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Intelligent lifting tools with robotics and sensor technology are being deployed at oil pump stations to cut repair times and reduce safety risks

Oil pump stations are the backbone of midstream pipeline infrastructure — and when one goes offline unexpectedly, the financial and logistical fallout moves fast. For decades, though, repairing…

By Kelly Lippke · October 11, 2026

Oil

Oil

Intelligent lifting tools with robotics and sensor technology are being deployed at oil pump stations to cut repair times and reduce safety risks

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Vallourec

Vallourec awarded tubular supply contract for Prinos CO2 carbon storage project in Greece

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Brine pooling at an abandoned wellhead amid Permian Basin zombie wells, pumping 7 million

Pumping 7 million barrels of crude a day through West Texas, the Permian’s record oil boom is filling the ground with so much salty water that abandoned wells from a century ago are erupting at the surface

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 11

Energy

Serica Energy completes $43.5 million acquisition of Southern North Sea gas assets from Spirit Energy

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Energy

Rystad Energy projects Venezuela crude output at 1.6 million bpd by 2028 as international operators expand under new contracts

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 10

Energy

Prospex Energy swings to profit in H1 2026 as Italian and Spanish assets deliver higher cash flow and net asset value reaches £23.3 million

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 10

Solar, bighorn sheep

California solar project adopts special bighorn sheep buffer to keep desert migration routes open after 2026 approval

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Lake Leimersheim site for floating solar

Germany’s floating solar supports now host 26.3 million mussels filtering 1.5% of Lake Leimersheim water daily

By Anke Maree · Oct 11

From Pennsylvania to Texas America s nearly 4 million forgotten oil wells may hold a secret second life as

Nearly 4 million abandoned US oil wells could become underground batteries, with geothermal heat boosting storage output by 9.5%

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 11

Victorian grain belt solar farm tracker rows with wheat stubble at Horsham

Spread across a Victorian grain belt famous for wheat and little else, 212,296 panels energized their first cable in September, and Australia’s newest state energy park is the Wimmera’s largest industrial object

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 11

Nevada bighorn sheep near solar site

Nevada solar project will halt construction traffic when desert bighorn sheep need to cross the site

By Anke Maree · Oct 11

Energy

European Energy secures 89.6 MW in German onshore wind auction across four projects

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Wind

Washington wind project will track pronghorn before construction to see whether turbines alter their seasonal movements

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Ocean

DeepOcean and TFKable Group form joint venture to deliver integrated inter-array cable services for offshore wind

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 11

Wind turbines

Ørsted’s Barrow Offshore Wind Farm reaches 20 years of commercial operation in the UK

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 10

Wind turbine

Floating wind turbine off Naples stayed quieter than surrounding ships, waves and the sea’s natural animal sounds

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 10

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Tarapur oldest nuclear station reactor dome on the Arabian Sea coast

Built on the Arabian Sea coast in the late sixties, two 160-megawatt reactors offline for six years rejoined India’s national grid this summer, making Tarapur the oldest nuclear station on earth still generating power

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 11

TRISO-X Tennessee vertical construction

TRISO-X tops out vertical construction at its Tennessee advanced nuclear fuel plant, giving the U.S. fuel supply chain a new factory shell to fill

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 10

Nuclear

Westinghouse and University of South Carolina sign workforce agreement to train nuclear plant operators and engineers for U.S. AP1000 fleet deployment

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 10

Hamaoka nuclear plant seawall and reactor domes on Japan's Pacific coast, seismic data fraud site, pacific subduction fault

Sitting above a Pacific subduction fault in Shizuoka, a reactor’s safety data hid a pool of nearly 30,000 seismic readings and reported only 20, and 208 of 225 assessments were later found to contain improper practices

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 9

Nuclear

US and South Korea announce $120 billion framework to build up to eight nuclear reactors on American federal sites

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

Full-scale molten lead reactor vessel being installed at an Italian research center, 155 metric tons

Seated near Bologna with 155 metric tons of molten lead and no uranium inside, a full-scale reactor vessel began generating real electricity using electric heaters in place of a fission core

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 8

steam heat pump unit installed inside a Colorado brewery delivering zero-emission steam, working fort collins

Slotted into a working Fort Collins brewery with no shutdown, a 650-kilowatt heat pump made steam from air and delivered it to a paying customer for the first time anywhere

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 11

Garlic peel waste generates 400 volts and powers a working home security system in laboratory tests

Garlic peel waste generates 400 volts and powers a working home security system in laboratory tests

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 10

3D-printed cement supercapacitor slab with interlocking carbon electrode pattern and lit LED, carries 23 megapascals

Printed into a staircase slab that carries 23 megapascals of structural load without cracking, a concrete block etched with carbon fingers stores electricity on its own, which means a building’s stairs can double as its battery

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 10

$Earth s hidden clock thief deep underground is borrowing and returning fractions of every day in a discovery that$

Earth’s deep interior subtly changes the length of each day, offering new clues for future geothermal energy

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 10

Cherenkov glow in a university research reactor pool during remote reactor power control test, sitting 1 700

Sitting 1,700 miles from the reactor it controlled, an AI loop trimmed power on a 64-year-old Indiana teaching reactor in real time, the first autonomous adjustment ever recorded in the US

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 8

sodium-ion grid battery container at Wisconsin MISO facility, 3 1 mwh

A 3.1 MWh grid battery energized in eastern Wisconsin runs with no cooling system, and its passive sodium ion design outperformed lithium iron phosphate on a 15-state grid

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 7

SunHydrogen and Honda renewable hydrogen panel

SunHydrogen and Honda are keeping their renewable hydrogen panel partnership alive through 2028, giving the technology more runway to move from prototype toward deployment

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 11

- Plug 280 MW electrolyzer e-SAF

Plug lands a 280 MW electrolyzer order for a Danish e-SAF project, while the broader partnership now stretches beyond the 1 GW mark

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 11

WATTMORE GTI Energy’s Illinois hydrogen

WATTMORE joins GTI Energy’s Illinois hydrogen microgrid research effort, putting its technology into a project testing how hydrogen can fit into resilient local power systems

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 10

Nel $7 million submarine electrolyzer

Nel adds another $7 million in submarine electrolyzer orders spanning U.S., U.K. and French programs, widening its footprint across allied naval fleets

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Nel $12 million Collins Aerospace order

Nel lands a $12 million Collins Aerospace order to build electrolyzer stacks for U.S. Navy submarines, taking hydrogen technology beneath the waves

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Jacobs German steelmaking project

Jacobs extends its role on a German steelmaking project designed to run on hydrogen, keeping the engineering firm at the center of the plant’s low-carbon overhaul

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 5

Data center

Data centers adopting 800 VDC power architecture as AI workloads drive demand for higher-efficiency, fuel-cell-compatible infrastructure

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

Plug 1 MW electrolyzer New Zealand

Plug sends a 1 MW electrolyzer to New Zealand, where it will help build out hydrogen fueling for heavy-duty trucks

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 3

Latest News

1

Vallourec awarded tubular supply contract for Prinos CO2 carbon storage project in Greece

Oct 11

2

Built on the Arabian Sea coast in the late sixties, two 160-megawatt reactors offline for six years rejoined India’s national grid this summer, making Tarapur the oldest nuclear station on earth still generating power

Oct 11

3

California solar project adopts special bighorn sheep buffer to keep desert migration routes open after 2026 approval

Oct 11

4

Slotted into a working Fort Collins brewery with no shutdown, a 650-kilowatt heat pump made steam from air and delivered it to a paying customer for the first time anywhere

Oct 11

5

European Energy secures 89.6 MW in German onshore wind auction across four projects

Oct 11

6

Germany’s floating solar supports now host 26.3 million mussels filtering 1.5% of Lake Leimersheim water daily

Oct 11

7

SunHydrogen and Honda are keeping their renewable hydrogen panel partnership alive through 2028, giving the technology more runway to move from prototype toward deployment

Oct 11

8

Pumping 7 million barrels of crude a day through West Texas, the Permian’s record oil boom is filling the ground with so much salty water that abandoned wells from a century ago are erupting at the surface

Oct 11

Editorial Voices

Carlos Albero RojasCEO

Daniel GarciaChief Editor

Hugo RojasTech Editor & Advisor

Kelly LippkeStaff Writer

Prince SibandaStaff Writer

Anke MareenStaff Writer

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