China's Unsung Unconventional Energy Revolution
Despite the excitement over shale gas, of which China holds larger reserves than the United States, the world's top energy user has taken only baby steps to exploit the more complex deposits, drilling...
View ArticleNew Ways Of Producing And Using Greener Energy
Meanwhile, in Switzerland, energy research is looking up: at an experimental power plant flown like a kite, at heights of 300 metres. Wind turbines right now reach no more than 100 metres....
View ArticleDallas Driller Buys Chesapeake Assets In Eagle Ford, Haynesville
Dallas-based EXCO Resources Inc. increased its presence in the Eagle Ford Shale and the Haynesville Shale with the purchase of $1 billion in assets from Chesapeake Energy Corp....
View ArticleOutdated Coal Industry Ruins Air, Environment
New technologies become available and disrupt existing technologies and businesses. We no longer expect jobs ... The existing coal -dominated electrical power industry in Utah is a vestige of 19th and...
View ArticleUtilities Dealt Blow On Solar-Power Systems
Louisiana and Idaho regulators recently sided with the solar-power industry and homeowners with solar-energy systems, dealing defeats to electric utilities faced with a fast-growing constituency that...
View ArticleCharlotte's Argand Picks Canadian Solar For NC Project
Argand Energy Solutions has chosen Canadian Solar Inc. to provide photovoltaic modules for its 2.3-megawatt solar project in Louisburg, N.C.....
View ArticleShell, Firm Seal $84.5m Pipeline Contract
KAZTEC Engineering Limited (KEL) , an indigenous oil service company, has signed an agreement with Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) for the construction of a 58-kilometre...
View Article' Q&A With Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox
When Josh Fox received notice that a natural gas company was interested in drilling a well on his property in exchange for $100,000, he set out to investigate exactly how the towering derricks and...
View ArticleGreat Eastern CBM Gas Output Tops Forecast By 18%
Gas production from Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd's CBM (coal bed methane) block in West Bengal's Raniganj area has topped forecasts by 18% and stands at over 20 mcfd (million cubic feet per...
View ArticleSolarBridge Optimizes Solar Installations With Rail-Free Zep Compatible Solution
SolarBridge Technologies, a leading provider of photovoltaic microinverter solutions, announces the immediate availability of Pantheon II microinverters that are compatible with Zep Solar's rail-free...
View ArticleMexico Largest Opposition Party Seeks Constitution Change On Oil
The National Action Party, or PAN, will push for an amendment to allow private companies to share risk in oil output, party spokesman Juan Molinar Horcasitas said in a telephone interview yesterday.
View ArticleCalifornia Planning Energy Future Without San Onofre
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was the largest source of electricity for Southern California. But the plant is permanently closing after a series of maintenance and safety problems....
View ArticleUtah Land Set Aside For Solar Power
By Ladd Egan (KUTV) The U.S. Department of the Interior has restricted new mining claims on approximately 18,000 acres of Utah land as part of a plan to use public lands in Western states to generate...
View ArticleIs Coal Fired-Power Plant The Panacea To Ghana's Energy Deficit?
The recent energy crisis in Ghana has highlighted the urgent need for increasing our energy production. As a consequence, the government's effort at increasing currently installed generation capacity...
View ArticleOwner Of Leaking Well Has History Of Natural Gas Spills
Energy Resource Technology Gulf of Mexico, LLC has been cited by regulators twice for leaking natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico, according to Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement documents....
View ArticleHearings On Offshore Natural Gas Plan Near NY, NJ
Several hundred people are attending a public hearing on a plan to build a liquefied natural gas terminal off New York and New Jersey. Liquefied natural gas terminal (Eco Images, Getty Images) ....
View ArticleDNR Plans To Sell Coal Leases Near Skwentna
It said that "The ASCMCRA mandates that coal exploration and mining activities are subject to public notice and comment, review and written decision by the commissioner of Natural Resources....
View ArticleGAIL Asks Petronet To Renegotiate Australia's Gas Deal
State-owned gas utility GAIL has sought renegotiation of a deal Petronet LNG, a privately-registered firm promoted by state oil firms, had signed in 2009 to source liquid gas from Australia's Gorgon...
View ArticleOxy Qatar Signs QAR273m Deal With GDI For Drilling Services
Occidental Petroleum of Qatar ( Oxy Qatar) has signed another contract worth QR273mn with Gulf Drilling International (GDI) , a Gulf International Services' subsidiary, to provide drilling services...
View ArticleSpecial Meeting In Rodeo On Refinery Project
A result of the process would a reduction of gas sulfur emissions by about 50 percent and a lessened likelihood of flaring events at the 1,100-acre Rodeo refinery . Components of the project would be...
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