President's Energy Plan Could Affect Wisconsin Coal Power
Wisconsin's largest electric utility, WE Energies, says while it waits to hear details from the president, the company has been reducing air pollution at some of its power plants and is planning on...
View ArticleCan Natural Gas Companies Keep Up With Growing Demand?
EXCO Resources (NYSE: XCO ) has also seen meaningful improvements in drilling days, reporting that it drilled its most recent wells in about 34 days, down from 45-60 days a few years ago....
View ArticleRio Tinto Considers Sale Of Mozambique Coal Unit
Currently on the block are its aluminum assets, Canadian iron-ore and coal mine stakes and a copper-gold mine in Australia, among others....
View ArticleFrench LNG Cryogenics Specialist GTT For Sale
Total and private equity firm Hellman & Friedman plan to sell their 30 percent stakes in GTT, the world's No....
View ArticleYour Guide To A Fleet Operation Overhaul
Chesapeake Energy is the second largest producer of natural gas, the 11th largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids, and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S....
View ArticleClearing Up Confusion On Future Of Colorado River Flows
The Colorado River provides water for more than 30 million people, including those in the fast-growing cities of Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Increasing demand for that water combined with...
View ArticleExxon Wants To Export LNG From Canada's West Coast
While debate over liquid natural gas exports continues in the United States, Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. filed permits this week to export LNG from Canada's west coast. Exxon Mobil Canada and...
View ArticleNC Senate Committee Says Full Chemical Disclosure Not Required To Frack
A N.C. Senate committee voted to allow shale gas exploration companies to engage in fracking without fully disclosing the chemicals they inject underground. The Senators said energy companies can...
View ArticleUganda, Kenya, Rwanda Agree On Oil Pipelines
Uganda's foreign minister says the presidents of Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have agreed to build two pipelines across East Africa, one of which would end South Sudan's dependence on Sudan for its oil...
View ArticleNC Senate Bill Adds Divisive New Fracking Measures
What's often considered an annual environmental housecleaning bill in the North Carolina Legislature is drawing fierce criticism after some new provisions on hydraulic fracturing were added.
View ArticleAzerbaijan Rolls Out Red Carpet For Visiting US Lawmakers
It helped that the event's corporate backers included the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and Caspian Drilling Co. Ltd., as well as other well-heeled entities like ConocoPhillips, BP,...
View ArticleEagle Mine Lawsuit Forthcoming Against EPA
According to Loman, a former federal regulator with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in Alaska, the EPA failed to require a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for...
View ArticleSeafox Rig Supporting Leman In North Sea
Seafox Contractors has secured a long-term charter with Perenco UK for use of the Seafox 1 in the UK southern North Sea.
View ArticleSCE To Lay Off 600 Workers At SONGS
Southern California Edison (SCE) will be eliminating 600 non-union jobs at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station this summer.
View ArticleDevelopers See Fertile Land For Wind Turbines In Jonesport
At least two developers hope to erect tall commercial wind turbines off Mason Bay Road, the stretch of Route 187 skirting Englishman Bay. Each project would have only three to five turbines apiece....
View ArticlePolicy Issues Plague Hydropower As Wind Power Backup
Theoretically, hydropower can step in when wind turbines go still, but barriers to this non-polluting resource serving as a backup are largely policy- and regulation-based, according to Penn State...
View ArticleCSIQ Partners Samsung, Shares Rise
Canadian Solar Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. to build a new manufacturing facility in London, Ontario.
View ArticleCNG Association Rejects GST Hike On CNG
ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) has rejected the government's decision to jack up General Sales Tax (GST) on sale of Compressed Natural Gas ( CNG ) by nine per cent, describing it...
View ArticleCalgary Railway Bridge Buckles Amid Recovery From Flood
A Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway Ltd. bridge in central Calgary buckled today, threatening to drop train cars loaded with petroleum products into the Bow River, days after flooding inundated the city.
View ArticleCanadian Company Gets Federal Funding For Cellulosic Demo Plant
"We are grateful to the government of Canada and [the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern] Ontario for the strong level of support represented by the funding," Greg Nuttall, president and...
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