Sabotage or Scapegoat at Nigeria’s Oil Refining Crown Jewel

Nigeria’s $20 billion Dangote refinery—the mega-project meant to free Africa’s top oil producer from decades of fuel imports—has been hit by “repeated acts of sabotage,” according to billionaire owner Aliko…

U.S. Presses India: Cut Russian Oil Imports or Watch Trade Deal Slip Away

Washington is making it clear to New Delhi: any path forward on a U.S.–India trade deal runs through Russia’s oil fields. In recent talks, U.S. trade negotiators told Indian counterparts…

Oil Prices Dip as Supply Pressure Builds

Oil prices retreated in early Asian trade on Monday, edging lower after the resumption of crude exports from Iraq’s Kurdistan region and growing expectations that OPEC+ will approve another production…

Occidental Petroleum in Talks to Sell OxyChem Unit, FT Says

Occidental Petroleum Corp. is in talks to sell its OxyChem petrochemical unit in a deal worth at least $10 billion. The divestment would be the US company’s biggest yet and…

Chinese Oil Import Port Targets Shadow Fleet Tankers

Several terminal operators in China’s Shandong province plan to ban entry to old vessels and such with fake or suspicious certificates in a move that appeared to be aimed at…

Pacific Fusion to open facility in New Mexico

The USD1 billion New Mexico Research and Manufacturing Campus at Mesa del Sol will house the company’s Demonstration System, designed to achieve net facility gain – more fusion energy out…

Groundworks begin for second Bailong unit

The excavation of the foundation pit for Bailong 2 began on 28 September, State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) subsidiary Guangxi Nuclear Power Company Ltd announced. The construction of Phase I…

Cavendish, Amentum awarded follow-on Monju contract

Alkali Metal Processing Limited – a joint venture between Cavendish Nuclear and Amentum – will construct, commission, and secure regulatory permissions for a new facility in the UK which will…

Uzbekistan plans two VVER-1000s and two SMRs

More than 20,000 people from 100+ countries attended the four-day gathering in Russia. As part of it, the Uzbekistan agreement was signed by Andrey Rozhdestvin, Director General of Rosatom Energy Projects…

Oklo tests fuel assembly at DOE lab

The company worked with Argonne’s thermal-hydraulics team and used the lab’s test facilities to study how coolant flows through a fuel assembly across a range of operating conditions. The tests measured…