Renewables account for 15% of Iran’s installed capacity, with 11.9 GW of hydro, 410 MW of solar and 300 MW of wind.

U.S. Rig Count is up 5 from last week to 508 , Canada Rig Count is down 9 from last week to 147.

Brent rose 98 cents, or 1.4%, to $72.05 a barrel, WTI climbed 93 cents, or 1.4%, to $68.35 a barrel.

OPEC, Russia and nine other countries agreed in July to increase crude production by 400,000 b/d starting August through the end of 2022, a quantity that many analysts said would be insufficient to meet demand in the short-term, given seasonal consumption patterns and the world's recovery from the pandemic.

IOC is investing 1 trillion Indian rupees ($13.49 billion) to raise its refining capacity by 25 million tonnes a year in next 2-5 year,

Almost 70% of Turkmenistan’s natural gas output is exported.

"For the development of nuclear energy, which inevitably awaits us after the end of coal combustion in the Czech Republic, it is essential that Czech industry maintain high competencies in the widest possible range of expertise related to nuclear energy,"

Poland plans to auction up to 10.9 GW of offshore wind projects by 2030 and up to 28 GW of offshore wind by 2050.

Serbia also intends to fund gas, solar and wind power projects.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 3.0 million barrels from the previous week to 432.6 million barrels.

Brent was down 71 cents, or 1%, at $71.54 a barrel, WTI was down 77 cents, or 1.10%, at $67.59 a barrel.

"This means that the Nord Stream 2 gas connection pipeline is subject to German regulation by the Federal Network Agency

In the first four months of this financial year (FY), from April to July 2021, investment in the Indian renewable energy sector reached US$6.6 billion, surpassing the US$6.4 billion level for FY2020/21 and on track to easily overtake the US$8.4 billion total achieved in 2019/20 prior to the pandemic.

In the first half of 2021, the fund returned 9.4 percent, equivalent to 990 billion kroner.

Saudi Aramco net income: $25.5 billion (Q2) / $47.2 billion (H1)