Shanghai (AFP) Dec 19, 2007 - US energy giant Chevron Corp has signed a 30-year product-sharing contract with China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) to jointly develop a large gas field in southwestern China.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2007 - Securing Americas Future Energy (SAFE) has praised final House approval of historic energy legislation that will help reduce U.S. oil dependence through a robust strengthening and reform of fuel-economy standards and a renewable fuel standard. The bill, now headed for the presidents desk, incorporates key elements of the Recommendations to the Nation on Reducing U.S. Oil Dependence, a report issued by SAFEs Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC) last December.
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 18, 2007 - China said Tuesday it had set up a special office to handle its strategic oil reserves that will aim to better manage and ensure the faster construction of storage facilities.
Warrendale PA (SPX) Dec 18, 2007 - Energy, housing and recycling solutions for the 21st century are among the research topics that will be presented at the TMS 2008 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, March 9-13, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. These topics are part of the Materials and Society vein of the meeting, which focuses on engineering solutions to some of society's most perplexing problems.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 18, 2007 - Japan and China are unlikely to settle a long-running spat over rival claims to lucrative gas fields during a planned visit by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to Beijing, ministers said Tuesday.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Dec 17, 2007 - Researchers are taking the guesswork out of repairing corroded oil and gas pipelines with two recent studies that appeared in the journal Experimental Techniques. Historically, engineers repairing corroded pipeline segments have not had much guidance in regard to measuring the effectiveness of their choice of repair materials. This is especially true in the case of repair materials for internal defects, which have been difficult to assess.
Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2007 - Following the 1991 collapse of communism, the United States was Azerbaijan's largest single foreign investor, but Britain is rapidly expanding its role there and in 2006 overtook the United States as Baku's leading investor.
Miami (UPI) Dec 14, 2007 - Brazil's Tupi oil field -- estimated to contain as much as 8 billion barrels of oil -- could quite possibly have an even bigger deposit right next to it, experts said this week.
Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2007 - Appearing Tuesday on Fox Business News, Charles Gassenheimer, chairman of Ener1 said that the company will bring its automotive Lithium-ion battery to market by the end of 2008. Our batteries have already been tested by the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, which is General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, Mr. Gassenheimer told viewers of the Fox morning broadcast CEO Corner.
Upton NY (SPX) Dec 14, 2007 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have unveiled important details about a class of catalysts that could help improve the performance of fuel cells. With the goal of producing clean hydrogen for fuel cell reactions in mind, the researchers determined why two next-generation catalysts including gold, cerium, titanium, and oxygen nanomaterials exhibit very high activity.
Bali, Indonesia (SPX) Dec 14, 2007 - Innovations will be essential to increasing the energy efficiency of buildings and transportation to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, DuPont Greater China President Doug Muzyka told participants at the Bali Global Business Day at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Birmingham AL (SPX) Dec 14, 2007 - Masada Resource Group has teamed with RJ Zapata and Associates, to develop and operate commercial-scale waste-to-ethanol and electricity production facilities in the country. The two companies signed a long-term joint-venture agreement last month to build facilities in the Dominican Republic that will produce fuel-grade ethanol and electricity from ordinary household garbage.
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Dec 14, 2007 - Allied Waste Industries announced the commencement of operations of its two newest landfill gas-to-energy facilities, both located in Virginia. The Brunswick County Landfill in Lawrenceville, Virginia is an 8-megawatt generating facility that has been developed with Richmond, Virginia-based Ingenco, which builds, owns and operates distributed generation facilities. The Brunswick County facility, which commenced operations in mid-October, will generate enough electricity to power over 5,000 homes.
Washington (AFP) Dec 14, 2007 - The United States was poised to adopt measures to reduce its dependence on foreign oil after the Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would raise fuel efficiency rules for vehicles and boost ethanol production.
Miami (UPI) Dec 13, 2007 - Nigeria has agreed to honor an International Court of Justice ruling to hand over the potentially resource-rich Bakassi Peninsula to neighboring Cameroon.
Bangalore, India (AFP) Dec 13, 2007 - Energy use by datacenters in the Asia-Pacific is set to double from 2005 to 2010 as growth in the region's consumption outpaces the rest of the world's, said a study released Thursday.
