Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 - CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs. The computer modelling project compares how different types of semi-submersible oil rigs withstand the effects of giant waves in the open ocean.
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 - The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute announced Monday a $50 million annual fund to support large-scale carbon capture and storage projects worldwide.
Arlington VA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 - Logos Technologies and EdeniQ have announced that they have been awarded a $20.4 million grant to modify and operate a pilot-scale bio-refinery plant to produce low-cost ethanol bio-fuel from cellulosic feedstock, such as corn stover and switch grass.
Montevideo, Uruguay (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 - Latin American member countries of the Mercosur trade pact assembled in the Uruguay capital Monday to forge closer links for greater trade and new collaborative projects to develop natural resources, including oil and gas.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's top oil producer, said Tuesday its listed arm aims to increase its capacity on joint venture projects to 15 million tonnes a year by 2015.
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 - Sapphire Energy has received another big boost for its groundbreaking energy work. Sapphire was awarded nearly $104.5 million as part of President Obama's American Recovery and Investment Act and the Biorefinery Assistance Program, authorized through the 2008 Farm Bill.
Washington (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 - Smart-grid networks that depend heavily on technology both for energy efficiency and for better management of electricity consumers are vulnerable to cyberattacks that can endanger entire cities, industry findings show.
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 08, 2009 - A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 metres - information that is vital when deciding where to build a wind turbine to produce electricity.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the selection of three new advanced coal projects that will get $979 million from DOE as part of its Clean Coal Power Initiative. The funds are going to:
Cairo (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - In an attempt to help curb the city's stifling pollution and meet their energy needs too, a few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste -- now that the nation's pigs are gone -- by generating biogas from rubbish.
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - The United States said it had seized the climate initiative with a regulatory shift that labels greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, as a landmark conference entered a second day Tuesday.
Hanoi (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - Vietnam voiced concerns on Tuesday over regional tensions in the South China Sea but said they will not lead to conflict, in line with a new defence document that stresses international cooperation.
London (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Britain's biggest water company lifted the lid Monday on how it slashed costs by burning customers' faeces to make electricity.
Thousand Oaks CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 - Energy crop company Ceres has announced that it is working with CHOREN to optimize energy crops for thermochemical conversion to advanced low-carbon biofuels. The two-year bioenergy project is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Copenhagen, Denmark (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 - As world leaders gathered for the Monday opening of the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen, a Chinese minister said his country's carbon emissions would peak between 2030 and 2040.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 - Endicott Biofuels and TransAlgae have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of algae as a potential transportation fuel and renewable chemical feedstock source.
