Apple Building Giant Solar Array To Power New Data Centre
Apple has announced plans to build a giant solar farm in the Nevada desert to power its new data centure in Reno. The 137-acre solar arrary will be able to generate 18 to 20 Megawatts (MW) of power,...
View ArticleLinn Falls After Disclosing SEC Probe Of Berry Purchase
Linn Energy LLC (LINE) , the oil and natural gas partnership that agreed to buy Berry Petroleum Co. in February, fell the most in at least three years after disclosing a U.S. Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleIREC Releases Revised Model Rules For Shared Renewable Energy Programs
IREC has released updated version of its Model Rules for Shared Renewable Energy Programs. Revised in collaboration with Vote Solar Initiative, Model Program Rules still aid stakeholders in developing...
View ArticleJettable Conductive Adhesive Is Suited For PV Stringing, Bussing.
Intended for ribbon stringing and bussing in photovoltaic (PV) applications, CA-148 Jettable Electrically Conductive Adhesive features moderate glass transition temperature (Tg) and modulus. Formula...
View ArticleHydrocarb Energy Begins Gravity Magnetics Survey In Namibia
Hydrocarb Energy is pleased to announce the start of a high-resolution gravity and magnetics survey over its exploration concession in the Owambo Basin in northern Namibia. The survey will be flown by...
View ArticleFight Looms Over Proposed LNG Port Off Long Island
Long Island lawmakers and environmental advocates are voicing concerns over a proposed liquefied natural gas port that would be located in the Atlantic Ocean, 19 miles south of the South Shore....
View ArticleFuel Cell Cars Back In The Limelight As GM, Honda Team Up On Mission To...
Less than a decade ago, global automakers touted hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the best way to reduce oil dependency and clean up the environment. But talk of fuel cells seemed to subside in recent...
View ArticleContact Reserves Increase By 320% In Fiscal 2013
Total Company reserves (net proved and probable) increased by 320% from 1,935 mboe to 6,235 mboe (54% oil and natural gas liquids) ....
View ArticleNew System To Harness Energy From Ocean Currents
Researchers at the UPM, within the framework of PROCODAC-GESMEY project, have participated in the construction and testing of the prototype of a device to harness energy from ocean currents able to...
View ArticleKongsberg To Supply Three Deepwater Drilling Rigs With Equipment
CIMC Yantai Raffles in China and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding in Korea both have ordered DP, automation, safety systems, navigation, hydroacoustic positioning, and riser management equipment for new...
View ArticleAtonometrics Delivers Continuous Solar Simulator To NREL
Atonometrics Inc. (Austin, Texas, U.S.) has delivered a continuous solar simulator to the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratories ( NREL, Golden, Colorado, U.S.) , ....
View ArticleEnergizing Economic Growth In Ghana; Making The Power And Petroleum
The World Bank Ghana Office officially launched today a flagship energy sector report which highlights some of the daunting challenges facing Ghana's power and petroleum sub-sectors, and which threaten...
View ArticleHow The Nuclear Age Burst Onto The World From A Squash Court
As Blomquist put it, the nuclear energy field knows it has terrible PR, especially thanks to disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima....
View ArticleChesapeake To Sell $1 Billion Assets To Exco Resources
Chesapeake Energy Corp said it would sell oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford and Haynesville shales to a unit of Exco Resources Inc for about $1 billion....
View ArticleIndia In Touch With Kazakhstan After Bid Fails
India's foreign ministry is in contact with the Kazakhstan government to discuss future energy cooperation following its decision to block state oil company ONGC's bid to buy into the country's giant...
View ArticlePort Of Cork Invests In New Equipment
The Port of Cork is ideally located to offer state of the art facilities in the offshore oil exploration market in the Celtic Sea and Porcupine basin . In 2012 the Port of Cork successfully assisted...
View ArticleEmirates Cement Factory Certified To Supply Barakah Nuclear Plant
United Arab Emirates: Emirates Cement Factory (ECF) , a fully owned subsidiary of Arkan Building Materials, has been certified by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and Hyundai Samsung Joint...
View ArticleMagnetic Rocks Aid Oil Exploration
When exploration companies find a possible source of petroleum using geological mapping of the rocks in the area, they have to run the risk that oil has migrated into the rock and become trapped there...
View ArticleWindiest Or Sunniest Sites Not Necessarily Best For Wind And Solar
They estimate that the environmental, health, and climate benefits of wind turbines and solar panels vary dramatically by location, ranging from US $10 to $100 per megawatt - hour (in 2010 dollars) of...
View ArticleOil Cracks $100 As Egypt Violence Adds To Risks
The SUMED is owned by Arab Petroleum Pipeline Co ., a joint venture between the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) , Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi's National Oil Company (ADNOC) , and Kuwaiti...
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