As 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 ArticleCZTSe Solar Cells Achieve 9.7% Efficiency
A Copper Zinc Tin Selenide (CZTSe) solar cell technology has achieved an efficiency of 9.7% and an open-circuit voltage of 0.41 volts, a bit less than the 0.5 volts that most silicon-based solar cells...
View ArticleTime To Eliminate Ethanol Mandate
It's hard to justify keeping a failed program up and running. At some point, you have to recognize it's a mistake and pull the plug. That's where we stand right now with the federal ethanol mandate ....
View ArticleOpportunity Amid Uncertainty In Egypt
1P, 2P, and 3P represent proven, probable, and possible reserves, respectively. Reserve data is provided to the company by DeGolyer and MacNaughton Canada Limited, an independent petroleum engineering...
View ArticleTAPI's Search For Lead Consortium Partner Continues
The much-awaited Turkmenistan-Afghanistan- Pakistan -India (TAPI) gas pipeline's future is again stuck as the search for a global energy major as lead consortium partner is facing a rough weather due...
View ArticleShale Gas, Gasland, And Truthiness
I should have been pleased to hear that Gasland II is coming out. It took only a brief viewing of Josh Fox's original Gasland to move me to tears-of laughter. He employs a number of fairly transparent...
View ArticleJennifer Lopez Sparks Controversy After Performing For Dictator
The representative went on to say that the request for the birthday song was made at the last minute by China National Petroleum Corp., which paid for and put on the event....
View ArticleState's Solar Credit Program Reaches Turning Point
After reaching two major milestones this spring, the rise of solar power in Massachusetts is at a crossroads as state regulators wrestle with how to keep the industry humming along while trimming the...
View Article1 "Pie In The Sky" Idea To Save Coal
Environmentalists call it a dirty fuel, while Santa Claus uses it to punish naughty little boys and girls. That really is a shame because coal has the power to produce a lot of energy, as well as...
View ArticleMoily In Iraq To Expand Cooperation In Energy Sector
Besides, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has been training Iraqi oil officials in downstream refining and marketing. Moily will formally inaugurate the 17th session of India-Iraq Joint Commission tomorrow with...
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...
View ArticleSMC To Set Up Third Wind Power Plant
It has produced 2.03 crore units of electricity in 31 month period and has saved Rs 7.93 crore from its electricity bills. Similarly, a second plant of 8.4 MW capacity is under construction and is on...
View Article100 Million Barrel Discovery In The Gulf?
Royal Dutch Shell reports that one of their recent discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to produce 100 million barrels of oil.
View ArticleReturn To Uranium Mining Brings Health Risks
The big boom for American uranium mining was in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the U.S. remained the world's leading producer of the radioactive element for many years until 1980 when U.S....
View ArticleNatural Gas And The EPA's 'Open Fuel' Standard
Critics of biofuels have long pointed out that these fuels are far from the only non-petroleum transportation fuels available to the market and thus capable of increasing U.S. energy security....
View ArticleAppeals Court To Hear Dispute Over BP Settlement
A federal appeals court is wading into a high-stakes dispute over the terms of a multibillion-dollar settlement of claims arising from BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico....
View ArticleFervent Foes Devote Their Lives To Fracking Fight
Big energy companies have been trying for five years to tap the riches of the Marcellus Shale in southern New York, promising thousands of new jobs, economic salvation for a depressed region, and a...
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