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World's Largest LNG/CNG Truck Fueling Station Opens Seal Beach CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 
The world's largest natural gas truck fueling station, designed and built by Clean Energy Fuels is now open for business on a 2.9-acre site adjacent to the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The new public access station, configured to fuel trucks on a 24/7 basis, features two 25,000-gallon liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks, six LNG dispensers, and two compressed natural gas ... read moreNigerian Senate aims to ban 'gas flaring' in 2011 
Abuja (AFP) July 2, 2009The Nigerian Senate passed a bill Thursday to forbid energy firms from burning gas during oil extraction from 2011, ending a practice that harms the environment, a senior senator said. "Any operator who flares gas after 31 December, 2010 shall pay a fine and in addition loses its licence," Senator Osita Izunaso, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Gas, told AFP. The bill stipulates ... more
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Composites For Energy
Bristol, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2009Advanced composite materials are playing a vital role in improved design and reduced operating costs for renewable energy technologies. New research will highlight how wind, marine and solar power could address these challenges within the renewable energy industry. The 'Composites for Energy' seminar has been organised jointly between Bristol University's Advanced Composites Centre for ... more China begins construction of Chad oil pipeline 
N'Djamena (AFP) July 2, 2009China's largest energy producer, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), on Wednesday began work on a major oil pipeline in southwestern Chad, state media reported here. The pipeline, due to become operational in 2011, will transport crude from Koudalwa field some 300 kilometres south of N'Djamena to the Djarmaya refinery north of the capital. The planned cost of the project has not been ... more Big Oil seems to have Iraq over a barrel 
Baghdad (UPI) Jul 1, 2009 The Iraqi government's much-touted award of major production contracts for international oil majors on June 29-30 turned out to be a big fizzle. There was barely any bidding for the six oil fields and two gas fields the Iraqis planned to open up for badly needed development. These contain some 43 billion of Iraq's 115 billion barrels of oil reserves. Only one contract was ... more China takes ambitious oil acquisition strategy further 
Beijing (AFP) June 30, 2009China's government-backed oil companies are jostling with each other to make landmark overseas acquisitions, seizing on the economic crisis -- and accompanying low asset prices -- to grow. Asia's largest refiner, Sinopec, agreed to acquire Canadian company Addax Petroleum for 7.2 billion dollars in a deal announced last week, just days after PetroChina bought a 45.51 percent stake in ... more |
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Abu Dhabi to host renewables agency: Egypt
Cairo, Egypt (AFP) June 29, 2009Abu Dhabi, capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, will host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the official MENA news agency reported. "Abu Dhabi has won the seat of the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency after voting took place today on Monday in (the Egyptian Red Sea resort of) Sharm el Sheikh," MENA said. The results ... more IEA revises down oil and gas forecast 
Paris (UPI) Jun 29, 2009 The International Energy Agency on Monday revised downward its projections for global oil and gas demand, citing the global economic downturn as a major factor. "The global financial crisis has turned the economic landscape upside down, with huge implications for the oil and gas sector," Nobuo Tanaka, the head of the Paris-based IEA, said at the launch of the agency's two new ... more Oil leaps on Nigerian tensions, China demand 
New York (AFP) June 29, 2009Oil prices jumped Monday on tensions in crude producing Nigeria and China's reported plans to rapidly increase its strategic crude oil reserves. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for August, lifted 2.33 dollars from its closing price on Friday to end at 71.49 dollars. London's Brent North Sea crude for delivery in August gained 2.07 dollars to 70.99 dollars a barrel. ... more Solid Waste Industry Managing Trash As A Resource 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2009Forget your old-fashioned ideas about the solid waste industry. It's not just about hauling garbage anymore. So said Bruce J. Parker, president and CEO of the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), in a speech today to the Society of Government Economists in Washington. NSWMA represents the private sector solid waste industry in the United States. "Most Americans probably do ... more |
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