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Newfoundland and Labrador government offers lifeline to West White Rose

10 December 2020

The government of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador announced last week that it would provide CAD41.5mn ($32.4mn) worth of funding for Husky Energy’s stalled West White Rose project.

Kogas carries out ship-to-ship LNG bunkering test in world first

10 December 2020

In a world first, Korea Gas (KOGAS) successfully carried out a ship-to-ship LNG bunkering test in late November.

AGN announces first green hydrogen production

10 December 2020

Australian Gas Networks (AGN) has announced the first green hydrogen production from its renewable gas facility in South Australia.

Gunvor to supply Vietnamese LNG-to-power project

10 December 2020

Commodity trader Gunvor International and US-based Energy Capital Vietnam have signed a deal that will ensure feedstock supply for another Vietnamese liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power project.

OIL’s Assam drilling plans blocked by court order

10 December 2020

State-run Oil India Ltd’s (OIL) plans to drill at a national park in Assam State have been pushed to the backburner after the Gauhati High Court suspended the company’s environmental clearance.

OVL’s mixed upstream fortunes

10 December 2020

India’s state-run ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) has had something of a mixed week, with good news onshore Colombia being offset by a missed acquisition opportunity in Senegal’s deep waters.

Chevron temporarily shuts Wheatstone unit on operational issue

10 December 2020

Chevron has temporarily shut down a unit that separates natural gas from associated liquids at its Wheatstone processing platform offshore Western Australia after an “anomaly” within a nozzle on an inlet separator vessel was found.

Santos, Mitsubishi strike supply deal for Barossa project

10 December 2020

Australia’s Santos announced on December 7 that it had signed a 10-year agreement to supply LNG from its proposed Barossa project to Diamond Gas International, a unit of Japan’s Mitsubishi.

Vestas backs 10-MW green ammonia plant

10 December 2020

Vestas has joined Danish investment group Skovgaard Invest and chemicals leader Haldor Topsoe to develop a renewables-powered green ammonia plant in Denmark by 2022.

Malaysia's CIMB bank unveils 2040 coal exit plan

9 December 2020

Malaysia’s CIMB, one of the world's major Islamic finance institutions, has unveiled a comprehensive climate policy that rules out any exposure to coal power by 2040.

TVEL to introduce new fuel, longer cycle at Kudankulam

9 December 2020

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Russia’s TVEL, the nuclear fuel manufacturing subsidiary of Rosatom, have signed a supplementary agreement to their fuel supply contract for the VVER-1000 reactors in operation at Kudankulam.

Will China remain central to Sudan’s oil sector?

9 December 2020

Recent improvements in US-Sudanese relations may shift power away from state-owned Chinese oil majors, but change is not likely to occur overnight.

Expansion of Czechia's Dukovany nuclear power plant postponed

9 December 2020

The tender for the construction of the new nuclear unit at the Dukovany power plant in Czechia will be delayed to 2021, said the Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlicek.