Bloomberg National Grid Plc is starting a hydrogen research facility to test how Britain’s gas transmission network can be used to transport hydrogen to heat homes or applied to industry. The 12.7 million-pound ($17 million) project will receive almost three quarters of its funding from Ofgem as part of the energy regulator’s Network Innovation Competition, announced on Monday, with the …

Bloomberg China’s third-biggest oil company faces a US blacklist, which could spur major outflows from its Hong Kong-listed unit, after years of involvement in offshore drilling in disputed South China Sea waters. China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the nation’s main deepwater explorer, is among four companies to be added to a list of firms owned or controlled by the …

Bloomberg Construction work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea will resume this week, despite US sanctions designed to end the pipeline that will bring Russian gas to Germany. Pipelaying on the 9.5 billion-euro ($11.2 billion) link will restart on December 5 after being halted for a year because of the sanctions, Nord Stream 2 company …