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Study confirms €1T green hydrogen potential for Africa

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Africa can produce 50 million tons of green hydrogen a year by 2035, according to a new study by the European Investment Bank (EIB), International Solar Alliance and the African Union, with the support of the Government of Mauritania, HyDeal and UCLG Africa. The report was formally handed over to partners on 20 December.

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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. Africa is part of a global toll taken by air pollution, which killed an estimated 6.7 Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Air pollution was responsible for 1.1

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EIA: Global trade in liquefied natural gas grew by 4.5% in 2021

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JULY 12, 2022

billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) was traded globally during 2021, an increase of 2.2 Bcf/d (4.5%) from 2020, according to The LNG Industry GIIGNL Annual Report 2022 by the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers ( GIIGNL ). In North Africa, LNG exports from Egypt increased by 0.7

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UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

UTM Offshore signed an agreement for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for Nigeria’s first Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility with engineering firms KBR, JGC Corporation and Technip Energies. The FLNG facility will have a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) nameplate production capacity of 1.2

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FPSO vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project successfully sets sail for project site

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has started its journey towards the project site off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal in West Africa. It is the deepest offshore project in Africa to date.

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BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. Low-carbon gas.

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ExxonMobil to explore offshore South Africa; deal for 75% interest in Tugela South

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Exxon Mobil Corporation’s affiliate, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production South Africa Limited, will soon begin exploration activities offshore South Africa. The Impact Oil and ExxonMobil areas offshore South Africa. South Africa has no significant crude oil production. Source: Petroleum Agency SA. Click to enlarge.

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bp to explore potential for green hydrogen production in Egypt

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

bp operates the major West Nile Delta (WND) gas development which currently produces around 900 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas and 27 thousand barrels per day (mbd) of condensate. Together with partners, bp currently produces around 70% of Egypt’s gas.

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Egypt Hydrogen Green Production

Nearly 20% of intact tropical forest landscapes overlap with extractive industries

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JULY 19, 2021

A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and WWF finds that nearly 20% of tropical Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) overlap with concessions for extractive industries such as mining, oil and gas. Of these regions, Central Africa’s IFLs had the highest overlap with extractive concessions (26%). Grantham et al.

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EY: oil & gas megaproject overruns to cost industry more than $500B

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AUGUST 15, 2014

A new report by EY finds that 64% of multibillion-dollar, technically and operationally demanding oil & gas megaprojects continue to exceed budgets, with 73% missing project schedule deadlines. Source: EY Megaprojects oil and gas report. —Axel Preiss, EY’s Global Oil & Gas Advisory Leader. Click to enlarge.

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Casterra to sell castor seeds for cultivation to leading oil and gas company; $9.1M initial purchase

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JUNE 25, 2023

signed a framework agreement to sell seeds of its proprietary castor varieties to one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies for cultivation in specific African territories. Casterra Ag Ltd. , an integrated castor cultivation solution company and a subsidiary of Evogene Ltd. Initial purchase orders, valued at an aggregate of $9.1

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Sasol and ITOCHU to partner on green ammonia and hydrogen

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. The product can also be cracked back to hydrogen gas for further applications.

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China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

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JULY 23, 2012

CNOOC Limited—China’s largest producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world—is acquiring all of the Common Shares of Canada-based energy company Nexen Inc. billion cash. The price represents a premium of. and Central America.

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Rystad Energy expects strong growth in hydrogen pipelines through 2035

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APRIL 11, 2023

In cases where hydrogen will be shipped (as hydrogen or its derivatives), it will eventually be distributed on land using hydrogen pipelines, which makes transport via pipelines a critical transportation mode for the gas. Europe, with its extensive gas grid, is well placed to make the jump. Additionally, 3.4

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CNPC’s first hydrogen station in Beijing in operation

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

As the first batch of pilot projects of CNPC in the new energy field, the hydrogen stations in operation lay a foundation for the company’s future extensive deployment of hydrogen stations and the construction of hybrid stations of oil, gas, electricity, and hydrogen. CNPC) is an integrated international energy company.

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Energtek Plans to Implement Low-pressure Mobile Pipeline (LMP) Technology in Africa

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a developer of Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, is planning to implement its natural gas distribution technology in western Africa. Energtek CEO Lev Zaidenberg, CTO Yuri Ginzburg and other staff members recently concluded a series of visits and meetings in Africa. Energtek Inc., Earlier post.).

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Ballard and Anglo American Platinum partner on a range of fuel cell applications in South Africa

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MAY 9, 2012

The companies deployed and demonstrated a 150 kW fuel cell system near the 17 th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Durban, South Africa in late-2011. COP17 was a high-level summit on climate change.

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Landi Renzo and Clean Energy combine natural gas compressor businesses

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

are combining their compressor manufacturing subsidiaries to form a new standalone company that will immediately become one of the leading global suppliers of natural gas compressors and other related products. Landi Renzo S.p.a. and Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Deloitte forecasts clean hydrogen market to hit US$1.4T per year by 2050

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JULY 4, 2023

In a new report , Deloitte forecasts that the clean hydrogen market will top the value of the liquid natural gas trade by 2030 and grow further to US$1.4 trillion per year by 2050. To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the clean hydrogen market capacity can grow to 170 million tons (MtH 2 eq) in 2030 and to 600 MtH 2 eq in 2050.

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Clean Cleaning Hydrogen Market

Eni: new ultra-deep discovery offshore Mozambique could contain 5-7 Tcf of gas in place

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Italy-based oil and gas major Eni has made a new high impact discovery at Agulha exploration prospect, in Area 4, offshore Mozambique. Preliminary estimates show that the Agulha structure could contain 5 to 7 Trillion cubic feet of gas in place. tcf of gas in place in the Mamba South Area. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Systems, The National Aerospace Centre, and Airbus to research use of fuel cells for commercial airliners

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Airbus and South Africa’s National Aerospace Centre will jointly fund research by Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) into the application of fuel cells on airliners. The initial three-year project is being undertaken by HySA Systems Competence Centre at its University of the Western Cape research facility.

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Biofuels Power to build small-scale gas-to-liquids plant in Houston

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Houston-based Biofuels Power Corporation ( BFLS ) has signed a letter of intent with ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Africa) (Pty) Ltd and Liberty GTL, Inc. to build a small-scale gas-to-liquid demonstration facility in Houston. BFLS originally intended to develop biofuel-fired power projects.

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Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

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JULY 6, 2012

The global market for light-duty (LD) natural gas vehicles (NGVs)—including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles—will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% Light-duty NGVs typically run on compressed natural gas (CNG) because the tanks. between 2012 and 2019, reaching 3.2

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KIT and Wintershall Dea collaborating to develop industrial-scale methane pyrolysis for CO2-free production of hydrogen

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Direct thermal cracking of methane and other hydrocarbons is a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas without direct CO 2 emissions. There are huge quantities of natural gas worldwide and it can be used in a climate-neutral way. —Professor Thomas Wetzel of KIT’s Institute of Thermal Process Engineering. Resources.

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Nigeria’s 650 kbpd Dangote Refinery being commissioned; largest single-train refinery in world

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MAY 22, 2023

The refinery pipeline infrastructure is also the largest in the world, with 1,100 kilometers to handle 3 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day. Sinopec-built atmospheric tower on its way to Dagote in 2019. The refinery alone has a 435MW power plant. Refineries need to employ strategies to manage wax formation.)

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BP Egypt announces significant gas discovery in deepwater Nile Delta

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

BP Egypt announced a “significant” gas discovery in the East Nile Delta. The wireline logs, fluid samples and pressure data confirmed the presence of gas and condensate in 38m (125 feet) net of Oligocene sands in Salamat. The deepwater exploration well, named Salamat, is the deepest well yet drilled in the Nile Delta.

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USGS new estimates of global undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional oil and natural gas, excluding US

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APRIL 18, 2012

USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. These new estimates are for conventional oil and gas resources only. Geological Survey (USGS) released today. These estimates include resources beneath both onshore and offshore areas.

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Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

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APRIL 10, 2021

The investment round was led by AP Ventures, a significant investor in breakthrough hydrogen technologies, and included New Energy Technologies, Chevron Technology Ventures, Osaka Gas USA, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Conventional ammonia production has a significant carbon footprint.

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Hydrogen Green Energy South Africa

Eni and Petrochina sign MOU to develop business opportunities in China and abroad; focus on conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons in Africa

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JANUARY 23, 2011

In particular, the companies will study common opportunities jointly to expand their operations in conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons in Africa. On its part, Eni will avail its expertise on shale gas gained in North America to evaluate opportunities in unconventional resources owned by Petrochina in China.

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Porsche Consulting supporting Hydrogenious’ efforts to scale up LOHC activities

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH has developed a technology that binds hydrogen gas with a carrier oil. A key role is therefore played by imports from regions such as Spain, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. However, storage and transport of this volatile gas have thus far proved difficult. Earlier post.)This

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Eni announces a giant gas discovery offshore Mozambique

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Eni announced a giant natural gas discovery at the Mamba South 1 prospect, in the Area 4 Offshore Mozambique. The discovery well encountered a total of 212 meters of continuous gas pay in high-quality Oligocene sands. Results exceed pre-drill expectations and confirm the Rovuma Basin as a world-class natural gas province.

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ExxonMobil completes LNG acquisition in Mozambique Area 4

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

ExxonMobil announced the completion of a transaction by ExxonMobil Development Africa B.V. to acquire a 25% indirect interest in Mozambique’s gas-rich Area 4 block from Eni and assume responsibility for midstream operations. The deepwater Area 4 block contains an estimated 85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in place.

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Annual global oil & gas capital expenditure to pass $1-trillion mark in 2012

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Increased activity in the Exploration and Production (E&P) sector will be the primary driver in pushing oil and gas capital expenditure (capex) to $1.039 trillion for 2012, according to the latest report by business intelligence firm GlobalData. billion, while the Middle East and Africa are forecast to spend $229.6

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Study reports non-US global shale gas recoverable resources of 5,760 Tcf; global shale gas boosts total recoverable natural gas resources by 40%

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APRIL 6, 2011

Map of 48 major shale gas basins in 32 countries. Initial assessments of 48 shale gas basins containing almost 70 shale gas formations in 32 countries suggest that shale gas resources, which have recently provided a major boost to US natural gas production, are also available in other world regions. Source: EIA.

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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APRIL 4, 2011

Gas-flaring countries and trends. A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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Waste Gas Equatorial Guinea Gas-Electric

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. The burning of solid biofuels, such as wood for indoor heating and cooking, is another major source of PM 2.5 , accounting for an additional 740,000 deaths, especially across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Global St. Louis Fuel Pollution

BASF and Gazprom agree on asset swap; BASF’s Wintershall expanding production of oil and gas, exiting gas trading and storage business

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Through the swap, BASF aims to further expand its production of oil and gas via its wholly owned subsidiary Wintershall —Germany’s largest internationally active crude oil and natural gas producer—and to exit the gas trading and storage business. This is equivalent to a total of 2.4 billion barrel of oil equivalent.

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Statoil and ExxonMobil announce large deepwater gas discovery offshore Tanzania

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FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery offshore Tanzania. Statoil announced on 17 February that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. —Tim Dodson, executive vice president for Exploration in Statoil.

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Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

South African energy and chemicals group Sasol today announced that it has chosen the southwestern region of the State of Louisiana as the site for a planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. billion barrels of liquid fuels and chemicals from coal and natural gas. —Gas to Liquids Life Cycle Assessment Synthesis Report.

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Advent Technologies to collaborate with Los Alamos, UT Austin, RPI, UNM and Toyota in the development of next-generation HT-PEM fuel cell technology

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

in places such as Nevada, Australia, Africa and India) is impractical and will pose a huge challenge for the deployment of current fuel cell technology. Various industry sources have stated that radiators for Class 8 Trucks running with low-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (LT-PEM) technology are an enormous challenge.

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GlobalData: Asia to spearhead global refinery FCCU capacity additions between 2022 and 2026

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AUGUST 23, 2022

—Teja Pappoppula, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData. GlobalData identifies Africa as the second highest contributor to the global FCCU capacity additions, accounting for 26% of the total additions by 2026. Among new build refinery projects, the planned Yulong refinery in China is likely to add a capacity of 141 mbd in 2024.

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NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But EMIT has demonstrated another capability: detecting the presence of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. For example, the instrument detected a plume about 2 miles (3.3

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Potent GHG SF6 rapidly accumulating in atmosphere, driven by demand for SF6-insulated switchgear in developing countries

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JULY 6, 2020

In an open-access study in the EGU journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , an international team of researchers reports that the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) is rapidly accumulating in the atmosphere, driven by the demand for SF 6 -insulated switchgear in developing countries. Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al.

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Hitachi, ABB complete fully electric 244 ton electric prototype

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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Study confirms €1T green hydrogen potential for Africa

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

EIA: Global trade in liquefied natural gas grew by 4.5% in 2021

UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

FPSO vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project successfully sets sail for project site

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

ExxonMobil to explore offshore South Africa; deal for 75% interest in Tugela South

bp to explore potential for green hydrogen production in Egypt

Nearly 20% of intact tropical forest landscapes overlap with extractive industries

EY: oil & gas megaproject overruns to cost industry more than $500B

Casterra to sell castor seeds for cultivation to leading oil and gas company; $9.1M initial purchase

Sasol and ITOCHU to partner on green ammonia and hydrogen

China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

Rystad Energy expects strong growth in hydrogen pipelines through 2035

CNPC’s first hydrogen station in Beijing in operation

Energtek Plans to Implement Low-pressure Mobile Pipeline (LMP) Technology in Africa

Ballard and Anglo American Platinum partner on a range of fuel cell applications in South Africa

Landi Renzo and Clean Energy combine natural gas compressor businesses

Deloitte forecasts clean hydrogen market to hit US$1.4T per year by 2050

Eni: new ultra-deep discovery offshore Mozambique could contain 5-7 Tcf of gas in place

Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Systems, The National Aerospace Centre, and Airbus to research use of fuel cells for commercial airliners

Biofuels Power to build small-scale gas-to-liquids plant in Houston

Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

KIT and Wintershall Dea collaborating to develop industrial-scale methane pyrolysis for CO2-free production of hydrogen

Nigeria’s 650 kbpd Dangote Refinery being commissioned; largest single-train refinery in world

BP Egypt announces significant gas discovery in deepwater Nile Delta

USGS new estimates of global undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional oil and natural gas, excluding US

Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

Eni and Petrochina sign MOU to develop business opportunities in China and abroad; focus on conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons in Africa

Porsche Consulting supporting Hydrogenious’ efforts to scale up LOHC activities

Eni announces a giant gas discovery offshore Mozambique

ExxonMobil completes LNG acquisition in Mozambique Area 4

Annual global oil & gas capital expenditure to pass $1-trillion mark in 2012

Study reports non-US global shale gas recoverable resources of 5,760 Tcf; global shale gas boosts total recoverable natural gas resources by 40%

GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

BASF and Gazprom agree on asset swap; BASF’s Wintershall expanding production of oil and gas, exiting gas trading and storage business

Statoil and ExxonMobil announce large deepwater gas discovery offshore Tanzania

Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

Advent Technologies to collaborate with Los Alamos, UT Austin, RPI, UNM and Toyota in the development of next-generation HT-PEM fuel cell technology

GlobalData: Asia to spearhead global refinery FCCU capacity additions between 2022 and 2026

NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

Potent GHG SF6 rapidly accumulating in atmosphere, driven by demand for SF6-insulated switchgear in developing countries

Hitachi, ABB complete fully electric 244 ton electric prototype

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