Energy News
05 | 22 | 2013
Tesla Repaying Loan For 'Losers' Gives Obama Green Win
Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) , labeled a "loser" by Mitt Romney during the U.S. election, is giving President Barack Obama 's green-energy strategy its biggest win after almost two years of failures pounced upon by Republicans.
05 | 22 | 2013
Nuclear Plant Sits On Top Of Fault
Japan's nuclear watchdog has endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the plant's restart virtually impossible.
05 | 22 | 2013
New Canadian LNG Terminal Becoming Real
Pacific Northwest LNG awards FEED contract, takes next step toward an LNG export terminal island on Lelu Island, near Port Edward....
05 | 22 | 2013
Planet Textiles Adds High Profile Speakers
Other speakers include VF Corporation, H&M, The Sustainable Apparel Coalition, The National Resource Defense Council, Chinese NGO: Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) and Textile Exchange. Registration for the event is now open....
05 | 22 | 2013
Gas Discovery At Shark Reservoir
This follows the company's announcement last week that it had found a gas layer with a thickness of 60 meters at a depth 4,315 meters. According to estimates, the source contains between 2.3 to 3.6 TCF (trillion cubic feet) of natural gas ....
05 | 22 | 2013
Sarawak Unveils Action Plan For Communities Affected By Murum Dam Project
The Sarawak government today announced the Proposed Resettlement Action Plan for the communities who are directly affected by the Murum hydroelectric dam project.
05 | 22 | 2013
Japan Nuclear Regulator Says Tsuruga Reactor Sits On Active Fault
The panel, consisting of NRA commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki and four outside academics, submitted the report last week that said a zone of crushed rock fragments running directly beneath the reactor constitutes an active fault....
05 | 22 | 2013
Octal Wins GCC Mashreq Oil And Gas Project Of The Year Award
Oman: Oman based OCTAL, the world's largest producer of PET resin and sheet on a single site, has won the highly acclaimed and sought after GCC 'Mashreq Oil and Gas Project of the Year' award for its PET Complex expansion phase during the 'MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2013' held in the UAE last week.
05 | 22 | 2013
Tangiers Petroleum Executes Farm-Out Agreement
The agreement covers Australian exploration permits WA-442-P and NT/P81 which are located in the southern Bonaparte Basin, about 250 kilometres south-west of Darwin.
05 | 22 | 2013
Shale Gas 'Can Boost UK Manufacturing'
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has thrown its weight behind shale gas exploration in the UK, suggesting future energy needs could be met and thousands of jobs created by the move.
05 | 21 | 2013
DOE Ends LNG Export Approval Moratorium
Pending applications were put on hold while the DOE/FE awaited the outcome of the LNG Study, which was performed by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and NERA Economic Consulting (NERA) ....
05 | 21 | 2013
Vote To Determine Fate Of Falmouth Wind Turbines
"We have got to come up with alternative power sources and stop burning fossil fuels," Laird said. "There's no question we have to do that. But I'm not sure that putting a wind turbine you can't make a neighborhood uninhabitable....
05 | 21 | 2013
QEWC, QPI And QH Form $1bn Company To Invest In Power And Water Sector Internationally
Qatar: Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC) , Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) , and Qatar Holding (QH) signed a Shareholders' Agreement to incorporate a new Qatari shareholding company that would invest in international power and water sectors.
05 | 21 | 2013
Iran Has Funds To Develop South Pars
Iran will invest $16 billion in development of the offshore South Pars gas complex over the next 10 months, a natural gas company director said.
05 | 21 | 2013
Interior Releases Updated Draft Rule For Hydraulic Fracturing On Public And Indian Lands For Public Comment
As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above strategy to support safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior recently announced the release of an updated draft proposal that would establish commonsense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands.
05 | 21 | 2013
Libyan Gas Complex Attacked By Militants
Militants stole as many as 20 military vehicles when they raided the Mellitah oil and natural gas complex in western Libya, a military leader said.
05 | 21 | 2013
Egypt Resumes Wind Expansion With Auction
It also coincides with resumed building work of NREA's 200MW wind project using 2MW turbines from Spain's Gamesa and towers from El Sewedy Wind Energy Generation (SWEG) . Egypt leads the North African-Middle East wind market with 550MW online.
05 | 21 | 2013
Oil Production Starts Offshore Vietnam
Canadian company Talisman Energy said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its newly launched development offshore Vietnam.
05 | 21 | 2013
More Oil Pipeline Capacity Planned For Texas
A 95-mile pipeline extension from western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle will carry as much as 75,000 barrels of oil per day, a pipeline company said.
05 | 21 | 2013
EU Destroys Competitiveness - Throws Away 1.1 Billion Euros Per Day
More wind energy will increase Europe's competitiveness, which is being undermined by increasing fossil fuel import costs....