Baghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2009 - Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin won two contracts worth 170 million dollars to build power stations in Iraqi cities, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Tuesday.
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2009 - A consortium led by China's top oil producer initialled a deal with Iraq on Tuesday to develop the southern Halfaya oil field, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP.
Milan (AFP) Dec 22, 2009 - Italian energy company Enel, specialists in renewable energy, completed its main wind farm in France's Champagne-Ardenne region, the subsidiary company Enel Green Power said Tuesday.
London (UPI) Dec 22, 2009 - A mild winter in the Western Hemisphere will continue to exert downward pressure on crude oil prices that are already weak amid a slow economic recovery worldwide, London think tank Center for Global Energy Studies said Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 - French nuclear energy giant Areva said Monday it would supply Dubai with 11 electricity substations for 200 million euros (286 million dollars), as the emirate grapples with a serious debt crisis.
New York NY (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - Bion Environmental Technologies has announced that it has received the unanimous support of the Schroeppel, NY Town Board for the development of a large scale integrated beef cattle closed-loop project. The Project's initial phase will include finishing facilities for 72,000 head of beef cattle, ethanol production and an associated beef processing plant.
Grand Forks ND (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - The Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology developed at the EERC at the University of North Dakota.
Amara, Iraq (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 - Iranian troops remained inside Iraq territory on Monday despite pulling back from an oil well along the two countries' disputed frontier, a local politician told AFP.
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - Cetrel and Novozymes have announced a research partnership to turn sugarcane waste into green energy. Using Cetrel's know-how in waste-stream treatment and Novozymes' biotech expertise, the partners aim to enable sugar and ethanol production plants in Brazil to turn bagasse, the waste from sugarcane production, into biogas using enzymes.
Rosemont IL (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - Methane digesters on dairy farms could soon be a common source of energy for residents and businesses in the state of New York. That is one result of the Dairy Power Summit which brought together more than 200 New York dairy farmers and industry stakeholders from across the country to discuss the potential for dairy-supplied renewable energy.
Geneva (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 - A Swiss court on Monday cleared a geologist who was blamed for triggering earthquakes during underground soundings for a geothermal heating and power plant in the northern city of Basel.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - U.S. Development Group has announced that its West Colton Rail Terminal has begun to receive and offload ethanol railcars. The terminal, located in Rialto, Calif., is served by the Union Pacific Railroad and located less than a mile from gasoline blending terminals that supply the greater San Bernardino and Riverside County-Inland Empire region.
San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - Valero Renewable Fuels Company has announced that it has signed an agreement with ASA Ethanol Holdings, to buy two ethanol plants that had been previously owned by VeraSun Energy. ASA Ethanol Holdings is a company owned by a former syndicate of lenders to the facilities, agented by West LB AG, which acquired the plants through the VeraSun bankruptcy auction.
Paris (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - A used book or nearly-new kitchen gadget may not be at the top of every Christmas wish list, but hard economic times coupled with a new green awareness are changing attitudes about gift-giving in France.
Callicoon, New York (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - After a lifetime struggling to make money from the land, New York farmer Bill Graby has discovered he's sitting on treasure -- possibly the biggest natural gas deposit in America.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - China has quietly rewritten the geopolitical landscape in Central Asia in recent years, breaking Russia's monopoly over the export of the region's energy resources also coveted by the West, experts say.
