California Grid Operator Asks Geothermal To Help Feed The Duck
California's 33-percent-renewables-by-2020 mandate is becoming a reality, and the state's electricity system operator wants the geothermal industry to help keep the grid stable as more generation comes...
View ArticleHow NV Energy Will Exit Coal And Make Money Doing It
How Nevada's new state law mandating NV Energy exit the coal business came to being illustrates how money, business interests and the right friends will dictate energy cost and policy for every Nevadan...
View ArticleLavan Oil Refinery's Gasoline Production Up By 1.8 Ml/d
Managing Director of Lavan Oil Refining Company Mohammad Ali Dadvar said at present the refinery's daily gasoline production stands at 1.08 million liters that will hit 2.8 million liters of eruo-4...
View ArticleThe GOM's Recommendations On CBI Functioning Is A Farce
The Law Minister of the UPA government along with Law Officers and officials of the PMO were virtually caught red handed in attempting to doctor the CBI status report in the Coal Block allocation scam....
View ArticleKuwait Energy Unit Sees Rise In Production
Kuwait Energy, a major oil and gas exploration and production firm, has announced a production increase at its East Ras Qattara (ERQ) Concession in Egypt, in which it holds a 49.5 per cent interest....
View ArticleCPS Proud Of Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
President Barack Obama's vow to use his executive powers to reduce carbon emissions from the nation's power plants doesn't concern CPS Energy, which has reduced its reliance on coal-burning power to 38...
View ArticleShell Proceeds With LNG Terminal Plan
Royal Dutch Shell Plc. has started work on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility in Batangas, which could provide gas to power generation facilities with a combined capacity of as much as 2,000...
View ArticleMCWC, GE In Talks Over Biomass Project
Biomass is one of the technologies for which power producers can get guaranteed electricity production rates under the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme that was crafted to spur the development of green...
View ArticleDana Gas Makes New Gas Discovery In Egypt
Dr. Patrick Allman-Ward, General Manager, Dana Gas Egypt, commented: "We are pleased to have made another excellent gas discovery in our onshore Nile Delta asset in 2013, following the outstanding...
View ArticleAGL Wants $275M For Gas Pipeline Replacement
Since Georgia deregulated its natural gas market, AGL Resources serves as the monopoly that owns the distribution pipelines . Companies that sell gas over the system bill their customers for the cost...
View ArticleReducing Greenhouse Gases And Promoting Sustainability In The Global Economy
My Columbia colleague Klaus Lackner, head of our Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, has invented an "artificial tree" designed to capture carbon out of the air. That is one promising approach we...
View ArticleCape Wind Inks $15 Million Contract For Cable Work
Officials with the company seeking to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound announced today that they have signed a contract with a Falmouth-based construction company for the project's terrestrial...
View ArticleOGX Cancels OSX Contracts As It Weighs Shutting Oil Field
OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA, the oil company controlled by billionaire Eike Batista, is considering closing its only producing oil wells next year after a technical review, Batista's...
View ArticleAPI Lauds House Approval Of U.S.-Mexico Gulf Drilling Deal
A vote in the House of Representatives to approve a bill that would implement a Gulf of Mexico drilling pact between the U.S. - More - 2nd Annual Natural Gas Fleet Vehicles Congress 2013 Detailing the...
View ArticleSembcorp Secures Strategic Partnership Agreement, Receives More Rig Orders
Separately, Sembcorp Marine said its subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured two more contracts worth a combined value of US$417 million from Mexican oil and gas company Oro Negro for the construction of...
View ArticleShell's Olympus TLP To Use Tenaris Riser Connections
Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) will use Tenaris (NYSE:TS) for riser connections on the Olympus TLP in the Gulf of Mexico.
View ArticleDutch Gives US$21 Million To Biogas Project
He said the project is expected to benefit six countries including Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Burkina Faso that will see the construction of 70,550 domestic biogas plants for low...
View ArticleA Look At Schlumberger's Product Segments And Key Drivers
Providing an array of products and services has become critical in the oil field services space as customers seek contractors who can cater to the entire life cycle of a reservoir....
View ArticleClimate Change Projects Beginning To Make A Difference
Green Mountain Power is partnering with the city of Rutland to make it the solar energy capital of Vermont. Environmental groups like 350.org campaign for curtailing carbon emissions. Academics are...
View ArticleChevron Planning $1 Billion Richmond Refinery Upgrade
Chevron Corp. is planning a major upgrade to its century-old Richmond refinery, work that is expected to cost $1 billion and create some 1,000 construction jobs, the Contra Costa Times reports. The...
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