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ONGC Videsh Loses $5-B Kazakh Oil Deal To China

ONGC Videsh Ltd is out of the race to acquire an 8.4 per cent stake in the Kashagan oilfield in Kazakhstan, the world's biggest oil discovery in half a century....

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US DOE Chases The "Three Big Barriers" To Drop-In Biofuels

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced four research and development projects to bring next generation biofuels on line faster and drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and...

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Dallas-Based EXCO Spends $1B On Chesapeake Energy Assets

Chesapeake Energy Corp. continues to sell off oil and gas leases following the departure of founder and CEO Aubrey McClendon earlier this year.

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India Developer Seeks Turnkey Construction Of 66-MW Loktak Downstream Hydro...

India hydro developer Loktak Downstream Hydroelectric Corp. Ltd. (LDHC) invites applications for pre-qualification for turnkey construction of the 66-MW Loktak Downstream hydroelectric project in...

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Fracking Boom Spurs Rush On Wisconsin Silica

It takes sand-loads of it-to open the cracks in shale rock that allow natural gas or oil to flow into hydraulic fracturing wells. To do the job, the industry is digging into the vast ancient silica...

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Apple Plants Its Second Solar Farm, In Nevada

Apple did a similar deal for its data center in Maiden, N.C., with SunPower providing panels backed by fuel cells from Duke Energy (DUK) and privately held Bloom Energy doing the heavy lifting....

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Honeywell Cleared To Restart Illinois Plant

Federal regulators have given a Honeywell International Inc. plant that helps make nuclear fuel the go-head to resume operations in Illinois after a yearlong shutdown due to federally requested upgrades.

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1.445 GW More Geothermal For The Philippines By 2030

The Philippines Energy Department is planning to grow their total geothermal energy capacity another 1.445 GW by 2030. They already have an installed capacity of 1.848 GW, so the additional gigawatts...

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Brazil Truckers Block Highways In Several Of The Country's States

A truck transporting sugar cane for the production of ethanol in Brazil. SAO PAULO - Brazilian truckers continue striking in several states, torching toll booths and crippling traffic in some areas.

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Chicago's SoCore Set To Sell To Edison International

SoCore Energy, a Chicago-based commercial solar startup, is set to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edison International, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. Neither Edison (NYSE: EIX) ,...

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Happy ( Energy ) Independence Day

In 2009, the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance issued its Declaration of Energy Independents due to the phenomenal turnaround caused by horizontal drilling. By the end of 2012, there were nearly 1,200...

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Solar Kits Bring Clean Light To Kenya's Poor

Nevertheless, a recent study by the US National Institutes of Health estimated that 500 million households globally still rely on kerosene or other liquid fuels for lighting and consume 7.6 billion...

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UAE Will Continue To Be Major Provider Of Energy

Shaikh Abdullah made his remarks at the inauguration of the London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm in the outer reaches of the Thames Estuary, off the coast of the United Kingdom ....

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Global Solar PV Industry Set For Recovery

NPD Solarbuzz (Santa Clara, California, US) has published an analysis which states that the global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry is beginning to recover after a period of declining investments and...

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Laughably Named Facility Near Murmansk To Carry Out Grave Nuclear Fuel And...

A so-called "nuclear island" has been carved out in the Russian icebreaker port of Atomflot, which aims to concentrate all potentially dangerous spent nuclear fuel and solid radioactive waste...

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New Method To Aid Oil Search In Murchison

As the hunt for more oil and gas fields continues within Murchison Falls National Game Park, Total E&P Uganda has adopted a new technology known as 3D Cableless Seismic Survey, which is friendly to...

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Schneider National Adding 60 Pa. Jobs To Serve Hydraulic Fracturing Sites

Schneider National Inc. will add 60 oilfield truck drivers in Pennsylvania to support its new business that is taking advantage of the U.S. oil and natural gas boom spurred by hydraulic fracturing....

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Rain Helps To Drop Fuel Portion Of TVA Rates

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) The wettest year in nearly two decades is having a beneficial effect on the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA is pumping out a record amount of electricity this year from its...

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OPEC Crude Exports To Rise, Oil Movement Says

Crude on board tankers will increase by 6.3 percent to 496.01 million barrels versus 466.5 million, data from Oil Movements show. The researcher calculates the volumes by tallying tanker bookings. Its...

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Is A Giant Wind Farm In New Mexico's Future?

New Mexico is ready to welcome a massive project that would catapult it into a leadership position in wind energy in the United States - all it needs is a company to seize the opportunity....

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