Buffet's Solar Company Completes $1 Billion Solar Bond Offering
Solar Star Funding completes biggest solar bond offering to date and third party solar continues to soar as focus remains on downstream activity and VC funding is again subdued. MidAmerican Energy...
View ArticleIOC In Talks To Buy Petronas' 10% Stake In Canadian Asset
The State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) is in talks to buy Malayasian oil firm Petronas' 10 per cent stake in Canadian shale gas assets, which are touted to be worth at least $ 1.5 billion.
View ArticleCairn Receives Offshore Ireland Oil Exploration Drilling Program Approval
Cairn will use the "Blackford Dolphin" which is an enhanced Aker H3 deep-water semi submersible drilling rig.
View ArticleEU Biopower Generation Revenues In Jeopardy
Europe is increasingly turning to biopower to meet its goal of producing 20 percent of its total power from renewable sources by 2020, and will see a new wave of coal-to-biomass power plant conversions...
View ArticleScaled Wind Farm Technology Facility Commissioned In Lubbock
The three research wind turbines at the SWiFT facility are a little less than half the size of a typical turbine which Dr. John Schroeder, Director of the National Wind Institute, said will speed up...
View ArticleWhere Does Morsi's Exit Leave Egyptian Energy?
Marketplace's Stacey Vanek Smith pointed out this week that Egypt passes about 4 million barrels of oil through the Canal each day, making any disruption a challenge for far more than just Cairo. So...
View ArticleTVA Upgrading, Installing New Sirens At Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
The Tennessee Valley Authority is turning up the volume on emergency sirens around Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.
View ArticleFred. Olsen Energy's Subsidiary Awarded New Drilling Contracts For USD67m
OL) , announced today the signing of contracts with MPX North Sea ltd for one well in the UK sector and with Capricorn Ireland Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy PLC) for one well offshore...
View ArticleTendeka To Equip Edvard Grieg Wells In North Sea
Lundin Norway has awarded Tendeka a frame agreement for provision of downhole completion products and associated services offshore Norway.
View ArticleFuture Of UK Offshore Wind In Serious Doubt Says IPPR
Britain's geographical position and industrial history means that offshore wind power offers enormous potential for the development of the UK economy, both domestically and as an export sector....
View ArticleTulane Researchers Receive Grant To Develop Food-Chain Friendly Dispersants
Two researchers from Tulane University have won a $1 million grant to design more effective and cost efficient dispersants than those used in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010....
View ArticleJackpine Oil Sands Mine Expansion Advances
Shell Canada Energy, operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) joint venture, has received conditional Alberta Energy Regulator approval for expansion of its Jackpine oil sands mine about 70...
View ArticleChina To Join U.S. In Carbon-Capture Projects
China and the U.S., which together burn more than 40 percent of the world's coal, have agreed to jointly develop technology to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and take other steps to combat...
View ArticleShell To Spend Millions To Reduce Pollution At Houston Refinery
Shell Oil and affiliated partnerships have agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at a large refinery and chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas.
View ArticleMexico's Rig Renaissance Gets Under Way
The Grupo R conglomerate, which currently operates three semisubmersibles, has ordered four jackups from Keppel FELS in Singapore. Perforadora Mexico has taken two jackups originally ordered by...
View ArticleAs Exploration Heats Up, Latin American Nations Refine Offshore Regulations
National oil companies dominate Latin America's oil and gas industry: Petrobras in Brazil, Pemex in Mexico, PDVSA in Venezuela, Ecopetrol in Colombia, Petroperu in Peru, Enap in Chile, and Enarsa in...
View ArticleCabbies Furious Over Emanuel's Clean-Energy Edict At Union Station, Ogilvie
Chicago cabdrivers who've been waiting eight years for a fare increase are up in arms about a clean-energy initiative they fear will take money out of their pockets. Five cab stands serving Union...
View ArticleOffshore Oil And Gas Backlogs Easing Shipyard Overcapacity
For much of this year, the Kiewit Offshore Services fabrication yard in Ingleside, Texas, has resembled a small city in itself, with thousands of engineers and craftspeople onsite preparing structures...
View ArticleRig Construction Continues To Focus On Higher-Spec Units
Shipyards that build offshore drilling rigs continue to stay busy with new construction projects. Worldwide, 131 jackups, semisubmersibles, drillships and tender-assisted units are under construction,...
View ArticleOil Pipeline, Long Submerged In Michigan's Deep Waters, Fuels Public Concern
The Oil and Water Don't Mix rally convenes at noon at Bridge View Park, immediately north of the Mackinac Bridge. Bill McKibben, a leading environmental activist and founder of 350.org, is the keynote...
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