Brazilian Energy Minister Nelson Hubner said that Brazil needs to make some adjustments to its petroleum legislation.

Comprehensive foreign news reports, Petrobras recently confirmed through its website that it plans to invest US$50 million to acquire 87.5% of the shares of Nansei Sekiyu K.K. Refinery in Okinawa, Japan, while Japan's Sumitomo Corporation controls the remaining 12.5% of the shares.

U.S. Energy Secretary Boardman said on the 13th that the unwillingness of oil-producing countries to provide sufficient crude oil has stimulated rising energy prices. He also said he had not seen any signs of slowing demand.

U.S. astronauts Scott Palazinski and Douglas Wheelock left the International Space Station at 6:28 a.m. Eastern Time on the 3rd (6:38 p.m. Beijing time on the 3rd) to conduct a spacewalk and repair a damaged piece of Solar panels that cannot be fully opened.

On October 14, Moscow, the capital of Russia, received its first snowfall since the beginning of winter this year. The arrival of the first snow heralds the beginning of a long winter, and every winter, as the international community's demand for energy continues to rise, Russia will also usher in its own "active period of international political life."

The European Commission passed legislative proposals on the development of hydrogen fuel vehicles on the 10th. The EU and private companies will each invest 470 million euros to develop hydrogen fuel vehicles in the next six years.

It can meet the energy needs of 600,000 residents purely by using sunlight, wind and hay to generate electricity. It sounds like this is just a whimsy of environmentalists. However, in the Spanish province of Navarra, this is becoming a reality.

The five-day 51st regular session of the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference concluded in Vienna on the 21st. Representatives of some agency members called on the international community to further strengthen the effectiveness of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime in the general debate of the General Assembly to cope with the rapid growth in demand for nuclear tec