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CNPC To Pay Over US$5b In Kashagan Oil Stake

Kazakhstan, home to 3 per cent of the world's recoverable oil reserves, has moved in recent years to exert greater management control and secure bigger revenues from foreign-owned oil and gas projects....

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Pa. Senator Wants Wind Turbine Farm On Former Strip Mine, Now State Forest

Legislation by state Sen. John Wozniak, D-Westmont, could open land in Gallitzin State Forest for construction of a wind turbine farm and open the door for similar renewable energy companies to develop...

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Petronas Carigali Sets Up Production Subsidiary

Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd has incorporated a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Vestigo Petroleum Sdn Bhd, to focus on development and production activities at home and abroad....

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Lessons On Nuclear Reactor Accidents

Before the Bangladeshi government puts reactor technology to generate power on a fast track, it would be prudent to consider the history of reactor accidents as a background for judging how likely it .

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VanDyke Mixes Passion For Racing With Coal Mining

The night before the race, he worked his usual hoot owl shift from 11:30 p.m. until 7:30 a.m. at the Consol Energy Buchanan Mine in Oakwood, Va....

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Agency, Again, Orders Bonneville To Reexamine Pricing Plan

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has upheld a ruling that would require the Bonneville Power Administration to recast the way it deals with wind farms during periods of power oversupply....

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Singapore Starts Cleaning Up Oil Spill After Two Ships Collide

About 100 metric tons of fuel oil leaked after a bunker tank on the South Korean-registered Oriental Pioneer was damaged in the collision with the Bahamas-registered Atlantic Hero, the Maritime and...

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QP And Texas A&M University At Qatar Launch Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety...

Qatar: Under the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, Qatar Petroleum and the Texas A&M University at Qatar celebrate the launching of the...

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Deepwater Deal Smacks Of 38 Studios

Since 2009, I have participated in the regulatory process that has governed Deepwater's proposed Block Island wind farm. Our island's need for a power cable to the mainland has been leveraged by...

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A Primer - What's In A "Tar Sands" Pipeline?

In the wake of renewed interest in the Keystone Pipeline project and the likelihood that Obama will eagerly approve it unless we stop him, there's a lot of interest in what actually flows through those...

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Harkand Secures Apache North Sea Contract Win

The award of 6 IRM scopes, includes the installation of a replacement riser umbilical at Skene and replacement of a flexible flowline and electrical jumpers at Nevis, along with the associated project...

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Energy Independence, Courtesy Of Horizontal Drilling

By unlocking oil and natural gas resources that were once thought to be unrecoverable, horizontal drilling has sparked an American energy renaissance that will revolutionize everything from job...

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Gazprom One Winner From Nabucco Demise

According to the president of Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) , Rovnag Abdullayev, "We see the pipeline route toward Austria as a natural market for that gas....

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Gulf Of Mexico Success At Shell's Vicksburg "A" Well

Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) today announces a successful exploratory well at Vicksburg in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico....

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QBL To Acquire Stake In Two Mozambique Coal Exploration Licenses

Australia-based exploration company Queensland Bauxite (QBL) is set to acquire stake in two Mozambique coal exploration licenses in the Zambezi basin, close to majors like Rio Tinto, Vale and ENRC.

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Ex-FBI Chief Freeh To Head BP Settlement Program Probe

Freeh, a former federal judge, will conduct an external investigation to supplement an internal probe already under way of a staff attorney at the Deepwater Horizon Court Supervised Settlement Program.

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Last Two Japan Nuclear Reactors Can Stay Online

Japan's nuclear watchdog said the only two reactors currently working in the country can stay online for now, even without meeting strict new safety standards intended to prevent a repeat of the...

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South Hill Mall Earns Environmental Leader Award

Business: Mall recycles used cooking oil and 550 tons of cardboard annually | South Hill Mall received a 2012 Sustainable Practice Leader Award from General Biodiesel for its success in reducing the...

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Vestas Receives 93 MW Order In South Africa

Vestas Wind Systems A/SCompany AnnouncementVestas receives 93 MW order in South AfricaVestas has received a firm and unconditional order for 31 V112-3.0 MW wind turbines for South Africa....

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Renewable Sources Of Electricity Are Coming Into Their Own

The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2016 more electricity will come from renewables than from natural gas. Wind and solar power keep getting cheaper, and that's encouraging their adoption...

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