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MIDDLE EAST: Forum of oil-gas exploration and production technologies concl
2008-01-09 10:36:00 The Forum of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technologies concluded its sessions here Monday. The forum was organized by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in cooperation with the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Monday's sessions focused on the challenges facing the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Middle East , Norway , Canada
SINGAPORE: Asian Aframax Rates Fall Most in Two Years as Charters Decli
2008-01-09 07:36:00 Asian aframax hiring rates fell the most in two years as chartering demand slowed following a pick- up in hiring before the Christmas holidays and the Northern Hemisphere winter. The rate to transport 80,000 metric tons of fuel from Kuwait to Singapore dropped 6.9 percent to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Asian , Years , Rates
TEXAS: Petrohawk expands stake in Fayetteville Shale
2008-01-09 07:31:00 Petrohawk Energy Corp. agreed to buy an additional 18,500 acres in the Fayetteville Shale Production from the properties is about 5 million cubic feet of natural-gas equivalent per day, the Houston-based company said today in a PRNewswire statement. area for $222.5 million to expand drilling... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Texas , Hale
EMIRATES: Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company profit soars to record $180
2008-01-01 10:09:00 Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) made a record $180 million profit last year, it was revealed yesterday. The announcement was made by Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company general manager Abdul Rahaman Jawahery, while speaking at the conclusion of the Gulf Petrochemical Industries... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Middle East , Profit , Emirates
The Best 4U 2008 from THE ENERGY BLOG
2008-01-01 09:09:00 Sincerely, my best wishes for all the energy blog readers. This 2008 I hope to have a new people to share information for this Energy Data Warehouse. In this moment we have around 8000 entries, I going to add (almost) another 8000 energy entries to this 2008. Together we will built a big Data... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blog
INDONESIA: South Jakarta District Court decision regarding Banjar Panji-1 w
2008-01-01 02:07:00 The South Jakarta District Court yesterday handed down its decision in the proceedings brought by the Indonesia n Forum for the Environment (WALHI) in relation to the Sidoarjo mud flow incident. The participants in the Brantas PSC successfully defended all claims brought against them in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Decision
MIDDLE EAST: Iran's drilling company on sale February 20
2007-12-31 21:37:00 Iran's North Drilling Company Managing Director Asghar Rafiei announced that the selling of the NDC shares would start in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) as of February 20. The NDC chief told PIN that the company was among the privatization-bound centers and it was trying to have a strong presence in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Middle East , Iran , Sale , East
NUCLEAR: Opposition stirring against new reactors
2007-12-31 07:36:00 Texas anti-nuclear activists are rallying their forces to challenge the so-called nuclear renaissance that could see the state become home to the country's first new nuclear power plant project in nearly 30 years. On Friday a coalition of groups said it will intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Texas , Position
AFRICA: Uranium rush gets under way in Zambia
2007-12-30 16:10:00 Resurgent global interest in nuclear power has made Zambia, a country better known for its vast copper reserves, into a hotbed of uranium exploration. The search for uranium in Zambia is part of a larger wave of uranium exploration and mining across mineral-rich Southern Africa that is raising... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Australia , Uranium , Zimbabwe , Canada
CALIFORNIA: No product yet, but lots of buzz. Chevron
2007-12-30 13:34:00 The Chevrolet Volt is slowly consuming Lyle Dennis' life. A year after casually launching a blog devoted to General Motors Corp.'s ambitious efforts to build a battery-powered Chevy, Dennis, a neurologist from Suffern, N.Y., has become an online celebrity of sorts. "I just wanted to do anything I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Toyota , California , Product , Buzz
ITALY: Eni May Cancel 9 per 100 of Its Stock
2007-12-29 23:27:00 Sees Kashagan Settlement Soon Eni SpA, Italy 's biggest oil company, may cancel 9 percent of its own stock and begin a new share buyback program, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni said. Scaroni also said Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called a Jan. 11 meeting with executives of Eni and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Phillips , Exxon , Mobil , Stock
WESTERN HEMISPHERE: StatoilHydro sells GoM shallow-water operations
2007-12-29 14:36:00 StatoilHydro has entered into an agreement to sell all of the former Spinnaker assets in the shallow water of the US Gulf of Mexico to Mariner Energy, Inc. for a cash consideration of USD 243 million. The sale will be accomplished through the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Hydro Gulf of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Statoil , Water , Western
ASIA: Oil official calls his talks with Turkmen officials 'positive'
2007-12-29 12:27:00 Iran's deputy oil minister called his talks with Turkmen officials positive and said the Turkmen side presented good proposals for cooperation with Iran. Ali Kordan in Ashkhabad airport told IRNA that he had good negotiations with Turkmenistan vice-president in oil and gas affairs as well as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Asia , Iran , Calls , Positive
GEOPOLITIC: Global Gas Battle Opens New Front
2007-12-29 04:37:00 A new front, the Algeria n one, has opened in the global struggle for energy supply diversification. That became absolutely clear after The Wall Street Journal reported with reference to Sonatrach president Mohamed Meziane that the cooperation pact signed by Sonatrach and Gazprom in August 2006 has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Global , Russia , Geopolitic
Andrei Maslov (RosAfroExpertiza) [Flickr]
2007-12-29 04:27:00 energyPICS posted a photo: Andrei Maslov, director of the RosAfroExpertiza Center. More About: Flickr , Pert
ASIA: Russia Delivered 2nd Consignment of Nuclear Fuel to Iran
2007-12-29 04:13:00 Iran has received the second consignment of nuclear fuel from Russia , said Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. The fuel was supplied to Bushehr Nuclear Plant that Russia?s experts construct in Iran under the IAEA control. The second consignment of nuclear fuel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Asia , Iran , Fuel
Condoleezza Rice [Flickr]
2007-12-29 04:03:00 energyPICS posted a photo: USA. U.S. Secretary of State Rice announces economic sanctions on Iran in Washington U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announces economic sanctions on Iran to pressure it to halt its nuclear program, at the State Department in Washington October 25, 2007. More About: Flickr
Vladimir Putin & Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [Flickr]
2007-12-29 04:03:00 energyPICS posted a photo: Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin talk during negotia Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin talk during negotiations in Tehran October 16, 2007. Kaspian Sea states declared in Tehran on Tuesday they would not let their soil be used for an attack on any of them, an apparent response to speculation the United States could resort to force in its nuclear row with Iran. More About: Flickr
AUSTRALIA: New Guinea Energy falls after ASX debut
2007-12-28 20:28:00 Oil and gas explorer and producer New Guinea Energy Ltd (NGE) made a disappointing debut on the Australia n stock exchange today, following a $17.3 million float. The Sydney-based company, which has not given forecasts for the 2008 financial year, had offered 80 million shares at 25 cents each... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Pakistan , Papua New Guinea , Debut
OiL PRICES: Sector fails to hold early gains from $97 crude
2007-12-28 01:12:00 Energy stocks fell back into negative territory Thursday, dragged down by a 192-point decline in the broader equities market that overwhelmed an early rally built on crude-oil's surge past $97 a barrel. At the close, the Amex Oil Index (XOI:1,566.09, -10.76, -0.7%) was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Phillips , Chevron , Exxon , Mobil , Conoco
ASIA: Shell taps into coal methane in China
2007-12-27 21:45:00 Shell has expanded its interests in China by taking control of a pioneering project to meet some of the country's burgeoning demand for energy using methane gas from underground coal seams. The Anglo-Dutch group has bought a 55% equity stake from Verona Development CorporationNorth Shilou... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Asia , Canada , Shell
MIDDLE EAST: Deputy Oil Minister in Ashkhabad
2007-12-27 15:59:00 Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Ali Kordan, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Ashkhabad Wednesday. Kordan and his entourage are to confer with senior Turkmen officials on expansion of mutual cooperation in the oil and gas sectors. The two sides are also to discuss Iranian companies'... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Middle East , Iran , East , Turkmenistan , Middle
ASIA: BP-Azerbaijan and Rolls-Royce sign contract on £120M
2007-12-27 11:09:00 Rolls-Royce and BP-Azerbaijan have signed a contract on £120 million, sources from Rolls-Royce reported. In line with the signed document, Rolls-Royce will render technical services and works for provision of 28 RB211 gas turbines onshore and offshore. Moreover, the term of the TotalCare... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Asia , Rolls Royce , Contract , Sign
ASIA: China warns of increased coal usage
2007-12-27 07:17:00 China promised Wednesday to develop renewable energy for its fast-growing economy but warned that coal consumption will grow dramatically and avoided embracing binding limits on its greenhouse gas emissions. In a report on its energy plans, the government announced no new initiatives but said it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Asia , China , Coal , Usage
IRAN: Nabucco pipeline project impossible without Iran
2007-12-27 06:58:00 Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari here Wednesday assured that it would not be possible to put Nabucco gas pipeline into operation without Iran , dismissing it as uneconomical. ?If Nabucco pipeline comes on stream, Iran will be the sole option for supplying its gas as the country is the world?s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Turkey , Germany , European Union , Austria
INTERVIEW: Embedded with power, Pepe Escobar
2007-12-27 06:43:00 Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian born journalist and writer. He has reported from many different countries and conflicts over his career so far, including Afghanistan , Pakistan, Iraq , Iran , Central Asia, the U.S. and China . He is a contributor to The Real News Network, a non-profit news and documentary... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Power
THE AMERICAS:¿REPSOL needs MEXICO or MEXICO needs REPSOL?
2007-12-27 06:09:00 REPSOL has not enough oil to be a big energy company, one of the reason is from the last years when its main investing were in some latinoamerican countries, however a kind of nationalistic resurrection change the game rules for REPSOL. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Mexico , Americas , Chavez , Venezuela , The Americas
MIDDLE EAST: Iran, Malaysia sign dlrs 16 bn gas deal
2007-12-27 05:33:00 National Iran ian Oil Company (NIOC) and Malaysia 's SKS Ventures on Wednesday signed a dlrs six billion gas deal to develop Golshan and Ferdos gas fields and over dlrs 10 billion worth of deals at downstream section to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG). IRNA Economic News Service reported that a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Middle East , East , Middle
UNITED STATES: A Return To Colorado Oil Shale?
2007-12-26 21:08:00 Some of our readers may recall the Rifle Colorado -area oil shale extraction projects of the 1970's (map of area pictured). Reduced oil prices following the OPEC boycott, impacts of saline water discharges, and high operating costs resulted in a virtual shut down by 1982.Rule #1 with US oil businesses and the Defense Department: The US Can Never Have Enough.Even with Alberta's tar sand-extracted oil gushing southward via pipeline, making Texification of the US' Upper Midwest a predetermined outcome, it looks as if that notion of cooking the greasy rocks will once again audition Colorado as "The Saudi Arabia Of North America" - although we thought that billing was taken by Alberta? ?The potential of America?s oil shale resources to meet future U.S. demand for fuel is significant,? said BLM Director Jim Caswell. ?Oil shale deposits on public lands hold the equivalent of 1.23 trillion barrels of oil. The lands we are proposing to make available are estimated to hold, at a minimum, ... More About: United States , Climate Change , United
OiL SUPPLY: Iraq attacks pump up crude futures
More articles from this author:2007-12-26 20:47:00 Oil prices jumped today on supply concerns stoked by a new round of Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq and a growing belief that domestic oil inventories fell last week.Turkey's military said its warplanes bombed eight suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq today. It was the third Turkish strike inside Iraq in less than two weeks. Oil traders worry that the rebels could cut oil supplies from Iraq in retaliation.The new attacks came as oil investors awaited inventory data from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration that is expected to show crude supplies fell by 1.2 million barrels last week, the sixth straight weekly decline.This Entry Continues »... The inventory numbers will be released on Thursday this week, a day late because of the Christmas holiday. Light, sweet crude for February delivery rose $1.79 to $95.92 a barrel Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange after earlier rising to $96.54, a one-month high.At the pump, meanwhile, gas pri... More About: Futures , Attacks , Pump , Atta 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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