Japan Nuclear Operators Ask For OK On Reactor Restarts
Japanese utilities asked regulators for permission to turn on 10 nuclear reactors, a move that could presage a widespread restart of atomic power more than two years after the Fukushima disaster.
View ArticleDeepwater Crucial For RI Jobs, Environment
I do not envy the members of the Narragansett Town Council, who met in a special session last month to consider Deepwater Wind's proposal to purchase easements for the Block Island Wind Farm's...
View ArticleMethane Leaks And The Natural Gas Climate Advantage?
Some researchers believe that the loss of methane during drilling operations and from collection / proccessing / transmission systems could offset climate advantages obtained from burning natural gas....
View ArticleWhat Caused The Oil Train Disaster?
Rail World operates former state-owned rail lines in Poland, Finland, Ukraine and the Baltic states. Edward Burkhardt oversaw the privatization of the rail and ferry networks in New Zealand during the...
View ArticleState Budget Provides For Secret Meetings
Drillers can keep buried details on exactly what they're pumping under the ground at high pressure to shatter the shale that traps oil and natural gas under a law Ohio lawmakers passed last year....
View ArticleWhat's Wrong With Obama's Energy Policy?
Not much, considering the twin handcuffs from both sides and the sudden abundance of natural gas. The ideological embrace of renewables at all costs and the knee-jerk rejection of safe nuclear power,...
View ArticleCanada's Energy Sector Taps Bitumen, Sticky Rival To Oil Sands
By Scott Haggett CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Pilot projects in an as-yet undeveloped oilfield could remake Canada's energy map, if producers can successfully wrest a sludgy, tarry substance called...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Claims Climb Ahead Of Appeal Day
The number of claims filed against BP's oil spill compensation fund has risen by 18 percent over the last six weeks to a total of 195,403.
View ArticleChinook Energy Provides Update On Tunisia Drilling
Chinook Energy Inc. (TSX:CKE) ("Chinook" or the "Company") announced today that the El Bell exploration well on the Sud Remada Permit has been cased and suspended pending further analysis of wireline...
View ArticlePacific NorthWest LNG Applies For Export License
Recently Pacific NorthWest LNG applied to the National Energy Board (NEB) for a license to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its proposed LNG export facility in Port Edward, British Columbia.
View ArticleYanzhou's Yancoal Plan Contrary To Australia Approval, RBC Says
China's Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Ltd. (1171) 's plan to de-list and buy the rest of its 78 percent-owned Yancoal Australia Ltd. (YAL) unit is contrary to conditions imposed by the Australian...
View ArticleFukushima Radioactive Groundwater Readings Rocket
Toxic radioactive substances in groundwater at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have rocketed over the past three days, its operator said, admitting it did not know where the leak was coming from.
View ArticleRPower Subsidiary Gets Carbon Credit Nod
The accreditation is for a 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in Rajasthan. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows companies to gain so-called carbon...
View ArticleTidal Energy Limited Completes Remaining Supply Chain Contracts
By appointing industry leading companies who have already built up considerable experience within the marine energy industry and have developed proven technologies, we have mitigated that risk as far...
View ArticleGibson Dunn Recruits Singapore Energy Partner
Brad Roach is joining Gibson Dunn from Hogan Lovells, where he was head of the Southeast Asia oil and gas practice. He has worked on a range of energy and infrastructure projects, with a particular...
View ArticleRadiation Level Up 90-Fold In Groundwater At Japanese Nuclear Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc said today it had found levels of radioactive material in groundwater had risen sharply at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant....
View ArticleTanzania Wants Energy Firms To Speed Up Gas Production
Tanzania wants energy firms to speed up production of natural gas that it hopes will help end poverty in east Africa's second-biggest economy. Discoveries in Tanzania's and Mozambique's waters have led...
View ArticleMaersk Drilling Gets $58 Mln Rig Contract
Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk has received a jack-up rig contract from Danish energy group Dong Energy worth about $58 million....
View ArticleEnergy Dept. Eyes LNG Master Plan Before 2013 Ends
The Malampaya project is operated by the consortium of Shell Philippines Exploration BV, Chevron Malampaya LLC and Philippine National Oil Co.-Exploration Corp....
View ArticleIndia Risks Spain's Solar Slump With Move To Cut Tariff
India's biggest solar power-producing state is seeking to cut the subsidized rate it pays to plants by 28 percent, joining governments from Spain to Greece backtracking on clean-energy support to lower...
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