Can Better Technology Make Fracking Cleaner?
Shell's Mr. Williams, as well as oil services companies such as Trican Well Service Ltd., and industry umbrella groups such as the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) say that they...
View ArticlePeru Leader's $11.5 Billion Gas Project Faces Snags
The U.S. shale gas revolution, left-wing guerrillas who operate near Peru's gas fields in the jungle, and difficult negotiations with energy firms have dragged the expected finish line for Humala's...
View ArticleNuclear Regulatory Commission Sets Fact-Finding Trip For SHINE
Representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will visit this month to gather information as it prepares an environmental impact statement related to the construction and operation of a...
View ArticleBakken Crude Continues To Slip Relative To WTI Cushing
A huge surge in oil production in North Dakota has caused differentials between Bakken crude and WTI Midland crude to fluctuate and blow out at several points over the past several years as takeaway...
View ArticleAlaska Keeps Pressure On TransCanada Over Gas Pipeline
The state is trying to keep the pressure on a Canadian company as it seeks to advance efforts to build a major natural gas pipeline in Alaska....
View ArticleWe Should Use Concentrated Solar Power ONLY After Sunset
There is an ongoing battle between Photo-Voltaic (PV) solar which converts sunlight into electricity through an electro-chemical reaction and Concentrated Solar Power ( CSP ) which generates...
View ArticleFormer FBI Chief Will Investigate Claims Against BP
Controversy intensified over one of BP's several multibillion-dollar settlements following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
View ArticleVeerappa Moily Offers Liquid Gas To Power Pak Ties
Oil minister M Veerappa Moily is lending his hands to the government's efforts at strengthening ties with the new regime in Islamabad by working on a deal to supply liquid gas to fuel power generation...
View ArticleApple Teams With SunPower For Reno Data Center
Now Apple is once again teaming up with San Jose-based SunPower for another solar farm, this time for its new data center in the Reno Technology Park in Reno, Nevada. Apple is working closely with...
View ArticleFreeh To Investigate BP Spill-Fund Payments
A federal judge appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Louis Freeh to investigate alleged improprieties by an attorney involved in overseeing settlement payments related to the 2010 oil...
View ArticleFreedom From Gas? We're Getting There
One of the more intriguing alternatives under study by VW's Audi brand would use excess wind power, water and CO2 emissions to create synthetic natural gas -something could obviate the need for the...
View Article35-Year-old Coal Miner Dies In Southern Illinois
Peabody Energy is identifying a miner killed in an underground coal mine in southern Illinois as a 35-year-old Galatia man.
View ArticleState's Solar Credit Program Reaches Turning Point
After reaching two major milestones this spring, the rise of solar power in Massachusetts is at a crossroads as state regulators wrestle with how to keep the industry humming along while trimming the...
View ArticleWestport Innovations Acquires BAF Technologies And ServoTech Engineering
By acquiring these two subsidiaries of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Westport will have a stronger presence in the U.S. light-duty natural gas vehicle industry.
View Article700 Pounds Of Shrimp Seized From Vessel In Gulf Of Mexico
A joint effort by the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration resulted in the seizure of 700 pounds of illegally-caught shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana waters.
View ArticleMasdar Launches Seychelles Wind Farm
The Bonaire generation facilities, which integrate wind power, diesel generation and battery storage technology, provide all of the power needs of the island's distribution company, Water en Energie...
View ArticleIraq Picks Greece's MEKTA For Al-Anbar Power Plant Project
Iraq's electricity ministry has awarded Greek construction firm METKA a contract for the construction of a combined cycle plant at Al-Anbar. Under the contract, METKA's second in Iraq, the company is...
View Article'ConocoPhillips Exit Won't Affect Brass LNG Investment Decision'
ConocoPhillips' abrupt exit from the multibillion dollar Brass Liquefied Natural Gas project will not alter the possibility of realising an early Final Investment Decision, the Chairman, Brass LNG...
View ArticleGroup Raises The Alarm Over Shell's Pipeline
THE National Coalition on Gas Flaring and Oil Spills in the Niger Delta has called for the urgent review of the Trans Niger Pipeline, belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company in Ogoniland....
View ArticleCan Obama's Climate Change Policy Reduce Carbon Emissions?
The combination of these top-3 factors accounted for about 83% of reduced U.S. carbon emissions 2007-12. Wind and solar power generation capacities have increased by 600% and 300% respectively over the...
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