Energy

  • The National Petrochemical Company is to reduce mazut production and increase the quality of petrochemical products.  This is in line with the 'economy of resistance', a measure proposed by…

  • Two Dutch and Russian firms are conducting pigging operations on oil pipelines network. Qasem Arab Yarmohammadi, an official with the Iranian Oil Pipelines and Telecommunications Company, said…

  • British BP will join the Trans-Anatolian (TANAP) gas pipeline project in the near future AzerNews reported. TANAP will link up with Trans-Adriatic (TAP) pipeline on the Turkish-Greek border. About…

  • The value of petrochemicals export in the present Iranian calendar year (ends March 2015) is set to exceed $12 billion, allowing for export to European markets to increase, secretary general of…

  • The energy ministry is ready to hand over electricity supply to third party companies, managing director of the Iran Grid Management Company (IGMC) said.

  • Negotiations with several European companies have been held to attract investments in Iranian wind and solar projects, Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA)'s managing director said.

  • OPEC's decision to retain its production ceiling is not beneficial to all OPEC member states, but Iran has refrained from objecting in order to maintain group unity, said the oil…

  • Turkey's first nuclear power plant to be built on country's southern coast will be operational for 100 years, said a Russian Rosatom company official, World Bulletin reported.

  • After the failure of its risky exploration strategy this year, Norwegian oil firm Statoil is cutting costs as fast and deep as it can to preserve cash for dividends - and may be jeopardizing…

  • The Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) successfully carried out a crude blending process, Shana news agency reported Sunday. The process will allow producers to increase the…

  • HSBC, National Bank of Egypt and National Bank of Abu Dhabi will arrange a $1.5 billion syndicated loan to Egypt's state oil company in order for the country to pay back foreign energy companies,…

  • Iranian oil producers and contractors are working with only 30 percent of capacity, deputy energy minister Seyyed Emad Hosseini warned, adding that a think-tank has been established at the oil…

  • Plans are underway to replace dilapidated power plants with combined cycle plants, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said, Mehr news agency reported Saturday.

    “Building new power plants,…

  • OPEC’s decision to cede no ground to rival producers underscored the price war in the crude market and the challenge to US shale drillers.

  • Researchers at KU Leuven's Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis have successfully converted sawdust into building blocks for gasoline. Using a new chemical process, they were able to convert…

  • Wind turbines in Nir County, Ardebil Province, will generate 660 kilowatt electricity per day after installation in late December, the county's governor said.

  • A petrochemical plant constructed near the city of Mahabad will be commissioned within the next two months, the mayor of Mahabad Jafar Katani told Azerbaijani reporters in Iran on November 27.…

  • Iran extended a contract to export electricity to Iraq by the end of 2015, Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian said, Fars news agency reported.

    According to the deal, volume of…

  • The energy ministry is open to power generation from associated petroleum gas (APG) and will guarantee the purchase of such electricity, deputy energy minister Houshang Falahatian said, Fars news…

  • Region 1 of the national gas distribution plan supplied 21 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas across Iran during the March-November period, a 9.4 percent increase compared to the same period last…

  • Operating reserves of gas at Gazprom’s underground storage facilities in Russia has increased to 72 billion cubic meters by the beginning of the heating season, or by 4.3% on the same period in…

  • Mexico will offer a total of 169 blocks between extraction and exploration in its first Round One tender to open up the country's oil fields, estimating resources at 19.945 billion barrels of oil…

  • After over a year of marathon sessions Iran and the P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) on Monday decided to keep on talking for seven more months to bridge the…

  • The 11th Kish International Energy Exhibition will be held in Kish Island, with the participation of national and international companies, from January 12 to 15, 2015, IRNA reported.

  • Energy-starved Pakistan is negotiating with Qatar to begin imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) early next year, Pakistan's petroleum minister said on Friday.