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Can Oil and Gas Trust AI? Automa 2026 Puts the Question to Industry Leaders

The growing availability of AI has raised a difficult question for oil and gas companies: can its recommendations be trusted in environments that demand predictable performance and strict…

By Energies Media Staff · October 18, 2026

Can Oil and Gas Trust AI? Automa 2026 Puts the Question to Industry Leaders

Energy

Valley Farms Energy Center donates $114,000 to Coolidge, Arizona for emergency mobile generator

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 18

Eni

Saudi Aramco, bp, and Eni deploy quantum computing algorithms in seismic exploration workflows to improve subsurface imaging accuracy

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 17

Oil

Oil and gas operators deploy nanotech reservoir sensors to track real-time fluid flow and boost recovery from mature fields

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 17

Dallas

Dallas Fed Q3 2026 survey finds oil executives expect WTI to average $88 per barrel over the next six months

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 17

Offshore platform installed over depleted gas wells in Liverpool Bay, 4 817 ton

Lowered onto the seabed of Liverpool Bay in early October, a 4,817 ton platform is set to carry carbon into wells that once gave up natural gas

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 17

EIA, oil derrick

EIA reports U.S. commercial crude oil inventories rose by 0.9 million barrels for week ending September 25

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 16

Canal top solar panels mounted on steel trusses above an Arizona irrigation canal, never gets touched

Bolted above an Arizona canal that never gets touched by water, 2,556 solar panels on steel trusses became the Western Hemisphere’s first canal top array to generate power

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 18

Oregon solar farm

Oregon farm uses six giant solar “sunflowers” that track the Sun while tractors and lettuce share the field

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 18

TotalEnergies and KKR 700 MW solar

TotalEnergies and KKR pour another 700 MW of U.S. solar into their joint venture, giving the partnership a much larger renewable footprint

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 18

Solar

Mission Solar Energy upgrades N-Type 108HC rooftop module to 440W with expanded domestic content options

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 18

Southern California s earthquake faults have reached their most stressed state in a millennium and solar farms blanketing

Southern California’s earthquake faults have reached their most stressed state in a millennium and solar farms blanketing the region could face consequences no renewable energy planner has fully modeled

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 17

Ice coated ski slope turbine towering over snowy Berkshires trails, berkshires ski slope

On a Berkshires ski slope one 1.5 megawatt turbine supplies over a third of the resort’s power, but ice on its blades can shut it down cold

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 18

Rain is slowly punching wind turbine blades to death from the inside and scientists finally know why

Rain is slowly “punching” wind turbine blades to death from the inside, and scientists finally know why

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 18

Wind turbines

Norway’s Utsira Nord plans up to 500 MW of floating wind where seabed is too deep for fixed foundations

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 18

crane-free installation of wind turbine

Namibia wind farm uses a crane-free “sky elevator” to assemble seven turbines even in stronger winds

By Anke Maree · Oct 18

Repaired turbine at King Island wind farm against stormy strait skies, bass strait island

On a Bass Strait island where a storm snapped a blade on one of five turbines generating 2.5 megawatts, crews rebuilt it instead of scrapping it, adding a decade to the island’s renewable microgrid

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 17

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Nuclear

Poland and Westinghouse launch long-lead component procurement for country’s first nuclear power plant, targeting 2036 startup

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 18

Rooppur reactor dome beside the Padma River after first chain reaction

Beside the Padma River in Pabna, a 1,080 megawatt reactor built over eight years reached its first chain reaction, and the milestone makes Bangladesh the world’s newest nuclear power producer

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 18

Myriad Uranium 24 breccia-pipe prospects

Myriad Uranium takes back full control of 24 breccia-pipe prospects in Arizona, consolidating a sizable piece of its U.S. uranium exploration portfolio

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 18

Nuclear

NANO Nuclear Energy signs $13.5 million deal to acquire NRC-licensed nuclear fuel processing assets in New Mexico

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 17

Turbine valves at Hatch unit one after the reactor tripped, hatch unit one tripped

Running at full power on a Georgia riverbank, a 58257 event report shows Hatch unit one tripped itself in 90 seconds after its turbine valves slowed for no traced reason

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 17

NANO Nuclear NRC-licensed fuel

NANO Nuclear moves to buy NRC-licensed fuel assets in New Mexico, giving its U.S. nuclear ambitions a foothold in the front end of the fuel cycle

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 17

Flatiron Plant turbine pumping water

Colorado’s Flatiron turbine pumps water 297 feet uphill to Carter Lake, then generates electricity as it returns

By Anke Maree · Oct 18

Steel heat battery unit delivering bricks heated steam at an oil facility, kern county oil

Inside a Kern County oil facility, bricks heated past 1800 degrees Fahrenheit deliver round the clock steam, and the system ran ten weeks without a single stoppage

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 18

Swing ride spinning inside former nuclear plant cooling tower, finished decades ago

Finished decades ago for 4 billion dollars, a sodium cooled breeder reactor in Kalkar never split an atom, and its cooling tower now spins a swing ride

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 17

Electric vehicle

U.S. electric vehicle electricity consumption grew 8% in early 2026, slowest rate in recent years after federal tax credits expired

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 17

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Record drought is shrinking Lake Mead and Lake Powell, threatening water and hydropower supplies for 40 million people

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 16

Geothermal unit wellhead piping in Utah desert sending power to grid, 2 mile deep

Outside a 2 mile deep well near Milford, Utah, a geothermal unit built with oil field drilling gear sent 33 megawatts to the grid in 23 months flat

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 16

Oregon State scientists found a way to pull clean hydrogen from sunlight

Oregon State scientists found a way to pull clean hydrogen from sunlight using a crystal that acts as its own “spark plug”

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 15

Oregon State researchers found a shortcut to clean hydrogen that skips the expensive ingredient the whole industry

Oregon State researchers found a “shortcut” to clean hydrogen that skips the expensive ingredient the whole industry thought was unavoidable

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 12

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

Latest News

1

Bolted above an Arizona canal that never gets touched by water, 2,556 solar panels on steel trusses became the Western Hemisphere’s first canal top array to generate power

Oct 18

2

Poland and Westinghouse launch long-lead component procurement for country’s first nuclear power plant, targeting 2036 startup

Oct 18

3

Oregon farm uses six giant solar “sunflowers” that track the Sun while tractors and lettuce share the field

Oct 18

4

On a Berkshires ski slope one 1.5 megawatt turbine supplies over a third of the resort’s power, but ice on its blades can shut it down cold

Oct 18

5

Colorado’s Flatiron turbine pumps water 297 feet uphill to Carter Lake, then generates electricity as it returns

Oct 18

6

TotalEnergies and KKR pour another 700 MW of U.S. solar into their joint venture, giving the partnership a much larger renewable footprint

Oct 18

7

FPL deploys 12,000-person restoration workforce as Hurricane Isaias approaches the Florida Panhandle

Oct 18

8

Beside the Padma River in Pabna, a 1,080 megawatt reactor built over eight years reached its first chain reaction, and the milestone makes Bangladesh the world’s newest nuclear power producer

Oct 18

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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