Energy News Beat The country’s new president and prime minister have a mandate to reform the country—but do they have the power? Lebanon has two new leaders and neither is to Hezbollah’s liking. On Jan. 9, Gen. Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), was elected president with 99 out of 128 votes […]
Energy News Beat Two months ago, Nigeria’s beleaguered energy sector witnessed a very significant event: the Dangote Oil Refinery began producing gasoline and selling it domestically to Nigeria’s state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), marking the first time in decades Africa’s largest oil producer is refining its own crude. The state-of-the-art $20.5 billion refinery […]
Energy News Beat New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Dutch owner Mercurius Shipping has returned to China’s Jiangxi New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Heavy Industry for more stainless steel chemical tankers. The inland waterway shipping player has signed up for a pair of 6,000 newbuilds, with delivery likely by June and September 2026. No price has been given for the […]
Energy News Beat CenterPoint Energy activated its Emergency Operations Center this afternoon in advance of Winter Storm Enzo’s arrival to be prepared to manage its response and restoration efforts. The company is coordinating with state and local emergency partners as it prepares to respond to the potential winter impacts on the Greater Houston area. To aid in restoration efforts, […]
Energy News Beat With the Trump inauguration yesterday, this podcast is timely. – We cover Greenland, Energy Policies, Federal Budgets, Elon Musk, President Trump’s next steps and plans for 2025. In the Energy News Beat – Conversation in Energy with Stuart Turley sits down with Christopher Messina to explore the explosive insights from his book, Messina’s […]
Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: There is more to this story than meets the eye. Renaming the Gulf of America, it has brought up a legal question about the Oil and Gas drilling bans by the Biden-Harris administration. Those bans were for the Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf of America. – This will […]
Energy News Beat Fusion, AI demand, SMRs…is nuclear on the rise again? Back in 2011 the Fukushima disaster seemed to spell the end of nuclear energy expansion in Europe and around the world. Now, new analysis from the IEA seems to show 2025 could be the year it makes a global comeback. ELN explores the […]
Energy News Beat The oil-rich kingdom is still assessing whether to join the bloc, the economy minister has said Saudi Arabia is still evaluating potential membership of BRICS, the Gulf nation’s minister of economy and planning, Faisal Al-Ibrahim, told Bloomberg in an interview on Monday. The economic bloc was established in 2009 by Brazil, […]
Energy News Beat Global natural gas markets are set to remain tight in 2025 as demand continues to rise, and supply expands more slowly than before the pandemic and energy crisis, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. The agency said in its latest quarterly gas market report that markets “moved towards […]
Energy News Beat Trump issued the executive order, which was widely expected, just hours after officially taking over his second four-year term as the president. The move is part of a series of new energy actions as part of the order named “unleashing American energy.” According to the order, the energy secretary is directed to […]
