream 2 fails to get exemption from EU gas market rules

A court in Germany has ruled that Russia’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline should not be exempt from EU gas market rules, creating new headaches for the project’s state-owned operator Gazprom, which may be unable to use half the capacity.

Turkmenistan: Taliban of brothers

Turkmenistan is embracing the Taliban takeover next door and refusing to get involved in humanitarian operations. This and more in Eurasianet’s weekly briefing.

AsiaElec: Kansai Electric brings in RWE to develop floating wind capacity in Japan

Japan’s Kansai Electric Power and Germany’s RWE Renewables have announced plans to work to develop offshore wind capacity off the Japanese coast, building on their work together in the UK.

ENERGO: Rosneft boss Sechin calls for Russian carbon trading system to be internationally recognised

LatAmOil: Green hydrogen plans for Chilean LNG terminal

Two Spanish companies are looking to build a green hydrogen production facility at Chile’s Quintero LNG import terminal.

AfrOil: Renergen’s first industrial customer

South Africa’s Renergen revealed last week that it had agreed to supply LNG to Consol Glass, a Johannesburg-based supplier of glass packaging materials.

EurOil: UK unveils hydrogen strategy

FSUOGM: Gazprom reveals Nord Stream 2 delivery plans

DMEA: NNPC launches greenfield subsidiary

MEOG: Ups and downs in Kurdistan

AsianOil: Sinopec completes Qingdao LNG terminal expansion

China’s state-run Sinopec has finished the first stage of expansion work at its Qingdao LNG import facility in Shandong Province.

GLNG: ExxonMobil, PNG restart P’nyang talks

ExxonMobil has restarted talks with the government of Papua New Guinea on the development of the P’nyang natural gas project.

NorthAmOil: Growth amid uncertainty for the oil sands

Production in Alberta – home to the oil sands – reached an all-time record of 3.53mn barrels per day on average in the first half of 2021. This marked a 5.7% increase on the same period of 2020.

KYIV BLOG: Merkel trying to cut an almost impossible gas transit deal for Ukraine

With only a month left in office German Chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to cut an energy deal that will allow Germany to receive gas from Russia’s new Nord Stream 2 but keep some gas flowing through Ukraine’s Druzhba gas pipelines.

REM: By 2035, solar could be 40% of US electricity generation, says Biden administration

Large-scale decarbonisation of the US electricity sector could increase solar from 3% of generation today to more than 40% by 2035, according to a new issue brief by the US Department of Energy.

Iran ‘restarts fuel exports to Afghanistan after messages from Taliban’

Gasoline price leapt as Afghans drove out of cities to escape arriving regime. Amid US withdrawal, fuel traders less anxious about sanctions.

EBRD invests in Turkish waste-to-energy company

Iran’s Caspian Sea gas find ‘may be so large it could meet a fifth of European gas needs’

Some say field could be “geopolitical gamechanger”. Tehran reportedly working with Russia and China in exploiting resource. Distribution of gas reportedly to be conducted in consultation with Moscow.

Zelenskiy increasingly frustrated with the West as Merkel arrives selling gas and peace deals

Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a “dangerous geopolitical weapon,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference in Kyiv on August 22.

Putin and Merkel meet in Moscow for the last time to talk democracy and gas

German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to Moscow on August 20 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the last time as chancellor for wide-ranging talks where jailed opposition critic Navalny and gas deliveries to Europe featured prominently.