Shell To Spend Millions To Reduce Pollution At Houston Refinery
Shell Oil and affiliated partnerships have agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at a large refinery and chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas.
View ArticleMexico's Rig Renaissance Gets Under Way
The Grupo R conglomerate, which currently operates three semisubmersibles, has ordered four jackups from Keppel FELS in Singapore. Perforadora Mexico has taken two jackups originally ordered by...
View ArticleAs Exploration Heats Up, Latin American Nations Refine Offshore Regulations
National oil companies dominate Latin America's oil and gas industry: Petrobras in Brazil, Pemex in Mexico, PDVSA in Venezuela, Ecopetrol in Colombia, Petroperu in Peru, Enap in Chile, and Enarsa in...
View ArticleInteroil, President Energy, YPFB
The business development service focuses on major projects, active companies, such as YPFB, President Energy, Interoil E&P ASA; and business and sales contacts, providing networking opportunities...
View ArticleCabbies Furious Over Emanuel's Clean-Energy Edict At Union Station, Ogilvie
Chicago cabdrivers who've been waiting eight years for a fare increase are up in arms about a clean-energy initiative they fear will take money out of their pockets. Five cab stands serving Union...
View ArticleOffshore Oil And Gas Backlogs Easing Shipyard Overcapacity
For much of this year, the Kiewit Offshore Services fabrication yard in Ingleside, Texas, has resembled a small city in itself, with thousands of engineers and craftspeople onsite preparing structures...
View ArticleRig Construction Continues To Focus On Higher-Spec Units
Shipyards that build offshore drilling rigs continue to stay busy with new construction projects. Worldwide, 131 jackups, semisubmersibles, drillships and tender-assisted units are under construction,...
View ArticleOil Pipeline, Long Submerged In Michigan's Deep Waters, Fuels Public Concern
The Oil and Water Don't Mix rally convenes at noon at Bridge View Park, immediately north of the Mackinac Bridge. Bill McKibben, a leading environmental activist and founder of 350.org, is the keynote...
View ArticleShell Pays Out Millions In Environmental Settlement
Shell Oil Co. in Houston has agreed to a settlement with federal authorities in which it will spend $160 million to reduce air pollution from its refinery and chemical facility in Deer Park. As part of...
View ArticleCheapest Panel No Longer Best In Solar Market, SunPower CEO Says
Chinese solar manufacturers that are still trying to sell the cheapest panels have failed to adapt to an industry seeking more efficient products, said SunPower Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Werner.
View ArticleThe End Of Coal And More Natural Gas
In the same week that TECO is applying for its foray into New Mexico natural gas, Illinois is solidifying its own reliance on the fuel source....
View ArticleGulf Keystone Recommends Voting Against M&G Nominees
Oil exploration firm Gulf Keystone said its board would recommend that shareholders vote against four proposed directors backed by M&G Recovery Fund, an activist shareholder which has criticized...
View ArticlePast Is Prologue For Climate Change Threats To U.S. Energy
Energy and climate change are intertwined, a fact that the Obama administration recently acknowledged with plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from generators. Experts note, however, that...
View ArticleNew England's Love Affair With Natural Gas Cools
CLF is unlikely to support more such projects because they would lock New England into natural gas until the latter half of this century, she said. ''Gas has already helped us as a region move away...
View Article`Nuclear Energy Alternative Source To Meet Growing Power Demand'
Nuclear energy is the alternative source to meet the growing demand for a country like India, facing an energy deficit due to increasing population, a senior nuclear scientist today said....
View ArticleEgypt After The Coup It Isn't Over Yet
Mohamed ElBaradei, a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, who is now a leader of the secular opposition, has been appointed deputy president during the...
View ArticleSenatorial Plea For Fast Action On LNG Exports
This week in energy in Washington DC, the House defeated a proposal to cut out funding for uranium enrichment technology under the aegis of the American Centrifuge Project led by Ohio energy firm USEC....
View ArticleCONSOL Energy Celebrating 30 Year Anniversary Of Buchanan Mine
At nearly 150 years old, CONSOL Energy is no infant in the coal mining industry. Still, celebrating the 30 year anniversary of its Buchanan Mine is a pretty big deal....
View ArticleLatAm Demands Answers From US On Spying
The snooping included lifting data on leftist Venezuela's oil and military purchases and Mexico's drug war and energy sector as well as mapping the movements of a Marxist guerrilla group in Colombia,...
View ArticleDetails For Utica Shale Summit Complete
Details for Utica Shale Summit Complete The one-day summit will feature more than fifteen speakers and panelists gathered to brief oil and natural gas producers on the latest happenings in the Utica...
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