Oil Giant Rosneft Buys Russia’s Biggest Rare Earths Deposit

Russia’s top oil producer, state-controlled Rosneft, has acquired the company that holds the license to operate and develop a giant rare earths deposit in Siberia, the largest such reserve in…

Solar Power Set to Surpass Nuclear Generation This Summer

This summer, solar power generation globally could exceed electricity from nuclear power plants for the first time ever, as solar capacity soars and sunlight and daylight hours are long in…

Turkey Announces Major Shale Oil Reserve Discovery

Continental Resources, the U.S. shale producer, has estimated that the Diyarbak?r basin in Turkey’s southeast has a reserve of 6.1 billion barrels of shale oil, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources…

Oversold NatGas Trampolines Higher, EBW Analyst Says

In an EBW Analytics Group report sent to Rigzone by the EBW team today, Eli Rubin, an energy analyst at the company, outlined that “oversold NYMEX natural gas trampoline[d]… higher” on…

CATL Predicts Major Shift to Electric Trucks in China

Half of China’s truck sales are set to be electric vehicles by 2028, according to the top executive of Chinese battery giant CATL, which holds more than a third of…

Centrica Divests North Sea Gas Field Stake

Centrica has announced plans to sell off a big chunk of its holding in the Cygnus gas field in the southern North Sea. The deal will see Spirit Energy –…

Indonesian Pertamina Imports Sanctions-Compliant Russian Crude

Pertamina has been importing Russian crude oil complying with the Western sanctions, a top official at Indonesia’s state energy firm said on Wednesday.  “We have opened (to imports from Russia)…

Texas Industry Groups Look at April Upstream Employment

According to the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association’s (TIPRO) analysis, direct Texas upstream employment for April totaled 206,000. That’s what TIPRO said in a statement sent to Rigzone…

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  • May 21, 2025
COLUMN Biomethane has great potential: the campaign for it starts here

, Chief Executive at – a new UK organisation within the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers, focused on the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero and clean power –…

  • Gas
  • May 21, 2025
Opinion: Biomethane has great potential and the campaign for it starts here

, Chief Executive at – a new UK organisation within the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers, focused on the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero and clean power –…