Production At Libya’s Largest Oil Field Risks Shutdown, Again

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Category: News - Oil & Gas

19 August 2018. Just as Libya’s oil production recovered to a two-month high of over 1 million bpd, fresh protests at the oil terminal and refinery servicing the country’s largest oil field, Sharara, threaten to shut down production again, just days after output had been nearly restored to the levels before the kidnapping of oil workers last month.

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https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Production-At-Libyas-Largest-Oil-Field-Risks-Shutdown-Again.html

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Libya (194 industries)

VIDEO: Drone footage reveals extent of Lombok 7th August earthquake damage

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Category: News - Natural Disasters

19 August 2018. Drone shots of quake destruction and rescue operations in Lombok after the magnitude 7 earthquake.

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https://news.sky.com/video/drone-video-shows-extent-of-lombok-earthquake-damage-and-rescue-operations-11464177

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Indonesia (829 industries)

India’s cumulative grid connected solar capacity reaches 22 GW

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19 August 2018. According to the latest figures from the MNRE, cumulative grid-connected ground-mounted solar PV capacity has reached 22 GW in India, with 1.3 GW connected between this April to July. Module prices, meanwhile, are said to have come down “considerably”.

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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/08/17/indias-cumulative-grid-connected-solar-capacity-reaches-22-gw

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India - Solar Energy (184 power plants)

Solar Cells of the future (Analysis)

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19 August 2018. For solar to survive in a world without feed-in tariffs, further innovation focused on cost reduction is necessary. In this white paper, scientists from Swiss equipment supplier Meyer Burger argue that high efficiency cell concepts, and in particular heterojunction, will be among the best technologies solar can bet on to achieve this.

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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/08/18/the-weekend-read-cells-of-the-future

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Armed bandits kill Mana gold mine workers (Burkina Faso)

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Category: News - Mining

18 August 2018. Canadian-based mining company, SEMAFO, says one employee and one sub-contractor lost their lives after armed bandits shot at a bus transporting employees to the Mana Mine in Burkina Faso.

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http://www.mining.com/armed-bandits-kill-semafo-mine-workers

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Burkina Faso (75 Industries)

Namibia’s largest Solar-plus-storage system installed

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17 August 2018. German EPC company Cronimet has installed a 150 kW solar array to work alongside a 332 kWh battery storage system at a luxury lodge complex in a remote part of the African nation.

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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/08/14/namibias-largest-pv-plus-storage-system-installed

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Namibia (100 industries)

Deciphering The New Oil and Gas Caspian Agreement (Analysis)

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17 August 2018. It took more than 20 years for littoral states of the Caspian Sea to reach an agreement that would lay the legal foundations for the full utilization of the region’s resources. The Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau, Kazakhstan, brought the long-sought breakthrough after leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iran signed the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea..

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Russia (978 industries)

Iran (407 industries)

Kazakhstan (118 industries)

Turkmenistan (49 industries)

Azerbaijan (24 industries)