Global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to surge by 50% by 2040, driven by higher demand from Asia, with coal-to-gas switching in China and a boost in LNG consumption to fuel economic growth in South and Southeast Asia, Shell said on Wednesday. Last year, global trade in LNG reached 404 million tons,…

Photo: Ministry of Energy of Ukraine: Mykola Kolisnyk, Deputy Minister of Energy The department notes that last year’s increase made it possible to “balance the power system and carry out the necessary repairs.” Raising the electricity tariff for the population in Ukraine last year made it possible to balance the energy system and carry out…

Two victories in a row, unprecedented for the Grozny team in the current championship, finally allowed them to jump out of the zone of not only relegation, but even transitional matches. However, it is already clear that Akhmat faces a difficult battle for survival. Despite the points acquisitions, it is still difficult to say whether…

China’s imports of thermal coal are expected to have ticked higher in August as seaborne prices for the power-generation fuel remain competitive amid constrained domestic supplies. A total of 28.95 million metric tons of thermal coal are expected to arrive at Chinese port this month, up from July’s 28.8 million…

According to The Hill more than a third of the U.S. workforce is now over 50, and this figure is set to grow. This statistic is reflective of changes in social security and the decline of traditional defined benefit pensions, both of which mean people are working longer. Despite this normalcy, the reality is that…

“Citizens blocked the Armenia-Iran interstate highway with tractors in the Yeghegnadzor section,” the agency reported. Protests in Armenia began after the government launched the process of delimiting the border with Azerbaijan and transferring villages in the Tavush region to the Azerbaijani side. In particular, protesters are blocking local roads and highways throughout the country. The…

A state environmental agency in Kazakhstan has fined an oil company in the west of the country $780,000 over a prolonged fire at one of its fields last year that caused one of the largest emissions of methane in history. The ecology department of the Mangystau regional government said on February 19 that methane concentrations…

A total switch to renewable energy is going to wreak havoc on job markets in the United States. In some places, this will be a great thing – huge numbers of well paid, steady skilled and unskilled jobs will pop up in communities close to utility-scale solar and wind farms, for example. But in other…

A veteran of Russia’s war on Ukraine has been appointed as a district head in his home region on Monday, marking the first known example of a participant in the war being named to public office in Russia. “Today, deputies of the Berezovsky District Duma unanimously endorsed the candidacy of Ruslan Alexandrov for the post…

Russia is reopening the first of several regional airports that were closed when the country invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, state civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia announced Friday. All flights to and from 11 airports in southern and central parts of the country have been grounded over safety concerns since President Vladimir Putin ordered troops…