English Edition

Asia to Drive LNG Demand With US Leading Supply Growth

Asia to Drive LNG Demand With US Leading Supply Growth

Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) demand growth is forecast to increase by 4% this year driven by the Asia Pacific region with the US set to supply the bulk of this demand, International Energy Agency (IEA) analysts told Anadolu Agency Tuesday

European Commission: Serbia, BiH Increase Coal Power Output in 2020

European Commission: Serbia, BiH Increase Coal Power Output in 2020

While power output from coal and lignite fell by 22% in the EU last year, Serbia boosted its production by 4% in the sector and Bosnia and Herzegovina increased it by 8%, the European Commission said. The number of hours with negative power prices in 11 zones in Europe almost doubled. The phenomenon occurred in Slovenia, Croatia and Greece, among other countries

Global Oil Demand to Increase 6% in 2021: OPEC

Global Oil Demand to Increase 6% in 2021: OPEC

Global oil demand is expected to increase by around 6% to an average of 96.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2021, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said in its Monthly Oil Market Report on Tuesday

Excelerate Energy Reaches Ship-To-Ship LNG Milestone

Excelerate Energy Reaches Ship-To-Ship LNG Milestone

Excelerate Energy L.P. (Excelerate) completed its 2000th commercial ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of LNG on 3 April 2021, at Excelerate’s Moheshkhali Floating LNG (MLNG) terminal located offshore Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. Using Excelerate’s floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) Excellence and a conventional LNG carrier, 144,191 m3 of LNG were transferred using the double-banked LNG transfer system. To date, Excelerate has successfully transferred over 236 405 000 m3 of LNG using its STS protocol

OMV Petroms Q1 Daily Hydrocarbon Output Drops

OMV Petrom's Q1 Daily Hydrocarbon Output Drops

The hydrocarbon production of Romania's top oil and gas group OMV Petrom [BSE:SNP] dropped to 138,900 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day in the first quarter of 2021 from 150,300 boe per day in the same period of 2020, the company said on Friday

NGOs Call for Nuclears Inclusion in EU Taxonomy

NGOs Call for Nuclear's Inclusion in EU Taxonomy

A group of 46 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from 18 countries has written to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, calling for the inclusion of nuclear energy in the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments. The exclusion of nuclear, they say, would promote a strategy that is "clearly inadequate" to decarbonise the region's economy

EBRD Lending 9.1 Mln Euro to Albanias KESH for Floating PV Plant Project

EBRD Lending 9.1 Mln Euro to Albania's KESH for Floating PV Plant Project

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it will extend a 9.1 million euro ($10.7 million) loan to Albanian state-owned power utility Korporata Elektroenergjitike Shqiptare (KESH) for the construction of a floating photovoltaic (PV) plant

Oil Down 5% as Rising OPEC+, Iranian Output Weighs

Oil Down 5% as Rising OPEC+, Iranian Output Weighs

Oil fell more than $3 a barrel on Monday as rising supply from OPEC+ and higher Iranian output countered signs of a strong economic rebound in the United States

Turkeys Daily Power Consumption up 17.9% on April 5

Turkey's Daily Power Consumption up 17.9% on April 5

Turkey's daily electricity consumption increased by 17.9% on Monday compared to the previous day to reach 884,379 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Tuesday at 10.00 local time

OPEC+ Agrees to Gradually Ease Output from May to July

OPEC+ Agrees to Gradually Ease Output from May to July

The world's major oil producers on Thursday agreed on the much-expected production policy by approving an incremental increase of up 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May and June and 400,000 bpd in July