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Russia avoids most of the G7 oil sanctions on its exports

26 September 2023

Russia has managed to avoid G7 sanctions on most of its oil exports, a development that will bolster the Kremlin's revenues as crude oil prices surge towards $100 per barrel, the Financial Times reported on September 24.

Earth’s energy imbalance – world is starting to cook

25 September 2023

The earth’s energy is out of balance and the world is starting to cook, says a new report. The authors include James Hansen, who testified to the US Congress on global heating as long ago as 1988.

Greek agriculture devastated for five or more years

25 September 2023

Storm Daniel wiped out a quarter of Greece’s annual farming production, as a result of deadly flash flooding that submerged fields and drowned livestock.

First electric minibus taxi paves the way for EV transition in South Africa

25 September 2023

A team from Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Engineering has developed and successfully tested South Africa’s first electric minibus taxi, Daily Maverick reports.

Poland’s first nuclear power plant clears key hurdle in ambitiously timed plan

25 September 2023

Nuclear power is the cornerstone of Poland’s plan to reduce the currently dominant share of coal and lignite in electricity generation.

A slow thaw in frozen US-Iran relations has led to booming oil exports

25 September 2023

The deep freeze that has been US-Iran relations is slowly thawing. That doesn’t mean relations will become “good” anytime soon. But it does mean that Iran will be able to slowly reintegrate into the global economy.

ING: Diesel supply concerns grow with Russian export ban

24 September 2023

Middle distillate markets received another boost yesterday after Russia announced that it would be temporarily banning diesel and gasoline exports. This is at a time when there is already plenty of concern around middle distillate availability.

PANNIER: How ‘C5+1’ set the stage for a new era in US-Central Asia relations

22 September 2023

Focus shifts from security to energy security, renewable energy and transportation infrastructure, while there are no illusions about delivering democracy.

ASX-listed gas explorer Kinetiko Energy acquires South African joint venture Afro Energy

22 September 2023

Kinetiko Energy (Kinetiko), a Perth-based gas explorer and developer focussed on South Africa, has assumed 100% ownership of a joint venture that holds exploration rights to a highly prospective acreage in the African nation.

AIM-listed Premier African Minerals resumes spodumene production at Zulu lithium mine in Zimbabwe

22 September 2023

Premier African Minerals (Premier) has finished installing a RHA ball mill at its Zulu Lithium and Tantalum Mine in western Zimbabwe, paving the way for resumption of spodumene production at the asset.

Russia bans fuel exports as deliveries to military surge

22 September 2023

Russia has temporarily banned the export of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a group of four ex-Soviet states, aiming to stabilise its domestic fuel market, as supplies of diesel to the military surge.

Bulgaria to stop imports of Russian oil

21 September 2023

Parliament votes to end imports despite exemption from EU-wide ban until end-2024.