Proposed 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 ArticleLavan Oil Refinery's Upgrading Plan Inaugurated
Iran's gasoline and gasoil production rose from 1.080 and 1.7 million liters per day to 2.8 and 4 million liters per day, respectively, after the inauguration of an upgrading plan at Lavan oil refinery...
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 ArticleNRC?chief Needs To Do Better Job
Transparency will be the hallmark of her administration of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Allison MacFarlane assured U.S. senators before they voted last month ago to confirm her for a five-year...
View ArticleSolar Panel Installer SolarCity Criticizing Xcel Solar Program
Xcel Energy is facing criticism from the nation's largest installer of solar panels, which said the utility's program for home solar installations was among the most bureaucratic, time-consuming and...
View ArticleObama Climate Plan Puts Coal Country On Defensive
After several years of taking a beating from the poor economy, new pollution rules and a flood of cheap natural gas, the coal industry was on the rebound this year as mining projects moved forward in...
View ArticleWhat Dhaka Can Expect From Moscow
Bangladesh has asked Russia to install a nuclear power plant at Rooppur having the safety and efficiency features of third generation nuclear reactor model VVER-1200 that Moscow stamps as the world's...
View ArticleGOP Seeks To Force More Offshore Drilling
Anti-environmental energy bill would increase heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions and risk more oil spills By Summit Voice FRISCO - Just a few days after President Obama described the urgent need to...
View ArticleEmergency Recall Of Propane Tanks In Effect For North Valley
Propane tanks manufactured by Lite Cylinder Co. are being recalled. The tanks are used as portable fuel tanks for liquefied petroleum gas, and have caused concern because of leaking flammable gas or...
View ArticleAs Review Of Divide Leases Starts, Legal Questions Loom
The U.S. Forest Service has launched an environmental review of six leases that the natural gas and oil company SG Interests hopes to drill in the Thompson Divide, even as the Bureau of Land Management...
View ArticleJapanese Wind Power Company To Bring Jobs To Billings
A Japanese company that developed an innovative vertical-axis wind turbine at City College at Montana State University Billings is moving forward with plans to bring manufacturing jobs to Billings....
View ArticleBakken Crude Continues To Slip Relative To WTI Cushing
A huge surge in oil production in North Dakota has caused differentials between Bakken crude and WTI Midland crude to fluctuate and blow out at several points over the past several years as takeaway...
View ArticleBiggest Solar Power Plant On BBS Rooftop
"We have installed the solar plant as using solar energy in offices can reduce pressures on the national grid and can directly help in protecting the environment," said Golam Mostafa Kamal, director...
View ArticleBiomass Company Excited To Be Headquartered In Sacramento
From small, modern-looking offices at Capitol Avenue and 26th street, Greenleaf Power owns and operates four California-based biomass power plants - which burn organic, mostly plant-based, materials to...
View ArticleNew Route For Northern Pass; Better But Not Good Enough
Northern Pass is a joint project of Northeast Utilities, Public Service of New Hampshire and Hydro-Quebec to supply 1,200 megawatts of electricity produced by massive hydropower dams in Quebec to...
View ArticleCommittee Passes Resolution On Pipeline
The Township Committee followed through with its promise and passed a resolution last week, requesting that natural gas company Transco do an environmental impact study and uphold its restoration...
View ArticleDLF Sells Wind Mill In Gujarat For Rs 325 Crore
As per the agreement executed with BLP Vayu (Project 1) , DLF transferred the 150 MW wind turbines, including related assets and liabilities along with relevant long term loans, "for a lump sum...
View ArticleCoal Ministry Agrees To Sign Fuel Supply Pacts For 11 Power Projects
The coal ministry has agreed to sign fuel supply pacts for 11 power projects that could start generating 10,400 MW of electricity this year breaking the logjam in the sector and providing a major...
View ArticleToxic Radiation Again In Groundwater At Fukushima, Says TEPCO
Toxic radioactive substances have once again been detected in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said today, the latest in a series of incidents at the...
View ArticleJapan Nears Return Of Nuclear Power After Fukushima Crisis
Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to ask for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of a return to nuclear energy nearly two and a...
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