Ecology

Port Louis. Anxious residents of Mauritius created makeshift oil spill barriers on Saturday as tonnes of fuel leaking from a grounded ship put endangered wildlife in further jeopardy. They stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves as satellite images showed a dark slick spreading near ...

Moscow. Nornickel (a metals giant Norilsk Nickel) will make a modern system to monitor conditions of the permafrost, the company’s Vice President on Ecology and Environment Andrei Bugrov said on Tuesday. Over 21, 000 cubic meters of petroleum products spilled at the Thermal Power Plant ...

Vena. Oil retreated before an OPEC+ committee meeting this week that may confirm the group’s intention to taper production cuts even as the coronavirus surges in many countries including the U. S. Expectations are that the cartel will begin unwinding historic supply curbs as planned in ...

Melbourne. Oil prices rose on Friday, extending gains from the previous day on optimism about recovering fuel demand worldwide, despite a surge in coronavirus infections in some U. S. states and indications of a revival in U. S. crude production. U. S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ...

New Delhi. The world’s biggest lockdown may have eased in India, but the country’s oil refineries are finding it tough going to pull off a complete recovery as fuel demand remains below pre-virus levels and stockpiles swell. Operations across 23 refineries nationwide were at 77% ...

Moscow. PJSC "LUKOIL" held its Annual General Shareholders Meeting in Moscow in the form of absentee voting where the 2019 Annual Report of the Company and the 2019 financial statements were approved, as well as decision on distribution of profit for 2019 was made. The shareholders ...

Tokyo. Oil extended gains on Thursday amid signs that producers are cutting production to cope with a collapse in demand for fuel as the coronavirus outbreak ravages the world’s economies. Brent crude LCOc1 was up 33 cents, or 1. 6%, at $20. 70 a barrel by 0254 GMT after rising more ...

Minsk. A draft decree on the promotion of electric vehicles is on the agenda of a meeting of the head of state with the leadership of the Council of Ministers in Minsk on 9 March, BelTA has learned. According to the head of state, electric vehicles have not yet received a proper momentum in ...

Moscow. The scientists from Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Novosibirsk State Technical University, have invented a burner device that would allow burning oil waste and spent motor oil without harming the ecology, the Ministry of Science and ...

Moscow. The Foreign Ministry of Russia backs the project of a year-round and fully autonomous international Arctic station on the Yamal Peninsula, Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large, Russia’s Senior Official in the Arctic Council Nikolai Korchunov said on Monday. The project of ...

Canberra. Australia’s bushfire crisis has arrived to such a tragic and critical apex that the smoke from the climate change-fuelled fires has travelled nearly 10, 000 miles to South America and may have reached the Antarctic. That's according to a terrifying report released by the ...

Baku. The first meeting of the commission created upon the Azerbaijani president’s order on “Measures of implementing pilot projects in the field of using renewable energy sources” dated December 5, 2019, was held at the Azerbaijani Ministry of Energy, Trend reports referring ...

Baku. Kazakhstan, represented by the country’s Ministry of Energy, is constantly working on improving conditions for implementation of renewable energy sources (RES) projects, Member of the Directors Board of the Kazakhstan’s Solar Energy Association Yernar Bilyalov told Trend. ...

Murmansk. A test range for oil and gas and mining equipment for the Arctic Region will be created in Murmansk in 2023, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov told. Project financing can start in 2021, the Minister noted. "Considering that the development will take ...

Baku. On November 21, 2019, Kazakhstan and US signed a memorandum of understanding, which will help create Central Asia Regional Energy Market (CAREM), thus making an important step in strengthening energy cooperation, Trend reports with reference to the press office of US embassy in ...

Beijing. A giant offshore wind turbine with a 210-meter rotor diameter has been developed in China and will be put into production soon, the science and technology bureau of southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality says. The H210-10MW turbine has a unit capacity of 10 megawatts and is ...

Moscow. Beijing is seeking greater energy cooperation with Moscow in Russia’s Arctic region, according to Ou Xiaoming, chief representative of China’s State Grid (the national power company). “China and Russia are developing deep cooperation in the field of nuclear power ...

Baku. EU Member States agreed on a Commission proposal to invest €556 million in key European energy infrastructure projects with major cross-border benefits, Trend reports citing the European Commission. The EU funding comes from the energy window of the Connecting Europe Facility ...