De facto ban on combustion engines: fuel industry hopes for correction by EU Council of Ministers

The EU Parliament's decision to impose a de facto ban on new registrations of internal combustion vehicles from 2035 has met with widespread rejection from both the automaker and fuel industries. In addition to criticism from the European Automobile…

Natural Gas

Permit for natural gas field off Borkum extended

The companies ONE-Dyas and Hansa Hydrocarbons want to explore for and extract hydrocarbons in the coastal waters of the German North Sea in Lower Saxony. The Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) has now issued a permit to…

Companies

LBEG Annual Report 2021: Domestic oil production continues to decline

Since the start of the Ukraine war, special attention has also been paid to the development of domestic energy raw materials, which have so far been sourced mainly from Russia. Against this background, the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology…

Natural Gas

Ørsted and Shell no longer receive gas from Gazprom

Gazprom Export has suspended its gas supplies to the Danish energy group Ørsted and to Shell Energy Europe as of June 1. The Russian gas company justifies the step by saying that both companies did not want to pay in rubles. Both Ørsted and Shell…

Öl- und Gasförderung

New deep drilling regulation tightens safety regulations

The leak in the leaking pipe system in Emlichheim, which was discovered at the beginning of 2019, tipped the scales: After large quantities of reservoir water leaked in the Lower Saxony region on the German-Dutch border, where Wintershall Dea has…

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News

Deep geothermal energy to tap huge heat potentials

Around 56 percent of Germany's energy needs are met by the heating sector. However, only 15 percent of this is based on renewable energy sources. In a joint roadmap, researchers from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Helmholtz Association have developed deep geothermal ...

Reallabor IW3: Hamburger Energiewerke start geothermal drilling operations

In Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg Energiewende have started drilling for the planned geothermal energy production. This means that the first work is now underway on the geothermal project, which will be completed by 2024. Then, with a capacity of 10 MW, around 5,000 households in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg will be supplied with green heat ...