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Gulf oil production halted ahead of Hurricane Gustav New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008 
Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was almost completely shut down and most rigs and platforms evacuated, as Hurricane Gustav churned towards the United States, US officials said Sunday. "From the operators' reports, it is estimated that approximately 96.26 percent of the oil production in the Gulf has been shut-in," the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) said i ... read more
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US to tap oil reserve if storm batters oil-rich Gulf of Mexico
Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2008US officials are prepared to tap the government's strategic oil reserve if a storm damages oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico, a Department of Energy spokeswoman said Friday. "We're standing ready to use every available authority to provide supplies of energy in the event of a disruption," spokeswoman Bethany Shively told AFP. "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a key safeguard that ... more ASEAN again seeks funds for eight-nation rail link 
Singapore (AFP) Aug 29, 2008The ASEAN bloc will try again to spark investor interest in a much-delayed railway link from Singapore to the Chinese city of Kunming, officials said Friday. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economic ministers said they will convene a conference and exhibition in early 2009 to "publicise, promote and attract investments" for the Singapore-Kunming Railway Link, a joint statement ... more Iran offers nuclear aid to Nigeria 
Abuja (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology with Nigeria to help the energy-starved west African powerhouse boost electricity generation, a senior Iranian official has said. Junior trade minister Mohammadali Zeyghami made the comments in a press conference late Thursday after three days of talks between officials of the two oil-producing nations. Both sides emphasised that any atomic ... more Turkmenistan pledges more gas to China: president 
Ashgabat (AFP) Aug 29, 2008The president of energy-rich Turkmenistan on Friday pledged to significantly boost gas deliveries to China following talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao. "Each year the future gas pipeline will deliver not 30 billion cubic meters, as before, but 40 billion cubic meters of gas," Turmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov told journalists after the meeting with Hu. Turkmenistan ... more EPA completes river cleanup 
Chicago (UPI) Aug 29, 2008 State, local and federal officials gathered in Ohio this week to celebrate the cleanup of PCBs, uranium, radium and thorium from the Ashtabula River. The Ashtabula River Partnership hosted a celebration Tuesday at the Ashtabula Yacht Club to recognize the removal of nearly 630,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the river, which flows into Lake Erie northeast of Cleveland. The ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2008The United States is free to "insist" that the World Trade Organization hear a dispute over high-technology import duties after the European Union blocked its request for WTO arbitration. After the EU move, "the United States is able to insist that a panel be established at the next DSB (dispute settlements body) meeting," a senior US Trade Representative official told AFP. The comment ... more Nuclear agency says construction work at Finnish reactor is safe 
Helsinki (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Finnish nuclear safety agency STUK on Friday said construction work at the site of a new nuclear reactor being built in the country was safe but recommended that safety routines be improved. STUK interviewed workers, supervisors and quality controllers after Greenpeace and Finnish broadcasting company YLE alleged there were no qualified personnel supervising concrete welding work and that ... more Mitsubishi Heavy to boost reactor production: report 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will boost its production of core nuclear power equipment by investing 15 billion yen (138 million dollars) in its key plant, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The nation's largest heavy machinery manufacturer plans to double production capacity at its nuclear power equipment plant in Akashi, western Japan, the Nikkei business daily said. ... more Belgium reduces safety zone near nuclear iodine leak site 
Brussels (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Belgian authorities reduced on Saturday a safety zone near a medical laboratory in the southern town of Fleurus where a leak of radioactive iodine occurred recently. On Friday, authorities had recommended precautionary measures to avoid the risk of contamination in a five-kilometre (three-mile) zone near the laboratory, where a leak of radioactive iodine was detected last weekend. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2008China hailed Thursday a three-billion-dollar oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal. Becoming the first foreign firm to enter such an agreement since the end of Saddam Hussein's regime, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) this week won the right to develop the Al-Ahdab oil ... more Oil companies evacuate Gulf workers as Gustav looms 
New York (AFP) Aug 28, 2008British oil group BP and US rivals ConocoPhillips and Shell on Thursday evacuated workers from their energy installations in the Gulf of Mexico, as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed. "We're completing the evacuation of non-essential personnel from offshore platforms," BP said in an automated phone message. "Production is not impacted by the storm." ConocoPhilips said it was evacuating 44 people ... more Determine A Building's Energy Consumption And Co2 Emissions 
Glasgow, Scotland (SPX) Aug 29, 2008Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) has launched a plug-in to Google SketchUp, a free, easy-to-learn 3D design tool from Google. This plug-in links directly to IES's free VE-Ware tool which accurately determines the Energy Use and associated Carbon Dioxide Emissions for any building, in any part of the world. This exciting new development means that anyone can pick up these FREE tools ... more Clean Energy Fuels Acquires Texas Landfill Gas Plant 
Seal Beach, CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2008Clean Energy Fuels has acquired Dallas Clean Energy for approximately $19.1 million in cash from Camco International Ltd, a Jersey-based company focused on developing projects and strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Clean Energy has partnered in acquiring and operating the project with Cambrian Energy, a leading landfill gas project development and management company, which owns 30% of ... more
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