Energy

  • Oil prices rose slightly on Monday as investors shift their focus away from easing Mideast tensions to this week’s scheduled signing of an initial US-China trade deal which could boost economic…

  • Natural gas delivery to thermal power plants has halved with the aim of sustaining and stabilizing natural gas supply to households in the winter season, director for technical support at the…

  • Deluge in the past few days in southern and southeastern Iran has inflicted damages on cities, villages and roads and endangered lives. But at the same time it has helped fill dams that saw…

  • To speed up the development of Siraf Refining Park, a major downstream project in the city of Siraf in southern Bushehr Province, an a agreement was signed between Siraf Refining Park Firm in…

  • Three thermal power plants in Tehran, namely Tarasht in west and Rey and Besat in the south, provide electricity to the megalopolis. However, since the start of fall and with decline in…

  • Large volumes of treated wastewater from Bandar Abbas Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hormozgan Province is piped to industries in the west of the key port city and is largely used for green…

  • US shale production will be flat or even decline by 2021, and global oil demand is healthier this year than it was in 2019, UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said Saturday. "My expectation…

  • Using water more efficiently demands a paradigm shift and an ethical revolution in addition to technical solutions, managing director of Tehran Regional Water Company said.

  • Investing in combined heat and power (CHP) plants is no more economically feasible for the private sector, a board member of the CHP association said. “As per a new directive, the Energy…

  • An estimated 260 billion kilowatt hours of power is generated annually in Iran, of which 11% or 29 billion kWh is wasted during transmission to end-users and in power stations. From generation…

  • Oil slipped towards $65 a barrel on Friday as the threat of war in the Middle East receded and investors focused on rising US inventories and other signs of ample supply. 

  • A private knowledge-based company has indigenized drones that assist farmers in a variety of ways, Energy Today website reported. Sabokbal Helia Aseman Company designs and manufactures…

  • The United Arab Emirates’ energy minister said on Wednesday he saw no immediate risk to oil passing through the vital gateway of the Strait of Hormuz after Iran attacked bases housing US forces…

  • Industries and the farming community helped curb power consumption (by turning off water pumps and machinery) in the hot season (June-August) by as much as 3,000 megawatts.

  • Close to 95% of the population in Hamedan City is covered by the wastewater network and only a few suburban areas need to be linked to the network, the managing director of Hamedan Province…

  • Iran’s water supply network stretches over 460,000 kilometers, but there still are 10,000 small towns and villages with no access to piped water, director of the National Water and Wastewater…

  • To speed up gas production from South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf, an offshore deck of phase 23 was linked to Iran Gas Trunkline (IGAT) on Tuesday, deputy operator of the phases said. “…

  • Upgrading, repair and maintenance of thermal power plants added 620 megawatts to the total output since the beginning of the current fiscal (ends in March), an official at the Thermal Power…

  • Manufacturing pumps to complete construction of the 1,000km pipeline to transfer oil from Goureh Oil Terminal in Bushehr Province to the port of Jask in Hormozgan Province is under way in…

  • Oil prices rose a further 2% on Monday, pushing Brent above $70 a barrel, as rhetoric from the United States, Iran and Iraq fanned tensions in the Middle East after a US air strike which…

  • Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company, a subsidiary of National Iranian Gas Company, delivered  18 pressure stations and laid 400 kilometers of gas pipelines during the first 8…

  • Construction of the first steam unit of Asaluyeh Combined-Cycle Power Plant has made 90% progress and is planned to come online by March.

  • Due to the near permanent fluctuations in currency rates in the last two years, power purchase contracts with private electricity producers need revision, says a board member of Rudshur Power…

  • Isfahan Science and Technology Center has produced 20 catalysts used in oil, petrochemical and steel industries to help domestic manufactures reduce imports of such materials. Six catalysts are…

  • Piroozi Oil and Gas Refinery in Shahroud County, 400 kilometers west of Tehran in Semnan Province, will resume operations next month after over three years of inactivity, the managing director…