Piper Alpha Disaster To Be Remembered 25 Years On
The wreckage of the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea, off Aberdeen. Credit: PA The 25th anniversary of the world's worst offshore disaster, in which 167 men were killed, is being...
View ArticleTocardo And Clifford Chance Partner To Support Tidal Energy Projects Worldwide.
Tocardo and Clifford Chance Partner to Support Tidal Energy Projects Worldwide. Tocardo Tidal Turbines, producer of tidal and free-flow water turbines, and leading international law firm Clifford...
View ArticleWe Must Face The Problem Of Climate Change
The president proposed steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal -fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. My energy plan will cut carbon ......
View ArticleSDGE Warns Of Expensive Electric Bills After San Onofre Closure
While the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has created an untimely reduction in our region's energy resources, we have taken steps to ensure a reliable supply of energy for the...
View ArticleRio Tinto Resumes Coal Shipments
The Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto has resumed the shipment of coal along the Sena railway line from its mine in Moatize in the western Mozambican province of Tete to the port of Beira after...
View ArticleNorthern Alaska Leaders Speak Of Fast Pace Of Change In Arctic
Itta and several other speakers noted that they don't understand why the federal government would choose to take the risk of allowing offshore drilling in the Arctic before drilling in the coastal...
View ArticleBristol Community College Scraps Turbine Plan
Bristol Community College has scrapped a proposed campus wind turbine project due to changing "best practices" in turbine construction and is exploring alternative uses for a $600,000 state grant it...
View ArticleFarming Started In Several Places At Once
Iran's gasoline production capacity will reach 71 million liters per day in the near future, Head of the National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Company (NIORDC) Alireza Zeighami said....
View ArticleProposed Ocean Pipeline Would Pump Natural Gas From Port Off New Jersey Coast
The proposal by Liberty Natural Gas would include a port at sea to extract liquefied natural gas from specially designed ships that convert it back into a gas form so it could be pumped to shore on...
View ArticleNIOC Finds $550 Billion Worth Of Oil, Gas Reserves In One Year
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced that it discovered 552.5 billion dollars of oil and gas reserves last year, while it spent only 229 million dollars for exploration operations....
View ArticleCan New Govt Solve Pakistan's Energy Crisis?
In a bid to find answer to the country's woeful energy crisis, Nawaz Sharif had recently urged the state-owned China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) to install solar power plants and also...
View ArticleCrude Politics Continues To Reign Supreme
The Obama administration is now attempting to reduce Iran's oil exports even further, to less than 500,000bpd. New US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said last week that he believed the oil market could...
View ArticleThe Future Is Agriculture - Bala
The Director-General, Energy Commission of Nigeria, Prof. Eli Bala, tells EVEREST AMAEFULE that Nigeria will soon start producing electricity from biomass waste Your agency has been advocating...
View ArticleEICF Aims To Produce Technical Graduates Who Match Employment Needs Of Oil...
The Energy Industry Competency Framework (EICF) , an initiative aimed at aligning technical and vocational institutions with the requirements of the oil and gas industry, as well as to offer students...
View ArticleIsrael Capable Of Tapping Lebanese Gas Resources
Lebanon: Lebanese energy minister Gebran Bassil has said that Israel has the technical ability to draw from Lebanese underwater gas fields, and called for an urgent parliamentary session to define gas...
View ArticleCoal, Jobs And Climate Change The Debate
Coal, jobs and climate change the debate. While there is no serious dispute among scientists that climate change is human caused and happening, the timetable and specifics of its consequences are more...
View ArticleLebanon Says Israel Could Access Its Offshore Oil
Lebanon says Israel could access its offshore oil Recent Israeli discoveries of oil and gas deposits in the Mediterranean Sea have raised tensions between Lebanon and Israel, which technically are in a...
View ArticleMore Water Used For Lawns Than Oil, Gas Fracking
A lot has been written about hydraulic fracturing. Some has been true, but most has been either a distortion of the facts or outright misstatements made intentionally to make fracturing seem like a new...
View ArticleBhutan Banks On 'White Gold' Hydropower
Hydropower plants have already harnessed the country's water flows to light up nearly every Bhutanese home, generating electricity that is sent to remote villages by cables strung through rugged...
View ArticleXcel Optimistic While Others Worry About Push For More Emission Limits
The ground didn't suddenly start shaking under Xcel Energy's Comanche Generating Station following President Barack Obama's recent call for still more emission limits, including coal-fired power...
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