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AfrElec: Nigeria’s PowerGen secures $9mn project financing for mini-grid project

28 July 2021

Nigerian power developer PowerGen has secured project financing to build 28 distributed renewable energy (DRE) systems using solar PV and battery technology in rural areas.

Czech industry ministry signs memorandum to back country's first EV battery plant

28 July 2021

€2bn battery factory to be built by state-owned utility CEZ with Germany's VW or South Korea's LG.

GLNG: Port Arthur LNG plans suffer another blow

27 July 2021

US-based Sempra Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Poland’s PGNiG for the potential purchase of around 2mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG. The preliminary deal potentially spells bad news for Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG plan.

AsianOil: India approves two new SPR sites

27 July 2021

The Indian government has approved plans to build two underground crude oil storage facilities that will expand the country’s strategic petroleum reserve capacity by 6.5mn tonnes.

NorthAmOil: Shell announces Whale FID

27 July 2021

A Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary announced this week that it had made a final investment decision on the Whale project in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Perenco, SNH, Golar LNG strike a deal on increasing gas deliveries to FLNG

27 July 2021

Perenco and Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), the national oil company (NOC) of Cameroon, will increase the total volume of natural gas delivered to the Hilli Episeyo FLNG owned by Bermuda-registered Golar LNG.

US legislators urge Biden to examine Mexican energy policy

27 July 2021

Twenty US legislators have urged President Joe Biden to take a closer look at the Mexican government’s approach to competition in the energy sector in light of the challenges faced by US companies working in Mexico.

LatAmOil: US legislators urge Biden to examine Mexican energy policy

27 July 2021

Twenty US senators and representatives have urged President Joe Biden to take a closer look at the Mexican government’s energy policy in light of the challenges faced by US oil, gas and power companies working in Mexico.

AfrOil: Cameroon to send more gas to FLNG

27 July 2021

Perenco (UK/France) and Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), the national oil company (NOC) of Cameroon, will increase the total volume of natural gas delivered to the Hilli Episeyo FLNG vessel owned by Golar LNG.

BP sends first carbon-offset LNG cargo to ECA terminal in Mexico

22 July 2021

BP (UK) has made its first carbon-offset delivery of LNG to the Energía Costa Azul (ECA) terminal in Mexico under a contract with two subsidiaries of US-based Sempra Energy.

US and Germany strike deal on Nord Stream 2 pipeline

21 July 2021

Dismay in Ukraine as agreement allows controversial gas pipeline to be completed without further US sanctions.

Reports indicate Iran’s drought protests threaten to escalate to Tehran

21 July 2021

Police officer shot dead in Khuzestan. Military starts shipping water tankers to the province as unrest continues for sixth night.

ASIAELEC: Siemens Gamesa clinches 322-MW Indian turbine deal

21 July 2021

Siemens Gamesa has won a 322-MW turbine supply deal from India’s ReNew Power for the Tondehal wind farm in the southern state of Karnataka.

AFRELEC: Hwange expansion makes solid progress

21 July 2021

Zimbabwe’s Chinese-funded $1.5bn expansion to the Hwange coal-fired power station is now 68% complete, despite delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

NorthAmOil: Cheniere’s expansion plan boosted by Tourmaline deal

20 July 2021

US LNG exporter Cheniere Energy has struck a 15-year supply deal with Tourmaline Oil, which is aimed at supporting a proposed expansion of Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG export terminal in Texas.

GLNG: First Nation, partners propose Canadian LNG project

20 July 2021

The Nisga'a Nation, a First Nation in the Canadian province of British Columbia, has unveiled a proposal for the Ksi Lisims LNG project, alongside its partners Western LNG and Rockies LNG.

LatAmOil: Carbon-offset LNG cargo arrives in Mexico

20 July 2021

BP has made its first carbon-offset delivery of LNG to the Energía Costa Azul terminal in Mexico under a contract with two subsidiaries of US-based Sempra Energy.

AfrOil: Abuja reportedly seeking new funding for AKK pipeline

20 July 2021

Nigeria’s federal government is said to be looking for a new source of funding so that NNPC can continue work on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) natural gas pipeline project.