Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2007 - China Saturday launched a nationwide energy saving campaign, calling on its people to face the urgent task of reducing its rocketing fuel consumption and worsening pollution.
Berlin (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 - The European Union is reverting to unusual measures to guarantee its energy security. According to a report, Brussels is looking to shield its oil and gas sector from unwanted acquisitions by foreign players.
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 - Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the race to bring Caspian oil to the global market has been marked by a three-way race involving Russia, the United States and Iran.
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 - The year 2007 has been a difficult one for Western energy companies operating abroad, as many states, including Bolivia, Russia and Venezuela, have unilaterally either rewritten or abrogated longstanding energy agreements with European and U.S. partners. Is Kazakhstan about to join the revisionist club?
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 - A new oil facilities protection force in Saudi Arabia faces a convinced enemy with a record of attacks on the country, but analysts say it is just another layer of protection on a security apparatus that has so far succeeded in protecting the country's most important resource.
Coral Springs FL (SPX) Aug 30, 2007 - Enerize and FiFe Batteries have announced a partnership to develop safe, low-cost, high-energy Li-ion rechargeable batteries for various applications including hybrid-electric vehicles (HEV). These batteries will feature advanced electrode materials based on new types of TiO2 used by FiFe Batteries, as well as high conductivity/high tap density MnO2 and low cost modified natural graphite developed by Enerize Corporation.
Cohoes NY (SPX) Aug 30, 2007 - FOX and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have gone Green with Emmy by partnering to produce an eco-friendly 59th Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast. This Green with Emmy campaign encompasses all Emmy events with the sole purpose of reducing the carbon footprint the Primetime Emmys have on the world's climate.
Miami (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 - Nigeria loses $14 billion a year to oil theft, according to Stephen Hayes, the president of the Corporate Council on Africa.
Stillwater OK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007 - Oklahoma State University's sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field.
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007 - Faced with rising oil imports and mounting concerns over the environment, the U.S. and Canadian governments will undertake proactive initiatives to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels. In January 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Clean Energy Act. When enforced, this legislation expects to transfer more than $14 billion from certain subsidies to investments in clean energy.
Miami (UPI) Aug 29, 2007 - Venezuela's chief energy official, Rafael Ramirez, was fined recently for instructing employees at the country's state-run energy firm to support President Hugo Chavez, the latest in a series of developments that some experts say illustrates the president's quest to wrest full control of the sector.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 29, 2007 - Researchers at Purdue University have further developed a technology that could represent a pollution-free energy source for a range of potential applications, from golf carts to submarines and cars to emergency portable generators. The technology produces hydrogen by adding water to an alloy of aluminum and gallium. When water is added to the alloy, the aluminum splits water by attracting oxygen, liberating hydrogen in the process. The Purdue researchers are developing a method to create particles of the alloy that could be placed in a tank to react with water and produce hydrogen on demand.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Aug 29, 2007 - Homeowners could see their summer utility bills fall by 8 percent or more with a new roof and attic system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Vienna (AFP) Aug 29, 2007 - The US delegate to a United Nations conference on climate change cast doubt Wednesday about the creation of a global carbon market to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2007 - The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will finance the construction of a pipeline across the country, to supply Central Asian gas to China's south and east, the company said Monday. The state-owned giant, China's largest oil and gas producer, said the Second West-East Pipeline Project had been approved by the Chinese government, and that CNPC would be the sole investor. The 7,000 km (4,349 mile) pipeline with design capacity of 30 billion cubic meters per year is expected to go on-stream in 2010. Construction will start in 2008, the company said. The pipeline will start in the province of Xinjiang in China's northwest, on the border with Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and end at Guangzhou in the south, and Shanghai in the east, CNPC said. The pipeline will pump natural gas from Central Asia, mainly from gas-rich Turkmenistan. In July, during Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's visit to China, CNPC and Turkmenistan's national gas company Turkmengaz signed a purchase and sale agreement on natural gas supplies. Under the deal, the ex-Soviet country will supply 30 billion cubic meters of gas to China annually. In its statement, CNPC said the pipeline could raise gas consumption in China by 2%, and highlighted the importance of reducing the heavily-polluted country's dependence on coal. In total, 76.8 million [metric] tons of coal combusted per year can be replaced by natural gas, meaning that the sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by 1.66 million tons and 150 million tons respectively, the company said. CNPC has businesses ranging from oil and gas upstream and downstream operations to oilfield services, engineering and construction, petroleum equipment manufacture and supply. Source: RIA Novosti
Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2007 - The U.S. Department of Energy says it will allocate up to $33.8 million to support commercial production of cellulosic biofuels.
