• An Energy Star inside U.S. homes is under attack from Trump, with the cost to homeowners uncertain
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from Energy
    Donald Trump has railed against modern dishwashers, washing machines, light bulbs, showerheads and toilets. He's turned his ire into a presidential edict.
  • Why Greenland Isn’t Chasing the Dream of Becoming a Mining Superpower
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Early in Donald Trump’s presidency, he announced his ambitions to acquire Greenland. In March, Trump said, “We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it.” As well as stating ambitions to counter...
  • Russia's Rosneft Oil Company in early talks with Reliance to sell stake in India unit
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Rosneft is in preliminary discussions with Reliance Industries for the sale of its 49.13% stake in Nayara Energy, which includes a major oil refinery and a vast network of petrol pumps in India. Reliance aims to become India's top oil...
  • Europe Wants Green Steel but Can’t Afford It
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    The European Union has pledged billions in rearmament spending. It also just pledged billions in higher NATO spending. Steel is a crucial part of the rearmament drive. Without it, you can’t build tanks and make weapons. But Europe does...
  • Why America's Green Hydrogen Dreams Are Stalling
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Just a couple of years ago, everyone seemed to be talking about the great potential for clean hydrogen. As governments worldwide strive to decarbonise, several industry players were looking to hydrogen as the potential miracle fuel that...
  • The Decline of Oil Power in Middle East Geopolitics
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Despite expectations, the recent geopolitical turbulence in the Middle East—especially the events of October 7, 2023, and the escalation between Israel and Iran—did not deliver a severe blow to global energy markets. Compared to past...
  • California’s Gasoline Crisis Was Manufactured—Now They’re Pretending to Fix It
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    California’s politicians want you to believe they’re trying to rein in sky-high gas prices. They’re not. What’s really happening is years of restrictive policies and overregulation are finally catching up with the state’s fuel supply—and...
  • Govt set to launch digital platform for power sector soon
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    To foster better coordination and data sharing within the power sector, the government is developing a digital platform called the India Energy Stack. A 17-member task force, led by Ram Sewak Sharma and Nandan Nilekani, will spearhead...
  • Tesla Has Big Plans in China
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Tesla is moving forward with plans to develop new operations in China despite the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, and with uncertainty over tariffs. In June, Tesla signed an agreement to develop a grid-scale...
  • Nandan Nilekani appointed Chief Mentor for India Energy Stack Task Force
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    The Ministry of Power has officially appointed Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, as the Chief Mentor of the Task Force responsible for creating the India Energy Stack. This initiative aims to establish a Digital Public...
  • Uncertainty Looms Over Iran's Nuclear Stockpiles
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    The dust has settled over Fordow, Iran's remote mountain nuclear facility, and two other locations the United States says it “obliterated” over the weekend in a dramatic escalation of its efforts to hamstring Tehran’s nuclear program....
  • Power Ministry unveils task force to conceive India Energy Stack
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    The Power Ministry introduces a task force for the India Energy Stack. This initiative aims to create a unified digital infrastructure for the energy sector. It will integrate renewable energy and improve DISCOM efficiency. The IES will...
  • Bangladesh slashes Adani Power dues with $384 million payment, $500 million still outstanding
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Bangladesh significantly reduced its debt to Adani Power with a USD 384 million payment in June. This payment cleared admitted claims until March 31. Adani Power had earlier halved supplies due to payment issues. Full supplies resumed in...
  • Extreme Heat Exposes Fragile U.S. Energy Grid
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    For the third consecutive day, extreme heat across the eastern half of the U.S. has triggered power grid alerts and emergency warnings, highlighting the fragility of current energy infrastructure. Extremely tight power grids reinforce a...
  • UK Car Output Hits 76-Year Low
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    UK car production plunged to its lowest level since 1949 last month, as Aston Martin and other British carmakers halted exports to the United States amid president Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. Data released on Friday by the...
  • X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far more comfortable and convenient
  • Coterra shifts its view on oil, again. Here are our 3 takeaways as investors in the stock
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Energy
    CEO Thomas Jorden shared the company's decision not to reduce its oil rig count at an energy conference earlier this week.
  • US Oil Drilling Activity Slumps As Volatile Prices Spook Markets
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell yet again this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 1-rig decrease in the week prior. The total rig count in the...
  • Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always lands on the same side
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from carbon fibre and tungsten
  • The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with giant parachutes
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation moving – but some experts are sceptical
  • Oil-Rich Alberta Forecasts Unexpected Budget Surplus
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Alberta expects to have booked a budget surplus of about US$4.2 billion (C$5.8 billion) for the fiscal year 2024-2025 that ended in March, as Nate Horner, the finance minister of Canada’s oil-producing province, prepares to deliver the...
  • Russian Oil Flows Keep Falling, Pipeline Giant Transneft Says
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Oil flows on the Transneft pipeline network, which handles 80% of all the oil Russia produces, fell last year and continue to slide in 2025, too, due to the OPEC+ agreement to withhold supply and technological issues at Russia’s...
  • Iran-Based Social Media Campaign Targets Saudi Aramco
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Car Online, an Iran-based campaign on social media channels, has started to call on its subscribers and followers to incite Yemenis to target facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco, as a revenge against U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear...
  • All Eyes on Fundamentals as Geopolitical Risk in Oil Evaporates
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    Following the collapse of geopolitical risk premium in oil prices, oil is back to trading on supply, demand, and OPEC+ expectations. The Israel-Iran ceasefire and the lack of subsequent retaliatory attacks has drained oil markets of the...
  • BYD is Cutting Production Despite Strong Sales
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
    BYD stock and its U.S. listed ADRs slumped about 3% on Wednesday this week, after it was reported the vehicle manufacturer was cutting production. China’s top automaker is scaling back production at several factories due to rising...
  • BHEL bags Rs 6,500 crore order from Adani Power
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a significant order worth Rs 6,500 crore from Adani Power Ltd. for the supply and supervision of erection and commissioning of six thermal units, each with a capacity of 800 MW. In...
  • Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance
  • Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe
  • Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite
  • ONGC well in Assam capped after 16 days of gas leakage: Hardeep Singh Puri
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced that ONGC successfully capped the crude oil well blowout in Assam's Sivasagar district after 16 days of gas leakage. The capping of Well No RDS 147A was completed safely without any injuries,...
  • Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over the US
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a meteor breaking up as it falls through Earth’s atmosphere
  • Generator stock Generac heads for best week since November amid heat wave, looming storm threats
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy
    The backup generator maker is on track for its sixth straight day of gains and best week since November 2024. It is up nearly 12% this week.
  • Core Scientific shares surge 33% on report of buyout talks with CoreWeave
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy
    Core Scientific shares jumped 33% after a report that CoreWeave is in talks to acquire the bitcoin miner.
  • Domestic natural gas price to hit govt ceiling in July
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Domestic natural gas price will increase to $6.75 per mmbtu next month. This rise links to crude prices, which surged due to the Iran conflict. The Centre revises this rate monthly based on the average crude price. Prices have mostly...
  • Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has been wiping out ash trees across Europe
  • Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a problem than those who slept lightly or not at all
  • These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a compelling case that it does
  • Trump now wields sweeping veto power over U.S. Steel. Here's how the 'golden share' works
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy
    President Donald Trump approved the merger of U.S. Steel with Japan's Nippon Steel only after the companies accepted the "golden share" arrangement.
  • The arithmetic is tricky for a Shell bid for BP today. Next year may be different
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Shell says it has ‘no intention’ of making an offer for BP. But if its share price rises, the numbers could work BP is a sitting duck for a takeover bid by most criteria. Its share price has underperformed rivals’ for years. The latest...
  • Cutting down forests to feed Drax incurs a huge carbon cost | Letters
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Alex Sobel MP writes paying Drax billions of pounds to burn forests is not a coherent climate strategy; Tom Blandford suggests Drax is a stepping stone to a low carbon future; Peg Putt deplores its emissions ‘reductions’ scheme; plus a...
  • Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home
  • Assam gas blowout: ONGC hopeful of plugging the leak by Friday
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    ONGC, collaborating with CUDD Pressure Control, achieved a significant breakthrough at Well RDS#147A, safely removing the rig substructure and preparing for the crucial snubbing operation. Hydraulic lines were successfully connected to...
  • Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet stream
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have found by compiling data from the past 125 years
  • Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Storm naming competition raises idea to remind public of link between fossil fuels and extreme weather The Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, campaigners have said, after the weather forecasting service opened a...
  • NTPC says 3,300-MW project in Bihar will become commercially operational on July 1
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    NTPC's 3,300-MW Barh Super Thermal Power Project in Bihar is set to achieve full commercial operation. This milestone will be reached on July 1, 2025, with the commercial launch of Unit-3 (660 MW) under Stage-I. Following this, NTPC's...
  • Hitachi Energy India bags order to supply 30 units of 765 kV transformers to POWERGRID
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Hitachi Energy India has secured an order from Power Grid Corporation of India to supply 30 units of 765-kV transformers, which will be manufactured in Gujarat. These transformers will enhance Powergrid's grid security and efficiency,...
  • Indian refiners' May crude processing edges up 0.4% from a year earlier
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    Indian refiners' throughput saw a slight increase of 0.4% year-on-year in May, reaching 5.47 million barrels per day, driven by strong domestic fuel demand. Despite record-high crude oil imports, refinery runs were only modestly up due...
  • Shell has ‘no intention’ of making offer to buy BP after £60bn takeover rumours
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Business: Energy industry | theguardian.com
    Statement to stock market follows media reports of early talks with BP to create a £200bn UK oil company Business live – latest updates Shell has said it has “no intention” of making an offer for the rival fossil fuel company BP after...
  • From shortage to surplus: India pours record rice crop into ethanol
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Energy-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
    India, facing massive rice inventories exceeding government targets, is diverting record amounts of rice, 5.2 million metric tons, for ethanol production. This move aims to manage surplus stocks and sustain the ethanol blending program...
  • What sleep scientists recommend doing to fall asleep more easily
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from New Scientist - Energy and Fuels
    Helping yourself get to sleep isn’t just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuffling to sleep-restriction therapy, columnist Helen Thomson finds out what actually works
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