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Delegates in Aberdeen passed Energy Minister Stephen Gethins' resolution declaring domestic oil and gas production, reviewed by climate compatibility assessments, "clearly preferable to importation", after he urged them to vote down a trade union amendment asking Westminster to raise profit levies on fossil fuel extractors.
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Europe's benchmark gas price this week reached its highest level since December 2022, before a one-day Norwegian supply scare unwound. Underground storage is at its lowest for the time of year since records began in 2011, the EU has paid €7.88bn for Russian Arctic LNG in nine months this year, and the EU ban on the remaining long-term-contract trade arrives on 1 January. The numbers, the region's voices, and what moves next.
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Final investment decisions on large-scale renewables reached 5 GW by the end of September, past the previous best of 4.9 GW, as home battery approvals tripled and renewables out-generated fossil fuels in the national grid for the month. The same fortnight delivered record curtailment, negative midday prices and a near-cap A$23,107/MWh spike in New South Wales: abundance at noon, scarcity in the afternoon.
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Supervisors at Escondida voted 64% to 35% on 14 October to accept BHP's improved offer, hours after their strike was to begin and a day before its extended deadline. The deal pulls a supply threat out of a copper market trading near records — but settles only one of the disruptions running through Chile's copper belt. The numbers, the voices and what it means for energy buyers.
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The grid serving 67 million people across 13 US states and Washington, DC was forecast to come within 900 megawatts of its reserve margin this week — roughly one large power plant — as an October heatwave collided with the maintenance season. The government's emergency order lets PJM run plants past their pollution limits and call on data centres' own backup generators. Reporting on 14 October said no rolling blackouts had been announced, and PJM said it anticipated no customer impacts; the forces behind the squeeze have not gone away.
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September brought India's worst power shortages since August 2023, and on 13 October the head of its electricity planner said the coal capacity now needed could reach "105 GW or even 150 GW" against the 97 GW in last year's plan. The coal ministry says supplies are strengthening and stocks have held above 18 million tonnes; steel mills and farmers say the cuts are biting anyway. The numbers, the regional voices, and what it means for anyone exposed to India's grid.
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Fuel is selling above ₦1,400 in Abuja even as NNPC offers an advertised ₦66-per-litre app discount until 31 October, although station checks found smaller differences. The Nigeria Labour Congress has put the government on a two-week clock, the IMF said on 14 October not to bring the subsidy back, and the Dangote refinery — posting a $4.73 billion profit and exporting record volumes to West Africa — has extended Africa's biggest IPO. The evidence behind each claim, and what it means for anyone buying fuel, crude or naira assets.
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Dubai Airports' chief said it as Houthi strikes shut Riyadh's airport. WETEX opens in Dubai on Tuesday and ADIPEC follows in Abu Dhabi on 2 November. No strike on the UAE has been reported in the past month, but 15 foreign airlines still have Dubai flights suspended and the US tells its citizens to reconsider travel. The evidence on risk, insurance and flights, and what the region's leaders are saying.
Trump announced an energy truce on 11 October. Since then Russia has hit Ukraine's grid and gas assets again and Moscow has confirmed no agreement.
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A UAE government report projects data-centre water use roughly doubling to 9.32 trillion litres by 2030, with the water attributed to AI workloads roughly quadrupling, and finds that electricity generation accounts for about half of water use across the data-centre value chain. It calls on the UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi in December to advance a global declaration.
The Lamu County Government-led Kiunga solar desalination and Water-for-Peace initiative has won gold in the Governance, Institutions and Social Enterprise category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards.
Dubai's Hassyan 180 MIGD seawater reverse osmosis independent water project has taken gold in the Exceptional Project Execution and Delivery category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026.
The proposed Lamu refinery would add 700,000 barrels a day of processing capacity, but land, environmental and execution risks remain material.
The 0.8 mtpa agreement extends the return of long-duration contracting in global LNG and gives Petrobras another tool for managing spot-market exposure.
A final investment decision on the Kitimat expansion commits Canada to a much larger role in Pacific LNG trade.
Italy’s Eni has capped petrol and diesel prices for a month as governments and suppliers confront renewed pressure from high energy costs.
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The race to build AI data centres is turning electricity, water use and local consent into hard constraints on digital growth.
Singapore-based HANSUN brings water treatment, pollution-control and gas-generation equipment into the conversation around safer, cleaner LNG and tanker operations.
On Norway's Gastech pavilion, Aize and ECOnnect Energy tell two very different technology stories that meet at the same problem: how to make complex energy infrastructure easier to understand, build and operate.
On the Norway pavilion in Bangkok, Aize is putting a practical question at the centre of industrial digitalisation: can engineers get from a complex physical asset to the information they need without fighting through disconnected systems?
The transition to lower-carbon shipping is often discussed in terms of fuels. BlueSoul and Torgy LNG are working on the less visible engineering problem: how those fuels are stored, contained and delivered safely aboard ships.
Kobelco's presence on the Gastech floor connects a century of compressor engineering with two demanding cryogenic markets: today's LNG carriers and the emerging liquid-hydrogen supply chain.
At Gastech in Bangkok, Alfa Laval’s stand is a reminder that some of the energy transition’s hardest gains come from better heat transfer, separation and fluid handling.
The hardware at the Jiuli stand is less conspicuous than AI or LNG megaprojects, but it addresses one of energy engineering’s permanent problems: choosing materials that survive pressure, temperature and corrosive service.
At Gastech 2026 in Bangkok, Cenosco is making a deliberately practical AI pitch: speed up integrity analysis while keeping engineering judgement and accountability with people.
A detailed plant model on the Cryogas Industries stand points to the hardware behind LNG: storage, vaporisation, transport and regasification.
The company’s Bangkok pitch is not AI as a chatbot. It is AI as an optimisation engine for the moving parts of an LNG portfolio: vessels, cargoes, contracts, market prices, risk and scheduling.
A live AixEnergy panel at Gastech in Bangkok is confronting the security problem behind autonomous energy: when software can influence physical operations, a cyber incident is no longer only an information-security event.
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A panel taking place now at Gastech in Bangkok is pushing the industrial AI conversation beyond pilots and copilots: what happens when software begins to interpret conditions, recommend actions and take a more autonomous role in energy operations?
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Susanne Clark and Dave McGinlay are at Gastech in Bangkok today as First Marine Solutions brings its offshore mooring, marine operations and floating-wind experience into the energy conversation.
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Accompanied by Becca Juytong, Gray is touring Gastech in Bangkok today with a simple proposition: inspectors should be able to do the inspection and build the report at the same time, by speaking.
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The Stratawire met Dubai-based Kekst CNC partner Ben Curson at Gastech. His work sits in a part of the energy economy that rarely appears on a process diagram: what companies say, who they say it to and how they protect trust when the stakes are high.
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Bloomberg, CNBC, CNA, Nation Group and Energy Connects have built broadcast operations inside BITEC, turning the exhibition floor into a rolling global newsroom.
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SeaMarque co-founder Michal Golab is in Bangkok to reconnect with clients, meet new people and get closer to the industry his recruitment business serves.
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The familiar Wood logo is still the largest thing on the stand, but the smaller line beneath it matters: “a Sidara company”.
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Spain’s SENSIA is using infrared imaging and artificial intelligence to find, measure and report gas leaks while they are happening.
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The British manufacturer is presenting rotary-lobe gas compressors, process blowers and vacuum boosters for demanding industrial applications on the exhibition floor in Bangkok.
A meeting at Gastech 2026 with engineering leadership from PTT’s Rayong Gas Separation Plant points to the operational layer behind Thailand’s gas and petrochemical system.
A Gastech meeting with Bangkok-based managing director Luca Vianelli opens a window onto the quieter consulting and commercial networks behind international industrial projects.
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The state’s pavilion brings LNG investment, flare-gas recovery and oil-spill response together beneath one ambitious claim: “The future of global energy is built in Louisiana.”
Hilong Group is among the international oilfield service companies represented at Gastech 2026, bringing experience from drilling and energy projects across Asia and beyond.
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Away from the formal stages and exhibition stands, the Networking Hub shows another side of Gastech: the conversations where introductions are made, ideas are tested and future business begins.
The South Korean LNG technology specialist is in Bangkok as the industry looks for faster, more flexible ways to build import, storage and regasification infrastructure.
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The ships may be models, but the message is full-sized: greener fuels, smarter vessels and the industrial capacity to build them at scale.
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ARC Energy is making the case for processing gas that might otherwise be flared, turning an emissions problem into a usable product.
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The artificial-intelligence boom is becoming a vast infrastructure-finance problem. The winners may be decided by who can secure power, grid access and patient capital before the technology moves on.
At Gastech in Bangkok, Chennai-based SHS Machines is making the case that valve testing is no longer just about pressure. It is increasingly about proving exactly what happened during the test.
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The Global Energy Exhibition & Congress Vietnam will bring policy, capital and technology to Hanoi from 24 to 26 February 2027. The timing could hardly be more exciting.
Corrosion rarely gets the headline at an energy conference. But for operators trying to keep ageing pipelines, platforms and terminals working safely, it is one of the stories that actually matters.
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The Caterpillar-owned energy technology company is on the exhibition floor in Bangkok as the global gas and LNG industry focuses on infrastructure, efficiency and lower-emissions operations.