carbon emissions | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 2
Saudi Arabia Intends 1 mmbbl/d Reduction in Domestic Hydrocarbons Consumption
Saudi Arabia Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman has recently announced that the kingdom targets slashing consumption of domestic liquid hydrocarbons by one million barrels per day (mmbbl/d) to be better used...
Iceland Turns Carbon Emissions to Stone
Iceland’s Hellishiedi power plant became the first in the world to successfully convert its carbon emissions to stone, providing a new method for battling pollution and reducing global warming, according to Inhabitat....
BP Review: Oil Forms 32.9% of Global Energy Consumption
BP has released its 65th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy revealing that in 2015 the global demand and supply of energy had advanced as the global consumption had slowed down and the mix of energy sou...
Jordan Launched First Utility-Scale Wind Farm
The Jordanian government announced launch of the region’s first utility-scale wind power plant, the 117MW Tafila wind farm project to displace 235,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, reported Trade Ar...
Sisi Seeks Greater Funding, Shared Responsibility at COP21
Egyptian President Sisi spoke at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on November 30th. Sisi stated support for a binding deal, but raised an issue of disparity between developed and developing countries’ c...
Oman Shipping Names Low Carbon Emission Tankers
Oman Shipping Company has organised an event to name two medium range (MR) tankers for petroleum products, reported the Times of Oman. They will be christened Muscat Silver and Rustaq Silver, under the patronage of Wi...
Iran to Cut Emissions if Sanctions Removed
Iran could as much as quadruple its efforts to curb fossil fuel emissions if economic sanctions imposed by the US, UN and EU are ended. These were the words of Majid Shafie-Pour, Iran’s delegation chief at a UN climat...
UAE-Pacific Fund Inaugurates Environment-Friendly Power Plants
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, has delivered two UAE-funded solar projects in two Pacific island nations, reported Trade Arabia. The installations on the islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati, will collectively ...
