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BP puts UK oil and gas field assets up for saleLondon (AFP) Feb 22, 2011 BP said Tuesday that it will seek to sell its holdings in a "number" of UK oil and gas fields, as part of an ongoing restructuring. "BP announced today the intention of selling its interests in a number of operated oil and gas fields in the UK," it said in a statement. "The assets involved are the Wytch Farm onshore oilfield in Dorset and all of BP's operated gas fields in the Southern North Sea, including associated pipeline infrastructure and the Dimlington terminal. "BP anticipates that t ... read more |
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  Data tweaks reflect a changing China: economists China raised eyebrows last week by tweaking key inflation gauges just as it seeks to stem public anger about prices, but analysts said the revisions were necessary and not a bid to cook the books. ... more | .. |
  Spent Nuclear Fuel Is Anything But Waste Failure to pursue a program for recycling spent nuclear fuel has put the U.S. far behind other countries and represents a missed opportunity to enhance the nation's energy security and influence oth ... more | .. |
  Manipulating Molecules For A New Breed Of Electronics In research appearing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Nongjian "NJ" Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has demonstrated a clever way of controlling elect ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Hong Kong to boost land supply: financial chief Hong Kong's financial chief vowed Wednesday to further boost the city's land supply in response to rising public anger over soaring property prices and repeated warnings of a looming real estate bubble. ... more | .. |
  Dupont Introduces PV Metallization For Metal Wrap Through Solar Cell Designs DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) has introduced DuPont Solamet PV701 photovoltaic metallization paste as its newest generation of Metal Wrap Through (MWT) technology for back side interconnected ... more | .. |
 S.E. Asia urged to exploit abundant clean energy From surging rivers to volcanic steam, Southeast Asia is blessed with abundant sources of renewable energy but governments are not doing enough to exploit them, experts and activists say. ... more | .. |
 Multifunction Shipper Maximizes Shipping Density For PV Makers Entegris, has launched a new multifunction shipper designed to provide photovoltaic wafer, cell and module manufactures with decreased cell breakage, improved transportation efficiencies, lower ware ... more |
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Deadly Indian Himalayan flood likely caused by glacier collapse, experts say
Brazil's Lula vetoes parts of environmental 'devastation bill'
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 Vanguard Energy Partners Builds Five Solar Arrays In New Jersey Vanguard Energy Partners has five solar power projects under way in New Jersey totaling 755 kilowatts in clean, renewable energy from Sharp solar modules. The solar power systems will produce enough ... more | .. |
 Phillips-Van Heusen Selects Solis Partners To Install Solar PV System Solis Partners has been awarded a turnkey contract for a rooftop solar PV system at one of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation's administrative offices. PVH, one of the world's largest apparel com ... more | .. |
  Agave Has Tremendous Potential As New Bioenergy Feedstock An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy reviews the suitability of Agave as a bioenergy feedstock that can sustain high productivity in spite of poor soil and stressful cl ... more | .. |
 Green Chemistry Offers Route Towards Zero-Waste Production Novel green chemical technologies will play a key role helping society move towards the elimination of waste while offering a wider range of products from biorefineries, according to a University of ... more |
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 Solar Power At Former Norton Air Force Base The Inland Valley Development Agency (IVDA), a joint powers authority redeveloping the non-aviation portion of the former Norton Air Force Base, SCRIP, Inc. a non-profit community development corpor ... more | .. |
  Turning To Nature For Inspiration To build the next generation of sensors - with applications ranging from medical devices to robotics to new consumer goods - Chang Liu looks to biology. Liu, professor of mechanical engineerin ... more | .. |
 South Korea in industrial spying query South Korea is investigating possible industrial espionage after a notification by the Indonesian government that intruders were discovered in its delegate's Seoul hotel room. ... more | .. |
  EU, Russia meet for top-level energy talks EU officials are meeting a Russian delegation led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week for difficult talks about Russian-European energy relations. ... more |
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China advances crewed lunar mission with lander landing and takeoff trial
Hera spacecraft tests asteroid tracking with distant Otero and Kellyday observations
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 Saudi, France sign peaceful nuclear cooperation pact OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia on Tuesday signed a cooperation agreement with France on peaceful nuclear energy development to help meet the kingdom's rising energy demand, an official statement said. ... more | .. |
Taiwan, China hold historic trade meeting Delegates from Taiwan and China met Tuesday to discuss issues arising from a sweeping trade pact that has set the stage for unprecedented economic interaction between the two sides. ... more | .. |
China's state firms face higher payments to govt Chinese state-owned firms will have to hand over more of their profits to the government, a senior official said Tuesday, giving Beijing more money to spend on social services such as health care. ... more | .. |
Taiwan threatens Philippines labour freeze Taiwan expressed anger Tuesday over the Philippines' refusal to apologise for deporting 14 Taiwanese to China and threatened to freeze the hiring of Philippine workers. ... more |
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 OPEC needs to up output before new crisis Oil producer group OPEC needs to increase production to meet a growing global demand before considering further risks to supply from the developing crisis over democratic rights in the Middle East, the London Center for Global Energy Studies said Monday. ... more | .. |
Cables show China used debt holdings to press US Leaked diplomatic cables vividly show China's willingness to translate its massive holdings of US debt into political influence on issues ranging from Taiwan's sovereignty to Washington's financial policy. ... more | .. |
Australia's electricity prices to rise By 2015, Australia's electricity will cost more than double its 2008 price, a new study indicates. ... more | .. |
Kollmorgen unveils modified power system A variant of a low-voltage power generation system for the U.S. Army's Fuel-Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator is being introduced by Virginia's Kollmorgen. ... more |
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Philippines says 3 Chinese ships spotted near islets close to Taiwan
US-Russia summits: the highs and lows
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Walker's World: The real G20 crisis Once again, the weekend summit of the Group of 20 lived down to the sinking expectations this purported new system of global governance has already inspired. But there was one significant exception. ... more | .. |
 New Material Provides 25 Percent Greater Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency Automobiles, military vehicles, even large-scale power generating facilities may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to a new alloy developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laborato ... more | .. |
 Hydrogels Used To Make Precise New Sensor Researchers are developing a new type of biological and chemical sensor that has few moving parts, is low-cost and yet highly sensitive, sturdy and long-lasting. The "diffraction-based" sensor ... more | .. |
Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant She has no legal training, and doesn't speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home. ... more |
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BP signs $7.2 billion deal with India Oil giant BP will pay $7.2 billion for a 30 percent stake in 23 oil and gas blocks controlled by Reliance Industries Ltd. in India, BP announced. ... more | .. |
 Physicists Isolate Bound States In Graphene Superconductor Junctions Illinois researchers have documented the first observations of some unusual physics when two prominent electric materials are connected: superconductors and graphene. Led by University of Illi ... more | .. |
  Taiwan cardinal eyes China-Vatican dialogue Taiwan's Cardinal Paul Shan, who will embark on a high-profile trip to China this summer, says he hopes that the Vatican and Beijing can be "mature" and reconcile their bitter differences. ... more | .. |
 US top military officer visits Gulf amid Arab revolts Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday he was "stunned" by the spread of Arab protests as he arrived in Saudi Arabia on a Gulf tour to boost Washington's ties with regional allies. ... more |
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