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Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said it signed a contract on 8 September with Omar Farooq Talc Processing Company for the Shinwari talc site in Spin Ghar district, Nangarhar. The area is 6.75966 square kilometres and the contract value is $4.5183 million, according to the ministry.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on 7 September it signed contracts with TNG, a company based in Tatarstan, for monitoring and consultancy at the Amu Darya basin and construction of a flexible production facility at Zamrud Sai.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and Saudi Arabia-based Delta International Company signed an exploration and extraction contract for the Kushk–Tirpul basin on 7 September. A 12 September announcement by the deputy prime minister’s office said the company would initially invest $200 million in seven gas blocks in the Kushk area.
Statistics Canada reported a 4.7% monthly rise in energy-product exports, led by refined petroleum shipments.
ANSADE reported increases in food and the housing group that includes energy; the year-on-year change was 8.9%.
Statistics Canada reported lower sawmill output and shipments, with unadjusted data subject to revision.
Pakistan’s Bureau of Statistics said large-scale manufacturing output rose 3.03% in July 2026 from a year earlier and 9.51% from June. The provisional Quantum Index Number was 119.13.
SEWA also approved 367 network plans and completed 34 technical studies during the first half of 2026.
A 250 MW solar facility at AMAALA has started breeding vulnerable sand gazelles, combining power generation with a reserve-led conservation effort.
Kuwait’s peak electricity load reached 17,540 MW in summer 2026, below last year’s high despite additional loads joining the grid.
Emera and Canadian Utilities announced a merger of equals that would create a utility serving about six million customers, alongside a separate ATCO industrial company.
The renewed agreement commits $51.2 million for territorial health priorities, alongside separate funding for 16 facility projects in 12 communities.
