New facilities will make it possible to process straight-run gasoline with the volumes of 1.8 mln tonnes and ramp up Russian ethylene production capacity to meet growing domestic demand and reduce imports of its derivatives.
A small town near the French city of Nantes could soon welcome a new anaerobic digester benefitting up to 200 farmers, but locals oppose the plan over concerns of environmental harm.
Shell warned that third-quarter profits would be dented after it weathered a sharp rise in refining costs and weaker earnings from natural gas trading.
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Russia is against compulsory limitations on the use of fossil fuels, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a video address to an international forum on environmental policies and sustainable development on Friday.
Belarus and Russia finalized an arrangement to allocate over $1.5 bln to Belarus for import substitution projects, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said on Friday.
Alberta’s incoming premier Danielle Smith pledged to work for a prosperous oil-rich province without asking the federal government for permission to produce and export energy.
Electricity generation by Russia’s wind and solar power plants rose by 48.9% in January-September 2022 year-on-year to 6.1 bln kWh, and by 29.9% in September to 578 mln kWh, the System Operator of the Russian United Energy System (UES) reported on Friday.
The German government published the framework for its biomass strategy on Tuesday (6 October) which aims to solve the conflict between biomass use versus electrification, guarantee food security and set standards for strategies in other EU countries.
The second draft of a law on cultivating and processing cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes has been put forward by the Albanian government, bringing the plant another step closer to at least partial legalisation.