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Hot work refers to all activities that can be performed on oil rigs which create heat and could therefore potentially ignite flammable materials and cause explosions; grinding, welding, cutting, etc.
Abu Dhabi’s state owned energy company, the Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. (TAQA), has announced that it will be holding a two part bond sale in order to raise $2…
The world’s largest publically traded copper producer, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., has announced a $9 billion agreement to buy the oil company Plains Exploration & Production Co., and McMoRan…
British Airways has just agreed to the world’s largest, advanced biofuel commitment made by any airline. In its drive to reduce its carbon emissions it has pledged to buy over…
Sasol, the South African energy company based in Johannesburg, is taking a big leap of faith that the shale gas industry in the US will go from strength to strength…
China is believed to hold the world’s largest reserves of shale gas and with this in mind, the first round of shale gas auctions attracted many investors who are not…
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new chip that has the exciting possibility of generating energy from three separate sources; solar, heat, and motion, all…
Back in November 2011, around 3,600 barrels of crude oil leaked from the Frade field off the northeast coast of Rio de Janeiro, just near to where Chevron (CVX) and…
On Saturday, Enrique Pena Nieto was signed in as the new president of Mexico, the second largest economy in South America. He won the elections with promises of ending the…
Yemeni oil and gas infrastructure has been under constant attack and faced continuous sabotage all year. The Yemeni government has now decided that enough is enough and has launched a…
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a new technology that could play an important part in the future of renewable energy sources. It takes advantage of the natural temperature gradient,…
When it comes to efficient transportation and MPG (or MPG equivalent), then human powered locomotion is pretty unbeatable. Bicycles top the charts with an astounding 984 MPGe, pedestrians tend to…
According to a recent study carried out by GTM Research, titled ‘China Wind Market Quarterly’, China is on course to reach 150 GW of installed wind capacity by 2015, outstripping…
Petrol cars release more CO2 than diesel cars; that fact is fairly well known, and can actually play a large part in the reason why some people decide to buy…
A new scientific survey has determined, with an unequalled accuracy, that all except one of the ice sheets in the world are losing huge amounts of their mass. Greenland and…
The EU has set a tax on carbon emissions for all aircraft flying into European countries, all part of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The problem is that Obama has…
The MIT Technology Review has recently posted an interesting article looking at five of the most interesting new energy projects that will receive government funding through the Advanced Research…
Wounded Libyan soldiers, veterans of last year’s civil war in which Muammar Gaddafi and his regime were overthrown, have begun protesting outside Libya’s main oil refinery.The 120,000 barrel…
As water levels rise and floods occur there are few places to hide. Any large objects such as cars or houses in the floods path get drowned, and this can…
Ukraine has just admitted that it signed a $1.1 billion LNG deal with a man who did not even work for the company he claimed to be representing.The…