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Avass Group to manufacture EVs, lithium batteries in Saudi Arabia

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Australia-based Avass Group recently signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to jointly manufacture electric vehicles and lithium batteries. The agreement bolsters Avass Group’s plans to mass manufacture full electric buses and lithium batteries in Saudi. Allen Saylav, Group Chief Executive Officer at Avass.

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Saudi Aramco and Air Products to build Saudi Arabia’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle fueling station; operational 2Q19

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Saudi Aramco and Air Products signed an agreement to jointly-build the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle fueling station in Saudi Arabia. The hydrogen refueling station, the first in the Kingdom, is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2019.

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Eni report: global oil reserves and oil production up in 2018 due to US

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The first volume of the report, the World Oil Review, is devoted to oil reserves, supply, demand, trade and prices with a special focus on crude oil quality and on refining industry. Source: Eni World Oil Review 2019. In 2018, global oil reserves rose slightly (+0.4%), mainly due to growth in the US. also rose in Brazil and Norway.

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Volocopter gets green light to begin serial production of its eVTOLs in Europe

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The company has quickly become one of the biggest names in the booming UAM industry as it expands eVTOL aircraft trials globally. Outside of Germany, Volocopter has found several suitors ahead of full-scale VoloCity production, including companies in Japan and the futuristic city of NEOM in Saudi Arabia.

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Researchers develop solid electrolyte for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to pure liquid fuels

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That will make our process easier to scale up for industry. Alshareef & Haotian Wang (2019) “Continuous production of pure liquid fuel solutions via electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction using solid-electrolyte devices” Nature Energy doi: 10.1038/s41560-019-0451-x. Currently, people produce catalysts on the milligram or gram scales.

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IMO environment meeting adopts mandatory energy efficiency measures for international shipping; first mandatory global GHG reduction regime for an international industry sector

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These measures constitute the first mandatory global greenhouse gas reduction regime for an international industry sector. The EEDI is a non-prescriptive, performance-based mechanism that leaves the choice of technologies to use in a specific ship design to the industry. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any "balancing" moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts.

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