ENERGY

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Syria's interim Energy Minister, Mohammad al-Bashir, announced Friday that Damascus and Ankara have reached a deal for Turkey to deliver 6 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas per day to Syria within the next three months.

"I agreed with my Turkish counterpart Alparslan Bayraktar on supplying Syria with six million cubic meters of natural gas a day through the Kilis-Aleppo pipeline," Bashir told SANA.

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The Trump administration is pushing forward with seeking to forge a peace deal in Ukraine, despite recent warnings it could give up trying to mediate if progress isn't made, as well as seeking to repair bilateral US-Russia relations.

"With a frost covering Europe's energy relations with Russia, officials from Washington and Moscow have held discussions about the U.S. helping to revive Russian gas sales to the continent," Reuters has cited eight sources to say. (more…)

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warned the United States is at risk of suffering from blackouts that recently brought most of Spain to a halt due to over-subsidizing intermittent renewable energy sources. 

“We just saw in Spain, they were celebrating on April 12th of this past month that they'd shut down their last coal plant. A week after that, they were celebrating the fact that they had their first day of 100% renewables on their system,” Burgum said in an (more…)