Australian Coal Exporter, State Of Montana In Talks Over $10M Loan
Trains would carry the fuel from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming across the northwestern U.S. and down to the Gulf Coast. That's a scenario the industry's detractors contend could tie up...
View ArticleBurlington, Statoil, QEP Take Top 10 Spots In North Dakota IP Ranking
This week's Bakken Stats highlights include the three companies that placed in the Top 10 Bakken wells by IP rate - Burlington Resources (ConocoPhillips) and Statoil with three wells each and QEP...
View ArticleAmbre Energy Countersues Cloud Peak Over Coal Mine
The struggle over southeastern Montana's Decker coal mine has taken another turn with both co-owners trying to oust each other from the partnership....
View ArticleCoal Industry Feeling Squeeze Of Regulations, Natural Gas
"There are a number of things going on in Pennsylvania contributing to the decline in coal production . A lot of the coal-fired power generation plants are aging, and it would cost a lot of money to...
View ArticleBP Appealing Ruling On Gulf Oil Spill Settlement Payments
British Petroleum is appealing a judge's decision to allow businesses and individuals not directly affected by the 2010 gulf oil spill to seek cash settlements.
View ArticleLast Week In Congress / How Our Representatives Voted
Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., to the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act that would have barred offshore oil and natural gas leasing in Bristol Bay in southern Alaska and blocked sharing revenue from offshore leases...
View ArticleQ & A With ExxonMobil Pipeline Company Executive Karen Tyrone
ExxonMobil Pipeline Vice President and Operations Manager Karen Tyrone gave her assessment of the past 90 days following the oil spill in Mayflower....
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 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 ArticleS. Korea Firm To Build Biofuel Plant In Aceh
PT Goca Enc, a subsidiary of a South Korean company, plans to build a biofuel processing plant and a biofuel-fired power plant in Pidie Jaya regency, Aceh. Goca Enc president director Jang Eun Seog .
View ArticleStable Supply Of Power Essential For Reinvigorating The Economy
All the parties except the ruling Liberal Democratic Party state in their policy platform for the upcoming House of Councillors election that nuclear power generation should be terminated in the...
View ArticleTepco's Woman On The Inside Leading Push To Restart Reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) has pledged to establish nuclear safety rules that "meet or exceed" national guidelines, as the operator of the wrecked Fukushima atomic station seeks restarts at one of...
View ArticleState 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....
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