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XcelPlus' Clean Coal Technology Tested At Edison Power Plant Topping VA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 
XcelPlus Global Holdings has successfully completed a test of its GlyCoal clean energy fuel at an Edison Power-owned 80-megawatt plant in West Virginia. In the test, GlyCoal reduced coal consumption by 10 percent, in turn reducing the sulfur dioxide and CO2 emissions from coal by 10 percent. "GlyCoal is considered a clean coal technology because it effectively reduces coal emissions ... read moreAnalysis: Turkey's energy future 
Washington (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 Last year's record-high energy prices were followed by a global recession, whose end is nowhere in sight. The double whammy particularly affected countries heavily dependent on energy imports -- in the Middle East none so more than Turkey, which currently imports about 90 percent of its energy needs. Turkey's 2007 domestic production produced only 8.7 percent of the nation's crude oil a ... more
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Analysis: Nigeria ramps up delta security
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2009The Nigerian government has announced it will bolster security in the petroleum-rich Niger Delta to combat the region's armed gunmen, following reports that oil production has reached a new low in the region. The decision to ramp up security in the volatile region came amid increasing attacks by militant groups and gangs on foreign oil operations in the delta, chiefly those belonging t ... more Analysis: Fight to control grid continues 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2009Senate leadership wants to override a recent court ruling and keep final authority over the national electricity grid in the hands of federal regulators -- a proposal some utilities, states and policymakers adamantly oppose. In 2005 Congress gave the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission jurisdiction over the 300,000 miles of transmission lines that deliver the nation's power, but a rece ... more Fowl Soil Additive Breaks Down Crude Oil 
Wuhan, China (SPX) Mar 13, 2009It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break down 50% more crude oil than soil lacking the guano. Bello Yakubu, Huiwen Ma, and ChuYu Zhang of Wuhan University, China, ... more  |
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Vattenfall, RWE, E.ON, EDF in running for Baltic nuclear plant
Vilnius (AFP) March 12, 2009Swedish energy group Vattenfall, Germany's RWE or E.ON, or France's EDF could win the construction contract for a four-nation nuclear power plant in Lithuania, officials said here Thursday. Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas singled out the four market giants but told reporters that "other large electricity companies" could also be in the running. Sekomkas also warned that the plant was un ... more Iraq, China open major oil field 
Kut, Iraq (AFP) March 12, 2009Chinese engineers have inaugurated an Iraqi oil field, the first major oil development deal secured by a foreign firm since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, officials said on Thursday. The project, which follows the signing of a three-billon-dollar contract late last year, revives a deal signed in 1997 that granted China exploration rights to Al-Ahdab oil field in central Iraq. "This pro ... more Gloom persists as China's factory output, retail sales slow 
Beijing (AFP) March 12, 2009China on Thursday said factory output and retail sales were slowing, but banks were also pumping more credit into the economy as the country battles the global downturn. Industrial production in the world's third-largest economy grew 3.8 percent in the first two months of 2009 compared with the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported. It was a sharp slowdown com ... more France may allow Gulf investors into nuclear giant: FT 
Paris (AFP) March 12, 2009The French government may allow Gulf states' sovereign wealth funds to take minority stakes in the nuclear giant Areva, the Financial Times reported Thursday. The report quoted people close to the matter as saying exploratory talks have been held on offering stakes of one to five percent to the funds -- state agencies that manage billions of dollars in oil and has revenue. A spokesman fo ... more |
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