Yemen oil facility targeted

- Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela completed the first half of a transfer of crude from an offshore oil facility that generated concerns about a potential spill, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.PDVSA in December began offloading crude from the Nabarima floating storage and offloading facility (FSO), after images of the facility listing earlier last year raised alarms among workers, activists and governments of neighboring countries about a possible environmental disaster.The facility, part of the Petrosucre joint venture between PDVSA and Italy's Eni SpA in the Gulf of Paria off eastern Venezuela, had been holding some 1.3 million barrels of Corocoro crude. Petrosucre, 74% owned by PDVSA and 26% by Eni, has been inoperative for nearly two years due to U.S. sanctions on PDVSA.Satellite images show that around 570,000 barrels had been transferred from the Nabarima onto the Icaro, a PDVSA-owned vessel anchored nearby, according to Samir Madani, … [Read more...] about Venezuela completes first tranche of oil transfer from offshore facility -sources

Jaipur: Striving to improve the percentage of daily target achievement of Covid-19 vaccination, health department has issued a notification stated that in spite of waiting for healthcare workers who are not turning up for vaccination, give the jab to those registered healthcare workers who are willing to receive it. The new arrangement will help to improve the percentage of daily target achievement.Immunisation in-charge of a session site has been given a target of vaccinating 100 healthcare workers in a day. On Co-WIN, the list of 100 healthcare workers for the particular session site is released in advance and all the 100 healthcare workers get a message through Co-WIN a day before their scheduled vaccination day informing them to turn up for vaccination on next coming day. But, out of those 100 listed healthcare workers for vaccination on the particular day, a lot of them do not appear. It affects the daily target achievement. Earlier, the orders issued by the Centre was to … [Read more...] about Rajasthan: Govt tweaks rules to boost vaccination target

Mr. Biden’s action notably did not include immediate steps to rejoin the Iran nuclear accord, which Mr. Trump abandoned and Mr. Biden has pledged to reimplement. Ms. Psaki noted that more actions were coming, including plans to revoke the Pentagon’s ban on military service by transgender Americans as well as the so-called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for international organizations that perform or refer women for abortion services. … [Read more...] about On Day One, Joe Biden targets Trump policies on climate, coronavirus

Washington: President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts and immediately launched a series of climate-friendly efforts that would transform how Americans drive and get their power. "A cry for survival comes from the planet itself," Biden said in his inaugural address on Wednesday. "A cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now." Biden signed an executive order rejoining the Paris climate accord within hours of taking the oath of office, fulfilling a campaign pledge. The move undoes the US withdrawal ordered by predecessor Donald Trump, who belittled the science behind climate efforts, loosened regulations on heat-trapping oil, gas and coal emissions, and spurred oil and gas leasing in pristine Arctic tundra and other wilderness. The Paris accord commits 195 countries and other signatories to come up with a goal to reduce carbon pollution and monitor and report their fossil fuel emissions. … [Read more...] about Biden puts US back into fight to slow global warming

OSLO: Norway's Nel, a maker of zero-emission hydrogen technology, will expand its operations in 2021 to make its products more cost competitive, leading to a significant loss for the year, it said on Thursday.Nel makes electrolysers used to make so-called green hydrogen from water rather than from fossil fuels, and also hydrogen fuelling equipment.Hydrogen, currently mainly used in oil refining and to produce ammonia for fertilisers, is lauded as a potential future green fuel of choice as it does not produce greenhouse gas emissions5 per when it burns.Nel's goal is to enable customers to produce green hydrogen at $1.5 per kilo in 2025, a cost level where it can outcompete fossil alternatives, down from between $2.5 and $4.5 per kilo in 2019, it said in a strategy update."Achieving this would allow green hydrogen to start to reach fossil parity, representing one of the most significant achievement for zero-emission solutions and a carbon neutral planet," Chief Executive Jon Andre Loekke … [Read more...] about Nel says ‘green’ hydrogen could be as cheap as fossil alternative by 2025