Namibia Discovers Oil While Pursuing Green Energy
September 17th, 2022
Via VOA News, a report on huge oil deposits recently discovered in Namibia: The first “green hydrogen” power plant being built in Africa is expected to begin producing electricity in Namibia in 2024, an official from France-based HDF Energy told Reuters news agency this week. That presents something of a dilemma for Namibia, which is […]
Read more »Russia Says Pipeline To China Will Replace Nord Stream 2
September 16th, 2022
Via Oil & Gas Daily, an article on Russia’s decision to build a new pipeline to China to replace Nord Stream 2: A Russian pipeline to China will replace the Nord Stream 2 gas link to Europe, abandoned amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday. Asked in an interview with Russian television […]
Read more »Trial Run for China-Afghan Rail Corridor
September 15th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on the trial period for the new China-Afghan rail corridor: A trial period of three months will see freight trains from China deliver goods to Afghanistan via Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Exports of Afghan goods will follow the same routeback to China. This new railway corridor commenced its trial run on September 13 when […]
Read more »World’s Biggest Bet On India
September 14th, 2022
Via The Economist, an article on Tata’s $90bn pivot to its home market and what it says about the planet’s fifth-biggest economy: If you want to glimpse the frontier of Indian capitalism, take a trip to Tamil Nadu in the south of the country. New factories with solar panels on their roofs lie on a vast […]
Read more »Extension Of CPEC To Afghanistan Could Link Infrastructure Across Continent
September 14th, 2022
Via The Third Pole, a report on the likelihood that road and rail projects will be extended to Afghanistan under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Once the highway becomes a motorway, trucking supplies to Afghanistan will become much faster,” said Shakir Afridi, president of the transport union for Khyber district, in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Afridi […]
Read more »Ooredoo Telecom To Exit Myanmar, Following Norway’s Telenor
September 14th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Ooredoo’s decision to exit Myanmar, following Norway’s Telenor: Qatari telecommunications group Ooredoo has agreed to sell its Myanmar business to a Singapore-registered company in a deal that would see the company exit the troubled south-east Asian nation. Ooredoo Asian Investments, which owns Ooredoo Myanmar and Ooredoo Myanmar Fintech, […]
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