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Oman’s OQ Gas Networks targets completion of three gas pipeline projects by end of 2027 under OMR 294 million infrastructure program

OQ Gas Networks, Oman’s sole operator of the national natural gas transmission network, is simultaneously building three gas pipeline projects — all scheduled for completion by the end…

By Kelly Lippke · September 12, 2026

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Oman gas

Oman’s OQ Gas Networks targets completion of three gas pipeline projects by end of 2027 under OMR 294 million infrastructure program

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

Drilling, rig

Arabian Drilling signs $800 million land rig deal with SLB Middle East and expands offshore operations across GCC region

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

Legs of a drilling barge raised above the deck under tow

A drilling barge built in the sixties was moving behind 3 tugs on a calm evening in the Gulf of Suez, and it lost trim and folded its own legs onto the deck in minutes

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 12

A deck of one of three restarted offshore platforms at sea

Three offshore platforms idled off the California coast for almost 11 years were restarted under a wartime manufacturing law, while the wells behind them came back at 723 barrels a day each

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 11

ADNOC

ADNOC continues LNG loading at Das Island as tankers go dark to navigate Strait of Hormuz disruptions

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 10

Rebuilt floating production platform on the deepwater Gulf

A hull idle for 6 years was stripped in a Texas yard and given new topsides, and the floating production unit it became started pumping oil 250 miles southwest of New Orleans last autumn

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 10

Solar

Solar panels are eating America’s farmland, but experts say urban sprawl causes far more permanent damage while solar actually offers struggling farmers a rare financial lifeline through agrivoltaics, local tax revenue, and land that can farm again in 40 years

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

South Africa s citizens rescued their grid with solar and now

South Africa’s citizens rescued their grid with solar and now data centers want to move to the front of the line while rooftop owners face punitive tariffs that could unravel the country’s hard-won energy recovery

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 12

floating solar panels above fish pen

China floated a solar platform above an offshore fish pen, then sank the whole system underwater to see whether fish, shellfish, algae, and electricity could all share the same patch of sea

By Anke Maree · Sep 11

Panels spanning an irrigation channel at a solar canal pilot

Panels stretch across 110 feet of open canal in California’s Central Valley and the water beneath runs cooler, but the evaporation number that would justify a solar canal statewide has not been published

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 10

Solar

Half a million German balconies are now generating solar power while America is still tangled in red tape and the movement keeps growing as renters win court battles and strangers trade energy tips like neighborhood gossip

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 10

Monopile and transition piece at an offshore wind site

All 64 machines at a 960 megawatt offshore wind farm in the German North Sea were set without any state subsidy behind them, but a rotor blade let go three weeks before the last one went up

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 12

tagged spiny lobster near offshore wind turbines

Japan tagged 23 spiny lobsters where 28 wind turbines are supposed to rise, and while one crossed a mile of reef in a single night, five barely moved for more than 90 days

By Anke Maree · Sep 12

seabird flying near wind kite zone

Ireland is sizing up power-making kites for the Aran Islands, where four seabirds already have their names written into Inishmore’s protection rules

By Anke Maree · Sep 12

Wind

A North Sea wind farm crossed the finish line with dozens of 15 MW giants spinning and one turbine still grounded, waiting for a replacement blade that engineers must now haul back offshore

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 11

Wind turbines ridge

Turbines on an Alberta ridge were turned deliberately off the wind and the 6 machine array they sit in gained as much as 13 percent at average wind speeds, but the yearly total from wake steering came out insignificant

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 11

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ATLAS

IAEA launches ATLAS maritime nuclear program as MARAD, Core Power, and Newcleo announce parallel initiatives

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

A papery wasp nest clinging to a metal post near radioactive waste tanks at a nuclear site, wasp nests found

A wasp nest on a stanchion in a South Carolina tank farm read 10 times the federal posting threshold, while the ground beneath it and the tanks nearby showed nothing at all

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 12

Nuclear

American Nuclear Society and Nuclear Energy Institute present awards at NECX 2026 in Dallas

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

TerraPower Wyoming Natrium project

TerraPower has picked 12 suppliers for its Wyoming Natrium project, turning the advanced reactor build into a much broader U.S. industrial effort

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 11

Holtec 805 MW Palisades plant

Holtec has started loading nuclear fuel into the 805 MW Palisades plant, one of the clearest signs yet that the Michigan reactor is closing in on a restart

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 11

Canada

Canada and British Columbia break ground on $3.9-billion North Coast Transmission Line to expand clean power capacity

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 10

SLB

SLB agrees to acquire thermal management company Kelvion for $3.4 billion to expand its data center infrastructure business

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

Hydropower

ORNL and INL identify 4 gigawatts of untapped hydropower potential at more than 2,600 existing U.S. dams

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

Wellhead at an enhanced geothermal site in the Utah desert

A crew drove a well more than 3 miles into Utah desert rock in 16 days and the first enhanced geothermal unit there is mechanically complete, where the rock runs near 520 degrees and holds no water

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 12

Island

A forested island appeared out of nowhere inside one of the world’s largest hydroelectric reservoirs and then vanished before engineers could explain what the drifting landmass might do to its dam

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 12

Hong Kong researchers bent an ultrathin diamond membrane like paper

Hong Kong researchers bent an ultrathin diamond membrane like paper and it unexpectedly started generating electricity by polarizing charge at its grain boundaries, overturning a century of scientific certainty about one of Earth’s most studied materials

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 11

Huaian Salt Cavern project

Salt caverns nearly a mile under eastern China hold the compressed air for a 600 megawatt plant that runs without burning any fuel, and close to a third of the electricity pushed in never comes back out

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 11

NewHydrogen third patent ThermoLoop

NewHydrogen has filed a third patent around ThermoLoop, its heat-driven process designed to make hydrogen without relying on conventional electrolysis

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 12

OroCarbo 12 Haffner systems

OroCarbo reserves 12 Haffner systems for a string of renewable hydrogen hubs planned across the Western U.S.

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 12

Beneath Western Australia s red iron rich soil a natural hydrogen engine may have been running for millions

Beneath Western Australia’s red, iron-rich soil, a natural hydrogen engine may have been running for millions of years and scientists just learned how to turn up the power by injecting water into ancient rock

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 11

A tiny startup cracked green hydrogen s biggest

A tiny startup cracked green hydrogen’s biggest problem by selling a “hidden ingredient” found in every drop of water and using the profits to fund clean fuel production at prices that could make federal subsidies irrelevant

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 8

KBR 250 MW Nebraska project

KBR lands the front-end engineering job for a 250 MW Nebraska project designed to turn renewable hydrogen into e-methane

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 7

Boston

A Boston startup is testing underground lightning strikes to turn ancient rock into a hydrogen factory using machines named Zeus and Thor

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 24

Researchers built a hydrogen turbine that makes electricity from controlled explosions and just shattered a world record

Researchers built a hydrogen turbine that makes electricity from controlled explosions and just shattered a world record

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Aug 22

Power to Hydrogen 0.5 MW AEM electrolyzer

Power to Hydrogen delivers its first commercial 0.5 MW AEM electrolyzer from Ohio to a customer in Antwerp

By Prince Sibanda · Aug 19

Latest News

1

Arabian Drilling signs $800 million land rig deal with SLB Middle East and expands offshore operations across GCC region

Sep 12

2

SLB agrees to acquire thermal management company Kelvion for $3.4 billion to expand its data center infrastructure business

Sep 12

3

Williston Reservoir’s floating island appeared out of nowhere, vanished without a trace, then turned up 18 miles away still covered in mature vegetation and nobody at BC Hydro can fully explain how it formed or where it will drift next

Sep 12

4

IAEA launches ATLAS maritime nuclear program as MARAD, Core Power, and Newcleo announce parallel initiatives

Sep 12

5

NewHydrogen has filed a third patent around ThermoLoop, its heat-driven process designed to make hydrogen without relying on conventional electrolysis

Sep 12

6

Argonne National Laboratory study finds emergency response models underestimate hazardous dust resuspension from driving and marching

Sep 12

7

All 64 machines at a 960 megawatt offshore wind farm in the German North Sea were set without any state subsidy behind them, but a rotor blade let go three weeks before the last one went up

Sep 12

8

Solar panels are eating America’s farmland, but experts say urban sprawl causes far more permanent damage while solar actually offers struggling farmers a rare financial lifeline through agrivoltaics, local tax revenue, and land that can farm again in 40 years

Sep 12

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Carlos Albero RojasCEO

Daniel GarciaChief Editor

Hugo RojasEditor

Kelly LippkeStaff Writer

Prince SibandaStaff Writer

Anke MareenStaff Writer

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