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Workers Walor factory in eastern plants that make auto parts worry about the shift to electric vehicles (AFP)
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)LabourNewsTransport

EV transition worries French car industry workers

Parts suppliers across France fear that phasing out combustion energies will see automotive manufacturing jobs move out of the country.

News Release

Shell Plc 2nd QUARTER 2024 AND HALF YEAR UNAUDITED RESULTS

                 SHELL PLC2nd QUARTER 2024 AND HALF YEAR UNAUDITED RESULTS                                   SUMMARY OF UNAUDITED RESULTSQuarters$ million Half yearQ2 2024Q1 2024Q2 2023%¹ Reference20242023%3,517  7,358  3,134  -52Income/(loss) attributable to Shell...

Net profit shed seven percent year-on-year in April-June, to $3.8 billion (AFP)
BusinessNatural GasNewsOil

Refining and gas give TotalEnergies Q2 blues

Profits slump for French oil company blamed on lower margins in refining and falling LNG demand in Europe.

FILE PHOTO: A SunPower SunVault display of the solar company SunPower is seen inside one of their offices in Richmond, California, U.S., July 15, 2021.  REUTERS/Peter DaSilva/File Photo
BusinessEfficiencyElectricityFinanceInfrastructureNewsSolarTransmissionUtilities

SunPower tumbles nearly 20% after pausing some operations

SunPower is halting new product shipments and deactivating certain agreements, amid financial challenges.

FILE PHOTO: Cars drive under a downed power pole in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo/File Photo
BusinessElectricityFinanceNewsPoliticsResiliencySolar

Solar-power projects in Puerto Rico get $861-million US loan guarantee

The loan guarantee is for two solar projects to enhance Puerto Rico's energy security and grid resilience after recent hurricanes.

FILE PHOTO: A worker of Sigma Lithium Corp SGML.V takes samples at the Grota do Cirilo mine in Itinga, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil April 18, 2023. REUTERS/Washington Alves/File Photo
BusinessCritical MineralsEconomyFinanceMineralsNews

Investment in critical minerals in web of doubt, industry says

Companies are reluctant to invest, uncertain about the demand for electric vehicles and government approaches to zero-carbon goals.

Total Energies' $10-billion Tilenga project involves drilling more than 400 oil wells in western Uganda, many of them in Murchison Falls Nature Park, a biodiversity reserve and the country's largest national park (AFP)
BiodiversityClimateEnvironmentFuelNewsOil

TotalEnergies Uganda oil project ‘devastating’: conservationist

The $10-billion project involves drilling more than 400 oil wells in western Uganda, many of them in Murchison Falls Nature Park.

Land-based wind turbines spin in Atlantic City, N.J., on April 28, 2022. On July 11, 2024, Community Offshore Wind identified itself as the third company to submit plans for an offshore wind farm in New Jersey by the previous day's deadline. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
BusinessElectricityNewsWind

Previous bidder tries again with new offshore wind proposal in New Jersey

Community Offshore Wind has submitted the bid to build a wind farm that would generate 1.3 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power 500,000...

News Release

Shell to invest in Ruwais LNG project in Abu Dhabi

10 Jul 2024 Abu Dhabi − Shell Overseas Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Shell plc (Shell), has signed an agreement to invest in the...

FILE PHOTO: An Emirati woman arrives to ADNOC's Yash Social Center in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates May 14, 2018. REUTERS/Christopher Pike/File Photo
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ADNOC’s Ruwais LNG to earmark 40% stake to Shell, Total, BP, Mitsui, sources say

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has earmarked a 40% stake in its Ruwais liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to four energy majors

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