Ashgabat (AFP) Aug 29, 2008 - The president of energy-rich Turkmenistan on Friday pledged to significantly boost gas deliveries to China following talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2008 - US officials are prepared to tap the government's strategic oil reserve if a storm damages oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico, a Department of Energy spokeswoman said Friday.
- Sudan has offered the United States the opportunity to explore for oil in Darfur, parts of which reportedly have been recently cleared for Chinese exploration by way of government troops and aerial assaults on rebel-held areas.
Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 - American Electric Power subsidiary Appalachian Power has signed a long-term power purchase agreement for renewable wind energy with Beech Ridge Energy, a subsidiary of Invenergy Wind.
Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2008 - China hailed Thursday a three-billion-dollar oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal.
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 - Amid mounting agreement that future clean, carbon-neutral, energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria.
Berlin (AFP) Aug 28, 2008 - The Ifa, Europe's top consumer electronics show, is normally all about gadgets that make life more entertaining with the latest flat screen televisions, stereo equipment and the like.
Algona IA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 - Hydrogen Engine Center has announced the receipt of a purchase order from Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro [Hydro] for additional work for grid integration of the 250kW 4+1TM Oxx Power hydrogen generator for Hydro's Wind-Hydrogen-Diesel energy project in the remote community of Ramea, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
New York (AFP) Aug 28, 2008 - British oil group BP and US rivals ConocoPhillips and Shell on Thursday evacuated workers from their energy installations in the Gulf of Mexico, as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed.
New York NY (SPX) Aug 28, 2008 - The search for alternative fuels is often blamed for the high cost of food but, according to a new Rabobank podcast, it is just one of many factors. In the podcast, analysts with Rabobank Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) department discuss the food vs. fuel debate.
Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2008 - The United States and 19 US companies will travel to China and India next month on a clean energy and environment trade mission, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
Miami (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 - Brazil is preparing to expand its search for additional offshore oil fields beyond its most recent finds off the coast of Sao Paulo state.
Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 - The five-day military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the disputed enclave of South Ossetia has thrown into the spotlight a nearly forgotten 72-year-old treaty governing the passage of both merchantmen and warships between the Mediterranean and Black seas through the Bosporus and Dardanelles, collectively known as the Turkish Straits.
Athens (AFP) Aug 27, 2008 - A group of Britons on Wednesday completed a 3,750-kilometre (2,330-mile) 'Grease to Greece' expedition to raise fuel-saving awareness aboard cars powered by vegetable oil, organisers said.
Pepeekeo HI (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 - U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka and U.S. Representatives Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono helped launch Hawaii's newest renewable energy project at a Hawaiian blessing ceremomy for the Hu Honua Bioenergy Facility in the community of Pepeekeo, on the Big Island's Hamakua Coast.
Fairfield NJ (SPX) Aug 27, 2008 - Covanta Holding has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase two biomass energy facilities from co-owners Ridgewood Maine and Indeck Energy Services.
