Energy News Beat The U.S. carried out its fifth airstrike against Houthi targets in Yemen late Thursday night. The Iran-backed rebel group within hours launched two anti-ship ballistic missiles at a U.S.-owned tanker. The Houthis say their campaign is in response to Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip and U.S. support for it. DUBAI, United […]
Energy News Beat Conventional energy is vitally important for all that we do. Missing from news reports to the general public is an honest communication to try to explain the huge and enormous energy systems that we depend on each day and the impossibility of replacing conventional energy with wind and solar. To start 2024, […]
Energy News Beat (WO) – Vallourec, a global provider premium tubular solutions, has signed a contract with TotalEnergies for the supply of casing and tubing and associated accessories for the first phase of the Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP) in Iraq. The GGIP includes the recovery of gas currently being flared in the Basra region […]
Energy News Beat Over 150 million Americans are under a winter chill advisory due to life-threatening temperatures. Every state besides Hawaii has issued some form of caution to residents as nearly 80% of the nation faces below-freezing weather. Extreme weather highlights the importance of fossil fuels, as there is NO reliable alternative. Texas is on […]
Energy News Beat Wyoming’s oil and gas industry could get slammed by more than $900 million in lost revenue and lose nearly 3,000 jobs under proposed changes in how federal land is managed in southwestern Wyoming. The industry hasn’t ruled out the possibility of litigation to challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s “flawed data” used […]
Energy News Beat When environmental activists calling for less pollution sit in the streets, across Europe they are now abused and attacked, arrested and handed extreme and draconian sentences. When farmers contesting pollution rules block entire city centres and major roads and spray manure on government buildings, the authorities sit and wait for them to go home. Few, if any, […]
Energy News Beat It can plausibly be hypothesized that Saudi Arabia’s unexpected decision to delay formal membership in BRICS is due to Western perceptions about this association, Iran’s involvement in the Red Sea Crisis, and Israeli-US pressure. Saudi Commerce Minister Majid Al-Kasabi clarified on the sidelines of last week’s Davos Summit that his country hasn’t yet accepted […]
Energy News Beat The Republicans could make support for more Ukrainian aid conditional on a joint investigation into these claims and thus doom any deal and/or the Biden Administration or the Zelensky regime could leak evidence if the other doesn’t do their bidding given their blackmail of one another due to these joint crimes. Former […]
Energy News Beat On December 17, 2023, India’s largest indigenously developed 700-MWe pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) – the fourth unit in Kakrapar, Gujarat – attained criticality. Six months earlier, another 700-MWe unit in the same facility had started producing commercial electricity. In 2024, another unit with the same capacity is expected to be commissioned in […]
Energy News Beat Sweden has been doing a lot of things right lately. They have already scrapped the renewable energy plans and have been pushing for more nuclear power. In the new year, Sweden removed climate taxes on fuel, causing diesel prices to collapse by over 4 SEK (€0.35) per liter. In 2022, when the […]
