Obama's Georgetown Speech Focused On Power Plant Limits, Climate Change
Obama also offered a rare insight into his administration's deliberations on Keystone XL, an oil pipeline whose potential approval has sparked an intense fight between environmental activists and...
View ArticleOil Ministry Seeks Settlement Of PMT Royalty Issue In India
The oil ministry is resisting arbitration proceedings by oil major BG and Reliance Industries over reimbursement of royalties, and taxes in the Panna, Mukta and Tapti (PMT) fields, and has argued that...
View ArticleCPS Proud Of Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
President 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 ArticleBattle Over Natural Gas Port Proposal Resurfaces
By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer The latest proposal to build an East Coast deepwater natural gas port is once again drawing the ire of area activists, who contend that the project will significantly...
View ArticleSummit Investments Plans Bakken Oil And Water Pipeline Expansion
Summit Investments, as closely held Summit Midstream Partners LLC (SMLP) is known, will spend $60 million to build an additional 145 miles (233 kilometers) of pipelines in the Bakken oil-shale region,...
View ArticlePacific Biodiesel Hopes To Share In $98.6M In Federal Biofuel Funding
Pacific Biodiesel hopes to gain some of the $98.6 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding being made available for advanced biofuel producers throughout the country. Of that $98.6 million,...
View ArticleSunrun Secures $630M To Put Solar Panels On Every House In America
Sunrun owns, insures, monitors, and maintains all the panels . This model works for consumers, who can lower their energy costs, as well as solar companies that need help adding customers....
View ArticleMotion Calls For Rate Cut For San Onofre Closure
California regulators are being asked to immediately remove hundreds of millions of dollars from utility customer bills because the San Onofre nuclear power plant is being shut down permanently.
View ArticleAbu Dhabi's Shuweihat 2 Names Lenders For Bond Issue
Abu Dhabi's Shuweihat 2 (S2) power and water plant has mandated six banks to help arrange a potential bond issue, Reuters has reported. S2 is 54% owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa) . Abu...
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 ArticleOceaneering, ExxonMobil In A Deal
However, in the oilfield services sector, two firms that are expected to significantly outperform the broader U.S. equity market over the next one to three months are Exterran Holdings Inc....
View ArticleHow Many Barrels Of Oil Were Spilled In BP's Gulf Well? Judge Must Decide
BP's expert, a petroleum engineering professor at London's Imperial College, says the well spilled 3.26 million barrels . Government experts set it at about 5 million....
View ArticleClimate Change Agenda Benefits Nuclear Energy
The U.S. utility Edison International (NYSE: EIX) gave up on plans to reopen its San Onofre nuclear plant in southern California because of the state's strict regulations....
View ArticleLegislation Aims To Address Nuclear Waste Woes
Spent fuel storage pools at Shearon Harris nuclear plant in New Hill, N.C. More than 65,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel is stored at operating or shuttered reactor sites in 34 states. (AP) . Four U.S....
View ArticleUS Solar Industry Calls On India To Remove Trade Barriers
The US solar energy industry representatives today said Indias industrial policy discriminates against its exports and hoped that New Delhi will come to the table to discuss the trade barriers.
View ArticleBirdwatchers Flock To See Rare Bird, Then Watch It Killed By Wind Turbine
The White-throated Needletail after it died flying into a wind turbine in Scotland. The very rare bird has needle-like feathers and white markings on its tail and metallic-purple color on its wings.
View ArticleDSM To License Biofuel Technology Once Production Starts In Iowa
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, gasoline and diesel producers are required to blend 36 billion gallons of biofuel a year into their products by 2022, including 16 billion gallons of cellulosic...
View ArticleCongressional Voting House Busy With Offshore Drilling
Voting 256 for and 171 against, the House passed a Republican bill (HR 1613) to implement a Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling treaty in a way that would exempt U.S. oil companies from transparency...
View ArticleBritish Shale Gas Reserves Double. Will The UK Frack?
Considering that BP reports British consumption as 2.76 trillion cubic feet in 2012, this formation is enough to transform the UK energy market, even though only 10-15 percent of shale gas reserves is...
View ArticleWho Will Land Hess' Terminal Network?
There are a lot of names being thrown around as potential purchasers of these assets, including Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC ) , Sunoco Logistics (NYSE: SXL ) , and Buckeye Partners (NYSE: BPL ) ....
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