Financial details of Shell’s vast oil and gas trading business are some of the company’s closest-held secrets.
Documents in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, however, revealed its U.S. crude trading regularly earns around US$1 billion every year.
Bharat’s electricity sector is set for substantial growth and diversification. Bharat has set several targets for energy transition, security, and access, with specific timelines. As a part of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the UNFCCC, India aims to increase the share of installed capacity for electric power derived from non-fossil fuel sources to 50% by 2030. Additionally, Bharat has set a goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070[1] and is on track to meet this target[2].
Namibia’s national oil company has signed a development deal with Chevron that will see the US oil major take an 80% operating working interest in an offshore block in the Walvis Basin, it said on Monday.
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited over the “failure to account for and explain the whereabouts
of the alleged missing USD$2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.”
U.S. natural gas producers and shippers could be one of the big winners of the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence.
The surge in data centers amid the booming AI technology development is set to lead to higher U.S. natural demand and prices by the end of the decade, according to investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
Azerbaijan has announced its first solar auction and will seek private support for the design, financing, operation and maintenance of a 100MW project in the eastern municipality of Gobustan.
Poland’s Ministry of Climate and Environment has taken into account the MinFin’s comments to the draft on the partial unfreezing of energy prices from July this year, which indicate that the cost of the law will be PLN 8.1 billion (EUR 1.88 bln), rather than PLN 6.3 billion (EUR 1.46 bln), according to the climate ministry’s response to the inter-resort consultation.
The Ministry of Energy has asked the Ministry of Interior and the Federal Board of Revenue to crack down on the rampant smuggling of Iranian petroleum products, which has already forced one refinery to shut down a unit and also threatens refinery upgrade agreements worth billions of dollars.
Diversified energy company Genser Energy commissioned a 110km natural gas pipeline to propel Ghana’s power sector and foster economic growth.
Nigeria’s state-owned oil company has warned against the panic buying of petrol, saying the prices of fuel are not changing.