For the first time, climate-related issues dominate the World Petroleum Congress. Despite the necessary course correction, one thing is clear: the traditional economic model will not change that quickly.
With a variety of energy carriers, production and application options from modern biofuels and synthetic fuels to CO2-neutral hydrogen, analytics faces complex challenges.
C1 Building Blocks for Future Industry – this was the title of the 31st conference of the Petrochemical Division of the DGMK from 11 to 13 October. This year’s venue was the Dresden Haus der Kirche within the walls of the baroque Dreikönigskirche, built between 1732 and 1739, whose premises provided a thoroughly appropriate setting for the event.
Taking its own know-how to the outside world: The DGMK’s GEO-Energy Systems Underground Technologies Division is looking confidently to the future at its spring conference in Celle.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 20 largest electrolysis producers in the EU have pledged to increase their production tenfold by 2025. In return, the EU Commission is promising them state aid relief and money from the EU Innovation Fund for Carbon Difference Contracts (CCfD).
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In Cuxhaven, gas and oil producer Wintershall Dea is building a plant to generate green hydrogen. Construction has now begun on the project, called "H2Move," which will produce enough H2 to enable emissions-neutral supply to Germany's largest oil…
The Spanish government has decided on a temporary price cap of 40 euros/MWh for gas used for power generation. It will apply for one year. Portugal is planning a similar measure to Spain. The EU competition authority has not yet approved anything. A…
China imported more liquefied natural gas (LNG) than any other country last year, according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
That's according to data from the Global Trade Tracker. According to the report, China's LNG…
Against the backdrop of uncertain Russian energy imports, the German cabinet has approved - in a written circulation procedure - the "Formulation aid for the draft law on accelerating the use of liquefied natural gas (LNGG)". In essence, it is…
Austrian energy and chemicals group OMV has completed the sale of its service station business in Germany effective May 1, 2022. In February, the German Federal Cartel Office had approved the planned acquisition of the service station network of OMV…
Without cheap gas from Russia, industry may have to switch to H2 instead of natural gas as a bridging technology, emphasized Climate State Secretary Graichen at the Berlin Energy Days.
"Many certainties that have applied for decades no longer apply.…
The EU has presented another - the sixth - package of sanctions aimed at Russia. The most important component - in addition to the exclusion of Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, from the international banking system Swift, a ban on broadcasting by…
