Shale Gas, Gasland, And Truthiness
I should have been pleased to hear that Gasland II is coming out. It took only a brief viewing of Josh Fox's original Gasland to move me to tears-of laughter. He employs a number of fairly transparent...
View ArticleAdani Group Pulls Out Of $1.7 Billion Indonesian Railway Project Due To...
India's Adani Group has pulled out from a $1.7 billion coal railway project with Indonesian state coal miner PT Bukit Asam in South Sumatra due to Indonesia's tough restrictions on licensing, Bukit...
View ArticleCPV Deployed In Australia Critical For Technology's Bankability
In last week's PV Insider webinar on the current status of CPV, Amonx Co-Founder and CTO Vahan Garboushian stated that their 30MW Alamosa project had achieved 99.6% system availability. Announcements...
View ArticleDavid Rainey, Former BP Executive, Given More Time To Prepare For Gulf Oil...
A federal judge has postponed the trial of a former BP executive charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was spewing from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf...
View ArticleEON, Dong Open Largest Marine Wind Farm As UK Urged On Climate
EON SE, Dong Energy A/S and Masdar Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. opened the world's largest marine wind farm off England as industry and environmental groups urged the U.K. to step up clean-energy...
View ArticleJapan Looks To Tighten Gasoline Market By Lowering Future Refinery Runs
"We want to tighten the gasoline market by keeping runs a little lower than last year," said Akitsugu Takahashi, senior vice president of JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., Japan's largest refiner by...
View ArticleSolar Kits Bring Clean Light To Kenya's Poor
Nevertheless, a recent study by the US National Institutes of Health estimated that 500 million households globally still rely on kerosene or other liquid fuels for lighting and consume 7.6 billion...
View ArticleUAE Will Continue To Be Major Provider Of Energy
Shaikh Abdullah made his remarks at the inauguration of the London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm in the outer reaches of the Thames Estuary, off the coast of the United Kingdom ....
View ArticleLaughably Named Facility Near Murmansk To Carry Out Grave Nuclear Fuel And...
A so-called "nuclear island" has been carved out in the Russian icebreaker port of Atomflot, which aims to concentrate all potentially dangerous spent nuclear fuel and solid radioactive waste...
View ArticleSchneider National Adding 60 Pa. Jobs To Serve Hydraulic Fracturing Sites
Schneider National Inc. will add 60 oilfield truck drivers in Pennsylvania to support its new business that is taking advantage of the U.S. oil and natural gas boom spurred by hydraulic fracturing....
View ArticleExco To Buy Eagle Ford, Haynesville Assets
Exco Resources Inc. agreed to acquire producing and undeveloped oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford and Haynesville shale formations for a total of $1 billion from Chesapeake Energy Corp.
View ArticleStatoil Invests In Offshore Pipeline Export Solution
Statoil and its partners have made the investment decision for a joint oil export solution for the Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen fields.
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan Discuss Joint Power Grid
India is in discussions for building a trans-border power grid over the next three years to export electricity to power-starved Pakistan, as well as supply natural gas through a pipeline to run its...
View ArticleShell Has Gulf Of Mexico Oil Exploration Success
Shell has Gulf of Mexico oil exploration success Shell today announces a successful exploratory well at Vicksburg in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico....
View ArticleFast Growing Eagle Ford Producer
Carrizo Oil & Gas is a small ($1.2B market capitalization) E&P concern with productive acreage in the Utica, Marcellus, Barnett, Niobara and Eagle Ford shale regions. Its main focus in growing...
View ArticleGE Increases UK Deepwater Subsea Tree Output Capacity
GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) has expanded its subsea systems manufacturing, test, and assembly facility in Montrose south of Aberdeen.
View ArticleImpetus For Japan-Vietnam Reactor Deal
Meetings of Japanese and Vietnamese ministers saw them reaffirm cooperation in nuclear energy. Vietnam plans to bring in nuclear energy using package offers from established nuclear countries which...
View ArticleHargreaves Services Snaps Up Parts Of Scottish Coal
Durham-based coal firm Hargreaves Services has bought parts of collapsed coal-mining producer Scottish Coal for 8.4m pounds. The deal covers 30,000 acres of land and includes Scottish Coal's rights and...
View ArticleWhy Carbon Capture Is A Winning Gamble
Eligible for this $8 billion in aid are proposals that 1) reduce oil and gas drilling emissions; 2) energy-efficiency schemes like capturing waste heat from industrial facilities; 3) carbon capture;...
View ArticleDeepwater Tanzanian Offshore Exploration Wells Prove Further Gas
Ophir Energy has updated the status of the deepwater BG-operated Ngisi drilling program on block 4 offshore Tanzania.
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