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North Dakota pumped 1,153,000 barrels of oil per day in June 2026, up 28,000 bpd from May, according to the North Dakota Industrial Commission. For one…
Petrobras has contracted Halliburton to drill four onshore wells at the Barra do Furado Station in Quissamã, Rio de Janeiro—a milestone that marks Latin America’s first…
The EPA announced $10.8 million in available grant funding this week to support training and workforce development across the U.S. water sector. The money is aimed…
Offshore wind development is expanding into storm-punished waters—including the South China Sea, the Sea of Japan, the Gulf of Mexico, and the U.S. East Coast. In…
On August 19, 2026, Eneva and GE Vernova flipped the switch on the Azulão I thermal power plant in Silves, Amazonas—about 205 miles from Manaus. The…
Federal climate officials have confirmed that July 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded across the contiguous United States. NOAA issued the designation, marking a new…
In the quiet fields of Atlantic, Cumberland, and surrounding New Jersey counties, a profound agricultural transition is quietly unfolding. Rows of green soybeans, hay crops, and…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE), a New York-based advanced reactor company, and Quadrant Nuclear Industries (QNI), a Boston-based nuclear fuel developer, announced on August 18, 2026…
Empire Petroleum Corporation just completed a 21,006-foot re-entry and subsurface evaluation of the Wakefield-Harrison GU B #1 well in Madison County, Texas—making it the deepest modern…
ExxonMobil and its Area 4 partners have awarded roughly $1.1 billion in engineering, procurement, and manufacturing contracts for the Rovuma LNG project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique—and…
Colombia’s Ecopetrol just closed a US$1.2 billion deal to take a controlling 51% stake in Brazilian oil and gas company Brava Energia. It’s one of the…
Thousands of feet beneath the surface, intense heat radiates through ancient bedrock, offering a continuous reservoir of carbon-free electricity. As power grids face skyrocketing demand from…
Niger signed a $1.9 billion, 16-year agreement with Canada’s Zimar Group and its partner High Tech on August 15, 2026, to finance, design, build, and operate…
China’s National Energy Administration has released a new five-year energy plan targeting 440 million tons of oil equivalent in domestic oil and gas supply by 2030.…
Targa Resources is making one of its biggest infrastructure bets yet in the Permian Basin. The midstream company announced plans to build three new natural gas…
Deep beneath the American landscape, ancient subterranean formations in Boston hold an extraordinary secret. Locked within dense, iron-rich stone is enough clean energy to transform the…
Elenger has announced three additional US-sourced LNG cargoes bound for Finland’s Port of Inkoo, scheduled for delivery in November and December 2026. The company, the largest…
Somewhere across rural China, uniformed personnel aim military rocket launchers into the atmosphere. Their target is not an invading military force but passing cloud cover. The…
Arrow Exploration Corp just dropped CAD $12.15 million—about USD $8.9 million—to pick up a 100% working interest in an oil-producing property in Thorsby, Central Alberta. The…
Calgary-based Ensign Energy Services Inc. closed its acquisition of Citadel Drilling Ltd. for $65 million on August 13, 2026. The company funded the deal using cash…
Petro-Victory Energy Corp. just dropped its first-year results for Capixaba Energia—an oil and gas asset in Brazil’s Espírito Santo Basin—and the numbers are hard to ignore.…
For the second consecutive year, on the exact same summer date, a massive bloom of translucent jellyfish clogged the cooling water intake systems at the Gravelines…
The U.S. Department of Energy has told X-energy it will receive up to $1 billion in additional federal funding for its small modular reactor project with…
Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of USD 761 million on August 7—a 21% increase from the prior quarter. Operating profit…
Nordex Group just landed a pair of orders from EFG Energy Farming Group. The deal covers twelve wind turbines across two sites in Lower Saxony, Germany—the…
Neoenergia, the Brazilian arm of Spain’s Iberdrola, has approved a BRL 3.1 billion ($598.64 million) investment package to expand and modernize the Federal District’s electricity infrastructure…
Sicily’s newest solar farm will power hundreds of thousands of homes while sheep graze in the shade of its panels and forests grow back around them.…
Two bills introduced in the U.S. Senate earlier this month are targeting opposite ends of the nuclear energy cycle—one aimed at expanding domestic uranium enrichment capacity,…
The U.S. Department of Energy renewed two emergency orders on August 10, 2026, directing Puerto Rico’s electric utility to maintain critical generation capacity and clear vegetation…
Fifty-four California elected officials aren’t waiting. On August 4, mayors, city council members, and county commissioners from across the state sent a formal letter to Governor…
Along Queensland’s Wide Bay Highway in the Gympie region, a massive clean energy infrastructure project is taking shape across nearly 1,500 acres. The Lower Wonga Solar…
Six American offshore wind companies took their industry directly to Capitol Hill this month, transforming a congressional office building into a hands-on demonstration of U.S. supply…
ConocoPhillips announced Thursday that CFO Andy O’Brien will become its next CEO on September 1, replacing Ryan Lance, who steps down after 14 years to become…
U.S. electricity demand is heading for back-to-back records, according to the Energy Information Administration’s latest short-term outlook. The agency projects consumption is projected to climb from…
Technip Energies just picked up a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the offshore Regasification Terminal Yan project in Kedah, northwest Malaysia. The terminal is…
Calgary’s Logan Energy Corp. (TSXV: LGN) just had its best quarter ever. The company announced August 11 that Q2 2026 output averaged 17,239 barrels of oil…
From high above in orbit, the world’s oceans appear much as they always have: vast, dark blue, and eternally unchanging. Yet beneath that calm surface, two…
80 Mile PLC has announced a delay to its planned drilling program at the Jameson Land Basin Project in East Greenland. The AIM, FSE, and OTC-listed…
Lebanon and Iraq brought a decades-old pipeline dream back to the negotiating table on August 10, 2026, when Beirut hosted a high-level Iraqi delegation to advance…
Sunlight is a double-edged sword for life on Earth. Photosynthesis requires light energy to survive. Yet absorbing too many photons creates an immediate biological hazard. For…
Zenith Energy just picked up a 10 MWp photovoltaic development project in the Province of Foggia, Puglia—and with that, its total Italian solar pipeline hit approximately…
At peak daylight in the Mojave Desert, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System looks like an engineering triumph: three 450-foot towers illuminated by thousands…
At peak midday, a utility-scale solar plant in California running at full throttle looks like a textbook operational triumph. Rows of silicon panels sit angled steeply…
The BLM Cedar City Field Office has issued a final decision and categorical exclusion to authorize the drilling of up to ten geothermal temperature-gradient holes in…
Power LNG, LLC, and Mexican LNG company Énestas, S. de R.L. de C.V., have signed definitive agreements to develop LNG infrastructure at the Port of Galveston,…
APA Corp. is getting more oil out of the Permian Basin without spending more to do it. On August 6, the Houston-based company raised its 2026…
ForeFront Power brought its first Erthos Earth Mount Solar system online at the City of Fresno’s Northeast Surface Water Treatment Plant, hitting commercial operation in late…
Walk one block through Chicago’s South Side under a canopy of towering oaks, and the air feels forgiving. Walk the next block, bare and sun-baked, and…
Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy signed an agreement on August 13, 2026, to push their planned 2.5 GW gas-plus-nuclear power plant in Victoria,…
The Duke Energy Foundation announced $100,000 in emergency grants this week to three nonprofit organizations helping communities recover from severe storms that swept across Ohio and…
