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Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

Standards Body Appeals For World’s Experts To Help Harness Renewable Energy From Waves and Tides

Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 28, 2007 - IEC, the global body for electrical energy standards, is now recruiting experts from around the world to develop international standards for wave and tidal energy technology. These experts will help establish this promising source of renewable energy as a competitive form of electrical energy production. With world production of electricity expected to double over the next 25 years, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), renewable energy production is expected to increase by 57%.

Jun 28, 2007
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Co2 Burial Could Help Extract Methane From Old Coal Mines

Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 27, 2007 - Deep coal seams that are not commercially viable for coal production could be used for permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by human activities, thus avoiding atmospheric release, according to two studies published in Inderscience's International Journal of Environment and Pollution. An added benefit of storing CO2 in this way is that additional useful methane will be displaced from the coal beds.

Jun 27, 2007
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Gazprom Takes Over Another Gas Deposit

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2007 - The Russian government is making efforts to regain control of its energy resources. Last week, BP's Russian subsidiary, TNK-BP, sold the rich Kovykta gas deposit in the Irkutsk Region in Eastern Siberia, one of the largest in the world, to Russia's Gazprom. Foreign investors are taking the news with reserved optimism, because the Kovykta license could have been revoked without any compensation and the Russian officials had grounds for doing so.

Jun 27, 2007
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Russian Authorities Promise Prosperity By 2020

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2007 - The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade spent nearly a year working on President Vladimir Putin's instructions to elaborate a socioeconomic development strategy for the period until 2020. According to the press, the strategy is ready and has been forwarded to the government. It includes three development scenarios: the inertial scenario (which is the least desirable, as it involves preserving the commodities-oriented economic model), a scenario based on commodities exports (accelerated oil and gas production), and the preferred, knowledge-based scenario.

Jun 27, 2007
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US Finds Venezuela CITGO Oil Company Guilty Of Pollution

Washington (AFP) June 27, 2007 - Venezuela's CITGO Petroleum Corp. -- which provided cheap heating oil for thousands of Americans the last two winters -- was found guilty of environmental crimes by a federal jury in Texas, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. The state-owned company's Corpus Christi East Plant Refinery was in violation of the Clean Air Act for nearly 10 years ... when it failed to install and operate proper emissions control equipment on two open-top tanks, the department said in a statement.

Jun 27, 2007
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Canadian Oil Sands Going Nuclear

Fort Mcmurray, Canada (AFP) June 26, 2007 - Petroleum companies are eyeing nuclear power to feed burgeoning oil production in Canada's oil patch, pitting ecologists against ecologists unable to agree on its climate change impact. Squeezing one barrel of oil from the Athabasca, Peace River and Cold Lake Oil Sands in western Canada requires twice as much energy as pumping it from a conventional well, according to the industry, or three times as much energy, say environmentalists.

Jun 26, 2007
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Japan And China Struggle To Resolve Gas Dispute

Tokyo (AFP) Jun 26, 2007 - Japan and China on Tuesday failed to break the deadlock in a longstanding dispute over drilling rights in the energy-rich East China Sea in their latest round of talks, officials said. The Asian rivals' one-day meeting in Tokyo, the ninth round of talks since the dialogue began in 2004, ended without tangible results and with no fresh formal proposals from either side, Japanese officials said.

Jun 26, 2007
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New Russian Tanker Company To Develop Arctic

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 26, 2007 - On June 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ordering the country's two largest tanker companies to be reorganized into a single corporation. The objects of the merger are 100% state-owned Sovkomflot in St. Petersburg, the country's largest tanker company by capacity, and Novoship, the second largest, in which the government owns an 87.4% stake, in Novorossiisk on the Black Sea coast.

Jun 26, 2007
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Putin Pushes For Long-Term Energy Contracts For Black Sea States

Istanbul (RIA Novosti) Jun 26, 2007 - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday the energy markets of Black Sea littoral states should be stabilized by long-term contracts. A secure energy supply is an increasingly important factor for progress. In this context, we propose broader use of long-term contracts as a means of strengthening the stability of Black Sea energy markets, the president said at a summit of the 12 members of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization.

Jun 26, 2007
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Scientists Call For Global Push To Advance Research In Synthetic Biology

Oxnard CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2007 - With research backgrounds ranging from materials engineering to molecular biophysics, seventeen leading scientists issued a statement announcing that, much as the discovery of DNA and creation of the transistor revolutionized science, there is a new scientific field on the brink of revolutionizing our approach to problems ranging from eco-safe energy to outbreaks of malaria.

Jun 26, 2007
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Chinese City Turns Off The Air-Con Until Temperature Reaches 33 Celsius

Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2007 - A Chinese city has banned its government buildings from turning on air conditioning until the temperature hits 33 degrees Celsius (91 Fahrenheit), state media reported. Nanjing, capital of eastern Jiangsu province, is the latest city to set a limit on air conditioning use as pressure from the central government to save energy starts to take effect over fears of power failures this summer.

Jun 25, 2007
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Canadian Oil Sands Development An Economic Boon But Leaves A Mess

Fort Mcmurray (AFP) Canada, June 22, 2007 - The development of Canada's oil sands is laying waste to its great northern forest and western plains, say critics who point to skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions, diverted rivers and razed backwoods. And the devastation can only get worse, they say, as energy companies pump billions of dollars into new projects to triple local oil production to some 3.0 million barrels per day within the next decade.

Jun 22, 2007
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Renewable Sources Contributed Nearly 10 Percent To US Electric Generation In 2006

Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 22, 2007 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of Green Energy in the US: Renewable Investment, Capacity Growth and Future Outlook to their offering. The future of power generation in the US is at an interesting cross-road. On the one hand, cheap generation technologies such as coal and natural gas fired plants are well positioned to dominate future power generation if the current legislative and regulatory environments persist.

Jun 22, 2007