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Iraq to boost oil output above 3 million bpd in 2011: reportDubai (AFP) May 15, 2010 Iraq, which last year awarded 10 contracts to oil majors, expects to add 600,000 barrels per day of new oil to boost output to 3.2 million bpd by end 2011, a top official was quoted as saying. "We expect to increase production by around 600,000 bpd over the course of this year and next," Iraqi deputy oil minister for upstream Abdulkarim al-Laibi told the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) in its edition to appear on Monday. The country's current oil output capacity stands at around 2.6 million b ... read more |
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Johnson City TN (SPX) May 17, 2010The Tri-Cities area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia sees a bright future in the solar industry. Kingsport, Tenn.-based AGC Flat Glass is a major supplier to such well-connected such international customers as Dutch Shell, BP Solar, Sun Power, Solar World, Mitsubishi, Sony and Sharp. AGC's Kingsport, Tenn., facility employs about 225 workers. AGC produces glass solutions for t ... more  
Caracas (AFP) May 14, 2010Venezuela signed several agreements Friday with Chinese manufacturer Haier to construct an industrial complex and sell household appliances in the South American country. "We are going to install a domestic appliance factory here that will be in the interest of both Venezuela and China," President Hugo Chavez, a close ally of Beijing, said during the signing ceremony. Haier will export a ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) May 14, 2010Greenpeace said Friday it had detected dangerously high levels of radioactivity near a New Delhi salvage yard where radiation poisoning last month killed a worker and left seven more in hospital. The environmental group said its experts picked up radiation 5,000 times above normal background levels at the privately owned salvage facility in the city's congested Mayapuri district and its surr ... more |
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Sailing Vessels Manoeuvre In Ports Using Electric Energy From WindBarcelona, Spain (SPX) May 17, 2010 The car is not the only vehicle that can be propelled electrically. Lecturers at the Higher Nautical and Naval Engineering Technical School, Mikel Lejarza, Jose Ignacio Uriarte, Miguel �ngel Gomez Solaetxe and Juan Luis Larrabe are part of a research team working on an innovative project: to have a sailing boat that can undertake port manoeuvres (such as mooring and unmooring) using electric energy obtained from the movement of the wind in their sails when sailing and thus reduce the use of fuel and the ... read more |
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