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Britain delays ban on new petrol and diesel cars to 2035

Britain will push back a ban on new petrol and diesel cars and vans to 2035 from 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, adding that the cars would still be available to buy on the secondhand market thereafter

Russian oil producers send CPC Blend to UAE, open new export route

Russian oil producers supplied their first cargoes of CPC Blend crude to the UAE in August and September opening up a new export route as Moscow looks to find new customers and skirt Western sanctions.

India's ONGC willing to wait to regain oil from Russian project

India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp wants to eventually receive a share of crude from a Russian project it partly owns but is willing to wait because Russian oil is hard to ship right now.

Russia remains China's top oil supplier in August, sales up 26%

Russia maintained its spot as China's top crude oil supplier in August, Chinese government data showed, even as discounts on Russian crude continued to narrow and Moscow cut exports.

Why the volatile South Caucasus is important for oil and gas supplies

Azerbaijan is trying to take back control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway territory controlled by ethnic Armenians, in the latest escalation of a decades-old conflict.

BASF obtains long-term access to bio-based 1,4-butanediol QIRA

BASF is obtaining long-term access to QIRA bio-based 1,4-butanediol from Qore LLC, a joint venture of Cargill and HELM AG.

LanzaJet strengthens collaboration with Technip Energies to accelerate the global deployment of SAF

LanzaJet and Technip Energies announced an agreement to strengthen their exclusive collaboration to support the global deployment of the LanzaJet Alcohol-to-Jet Process technology.

Vitol ships gasoline and MTBE cargoes to Mexico

Mexican state energy company Pemex has resumed dealing with Vitol nearly three years since deals with the world's largest independent energy trader were banned over a graft scandal.

Volvo to end diesel car production by early 2024

Volvo Cars said that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.

EU lawmakers to grill new climate chief on fossil fuels

Lawmakers in the European Parliament plan to grill Wopke Hoekstra, who is poised to be the EU's next climate change chief, on how he would phase out fossil fuel subsidies and set a new emissions target for 2040.