Sydney (AFP) Oct 10, 2007 - The Australian government gave a green light Wednesday to the 20-billion-dollar (17.8-billion-US) Gorgon gas development after imposing strict conditions designed to protect endangered species.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 10, 2007 - International consultants have ruled that the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast is in line with national and international environmental laws, Russian gas giant Gazprom said. AEA Technology, an independent consultant to potential lenders to the Sakhalin II project, has produced a final report on the commitments of project operator Sakhalin Energy, the press office of Gazprom, the operator's main shareholder, announced on Tuesday.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 10, 2007 - Russia could cut by half the term for considering foreign bids for strategic assets and simplify application requirements, the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry said on Tuesday. These changes are expected to come as a bill on foreign investment in commercial organizations of strategic importance for Russia's national security is being prepared for its second reading in the lower house of Russia's parliament.
Krasnodar, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 10, 2007 - Spanish electricity company Iberdrola Renovables will invest $140 million in the construction of a wind farm in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory, the local administration said. The turbines, with output capacity of 1,000 MW, are expected to be built in the region's resort cities on the Black Sea coast by 2011, the administration's press service said.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 - High incomes and high carbon dioxide emissions go hand-in-hand all over the world, but the head of the globe's top scientific body on climate change says India can be different.
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2007 - Exciting innovations take place in hydrogen production and storage technologies as countries across the world realize the need to identify alternate and self-sustaining sources of energy. This need is caused by spiraling oil and gas prices, along with mounting concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. New research from Frost and Sullivan, Innovations in Hydrogen Production and Storage Technologies, finds that significant developments take place in the field of hydrogen production and storage technologies. These developments expect to achieve commercialization and enter the market in a reasonably short time.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of Micro Generation of Energy in the Home to their offering. This home energy book details how locally generated electricity pays for itself within five years and immediately helps to avoid global warming. The Online Return on Investment (ROI) analysis tool, included in the cost of the book, allows the personalization of energy inputs for every situation, enabling users to enter different electric bills, and different amounts of micro generator investment in different time frames to see how a particular situation will work out.
Frankfurt (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 - Steel producers want to present a global response to climate change and have begun by launching a vast operation to collect data at sites worldwide, they said Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 - An official commission has concluded that France cannot meet its target of slashing carbon dioxide (C02) emissions by a factor of four by 2050, the business daily La Tribune reported Tuesday.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of China Wind Power Equipment Manufacturing Report 2007 to their offering. Improved technologies and increased output results in wind power cost to continuously drop, to a nickel/kilowatt-hour. Wind power cost is expected to further reduce by 30% by 2010, which has been close to the regular energy cost. In 2006, newly-increased installed capacity of wind power in China was 1337 MW, accounting for 8.9% of world's total newly-increased, up by 165.83% year on year.
Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2007 - Despite widespread criticism of international energy companies operating in Myanmar, the country's instability seems unlikely to hamper business or cause it to reconsider in the near term.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2007 - China's largest oil producer, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), has agreed to invest in a joint venture oil refinery near the capital of Chad, state media reported Saturday.
Tehran (AFP) Oct 6, 2007 - Iran on Saturday rejected the possibility of a French investors' pullout of its oil and gas sector amid calls by Paris for tougher sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme, the ISNA news agency reported.
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 - While Western attention in the search for hydrocarbons in the Commonwealth of Independent States has until now focused largely on the Caspian Sea, the race is heating up to exploit Central Asia's last significant body of water, the Aral Sea.
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 - Since 1991 the United States and Russia have been involved in a conflict to exploit the Caspian's vast energy reserves. Now, however, Moscow seems to be gaining the upper hand by proposing an agenda with neighboring Kazakhstan that could see the issue of Caspian energy exports westward largely dominated by Russia for the next three to five decades.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 5, 2007 - Energy-starved China will boost coal output by 400 million tonnes a year by 2010 by streamlining the industry and opening a string of new super pits, state media reported Friday.
