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bneGREEN: Western Balkans power plants in doubt after China to drop overseas coal projects
What Chinese President Xi Jinping’s commitment not to back new coal-fired power plants abroad means for Bosnia and Serbia’s plans to invest into more coal power capacity.
Nigeria establishes NNPC Ltd as new NOC
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has issued an order authorising the incorporation of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd, in line with the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act.
bpTT brings Matapal field on stream ahead of schedule
BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT), a subsidiary of BP (UK), revealed on September 20 that it had begun extracting natural gas from the Matapal field offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
ISTANBUL BLOG: Paris Agreement ratification becomes a no-brainer for Erdogan
President faces an election by 2023 and millions of Turkish teenagers who will vote for the first time know their country has just been through a summer of climate change hell.
AfrElec: Africa’s endangered mountainous forests risk losing carbon sink potential
Tropical forests in mountainous areas of Africa are more concentrated stores of carbon than the Amazon, a new study in journal Nature has suggested.
ING: Little stopping the natural gas rally
The record low natural gas prices seen in Europe last year seem like a distant memory. Prices have hit new records on almost a daily basis recently. TTF has recently broken above EUR70/MWh, which is up around 245% since the start of the year.
bneGREEN: Montenegro cancels €54mn Pljevlja TPP reconstruction plan, to focus on renewable energy
Ministry says Podgorica to scrap reconstruction of power plant at centre of conflict with Energy Community.
IAEA in need of €40mn to close funding gap on addressing radioactive and toxic waste in Central Asia
Polish government outraged by CJEU fine over lignite mine
Poland fined €500,000 per day for failing to abide by order to halt the Turow lignite mine’s operations immediately.
ADB approves $100mn electricity transmission loan for Georgia
AsiaElec: Vestas wins 101-MW wind turbine order from India’s ReNew Power
Denmark’s Vestas has secured a 101-MW wind turbine order from Indian independent ReNew Power.
FMO to support Mongolia’s Khan Bank with $120mn syndicated facility
EBRD seals acquisition of 6% in Istanbul listed biogas company Biotrend
DMEA: Iraq, Iran to expand refining
MEOG: Iraq moves to capture gas
GLNG: US manufacturers call for LNG restrictions
EurOil: Lundin targets climate neutrality in 2023
FSUOGM: Gazprom under fire
AfrOil: Nigeria establishes NNPC Ltd as new NOC
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has issued an order authorising the incorporation of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NNPC Ltd), in line with the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act.
LatAmOil: bpTT brings Matapal field on stream ahead of schedule
BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT), a subsidiary of BP (UK), revealed on September 20 that it had begun extracting natural gas from the Matapal field offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
NorthAmOil: ConocoPhillips snaps up Shell’s Permian assets
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell its portfolio of shale assets in the US’ Permian Basin to ConocoPhillips for $9.5bn in cash.
AsianOil: Strike completes pre-FEED at WA ammonia project
Australian natural gas developer Strike Energy has completed a pre-front-end engineering and design study on an ammonia and urea manufacturing facility development in Western Australia.
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