Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 - It could be the new age for wildcatters, or just the new age of Iraqi oil development, but the monthly gathering of operators in Iraq's Kurdistan region is an optimistic party despite above-ground challenges that eclipse those subsoil.
Washington (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 - In the current superheated global energy market, with oil's price rising more than five-fold since 2000, the race is on worldwide to bring more crude to market, with many previously moribund pipeline projects being dusted off.
Singapore (AFP) June 25, 2008 - Asian cities need help to cope with an unprecedented period of urbanisation, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday, stressing that their future prosperity is at stake.
London, UK (SPX) Jun 25, 2008 - Gasrec, BOC, and SITA UK are pleased to announce the successful production of liquid biomethane ('LBM') fuel from the Gasrec plant at SITA UK's Albury landfill site in Surrey, UK.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 25, 2008 - Utility companies have largely fallen behind the curve on renewable generation and are now increasingly applying global strategies to leverage major renewable growth opportunities at a time of record valuations in the sector.
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jun 25, 2008 - As more organizations look to reduce their environmental impact, the interest in renewable energy technology has reached an all-time high. According to a recent report from the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, renewable energy use is growing much faster than 10 percent per year throughout the world.
Jakarta (AFP) June 25, 2008 - Indonesia is seeking to raise the prices of natural gas in contracts signed with buyers from China, South Korea and Malaysia, an official said Wednesday.
Jakarta (AFP) June 25, 2008 - A nickel mining partnership between BHP Billiton and an Indonesian firm in a protected island paradise has strategic importance and should proceed, Indonesia's investment chief said Wednesday.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2008 - A welcome trend is taking place in the quest for more sensitive, sustainable development: rehabilitating and renovating existing buildings into new, energy-efficient multifamily housing.
Washington (AFP) June 25, 2008 - The US Supreme Court Wednesday rejected as excessive 2.5 billion dollars in punitive damages awarded to victims of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster and said it should be cut to 507 million dollars.
Paris (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 - The perilous plunges in some of the Asian stock markets, with Shanghai down 44 percent this year and Vietnam down over 60 percent from its highs, should have put the final nail in the coffin of the once fashionable theory of de-coupling, that Asian somehow would been immune from the global slowdown.
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2008 - Waterborne Energy has predicted that U.S. LNG import volumes for 2008 are likely to hit 420 bcf., falling well short of last year's 770 bcf., and staggeringly below what industry observers were projecting.
Washington (UPI) Jun 24, 2008 - U.S. congressional leaders are pressing the Bush administration to block deals to be signed between the Iraqi federal government and the world's largest oil companies and to cancel deals between the Iraqi Kurdish region and smaller U.S. oil firms.
Orem UT (SPX) Jun 24, 2008 - Bullion Monarch Mining is pleased to announce it has begun construction on a pre-production demonstration plant to extract oil from oil shale. The plant is anticipated to demonstrate a scale feasibility of producing oil from oil shale at a target cost of below $30 USD per barrel.
Dili (AFP) Jun 24, 2008 - East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project. The Fretilin opposition has branded as a land giveaway a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister and GTLeste Biotech for a 100,000 hectare (247,000 acre) sugar plantation and ethanol plant.
Uppsala, Sweden (UPI) Jun 24, 2008 - A Swedish-led international research team has described for the first time how hydrogen atoms are stored and released by compounds containing magnesium.
