KUFPEC Offloads Stake In Indonesian Block
Kuwait: Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co (Kufpec) has sold its 25% stake in Indonesia's Ujung Pangkah Block to Saka Energi Indonesia, Reuters has reported. Kufpec bought into the block in East...
View ArticleStudies Find Methane In Pa. Drinking Water
Baldassare said that overall the Duke researchers "make a case for stray gas migration caused by gas well drilling activity ." The second water study was published online last week by the U.S....
View ArticleToo Many Questions Remain On Hawker And Chenault's Gasline
There is not much difference in cost of construction between a 36-inch and a 42-inch gas pipeline . Parnell, BP, Conoco and Exxon's alignment 42-inch gasline cost is estimated to $45 to $65 billion or...
View ArticleHeartland Institute Experts React To Obama's Climate Change Speech
President Barack Obama today delivered a speech laying out his energy and environment agenda for his second term - a plan that includes tighter regulations on power plants, mandates to increase vehicle...
View ArticleUtility Customers Shouldn't Have To Pay For San Onofre Shutdown
A consumer advocate division of the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't believe utility customers should have to deal with the massive costs related to the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear...
View ArticleMassive Tar Mat Found Along La. Coast
Three years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, workers have dug up a massive tar mat found along the Louisiana coast. The huge chunk of oil residue mixed with wet sand is about 165 feet long by 65 feet...
View ArticleAngry Residents Tell EPA Officials To Remove West Lake Nuclear Waste
Resident Byron Clemens said the federal government was responsible for creating the waste during World War II but hasn't done an adequate job managing the material after it was deposited at West Lake....
View ArticleFusion Energy Dreams Smash Into Hard Economic Realities
The old joke about nuclear fusion is that it's the "energy source of the future, and always will be" - but budgetary realities have raised new questions about just how much of a future fusion power...
View ArticleNew Coal Plan Could Be Huge Cost To Consumer
But this is going to cost every American consumer money in the form of their utility rates and we want to go directly to someone who can explain what is really on the table. And that would be from --...
View ArticleHorizon Lines Plan Diesel/LNG Engine Fuel Conversions
Horizon Lines plans to convert the power plants on two of its steam turbine cargo vessels to modern diesel engines capable of burning conventional liquid fuels or liquefied natural gas (LNG) .
View ArticleMoody's Places Desenvix's Ratings Under Review For Possible Downgrade
Desenvix holds interests in 15 power plants with a total installed capacity of 349 MW, consisting of 10 small and medium sized hydro-power plants, one biomass plant and four wind power plants....
View ArticleBill Could Open Bristol Bay To Gas Leasing
"The Obama Administration has placed the majority of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits and placed half of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska off-limits," Hastings said in a recent Committee on...
View ArticleFracking's Threats To Drinking Water Call For A Precautionary Approach
Fracking, shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, is the process of blasting water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground at high pressure so as to fracture shale rock and release the gas it holds....
View ArticleReady For New Executive Carbon Regulations
Duluth-based Minnesota Power, which has dropped their coal-based power production from 95 percent to 80 percent since 2000, says it's too soon to determine the extent of how President Obama's new rules...
View ArticleWEX Teams With CITGO To Provide Private-Label Fleet Card Services
WEX Inc. signs a long-term agreement with CITGO Petroleum Corp. to provide private-label fleet card services.
View ArticleHow To Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Drive for Innovation Chapter 239: How to boost solar cell efficiency. Professor Yang Yang at UCLA describes his work with using organic polymers to boost solar cell efficiency. NO RATINGS. Login to...
View ArticleSyed Mokhtar's Malakoff Buys 50% Of Aussie Wind Farm
Under the share purchase agreement, Malakoff will acquire the entire share capital of Meridian Wind Macarthur (MWM) Holdings, which operates Macarthur Wind Farm under a joint-venture agreement with...
View ArticleCommittee Passes Resolution On Pipeline
The Township Committee followed through with its promise and passed a resolution last week, requesting that natural gas company Transco do an environmental impact study and uphold its restoration...
View ArticleDOE Launches 'EGallon' Electric Vehicle Charge Cost Calculator
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) created a new online calculator called the "eGallon" that's designed to give users a simple way to compare the cost of charging an electric vehicle with the cost of...
View ArticleLANL Puts Nuke Work On Hold Amid Safety Review
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charles McMillan has halted a number of activities at PF-4, the lab's main plutonium facility, pending a thorough verification of safety procedures. All areas of...
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