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* Oil & Gas * Natural Gas * Environment * LNG * Pollution * Wind Farms * INDIA'S ULTRATECH CEMENT MISSES OUT ON Q2 PROFIT CONSIDER AS PRICES PLUNGE TO FIVE-YR LOW India's UltraTech Cement reported a biggerthanexpected decrease in secondquarter profit on Monday, weighed by rates that was up to near fiveyear lows. The nation's top cement maker reported a 36% decline in combined net revenue to 8.2 billion rupees for the quarter ended Sept. 30. Experts, usually, had actually expected an earnings of 10.53 billion rupees, according to data compiled by LSEG. This sustained a 2.5% drop in the business's shares. They were down 0.3% before the results. Cement prices struck a five-year low from the previous quarter, experts said, due to an industry-wide ramp up in production and therefore * Mining GERMAN CARMAKERS SHOULD NOT HESITATE OF CHINESE COMPETITION, SAYS SCHOLZ * HOLLYWOOD STARS STRUCK THE ROADWAY TO PRESS ELECT HARRIS storyp1> LOS ANGELES, Oct 21 (Reuters) Star Jennifer Garner had a warning for a crowd of Mothers for Harris gathered at a tearoom in Tucson, Arizona: Be ready to see more Hollywood stars visiting your state to speak about the Nov. 5 election. Jessica Alba, Kerry Washington - my coworkers and buddies - will be here tomorrow. We're all simply going to barnstorm you and drive you nuts, Garner stated with a smile. I'm sure everything is a problem. You don't even wish to switch on the TV, Garner stated to laughter. That being stated, it really is that important. * Mining CHINA RATE CUTS FUEL COPPER'S REACH ONE-WEEK PEAK * MILITANTS KILL SEVEN, INCLUDING 6 MIGRANT WORKERS, IN INDIA'S KASHMIR storyp1> SRINAGAR, Oct 21 (Reuters) A minimum of six migrant workers and a physician were shot dead in India's Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel building and construction website, authorities stated, days after a new government was formed in the area. An opposition alliance took power in the region this month after winning the very first polls in a years, and the very first given that its unique status was revoked and it was split into two federally administered areas - Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The victims of Sunday's attack were involved in * Fossil Fuels INDIA CONSIDERS IMPORTS OF MONGOLIAN COKING COAL BY MEANS OF RUSSIA, SOURCE STATES India is checking out ways to import routine products of Mongolian coking coal by method of Russia, a senior government official with direct knowledge of the matter said, as New Delhi seeks to prevent overreliance on transit through China. Mills in India, the world's second-biggest manufacturer of crude steel, faced unpredictable Australian products of coking coal last year, and the federal government sent delegations to Mongolia in an effort to diversify sources of the fuel. Regardless of a longer path, Indian steel companies will now consider importing Mongolian coking coal by method of Russia, said the authorities, who spoke on * TEPID START TO WEEK FOR WORLD STOCKS, BUT GOLD, BITCOIN SHINE FRANCE SOON TO LAUNCH 9.2GW OFFSHORE WIND TENDER Oil & Gas TRANSOCEAN SCOOPS $193M ULTRA-DEEPWATER DRILLSHIP DEAL Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured a one-year contract for the Deepwater Conqueror drillship with an undisclosed operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.The contract is expected to start in October 2025 and contribute approximately $193 million in backlog, including additional services.Deepwater Conqueror is a DSME 12000 ultra-deepwater drillship, built/upgraded in 2016/2017 by DSME in South Korea.It has been designed to operate at water depths of up to 12,000 ft... * Mineral Resources KOREA ZINC SHARES SURGE TO TAPE-RECORD HIGH AFTER COURT CLEARS DIFFICULTY FOR BUYBACK OFFER * Nuclear Power IRAN COMPLAINS TO UN NUCLEAR GUARD DOG ABOUT ISRAELI HAZARDS AGAINST ITS NUCLEAR SITES * Crude Oil RUSSIAN ROUBLE SLIPS VS YUAN AFTER HITTING GREATEST LEVEL GIVEN THAT OCT. 2. * Oil & Gas FEMALES FOOTBALLERS CALL ON FIFA TO END PARTNERSHIP WITH SAUDI ARAMCO * Fossil Fuels VIETNAM TO CHANGE NATIONWIDE POWER PLAN TO CONSIST OF NUCLEAR ENERGY Vietnam will modify its national power development plan, known as PDP8, to include alternatives for atomic energy and hydrogen, the Minister of Industry and Trade said on Monday. The PDP8 will be amended in a way to likewise add more renewables to the mix, consisting of solar and wind, Nguyen Hong Dien informed the National Assembly at a meeting in Hanoi. The PDP8, approved in May in 2015, would raise the country's total installed power generation capability to over 150 GW by 2030 from over 80 GW at the end of in 2015. Nevertheless, overseas wind and LNG development targets * CONCENTRATE ON GENDER INJUSTICE AS COMMONWEALTH TOP STARTS IN SAMOA * Mining MANY BASE METALS RISE ON CHINESE RATE CUTS, HOPES OF MORE STIMULUS OIL & GAS UK'S MOTHERCARE PARTNERS WITH RELIANCE TO STRENGTHEN SOUTH ASIA PRESENCE Mothercare formed a joint endeavor with Dependence Brands Holding UK, enhancing its existence in the South Asian area, and said it re-financed its existing debt centers with Gordon Brothers. Reliance Brands, an unit of Dependence Industries Ltd. , got a 51% stake in the JV that owns the. Mothercare brand name and associated copyright in India,. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Bangladesh for 16 million pounds. ($ 21 million), with Mothercare keeping the staying 49%. Earlier in September, Dependence partnered with Israeli. innerwear maker Delta Galil as part of its expansion in India's. garments market, aiming to double its retail... RUSSIAN URALS OIL PRICE INCH BELOW COST CAP ON MORE AFFORDABLE BRENT Russia's Urals rates were listed below the Western cost cap level of $60 per barrel on Tuesday and Wednesday after a fall in worldwide oil costs, Reuters calculations revealed on Thursday. Urals prices in Russian ports have remained above the $60 per barrel almost all the time because the start of 2024, despite a. quick weakening listed below the cap level in June and in September,. LSEG data shows. However a price fall in current days resulted in evaluations for Urals. oil loading from Baltic ports for Wednesday at $59.95 per barrel. on FOB (totally free on board) basis, according... MUSK'S WIN ON INDIA SATELLITE SPECTRUM RAISES POSSIBILITY OF RATE WAR WITH AMBANI Having simply lost a battle with Elon Musk over how India's satellite spectrum is granted, Asia's wealthiest guy Mukesh Ambani could deal with a bigger obstacle if Musk's Starlink launches services in India and the two go headtohead on rate. India's government stated on Tuesday it will assign spectrum for satellite broadband administratively and not through auction, hours after Musk criticized the auction route being looked for by rival billionaire Ambani as extraordinary. Musk's Starlink, a system of SpaceX which has 6,400 active satellites orbiting earth to offer low-latency broadband to 4 million customers, has publicly revealed interest in introducing... NIGERIAN FUEL TRADERS TURN TO IMPORTS TO AUGMENT DANGOTE REFINERY SUPPLY Nigerian fuel traders are increase gas imports to enhance supply from the Dangote Refinery following getting worse fuel lines, the head of a local traders group said on Thursday. The Dangote Refinery began processing gas in September, with strategies to supply a preliminary 25 million litres day-to-day and slowly increase output to the 35 million the business believes would please regional need. Our members have actually been importing petrol for weeks to satisfy the shortfall from the Dangote Refinery, said Clement Isong, CEO of the Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria. Other traders grouped under the Independent Petroleum Online marketers... SAUDI ARABIA'S CRUDE OIL EXPORTS IN AUGUST STRUCK ONE-YEAR LOW Saudi Arabia's petroleum exports in August fell to their most affordable level in a year, data from the Joint Organizations Data Effort (JODI) showed on Thursday. The nation's oil exports stood at 5.671 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, their most affordable level since August 2023. Saudi Arabia is the world's largest exporter of crude. Saudi's unrefined exports in August fell by about 1.2% from July's exports of 5.741 million bpd. At the very same time, Saudi's production rose to 8.992 million bpd from 8.941 million bpd Saudi refineries' crude throughput increased by 0.324 million bpd. to 2.721 million... MAJOR GULF MARKETS SUBDUED AMIDST FOCUS ON PROFITS, LOCAL STRESS Major stock markets in the Gulf were subdued in early trade on Thursday as investors turned their focus to thirdquarter earnings in the middle of issues over regional tensions and compromising oil rates. Saudi Arabia's benchmark index edged 0.1% greater, assisted by a 3% rise in ACWA Power Co and a 0.9%. increase in Middle East Pharmaceutical Industries. Elsewhere, oil giant Saudi Aramco added 0.2% in a. choppy trade. Oil costs - a catalyst for the Gulf's monetary markets -. traded flat as investors eye advancements in the Middle East and. more information on China's stimulus strategies, and await the... TOP RATED NEWS * CHINA'S SURPLUS PETROLEUM HITS ALMOST 1 MILLION BPD FOR SEPTEMBER: RUSSELL * IRAQI KURDS VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTION IN THE MIDDLE OF OIL EXPORT CRISIS AND POLITICAL RIFTS * INDIA EYES $87 BLN INVESTMENT IN PETROCHEMICALS SECTOR OVER NEXT DECADE, SAYS MINISTER * ASIA SPOT DIESEL DISCOUNTS NARROW IN THE MIDDLE OF TIGHTENED UP SUPPLY * ASIA SPOT DIESEL DISCOUNTS NARROW IN THE MIDDLE OF TIGHTENED UP SUPPLY NATURAL GAS Natural Gas SLB BEATS QUARTERLY EARNINGS ESTIMATES ON GLOBAL ORGANIZATION STRENGTH SLB beat experts' estimates for thirdquarter earnings on Friday, as the oilfield services supplier benefited from stable demand for its drilling equipment and innovation in its global markets and some offshore jobs in The United States and Canada. Shares of the business were up 1% in premarket trading. Excluding charges and credits, SLB published an earnings of 89 cents per share for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared to an price quote of 88 cents, according to data compiled by LSEG. Offshore exploration and drilling in worldwide markets like the Middle East and Asia have increased need for oilfield services,... Energy Markets 'AGE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY' TO FOLLOW LOOMING NONRENEWABLE FUEL SOURCE PEAK, IEA STATES The world is on the brink of a new age of electricity with nonrenewable fuel source need set to peak by the end of the years, meaning surplus oil and gas supplies might drive financial investment into green energy, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. But it also flagged a high level of unpredictability as disputes embroil the oil and gas-producing Middle East and Russia and as countries representing half of global energy need have elections in 2024. In the second half of this decade, the prospect of more ample-- or perhaps surplus-- materials of oil and natural gas,... Renewable Energy AREA RATES FALL ON STRONGER WIND OUTPUT German and French area baseload power costs fell on Tuesday morning amid stronger wind output and decreased need. German baseload power for the day-ahead fell by 62.25 euros to 37.25 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) by 0935 GMT, LSEG data showed. The comparable French agreement fell by 40.90 euros to 33.00 euros/MWh. Wind is rising once again; milder weather is forecast and French nuclear output is up, a power trader said. Wind power generation in Germany is anticipated to rise day-on-day by 22 gigawatt hours per hour (GWh/h) to average at 30.1 GWh/h tomorrow. Solar energy output is also anticipated... Natural Gas OPEC CUTS 2024, 2025 GLOBAL OIL DEMAND DEVELOPMENT VIEW AGAIN OPEC on Monday cut its projection for worldwide oil need growth in 2024 reflecting information received so far this year and likewise decreased its projection for next year, marking the producer group's 3rd successive downward revision. The Company of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in a. regular monthly report stated world oil need will increase by 1.93 million. barrels daily (bpd) in 2024, down from growth of 2.03 million. bpd it anticipated last month. There is a large split in between forecasters on the strength of. need development in 2024, partly due to distinctions over demand. from China and over the... Refined Products ADVISORY-HOLIDAY SCHEDULE FOR US ENERGY INFORMATION The Columbus/Indigenous Peoples federal vacation on Monday, Oct. 14 will impact the release schedule of some significant energy information to be launched during the Oct. 13 week. Below is the schedule for the release of U.S. petroleum, oil and natural gas supply and inventory for the week. WEEK OF OCT. 13: AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE - OIL API's weekly petroleum stocks report will be postponed to Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT). The report is usually released on Tuesday. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION - GAS EIA's weekly gas stocks report will be launched as usual on Thursday, Oct. 17... Natural Gas NIGERIA INDICATIONS DEAL TO SUPPLY GAS TO PROPOSED $3.5 BILLION PETROCHEMICAL PLANT Nigeria took a significant step in its quest to earn revenue from its large gas reserves, signing a. handle joint venture partners to provide gas to a proposed. $ 3.5 billion Brass fertilizer and petrochemical plant, an. official stated on Friday. Under the agreement, joint venture partners including Shell. , TotalEnergies and Eni will deliver. an approximated 270 million standard cubic feet of gas daily to. the plant in Brass, in Nigeria's coastal Bayelsa state. Petroleum Ministry Permanent Secretary Nicholas Agbo Ella. stated the Gas Sale and Purchase Arrangement is a part of the Brass. Fertilizer and Petrochemical Job, which... Natural Gas GAZPROM CEO PAINTS BLEAK FUTURE FOR EUROPE WITHOUT RUSSIAN GAS The CEO of the Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom stated on Thursday that Europe was harming its own commercial sector by artificially damaging demand for gas, as Russian gas exports to the area have shrivelled. Alexei Miller stated there might be gas cost shocks and supply interruption ahead, informing a conference that production was declining greatly in some European market sectors badly affected by gas price volatility. He offered no particular examples. Russian gas supplies to Europe fell sharply after Moscow sent its militaries into Ukraine in February 2022, and much of the deficiency was used up by providers from the... Crude Oil EIA SLASHES UNITED STATES, WORLDWIDE OIL DEMAND PROJECTIONS FOR 2025 U.S. and international oil need development will be smaller sized next year than prior forecasts, the U.S. Energy Info Administration stated on Tuesday in its ShortTerm Energy Outlook report. The company anticipates U.S. oil need to increase to 20.5 million barrels per day (bpd) next year, down from its previous projection of 20.6 million bpd. U.S. need forecast for 2024 was unchanged at 20.3 million bpd, according to the EIA report. World oil demand is expected to grow to 104.3 million bpd next year, about 300,000 bpd below prior projections, EIA stated. It expects demand to be about 103.1 million... Oil Refineries RUSSIA CONSIDERS DIESEL EXPORT RESTRICTION FOR NON-PRODUCERS, INTERFAX REPORTS Russian oil companies have held talks with the federal government on whether companies that do not produce diesel must be banned from exporting it due to the fact that of concern the refiners might be losing aids, Interfax news company reported on Tuesday. Russia is the world's greatest seaborne exporter of diesel, just ahead of the United States, and diesel represents the biggest share of its oil item exports. It enforced a temporary restriction on diesel exports last year and media reports have emerged Russia is considering another ban to try to consist of increasing domestic prices. Interfax, pointing out... Energy Markets MOZAMBIQUE ELECTION MOST LIKELY TO EXTEND RULING FRELIMO'S HALF-CENTURY GUIDELINE Mozambicans will vote on Wednesday in an election that is practically certain to see the ruling celebration Frelimo preserve its halfcentury grip on power, regardless of a stiff obstacle from a charming newbie. President Filipe Nyusi is stepping down after two terms and the celebration's prospect, Daniel Chapo, is anticipated to change him. Frelimo has ruled Mozambique since independence from Portugal in 1975. It first enabled elections in 1994, and has actually given that been consistently accused by opponents and election observers of rigging them - an accusation it rejects. This time, independent candidate Venancio Mondlane has caught the support... Natural Gas BP DROPS OIL OUTPUT TARGET IN TECHNIQUE RESET, SOURCES STATE BP has abandoned a. target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray. Auchincloss scales back the firm's energy shift strategy to. restore investor self-confidence, three sources with understanding of the. matter said. When revealed in 2020, BP's technique was the sector's most. enthusiastic with a promise to cut output by 40% while quickly. growing renewables by 2030. BP scaled back the target in. February last year to a 25% reduction, which would leave it. producing 2 million barrels each day at the end of the decade, as. financiers focused on near-term returns rather than the energy.... Oil & Gas Exploration OIL AND NATGAS FIRM INFINITY NATURAL APPLIES FOR UNITED STATES IPO Oil and natural gas developer Infinity Natural Resources is pursuing a going public in the United States after nearly doubling its earnings in the very first half of the year, a filing from the company revealed on Friday. Backed by financial investment companies Pearl Energy Investments and NGP Capital, Infinity will aim to note on the NYSE. Its filing comes days after shares of gas producer BKV started trading. Infinity is poised to enter the public market at a strong financial position, bolstered by a recent surge in oil costs as worries of a wider conflict in the Middle East... ENVIRONMENT Fossil Fuels NEW ZEALAND, CAMBODIA CITE POLITICAL DANGERS DUE TO HIGH ENERGY SHIFT EXPENSES Political dangers due to possible loss of public support over increasing power tariffs are a. significant obstacle to transitioning to cleaner electrical energy. sources, ministers from New Zealand and Cambodia told an energy. industry event on Monday. It's incredibly essential to take the general public with you,. considered that end of the day, they need to think that what you're. doing is improving their lives, Shane Jones, Partner Minister. for Energy, New Zealand, stated at the Singapore International. Energy Week conference (SIEW). Jones stated New Zealand's power tariffs are comparable to. Singapore's, ranking amongst the highest in the Asia-Pacific. area.... Environment HONG KONG AUTHORITIES SAY SOIL INFECTION ELIMINATED MONKEYS, AS 11TH DIES Melioidosis, a bacterial infection, was accountable for eliminating a minimum of 9 monkeys at a Hong Kong zoo, authorities said, as an additional two died over the weekend, taking the overall to 11 in the past week. Part of the zoo, built in 1860 and the earliest park in Hong Kong, has actually remained shut since Oct. 14 when authorities reported the first batch of monkey deaths. Housed in 5 separate cages, the deceased monkeys consisted of the De Brazza types as well as one typical squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis. Authorities stated nine monkeys died of sepsis... Environment THOUSANDS PROTEST IN SPAIN'S CANARY ISLANDS VERSUS OVER TOURISM storyp1> GRAN CANARIA, Spain, Oct 20 (Reuters) Thousands of people opposed in vacation resorts in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday against over tourism which they say rates regional individuals out of the real estate market. Under the motto Canary Islands has a limit, residents demonstrated concurrently in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro and called for a change in the tourism design for the islands. In the Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, protesters appeared on the beach while travelers were sunbathing and chanted This beach is ours. Activists claimed the arrival of countless visitors every... * Environment INDIAN CROWS THREATEN NATIVE KENYAN BIRDS * Environment FLOODS DAMAGE 1.1 MLN TONS OF RICE IN BANGLADESH * Mining RAINS MIGHT HAVE COME TOO LATE FOR BRAZIL'S COFFEE * Environment COP16: FROM FORESTS TO OCEANS, NATURE IN AN ALARMING STATE * Environment TYPHOON OSCAR HEADS FOR CUBA AFTER MAKING LANDFALL IN BAHAMAS * Environment COASTAL EROSION EATS AWAY AT IRISH FAMILY'S 200-YEAR-OLD HOME * Fossil Fuels WHAT POLICIES TO GET OUT OF INDONESIA'S NEW PRESIDENT PRABOWO * Fossil Fuels AZORES PRODUCE LARGEST MARINE SAFEGUARDED AREA IN NORTH ATLANTIC LNG GOLDEN PASS LNG ASKS US REGULATOR FOR 3-YEAR EXTENSION TO COMPLETE BUILDING The designer of a Texas melted gas export task on Wednesday asked U.S. regulators for a threeyear extension to finish build the $ 10 billion Golden Pass LNG task, pointing out scheduling uncertainties. Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture of QatarEnergy and Exxon Mobil building an 18 million metric lot per yearly LNG export project on the Texas coast, composed that a modification in primary professionals requires an extension until November, 2029. Exxon and QatarEnergy this month stated the task startup would be delayed till late next year. The existing approval expires in November 2026 and the request indicates a... INDONESIA GREEN LIGHTS ENI GAS PROJECTS Indonesia has approved a development plan for the first phase of the Geng North gas field operated by Italy's Eni in the Makassar Strait, the upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas said in a statement on Friday.The approval also covered the development of the nearby Gehem field, SKK Migas said, part of the Indonesia Deepwater Development gas project Eni acquired from Chevron last year.The development of the two fields will create a new production hub called the Northern Hub, Eni said in a separate statement, which will develop the 5 trillion cubic feet of gas and 400 million barrels... RPT-KUWAIT IN TALKS WITH QATAR FOR BRAND-NEW 15-YEAR LNG SUPPLY OFFER FROM NORTH FIELD Qatar Energy remains in talks with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) for a new longterm supply of melted natural gas (LNG) to assist meet rising need for power generation in the Gulf Arab state, 5 trading and industry sources informed Reuters. The offer would see Qatar supplying Kuwait with 3 million metric heaps per annum (mtpa) of the seaborne fuel over 15 years from its North Field task, which is anticipated to start operation in 2026, four of the sources said. Kuwait, an OPEC member and a significant oil manufacturer, has been enhancing its reliance on imported gas to fulfill power... OSAKA GAS INTENDS TO KEEP ANNUAL LNG DEALING WITH VOLUME AT 11.5 MLN Japanese city gas provider Osaka Gas intends to keep annual handling volume of liquefied gas at 11.5 million metric heaps in the financial 2030 year, an executive said on Thursday. One of Japan's most significant LNG purchasers, Osaka Gas stated on Tuesday it had signed a preliminary long-lasting contract with UAE's ADNOC for the delivery of as much as 800,000 metric tons per year of the super-chilled fuel. Its LNG handling volume, including imports for its own demand, wholesale and trading, stood at 11.5 million lots in financial 2023 that ended on March 31 this year versus 3.5 million tons... JAPAN'S J-POWER PARTNERS WITH AUSTRALIA'S CARBON CAPTURE DESIGNERS Japanese energy Electric Power Advancement (JPower) has signed a joint study contract with 2 Australian carbon capture and storage designers, deepC Store and Azuli, for a tactical partnership, they said on Wednesday. The 2 Australian companies have actually been awarded 2 greenhouse gas assessment allows, or GHG acreages, in the Bonaparte and Browse Basins, some 200-250 km off Australia's. Northwest coast. Through the collaboration, the 3 companies aim to. advertise a project to record carbon dioxide (CO2) discharged. in Japan, Australia and the surrounding area and store it in. Australia, they stated in a declaration. J-Power plans to end up... SEMPRA FACILITIES'S COSTA AZUL LNG PROJECT DELAYED BY LABOR PROBLEMS, COMPANY STATES Sempra Infrastructure's. Energia Costa Azul LNG export project in Mexico has actually been even more. delayed by labor and productivity difficulties that will enhance the. expense of the task, the business said on Tuesday. Sempra Facilities, a system of the energy giant. Sempra, has actually been constructing the very first phase, a 3.5. million-metric ton per annum (MTPA) melted gas train. for the LNG export job in Mexico. The facility will offer it. direct gain access to from Mexico's Pacific coast to feed LNG markets in. Asia. We are actively engaged with our specialist to advance the. job, and we'll... TOP RATED NEWS * EUROPE GAS-PRICES EDGE HIGHER AMIDST NORWEGIAN UPKEEP, MIDDLE EAST FEARS * NEW LNG BUNKER VESSEL FOR TOTALENERGIES LNG BUNKERING OPS * PRESIDENT YOON STATES SOUTH KOREA TO FORM TACTICAL COLLABORATION WITH SINGAPORE NEXT YEAR * DUTCH SEE INCREASE IN RUSSIAN LNG IMPORTS, URGE FURTHER SANCTIONS * US REGULATORS ALL RIGHT PRIMARY STEP TO START PLAQUEMINES LNG PLANT IN LOUISIANA POLLUTION Climate Change COUNTRIES NEED TO REPORT NATURE PROTECTION PREPARES TO THE UN. WHAT DOES THAT SUGGEST? storyp1> BOGOTA, Oct 19 (Reuters) Almost 200 nations deal with a due date to report their nature conservation prepares to the United Nations ahead of a twoweek U.N. nature top dubbed COP16, beginning on Monday in the Colombian city of Cali. Here is what you require to understand: WHY ARE NATIONS MAKING NATURE PLEDGES? These pledges must set out how each nation plans to contribute to conference international nature targets agreed on at the last U.N. Biodiversity Summit, COP15, held in Montreal in 2022. The arrangement, called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Structure, established four general objectives for 2050 and a... Pollution MINING ASSOCIATIONS UNVEIL EFFORT TO STREAMLINE SECTOR'S ESG REQUIREMENTS Mining associations, whose members or individuals include practically 100 business, have released a 60-day public assessment on a programme focused on providing a combined requirement for the sector's environment, social problems and governance (ESG). Companies around the globe have actually been under increasing pressure from investors and consumers to fulfill stricter ESG standards. Other groups that set ecological and social standards include the Effort for Accountable Mining Guarantee. The new program, called the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative, aims to simplify the existing mining requirements, making them relevant to any production center devoted to ESG, and unite a broader series of... Pollution EASTER ISLAND BATTLES GLOBAL VORTEX OF PLASTIC WASTE Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to community data from Rapa Nui, the island's. regional name, it receives around 50 times more plastic and. microplastic than the coasts of Chile. This is mainly due to. its location in the South Pacific Gyre, which brings in trash. from Australia, South America and fishing vessels. The microplastic we find on the coasts isn't ours, stated. Moiko Pakomio, a marine biologist for the city government,. adding that globally most microplastics originate from fishing. vessels that... Pollution BRAZIL'S PETROBRAS AND MINER VALE HAVE DECARBONIZATION COLLABORATION IN WORKS Brazil's Petrobras is discussing a partnership with Vale to help the mining company lower carbon emissions, the staterun oil company's Chief Executive Magda Chambriard stated on Monday. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT The two Brazilian business are among the biggest in Latin America by market price. Chambriard said the companies will help each other decarbonize, with a possible handle which Petrobras would supply marine fuel and diesel with renewable material for Vale to run its trains, ships and trucks. ESSENTIAL QUOTE It's an effort by the two largest companies in Brazil towards decarbonization, Chambriard informed reporters. BY THE NUMBERS Petrobras is currently... Pollution MOSAIC SAYS FERTILIZER WASTE CENTER'S WATER WENT INTO TAMPA BAY AFTER HURRICANE MILTON Mosaic Co said on Friday that water supporting the chemical company's storage of a. waste by-product from fertilizer production in Florida. probably made its method into Tampa Bay following a rainstorm from. Cyclone Milton. The discharge of perhaps more than 17,500 gallons from. Mosaic's center in Riverview, a fast-growing Tampa residential area,. raised potential environmental concerns. The industrial by-product, phosphogypsum, is known to. produce radon, a cancer-causing radioactive gas. Mosaic said a storage system for water around a pile of. phosphogypsum became overwhelmed in Riverview. The site got. almost 15 inches of rain during Hurricane Milton less than two. weeks... Pollution ENVIRONMENT MODIFICATION MADE CYCLONE MILTON EVEN WORSE, SCIENTISTS STATE The brutal wind and torrential rains of Typhoon Milton that eliminated 16 individuals in Florida today were intensified by human-caused climate change, a group of global researchers said on Friday. International warming made wind speeds around 10% stronger and rains greater by in between 20% and 30%, according to an analysis by World Weather Attribution. The group of climate researchers studies the function of climate change in sustaining severe weather condition. Milton magnified from a Category 1 storm into a tempestuous Classification 5 in less than 24 hours, feeding off record- and near-record-warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. It... Mining HUNDREDS MARCH VERSUS GHANA'S DESTRUCTIVE INFORMAL GOLD MINING BOOM Hundreds of people marched through Ghana's capital Accra on Friday in a serene demonstration against unlicensed gold mining, contacting authorities to act against the unsafe and environmentally destructive practice. Illegal small gold mining known galamsey in Ghana has picked up this year following a practically 30% rise in global gold rates. Small-scale mines produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the initially 7 months of this year, more than in the whole of 2023, according to data from Ghana's mining sector regulator. But the boom in a practice that damages miners' health, pollutes waterways, damages forests and cocoa farms, and... Pollution NATIONS' RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANS DISAPPOINT TARGET, SAYS IRENA Governments' targets and strategies to speed up making use of renewable resource are set to provide only half of the growth needed to reach a U.N. climate goal to triple capability by 2030, a report by the International Renewable Energy Firm (IRENA) showed. WHY IT is necessary The renewable resource goal set at the COP28 U.N. environment conference in 2015, along with a target to double energy performance, are seen as essential to keeping a 1.5 degree Celsius ( 2.7 Fahrenheit) warming limitation this century within reach. Nations need to upgrade their nationally identified contributions (NDCs), or dedications to combat... Pollution CARBON ELIMINATION NO SERVICE IF WORLD OVERSHOOTS WARMING TARGET, RESEARCHERS STATE Even higher efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the environment will fail to avoid environment modification disaster as rising worldwide temperatures threaten to cross a crucial limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7. degrees Fahrenheit), researchers stated on Wednesday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has. stated carbon dioxide removal (CDR) could assist slow warming by. lowering greenhouse gas currently accumulated in the atmosphere,. and even temperature levels, specifically if 1.5 C is gone beyond. Nevertheless, even if eliminating carbon dioxide works, it can do. nothing to reduce other aspects of environment modification, from sea. level rises to changes in... Pollution UK WATER COMPANIES INFORMED TO REPAY CUSTOMERS $206M DUE TO ECOLOGICAL FAILINGS Britain's regulator ordered water companies to return an overall of 157.6 million pounds ($ 206. million) to consumers after missed ecological targets, the. most current penalty slapped on a market at the centre of a scandal. over filthy rivers. Britain's brand-new federal government came to power in July promising. to clean up the market after sewage releases into waterways. sparked anger versus the privatised companies, which are. implicated of prioritising revenue over infrastructure investment. Regulator Ofwat said on Tuesday that the market was. falling far behind a target to cut occurrences by 30% over the. 2020-25 period, with leaks down... Pollution UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO HEAR NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE DISPUTE The U.S. Supreme Court settled on Friday to choose whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to accredit hazardous waste storage centers following a judicial ruling that upended decades of practice by stating it does not. The justices used up appeals by President Joe Biden's. administration and a company that was granted a license by the. NRC to construct a waste storage center in western Texas of the. lower court's ruling. The license was challenged by the states. of Texas and New Mexico, as well as oil market interests. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case in... Energy Markets CZECHS LOOK FOR PARTNERS TO CHALLENGE EU'S CO2 GOALS FOR VEHICLE SECTOR The Czech Republic will look for European Union partners to help it compete with harder EU CO2 emission guidelines next year, Transport Minister Martin Kupka and the country's primary sector lobby said on Friday. The EU will decrease a cap on average emissions from new automobiles sales to 94 grams/km from 116g/km. Surpassing that cap could lead to fines of 95 euros ($ 104.80) per excess CO2 g/km increased by the variety of vehicles sold. The car industry is the Czech Republic's greatest sector, contributing around 9% of the nation's GDP, and has warned of shrinking competitiveness as emissions limitations... WIND FARMS Wind Farms BEAM LAUNCHES NEW SYSTEM TO ADVANCE 3D MAPPING FOR OFFSHORE WIND Beam, a company created by the merger of Rovco and Vaarst, has unveiled SubSLAM X3, a new underwater perception system designed to enhance the monitoring and maintenance of offshore wind farms.SubSLAM X3 offers real-time, high-resolution 3D mapping and is set to improve the efficiency and accuracy of underwater operations, according to Beam.The system integrates artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and advanced simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technologies.This integration is said to be critical for streamlining the development, construction, and maintenance phases of offshore wind projects.The system provides 4K resolution video and precise 3D reconstructions, allowing for detailed inspection of underwater assets... Wind Farms JAN DE NUL HIRES CORRELL FOR CABLE TERMINATION WORKS AT THOR OFFSHORE WIND FARM Wind power high voltage specialist Correll, part of SPIE Group, has secured a contract from Jan de Nul to complete the 66kV subsea cables termination and testing on offshore wind turbines for RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm.The works are set to begin in July 2025 with the mock-up scheduled for November 2024.Jan De Nul was awarded the EPCI cable contracts by RWE in consortium with Hellenic Cables, and will provide the entire cable package, including the manufacture and installation of 60 kilometres of export cables on the 30-kilometre-long cable route from the offshore wind farm to shore, and approximately 200... Wind Farms FUGRO TO COLLECT METOCEAN DATA FOR ØRSTED’S OFFSHORE WIND FARMS IN AUSTRALIA Fugro has been selected by Ørsted to undertake a 12-month floating lidar measurement campaign for its Gippsland offshore wind farms, off south coast Gippsland in Victoria.Fugro’s SEAWATCH Wind Lidar Buoy will measure wind, wave, current and meteorological parameters to help assess the viability of Ørsted’s wind farms located off Gippsland, in Australia’s state of Victoria.High quality metocean data will be transferred in real time to give the client early insight into site conditions, followed by monthly reports.Ørsted Secures First and Lines Up Second Multi-GW Offshore Wind License in AustraliaFugro’s local presence and supply chain is leading the delivery of the... * Wind Farms BEAM BOOSTS FLEET WITH TWO EXPLORER ASVS AND QUANTUM EV ROV * Wind Farms TOTALENERGIES JOINS RWE IN 4GW OFFSHORE WIND SCHEME IN GERMANY * Wind Farms BEAM’S AI-DRIVEN AUV PUT TO WORK AT SCOTTISH OFFSHORE WIND FARM * Wind Farms ACTEON AND TAISEI JOIN FORCES FOR FLOATING WIND PROJECTS IN JAPAN * Wind Farms ABL TO OVERSEE INSTALLATION OF OFFSHORE WIND SUBSTATIONS IN FRANCE * Wind Farms CBED’S WIND EVOLUTION CSOV TO STAY A LITTLE LONGER WITH HUGHES SUBSEA * Wind Farms FIRST TURBINE BLADE FOR SOFIA OFFSHORE WIND FARM SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY * Wind Farms A-O-S PUTS SECOND G-CLASS CTV TO OFFSHORE WIND SERVICE ON US EAST COST * * * * * Latest News * Piracy * Terms © 2024 New Wave Media Int. 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