Day: January 31, 2024

ENB #179 Navigating Regulatory Challenges: A Deep Dive into Oil and Gas Waste Management and Emissions Reduction

Energy News Beat I learned so many things from our guests, and today is another great example. Carolina Ortega, VP of Sustainability at Milestone Environmental, was a fantastic resource for our listeners. There are so many regulations, and it is almost impossible to keep up. The penalties for not keeping up would be worth companies […]

Green Crime: An Electric Car, Wind and Solar Crime Wave

Energy News Beat Biden’s Inflation Increase Act intends to spend $7.5 billion taxpayer money to build charging stations for electric car owners. Two years later, no EV chargers were built. And that’s good. The modern sheen of the electric car is running into the medieval state of American cities. Seattle began installing dozens of EV […]

America’s enemies are hoping we ‘go green’

Energy News Beat In the shadows of American climate activism, a web of foreign interests is quietly pulling the strings in the background to undermine U.S. energy security. As the Biden administration continues to advance policies harmful to domestic energy production, it’s important to understand the growing influence of foreign entities shaping our climate policy and […]

AI Surge Catches US Electric Grid Off Guard, Keeps Coal Plants In Business

Energy News Beat Artificial intelligence is taking over the world, not literally, or rather, not yet anyway. However, the use of AI and machine learning is having a butterfly effect. Besides all the standard implications of AI taking jobs and concerns about the responsible use of it, AI is also putting a strain on the power infrastructure around […]

Baker Hughes annual meeting: DOE official tries to calm LNG furor

Energy News Beat (WO) – During the first day of the Baker Hughes Annual Meeting on Monday in Florence, Italy, a U.S. DOE official tried to explain the Biden administration’s sudden move to stop issuing LNG export licenses. Supposedly, the action was taken on Jan. 26, to give the administration time to analyze how LNG […]

Fresh batch of free Russian fertilizer arrives in Africa

Energy News Beat Nigeria has taken delivery of 34,000 tons of potash donated by Russian fertilizer giant Uralchem, the company announced on Wednesday, adding that the shipment is currently being unloaded at the port of Onne. The delivery is Uralchem’s fifth humanitarian consignment to Africa’s most populous country, and takes the total amount of free […]

India set for major boost to crude refining capacity – Bloomberg 

Energy News Beat   New Delhi is planning to increase fuel production by over 20% in the next five years India is poised to significantly increase its crude refining capacity in an effort to accommodate its growing demand for fuel, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The world’s third-largest crude oil importer, India, seeks to raise production […]

Norway defends deep-sea mining, says it may help to break China and Russia’s rare earths stronghold

Energy News Beat In a vote earlier this month that attracted cross-party support, Norway’s parliament voted 80-20 to approve a government proposal to open a vast ocean area for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. It makes the northern European country the first in the world to move forward with the process of extracting minerals from the seabed. […]

NATO’s big hitters oppose Ukrainian membership – FP

Energy News Beat Washington and Berlin reportedly believe that admitting Kiev into the alliance would risk a full-scale clash with Moscow The US and Germany are resisting calls by NATO allies to invite Ukraine into the bloc at a major summit later this year, fearing that the move could trigger a full-scale clash with Russia, […]

NYK, Jera seal LNG carrier charter deal

Energy News Beat Japan’s shipping giant NYK and compatriot power firm and LNG importer Jera have signed a ten-year charter agreement for one 174,000-cbm LNG carrier. According to a statement by NYK, the vessel will be built by South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and is scheduled to begin transporting LNG for Jera after completion […]