"The announcement of Global Biofuel Alliance (GBA) by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during the G20 summit is a historic development in global efforts to achieve clean energy goals," said Director General of BIS Shri Pramod Kumar Tiwari.
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Hydropower-rich Tajikistan plans to produce 1 million metric tons of green hydrogen by 2040 for usage at home and exports to neighbouring central Asian countries, its Minister of Energy and Water Resources Daler Juma told on Monday.
The heads of Russian energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft, Alexei Miller and Igor Sechin, will join President Vladimir Putin's retinue during his visit to China next month, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters.
Bank of France head Francois Villeroy de Galhau, a governing council member of the European Central Bank (ECB), said on Saturday that the spike in oil and fuel prices did not change the ECB's objective to bring inflation back towards 2% by 2025.
The last major piece of infrastructure needed to start production at Mexico's first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is set to depart from a Texas shipyard next week, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a notice to shippers.
Bank of France head Francois Villeroy de Galhau, a governing council member of the European Central Bank (ECB), said on Saturday that the spike in oil and fuel prices did not change the ECB's objective to bring inflation back towards 2% by 2025.
The large crude distillation unit (CDU) was shut on Friday at TotalEnergies' 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery following an interruption of feed, said people familiar with plant operations.
Japan's Mitsui & Co said on Friday it had finalised a plan with Canada's Northland Power Inc to build a 1 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm in Taiwan at an estimated cost of 960 billion yen ($6.5 billion).
Indian chemicals maker Epigral will keep diversifying its business and expects the share of revenue from new products to expand significantly this year, its chairman and managing director told Reuters on Thursday.
Marine fuel sales at the UAE's Fujairah, the world's third-largest bunker hub, scaled eight-month highs in August, although volumes remained lower from a year-ago period, data showed.
Russia has introduced temporary restrictions on exports of gasoline and diesel in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.
A C$16.5 billion ($12.27 billion) carbon capture and storage (CCS) project proposed by Canada's major oil producers will only move forward if the federal government sets up a contract to lock in future carbon prices, the Pathways Alliance said on Wednesday.
Enbridge Inc could add 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of capacity to its 3 million bpd Mainline system, which ships the bulk of Canada's crude exports to the United States, a company executive said on Tuesday.
Hungary signs a landmark gas supply agreement with Turkmenistan, signaling its shift from reliance on Russian gas. Current transit routes for Turkmen gas involve a three-way swap deal between Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan, with possible expansion plans.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk to build a Tesla factory in Turkey, the country's communications directorate said on Monday.
Germany must strengthen rather than abandon the liquefied natural gas (LNG) capability built last year to retain energy diversity in the face of continued fragility of supply, a senior economy ministry official told an industry event on Tuesday.
Canada's Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, which will nearly triple the flow of crude from Alberta to Canada's Pacific Coast beginning early next year, will shake up North America's supply by diverting barrels now mainly delivered to refiners and exporters in the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast.
Egypt is set to bolster its oil and gas production with plans to drill multiple new wells in the Zohr gas field throughout 2024 and 2025, according to a statement from the government.
With oil investors and traders focused on an oil-price rally that has come close to $100 a barrel, some grades of crude oil are already trading above that milestone, highlighting an expectation of tight supply.
Canadian regulators on Monday kicked off a two-day hearing to weigh up a controversial route change request from the Trans Mountain expansion (TMX) project that has sparked Indigenous opposition and may lead to further delays for the key oil pipeline.