State Yet To Tap Full Potential Of Wind Power
To overcome the shortage of electricity, the state government is encouraging its production from non-conventional sources, especially wind, and has sanctioned six wind power projects in Anantapur...
View ArticleDLF Sells 150-MW Kutch Wind Farm For Rs 325 Cr
As part of its efforts to exit from non-core business, DLF Ltd has completed the transfer of 150-MW capacity wind power project in Kutch, Gujarat, to BLP Vayu (Project 1) Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of...
View ArticleStrategic Oil Importation Tender At Risk
A TENDER for importation of oil by the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) for the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) risks being cancelled after it emerged that the top two...
View ArticleAre The Finger Lakes The Place To Store Natural Gas?
It's something few people think about, but all that natural gas-and other fossil fuels- being produced by hydrofracking has to be -stored- somewhere before it gets to the consumer. Often used for the...
View ArticleJapan Nuclear Operators Ask For OK On Reactor Restarts
Japanese utilities asked regulators for permission to turn on 10 nuclear reactors, a move that could presage a widespread restart of atomic power more than two years after the Fukushima disaster.
View ArticleDeepwater Crucial For RI Jobs, Environment
I do not envy the members of the Narragansett Town Council, who met in a special session last month to consider Deepwater Wind's proposal to purchase easements for the Block Island Wind Farm's...
View ArticleMethane Leaks And The Natural Gas Climate Advantage?
Some researchers believe that the loss of methane during drilling operations and from collection / proccessing / transmission systems could offset climate advantages obtained from burning natural gas....
View ArticleState Budget Provides For Secret Meetings
Drillers can keep buried details on exactly what they're pumping under the ground at high pressure to shatter the shale that traps oil and natural gas under a law Ohio lawmakers passed last year....
View ArticleWhat's Wrong With Obama's Energy Policy?
Not much, considering the twin handcuffs from both sides and the sudden abundance of natural gas. The ideological embrace of renewables at all costs and the knee-jerk rejection of safe nuclear power,...
View ArticleCanada's Energy Sector Taps Bitumen, Sticky Rival To Oil Sands
By Scott Haggett CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Pilot projects in an as-yet undeveloped oilfield could remake Canada's energy map, if producers can successfully wrest a sludgy, tarry substance called...
View ArticleAre The Finger Lakes The Place To Store Natural Gas?
It's something few people think about, but all that natural gas-and other fossil fuels- being produced by hydrofracking has to be -stored- somewhere before it gets to the consumer. Often used for the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Group Pushes Port Of Vancouver On Safety Information
Historically, Washington state has gotten its crude oil by way of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline system, delivering Alberta crude, and from oil tankers and barges, mostly transporting crude...
View ArticleGabon Makes Rare Challenge To China Over Oil Practices
Gabon has taken the exceptional step of withdrawing the right of Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of Chinese oil giant Sinopec, to exploit an oilfield, raising concerns over possible repercussions on the...
View ArticleVietnam Journalist Falls Ill In Algeria; Old Well Water Blamed
A Vietnamese journalist was seriously poisoned by water from an old well in the Sahara Desert while reporting on a Vietnamese oil company currently operating in Algeria, claimed his employer, Nang...
View ArticleYanzhou's Yancoal Plan Contrary To Australia Approval, RBC Says
China's Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Ltd. (1171) 's plan to de-list and buy the rest of its 78 percent-owned Yancoal Australia Ltd. (YAL) unit is contrary to conditions imposed by the Australian...
View ArticleFukushima Radioactive Groundwater Readings Rocket
Toxic radioactive substances in groundwater at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have rocketed over the past three days, its operator said, admitting it did not know where the leak was coming from.
View ArticleRPower Subsidiary Gets Carbon Credit Nod
The accreditation is for a 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in Rajasthan. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows companies to gain so-called carbon...
View ArticleRadiation Level Up 90-Fold In Groundwater At Japanese Nuclear Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc said today it had found levels of radioactive material in groundwater had risen sharply at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant....
View ArticleTanzania Wants Energy Firms To Speed Up Gas Production
Tanzania wants energy firms to speed up production of natural gas that it hopes will help end poverty in east Africa's second-biggest economy. Discoveries in Tanzania's and Mozambique's waters have led...
View ArticleMaersk Drilling Gets $58 Mln Rig Contract
Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk has received a jack-up rig contract from Danish energy group Dong Energy worth about $58 million....
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