Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007 - Russia's Natural Resources Ministry is offering 93 new deposits for prospecting, including fields in East and West Siberia, the ministry's press office said Monday. The ministry has approved new lists of deposits offered for geological prospecting in 2007 at the expense of natural resources companies, the ministry said in a statement.
Naminya, Uganda (AFP) Aug 21, 2007 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday launched construction work for a new 770-million-dollar (571 million euro) hydro-power plant that had been plagued by environmental concerns.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2007 - While the new calibration service for phasor measurement units (PMUs) offered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sounds like it would appeal to Star Trek fans, it's actually the operators of America's electrical power grid-and all of us who value uninterrupted current-who benefit.
Mexico (AFP) Aug 20, 2007 - Mexico's state oil company PEMEX said on Monday it shut down all its facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and evacuated all staff from its rigs and platforms ahead of the anticipated landfall of Hurricane Dean.
New York (AFP) Aug 20, 2007 - World oil prices declined Monday as critical US energy production facilities in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico looked set to dodge any potential danger from Hurricane Dean, traders said.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007 - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held its seventh summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It clearly demonstrated the SCO's awareness that the time of closed blocs is over, and the 21st century is an era of cooperation. It also showed that the SCO is working hard to find its way in an avalanche of ideas about its development path and format.
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2007 - Foster Agblevor, associate professor of biological systems engineering, is leading the team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert poultry litter into bio-oil, providing an economical disposal system while reducing environmental effects and biosecurity issues.
Bishkek (AFP) Aug 19, 2007 - In the titanic contest for power over Central Asia between China, Russia and the United States, Akmamat Kasimov's market stall must be the smallest battlefield.
Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 - Fifteen years after the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a covert Cold War has sprung up over the issue of developing the energy assets of the Caspian, with Russia and the United States once again at odds.
Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 - An economically burgeoning Middle East is facing stark choices as it decides how to fuel its growth, despite sitting on two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves.
Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2007 - Political parties and their militias are fighting for power over the Basra government, the oil sector it controls, and the oil and fuels smuggling that bring in extra funds.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Aug 16, 2007 - Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. and Livermore, Calif., are part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -funded team led by UOP, LLC, a Honeywell company, looking at the production of military Jet Propellant 8 (JP-8) fuel based on the use of renewable biomass oil crop feedstocks, including microalgae.
Thessaloniki, Greece (SPX) Aug 15, 2007 - Do the overall efficiencies of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal add up in terms of their complete life cycle from materials sourcing, manufacture, running, and decommissioning Researchers in Greece have carried out a life cycle assessment to find the answer.
Troy NY (SPX) Aug 15, 2007 - Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles.
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 15, 2007 - Lowering fuel emission levels is a topic facing constant scrutiny by the global public. Rising gas costs, environmental concerns and conflicts in oil-producing areas have made consumers, corporations and researchers more than curious about the potential of alternative, or green, fuels, such as ethanol.
London (AFP) Aug 13, 2007 - British officials have told government ministers that the country has no chance of meeting its commitments under European Union plans to raise the proportion of energy made from renewable sources by 2020, The Guardian reported on Monday.
