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PGN Buys Kuwait Petroleum's Assets In East Java

Paper Edition | Page: 13. PT Saka Energi Indonesia, subsidiary of publicly listed gas distributor PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) , agreed to buy the participating interest of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum...

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Coal India Plans To Invest Rs20bn

The washeries, which is expected to come up by the end of this fiscal, will wash nearly 15 million tonnes of coal.

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Did Obama Just Drop A Big Hint About His Decision?

Obama has long described his energy policy as "all of the above" - leading many observers to conclude that he would eventually approve the pipeline, balanced with more renewable energy and stricter...

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Lavan Refinery Upgrading Officially Inaugurated

At the official opening ceremony of Lavan Oil Refining upgrading and optimization project, the managing director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Co....

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Statoil And Rosneft Move Forward With Exploration Cooperation

The Kashevarovsky, Lisyansky and Magadan-1 licenses are in the Sea of Okhotsk north of the Sakhalin Island, and the Perseevsky licence is in the Central Barents Sea....

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Are Renewable Energy Goals Realistic?

There are two forms of renewable electricity generation that have been deployed en masse in the United States and around the world during the past 20 years; Photo-Voltaic (PV) solar and wind turbines....

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US Must Export Oil For Shale Boom

Consider the impact of the shale revolution on some OPEC producers, like Nigeria and Angola. U.S. imports of Nigerian and Angolan crude, totaling more than 2.5 million barrels per day just five years...

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Senex Energy Limited Announces Worrior Oil Field Development Underway

Drilling, coring and logging is expected to take approximately 18 days. Worrior oil field was discovered in 2003 with Worrior-1 drilled in the southwest area of the South Australian Cooper Basin....

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The Energy Behind Qatar's Rising Power

Most of Qatar's wealth is generated from selling liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from the world's biggest gas field, which it shares with Iran. Western companies supplied Qatar the technology to...

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Green Energy Gaining Steam In The Silver State

"Nevada is one of the centers for geothermal, " said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association . Gawell said he hopes to see geothermal supply 10-20 percent of the nation's...

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Eclipse Doubling Down In Utica Shale

Two-year-old Appalachia-based upstart Eclipse Resources I LP, under the management of several shale veterans, has more than doubled its holdings in the Utica Shale in a deal to acquire Oxford Oil Co....

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Bill Could Open Bristol Bay To Gas Leasing

"The Obama Administration has placed the majority of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits and placed half of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska off-limits," Hastings said in a recent Committee on...

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Fracking's Threats To Drinking Water Call For A Precautionary Approach

Fracking, shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, is the process of blasting water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground at high pressure so as to fracture shale rock and release the gas it holds....

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Ready For New Executive Carbon Regulations

Duluth-based Minnesota Power, which has dropped their coal-based power production from 95 percent to 80 percent since 2000, says it's too soon to determine the extent of how President Obama's new rules...

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WEX Teams With CITGO To Provide Private-Label Fleet Card Services

WEX Inc. signs a long-term agreement with CITGO Petroleum Corp. to provide private-label fleet card services.

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How To Boost Solar Cell Efficiency

Drive for Innovation Chapter 239: How to boost solar cell efficiency. Professor Yang Yang at UCLA describes his work with using organic polymers to boost solar cell efficiency. NO RATINGS. Login to...

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Syed Mokhtar's Malakoff Buys 50% Of Aussie Wind Farm

Under the share purchase agreement, Malakoff will acquire the entire share capital of Meridian Wind Macarthur (MWM) Holdings, which operates Macarthur Wind Farm under a joint-venture agreement with...

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Committee 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...

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DOE Launches 'EGallon' Electric Vehicle Charge Cost Calculator

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) created a new online calculator called the "eGallon" that's designed to give users a simple way to compare the cost of charging an electric vehicle with the cost of...

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LANL Puts Nuke Work On Hold Amid Safety Review

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charles McMillan has halted a number of activities at PF-4, the lab's main plutonium facility, pending a thorough verification of safety procedures. All areas of...

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