Sydney (AFP) Aug 24, 2009 - A major oil spill at a drilling rig off Australia's northwest coast will take at least seven weeks to contain, authorities said Monday.
Rockville MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - Lockheed Martin and Black and Veatch have announced they have teamed to help utility clients improve the reliability, efficiency and interoperability of the electric power grid and protect it against cyber attacks. Together, the companies offer a comprehensive suite of integrated technology and communication solutions to help utilities shape projects and request grants being offered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant Program.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - A scientific trend to view the world's biggest cities as analogous to living, breathing organisms is fostering a deep new understanding of how poor air quality in megacities can harm residents, people living far downwind, and also play a major role in global climate change.
Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to double the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday replace gasoline in automobiles. The process improves on the conventional method for brewing butanol in a bacterial fermentation tank.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history - next year's initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear fusion reaction.
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies.
Oakland, Calif. (UPI) Aug 24, 2009 - An experimental program in the San Francisco Bay area is turning leftovers from 2,300 restaurants into methane gas to generate electricity, officials said.
Sydney (AFP) Aug 21, 2009 - Australia will decide in the next week whether to grant environmental approval to a project that will supply natural gas to China under Canberra's biggest ever trade deal, a minister said Friday.
Ottawa (AFP) Aug 21, 2009 - Exxon Mobil is evacuating all 200 workers from its Sable gas platform off the Canadian east coast, ahead of Hurricane Bill's expected arrival on the weekend, a spokeswoman said Friday.
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Aug 21, 2009 - The plan to build the 2,500-mile Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline to feed Europe runs the risk of being sabotaged by the threat of terrorist attacks along its route from Nigeria through Niger to Algeria, all danger-zone countries.
Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2009 - The U.S. State Department issued a permit Thursday to Enbridge Energy Corp. to build a 326-mile pipeline from Canadian oil sands fields to refineries in the United States.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Aug 20, 2009 - Venezuela appears to be reconsidering its reported plans to demand more cash upfront from Caribbean and Central American countries following pleas for a rethink from worried member countries of the Petrocaribe oil pact.
Port Hueneme CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2009 - A collaborative effort by the U.S. Navy, Biodiesel Industries and Aerojet successfully demonstrated methods to produce cleaner and more reliable sources of renewable fuels for military use. The system, named ARIES (Automated Real-time, Remote, Integrated Energy System), is a highly automated, portable biodiesel production unit that can be controlled from a remote location.
Sydney (AFP) Aug 19, 2009 - Australia has signed a record 41.3 billion US dollar deal to supply Chinese energy giant PetroChina with liquefied natural gas, officials said.
BP and Martek Biosciences have announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to work on the production of microbial oils for biofuels applications.
Huizhou, China (AFP) Aug 19, 2009 - The mayor of Huizhou, Li Ruqiu, likes to tell a story that he believes highlights the southern Chinese city's environmental credentials.
