Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Nov 04, 2008 - This Business Insights report analyses the future of wind generation - one of the fastest growing areas of the power market. It looks at how the wind power technologies are maturing and evolving and their impact on the electricity generation landscape.
Baghdad, Iraq (UPI) Nov 03, 2008 - It's an exhausting and complicated process, but Iraq is taking steps to open up its oil and revenue interactions to the world's watchdogs.
Baghdad, Iraq (UPI) Nov 03, 2008 - The U.N.-mandated auditor of Iraq's oil revenue says, despite accounting troubles, it is ready to hand off its work to an all-Iraqi team at the end of the year.
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 3, 2008 - Bangladesh mobilised three warships and said it would take all possible measures to protect its territory Monday after accusing neighbouring Myanmar of encroaching on its seawaters to hunt for gas.
Palo Alto, California (AFP) Nov 3, 2008 - Hewlett Packard on Monday rolled out new services aimed at trimming appetites of electricity-hungry data centers while beefing up the amount of computing power crammed inside.
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 31, 2008 - U.S. oil giant Chevron faces a legal battle over whether the company colluded with the Nigerian military in the late 1990s to break up a protest over Chevron practices in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory technologies to improve energy efficiency in industry have won funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program.
Manhattan KS (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - For decades, the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has been known worldwide as a center for atomic collision physics using particle accelerators. Now, researchers at the lab are working toward making it known for ultrafast laser science.
Jaen, Spain (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel.
Raleigh NC (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - The N.C. Utilities Commission approved Progress Energy Carolinas' plan to build a natural gas-fueled power plant in Richmond County, N.C., as part of its balanced strategy for meeting the growing energy needs of the region.
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 31, 2008 - The Chinese embassy said on Friday that all nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped in a deadly ordeal in Sudan earlier this month had been accounted for, with one found alive and another dead.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - A field of fuel dreams: Cornell bioenergy plant experts are learning which field grasses are the best candidates for dedicated energy crops in the Northeast, considering the region's climate and soil conditions.
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 - The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 opened rich new vistas for Western oil companies, which suddenly saw the possibilities of participating in the development of Caspian energy reserves in the three new former Soviet republics there -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Western efforts have been mixed, but amid the flood of articles on the new energy frontier, relatively little has been written on the impact of Washington's policies on neighboring states, as a key tenet of U.S. policy has been that export pipelines should avoid both Russian and Iranian territory.
London (AFP) Oct 30, 2008 - A meeting of leading geologists has concluded that an Indonesian mud volcano which erupted in May 2006, triggering a social and environmental disaster, was caused by nearby drilling for gas, a British university said on Thursday.
Higher Perpetual Energy (HPE) has formed a joint venture business with Composite Technologies' turbine manufacturing business, DeWind, to jointly develop 620MW of wind power using 310 DeWind D8.2 turbines.
Moscow (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 - China's Premier Wen Jiabao, visiting Moscow Tuesday, signed an agreement calling for the construction of an oil pipeline to China as part of the prospective Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline.
