Energy Update
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The United States on
Thursday added dozens of people and companies to its sanctions
blacklist over their actions in Ukraine, including separatists
and Russian firms operating in Crimea which was annexed by
Russia in 2014.
Abengoa SA plans to resume work in the next few months on Latin America’s first solar-thermal plant, as the Spanish renewable energy company comes back from the brink of bankruptcy, people with knowledge of the matter said.
There are many challenges associated with bringing renewables online, as well as empowering end users with the information and communication tools needed to help them better manage energy use.
A sustained seven-year effort by U.S. wind power firm Cordisons International Ltd. to put up a multimillion dollar 90-MW wind farm in Kenya may have come to an end after the country’s land custodian National Land Commission (NLC) declined to grant the company lease for some 11,000 acres of land it had sought, arguing that the firm had ignored procedures in applying for land.
Kenya plans to start exporting its first crude from mid-2017 as the country pushes ahead with a planned export pipeline.
The sugarcane harvest in Brazil’s key sugar producing Center-South region has likely reached its peak through August.
Nigeria's main four crude grades -- Qua Iboe, Bonny Light, Brass River and Forcados -- are currently on force majeure due to militant attacks.
The inter-crop period has brought spot activity in the Thai sugar market to a near standstill, at least for prompt shipments.
Most Caribbean islands began generating electricity for municipal use around the 1930s through the establishment of public utility companies. But it wasn’t until the U.S. military began occupying several islands prior to WWII for strategic purposes, and constructing self-contained naval bases with state-of-the-art diesel generators, that increased energy production and distribution really started moving forward.
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Iraqi state oil firm Somo and
Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have begun jointly
exporting crude from the giant Kirkuk oil field again after
cutting a new preliminary deal on revenue-sharing, trading
sources said on Thursday.
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