Cloud seeding initiatives, which are primarily aimed at increasing rainfall, cannot help resolve the deepening water crisis of the country.
Abbas Soroush, a deputy for water affairs at…
Energy
Oil prices rose on Tuesday with the reimposition of US sanctions against major crude exporter Iran expected to tighten global supply. Spot Brent crude oil futures were $74.17 per barrel, up 42…
ExxonMobil is close to discovering huge oil reserves in Pakistan near the border with Iran and those reserves could even be larger than the oil reserves of Kuwait, Pakistan's minister for…
Japanese energy supply should not be affected by US sanctions on Iran, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko said in a news conference on Tuesday.
US crude oil producers appear to have found an alternative buyer for cargoes no longer heading to China, with India on track to import record volumes in August.
While most of the sanction-bypassing oil trade with North Korea is thought to be originating from China, oil sales from Russia to Kim Jong-un’s regime may be much larger than official figures…
In the latest trade war tit-for-tat, China has included for the first time liquefied natural gas in its list of goods up for a potential 25% import tariff, should the United States impose…
The National Iranian South Oil Company has renovated three of its oil pumping stations to boost the transfer of crude to refineries and export terminals, the state-owned company’s managing…
The National Petrochemical Company's exports have witnessed a 75% hike in the last five years.
According to Shana, the Oil Ministry's news portal, NPC's exports stood at 12.8 million…
The Energy Ministry’s Niroo Research Institute and MAPNA Group have manufactured a 2-megawatt wind turbine transformer, which will be operated in Abhar, Zanjan Province.
Iran's top engineering and energy enterprise MAPNA Group signed an agreement on Monday with the National Iranian South Oil Company on developing Paranj and Parsi oilfields in Khuzestan Province…
US sanctions on Iranian crude could soon push oil prices above $90 a barrel, an oil analyst told CNBC on Monday, amid heightened energy market fears of a supply shock.
Vietnam’s Nghi Son oil refinery is seeking approval to export oil products, as high inventories and preexisting import contracts have limited domestic fuel demand, said three industry sources on…
A senior Iranian energy official criticized Russia and Saudi Arabia for ramping up oil output, saying they were breaking a production agreement between OPEC and Moscow and would strengthen the…
Despite a persistent decline in crude oil production, Venezuela has seen its exports of crude to its biggest market, the United States, climb since February this year.
In fact, between…
Oil prices rose on Monday after Saudi crude production registered a surprising dip in July and American shale drilling appeared to plateau.
Spot Brent crude oil futures were at $73.42…
A consortium of Philippine and Chinese companies will help Iran complete its value chain in the petrochemical industry, National Petrochemical Company's deputy for investment said.
Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said on Monday oil prices are approaching stability. Iraq plans to raise oil production to more than 7.5 million barrels per day by 2023-24, including 6…
Boosting the share of compressed natural gas in the country's fuel mix can have multiple advantages, especially cutting gasoline demand and helping export the fuel, the head of Iran's CNG…
A new container terminal in the southwestern Khorramshahr Port Complex in Khuzestan Province will be operationalized by the end of the fiscal year (March 20, 2019).
For the first time in history, investment in India’s renewable energy sector surpassed that of fossil fuel-based power production. India achieved this groundbreaking feat in 2017, according to…
Japan has asked the United States to prevent a possible adverse impact of its sanctions on Japanese companies seeking crude oil from Iran, Japan's Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Electricite de France (EDF) has halted four nuclear reactors at three power plants in France because of the current heatwave affecting Europe, a spokesman for the utility said on Saturday.
Senior executives from German gas and energy companies are scheduled to visit the First Iran International Gas Show (IRGS 2018) to be held in Tehran in September.
Saudi Arabia pumped close to its all-time high in July and several of its OPEC brethren posted their largest crude oil output figures in more than a year and a half, as the bloc appears to be…
