By Jon LeSage | – The hydrogen fuel cell market has a serious player emerging in South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Corp., which is jumping into the hydrogen truck market to compete with Nikola, Toyota, and Tesla’s Cybertruck and Semi. Hyundai and Yeosu Gwangyang Port Corp. are partnering to commercialize hydrogen fuel-cell trucks in South Korea. An agreement between the automaker and the port operator includes the development and demonstration of hydrogen fuel-cell trucks for logistics transportation and building out a hydrogen fueling station. The commercial fuel-cell trucks will be put …

By Abdelghani Henni | – Algeria national energy firm Sonatrach is working to introduce new technologies to offset declining production decline and optimize output, as the company lags in deploying the latest technologies in its fields. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Sonatrach’s Scientific and Technical Days (JST11) event, which took place April 16-19 in Oran, Algeria, Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour said the company is looking to use technology to improve efficiency and boost production. Algeria must “find solutions for raising its reserves, including …

By Fidelis Nwangwu | – WAV is not simply satisfied being the pioneer and the best in the provision of logistics services to the oil and gas sector in the country, but also wants to have a stake in the development of the future of the sector in the country and Africa as a whole. In a bid to boost the local content act and encourage participation of more Nigerians in the oil and gas sector of the country through human capacity development, West African …

Robert J. Traydon | – Our Energy Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi, recently attended the AtomExpo Nuclear Conference in Moscow, where she assured the Russians that South Africa is still on the nuclear train. Almost simultaneously, an inter-governmental task team led by the Deputy Energy Minister, Thembisile Majola, informed Parliament of a further delay with respect to the renewable train: dilly-dallying endangering SA’s renewable programme. The task team gave Parliament the following reasons for Eskom’s deferment in signing R58bn worth of power purchase agreements with various independent power producers …

By Emily Gertz | – Physicist Arden Warner’s new process uses magnetism instead of toxic chemicals to mop up oil spills. By day Arden Warner is a physicist at the Fermi National Laboratory, working on the next generation of particle accelerators. After hours, he has been devising a non-toxic way to clean up oil spills. It began in 2010. Warner and his wife were troubled by what they were hearing and seeing in the news about the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Like …

By Jordan Alexander | – For over a century, Namibia has had a strong mineral foundation, starting with the discovery of diamonds in 1908. In the years thereafter, it has developed into the fourth largest exporter of non fuel minerals in Africa today. This is led by its diamond production, which is the sixth largest in the world by value, uranium production, which is the fifth largest in the world, as well as production of gold, lead, zinc, tin, silver and tungsten. Adding to the …

By Andy Tully | – According to BP Plc, drivers whose vehicles rely on burning oil have a little more than a half-century to find alternate sources of energy. Or walk. BP’s annual report on proved global oil reserves says that as of the end of 2013, Earth has nearly 1.688 trillion barrels of crude, which will last 53.3 years at current rates of extraction. This figure is 1.1 percent higher than that of the previous year. In fact, during the past 10 years proven reserves have risen by …

The decree issued by the Nigerian government to stop the flaring of natural gas in hydrocarbon exploration and production (E&P) activities is an effort to realise commercial benefits from the nation’s huge gas reserves. Nigeria has more than 250 oil and gas fields, with about 2,600 producing oil wells and a total oil production of about 2 million barrels per day (mb/d).