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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.

Siberia-Pacific Pipeline Project Going To Plan

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 14, 2006 - Construction of a pipeline to pump Siberian crude oil to energy-hungry China and other countries of the Asia-Pacific region is proceeding on schedule, the contractor said Monday. The first leg of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific project, operated by Russian state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, was launched in April this year, and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2008.

Nov 14, 2006

TNK-BP To Rehabilitate Half Of Idle Oil Wells

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 14, 2006 - TNK-BP will invest $2.5 billion in an effort to rehabilitate half of its idle oil wells in the next four years, Russia's natural resources minister said Monday. In July, Minister Yury Trutnev said the joint Russian-British venture was the leader in terms of idle oil wells, which totaled 36.9%, against the 10% authorized by law. Russia's third-largest oil producer plans to cut the figure to 20% by 2009.

Nov 14, 2006

Dubai Man-Made Island Poised To Greet First Residents

Dubai (AFP) Nov 13, 2006 - Palm Jumeirah, a man-made island off Dubai, is bracing for the arrival of its first residents, even as questions remain about the environmental impact of the mega-projects under way in the Gulf city state. These projects are a positive thing for the country since they have propelled Dubai to world fame, said environmentalist Ibrahim al-Zu'bi.

Nov 13, 2006

Examining The Impact Of Renewable Energy On The Electric Power Grid

Troy NY (SPX) Nov 13, 2006 - With a $1.23 million grant, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be creating a distributed power test-bed to study how the electricity distribution grid might be affected by the widespread adoption of clean, renewable energy sources.

Nov 13, 2006

First Fusion Reactor Could Be Online By 2016

Beijing (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2006 - The world's first fusion power reactor will be built as part of an international research project by 2016, a leading Russian nuclear physicist said Friday. Russia, the United States, the European Union, China, India, Japan and South Korea are taking part in the $12.1 billion project, known by the acronym ITER, to demonstrate the scientific and technological potential of nuclear fusion amid concerns over growing energy consumption and the impact of conventional fossil fuels on the environment.

Nov 13, 2006

Republicans Eye Alternate Drilling Bill

Washington (UPI) Nov 13, 2006 - U.S. House Republicans have said they will settle for a more modest offshore drilling bill after Democratic victories effectively killed a previous plan. U.S. Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., said he would push more a smaller measure that allows for a small amount of offshore exploration, similar to a bill passed by the U.S. Senate, The New York Times reported Monday.

Nov 13, 2006

Despite Start Up Problems Carbon Markets Are Here To Stay

Nairobi (AFP) Nov 10, 2006 - The carbon market, the jewel in the crown of the Kyoto Protocol, is a flawed gem but one likely to endure, regardless of the form that international efforts take to tackle climate change, experts here say. Carbon trading is the centrepiece of the UN's pact on curbing the greenhouse gases that are dangerously changing the world's climate system, and an arduously-negotiated, controversial piece of treaty architecture it has proven to be.

Nov 10, 2006

An Old Discovery Could Boost Ethanol Production from Plant Fiber

Ames IA (SPX) Nov 09, 2006 - John Verkade remembers just how it happened some 40 years ago: One of his Iowa State University graduate students, David Hendricker, stopped by to report somebody was stealing a little wooden applicator stick from a beaker. Oh, Verkade said, that's just a prank. Go hide around the corner and do some peeking until the joker shows up again. Thirty minutes later Hendricker was back in Verkade's office.

Nov 9, 2006

Petrochina To Affect WTO

Washington (UPI) Nov 08, 2006 - Recent divestment strategies against PetroChina, the energy-thirsty Asian giant's biggest oil producer, for trading with Sudan will not affect talks with the World Trade Organization, experts say. The United States and European Union wouldn't be so tolerant to China if they had real evidence to prove that China is doing something wrong, Xinquan Tu, a researcher from the China WTO Studies Center told United Press International.

Nov 8, 2006

IEA Warns Current Energy System Doomed To Failure

Paris (AFP) Nov 7, 2006 - World demand for energy is set to grow by more than 50 percent in the next 25 years on current trends, meaning that effective action on climate change is likely to require a technological breakthrough, the International Energy Agency warned on Tuesday. In a stark report assessing global energy needs to 2030, the IEA highlighted seemingly irreconciliable forces that are set to push carbon dioxide emissions higher at a time when urgent action is needed to tackle global warming.

Nov 7, 2006

The Russian Peaceful Atom Stages A Comeback In Europe

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 07, 2006 - Russia has scored a prestigious victory, winning a tender for the construction of a nuclear power plant at Belene, a small Bulgarian town on the Danube. This is a big day for Russia, said Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power. Russia is returning to the European nuclear-power construction market. This is a great event because we have not built anything in Europe since the Soviet era, and now we're back.

Nov 7, 2006

India Says 16 Percent Of Power To Come From Wind By 2030

New Delhi (AFP) Nov 6, 2006 - As much as 16 percent of India's electricity needs could be supplied by wind power within the next 25 years, the country's president told a gathering of renewable energy experts Monday. India produces 6,053 megawatts of wind power, a tiny chunk of the estimated 130,000 megawatts of electricity it needs, but its installed wind power grew by 47 percent in the last fiscal year, the Indian Wind Energy Association says.

Nov 6, 2006

Z Machine Melts Diamond To Puddle

Albuquerque NM (SPX) Nov 06, 2006 - Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid. The object of the experiment was to better understand the characteristics of diamond under the extreme pressure it would face when used as a capsule for a BB-sized pellet intended to fuel a nuclear fusion reaction.

Nov 6, 2006

Hi-Tech The Key To Boosting Oil Reserves

Abu Dhabi (AFP) Nov 5, 2006 - Officials and experts at an oil and gas conference in Abu Dhabi said Sunday that advanced technology was essential in boosting oil reserves to meet increasing global demand. We will be soon facing a challenge of producing difficult oil. Easy oil is slipping away from our hands, Omani Oil and Gas Minister Mohammad bin Hamad al-Romhi told the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC 2006).

Nov 5, 2006

Hickam Testing New Deployable Hydrogen Refueling Station

Hickam AFB HI (AFNS) Nov 02, 2006 - As the Air Force continues to look for ways to reduce energy consumption in its facilities, vehicles and aircraft operations the 15th Airlift Wing will be doing its part by serving as a test bed for a new modular deployable hydrogen refueling station. Awarded the contract two years ago, HydraFLX Systems LLC is providing their system as a research and development program for the Air Force to evaluate the feasibility of hydrogen refueling on the flight line.

Nov 2, 2006

Process Turns Soy Oil Into Hydrogen

Minneapolis (UPI) Nov 02, 2006 - A U.S. research team says it has invented a reactive flash volatilization process that converts soy oil and sugar into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The mixture called synthesis gas, or syngas, is used to make chemicals and fuels, including gasoline, and the new process works up to 100 times faster than current technology.

Nov 2, 2006