Oil and Gas
Iraq approves $17 bn to pay Iran gas debt and buy grain
Iraq passed Wednesday an emergency finance bill to pay debts to Iran to ensure gas supplies and forestall worsening power cuts, as well as to buy grain for…
Energy News
Argentina president seeks special tax on Ukraine war windfalls
Argentina's president vowed Monday to pursue a special tax on company profits boosted by the war in Ukraine, a phenomenon he described as an "immorality" given the inflationary pressure on poor households.
Oil and Gas
Iraq intercepts microlight carrying million captagon pills
Iraqi security forces have said they forced down a microlight aircraft near the Kuwaiti border headed to the emirate from Iran with one million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon.
Energy Tech
Novel strategy to make fast-charging solid-state batteries
In a breakthrough, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and their collaborators have discovered how next-generation solid-state batteries fail and devised a novel strategy to make these batteries last longer and charge faster.
Energy Tech
Electrolyte additive offers lithium battery performance breakthrough
A team of researchers led by chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has learned that an electrolyte additive allows stable high-voltage cycling of nickel-rich layered cathodes.
Wind Daily
1500 sensors for the rotor blades of the future
Rotor blades are one of the most important components of a wind turbine. They can be up to 70 metres long and weigh between 15 and 20 tonnes.
Oil and Gas
Green ire for London as gas field off Scotland approved
Britain drew criticism from environmentalists Wednesday after giving Shell permission to develop the Jackdaw gas field off the Scottish coast in a bid to ramp up energy security.
Oil and Gas
Iraq faces further power cuts as Iran gas debt missed
Iraq has failed to pay $1.6 billion owed to neighbouring Iran for gas imports, a debt needed to guarantee further supplies critical to prevent worsening power cuts, Baghdad's authorities said Wednesday.
Wind Daily
As the grid adds wind power, researchers have to reengineer recovery from blackouts
When the power grid goes down, there's a step-by-step recovery process - a "blackstart" that up to now has depended on power from gas or hydro turbines spinning away inside a power plant.
Energy Tech
University of Houston researchers identify alternative to lithium-based battery technology
Lithium-ion batteries are currently the preferred technology to power electric vehicles, but they're too expensive for long-duration grid-scale energy storage systems, and lithium itself is becoming more challenging to access.
Oil and Gas
Light instead of electricity: A new kind of green hydrogen
Hydrogen could be an important part of our future energy supply: It can be stored, transported and burned as needed.
Oil and Gas
If plastic comes from oil which came originally from plants, why isn’t it biodegradable
To better understand why plastics don't biodegrade, let's start with how plastics are made and how biodegradation works.
Energy News
German prosecutors raid Deutsche Bank in ‘greenwashing’ probe
German prosecutors raided Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt on Tuesday as part of a probe into allegations that the financial institution was marketing investment products as "greener" than they actually were.
Energy News
Heads roll at Aussie power giant after green takeover bid
Australia's biggest carbon emitter AGL abruptly announced on Monday the departure of its chairman, CEO and a string of board members, while scrapping a long-planned move to spin off its lucrative coal business.
Oil and Gas
Saudi Arabia names senior diplomat as 1st climate envoy
Saudi Arabia announced Sunday it had named a senior diplomat as its first climate envoy, as officials vow to ramp up oil production while pursuing ambitious goals for emission cuts.
Bio Fuel
Bacteria could transform paper industry waste into useful products
Dr. Lindsay Eltis, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of British Columbia, and his team are studying how bacteria transform wood-derived compounds into useful chemicals.