Wood Group to help develop CCS project in Scotland
Aberdeen, Scotland (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
Oil services company Wood Group Kenny said Thursday it secured an engineering contract to help develop a Scottish carbon capture and storage facility.
"We are leading the way in Europe in developing this innovative low-carbon technology," British Business Minister Matthew Hancock said in a statement.
Wood Group Kenny was selected to lead front-end engineering design for a subsea ...
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Hydraulic fracturing linked to earthquakes in Ohio
San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Hydraulic fracturing triggered a series of small earthquakes in 2013 on a previously unmapped fault in Harrison County, Ohio, according to a study published in the journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL).
Nearly 400 small earthquakes occurred between Oct. 1 and Dec. 13, 2013, including 10 "positive" magnitude earthquake, none of which were reported felt by the public.
The 10 pos ...
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Iraqi oil minister discusses oil spats with Kurdish leader
Baghdad (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
Baghdad sees the national constitution as the best venue through which to solve oil disputes with its Kurdish counterparts, the oil ministry said.
Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi hosted Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Nuri Shaways in his Baghdad offices to discuss bilateral ties and laws relating to the oil and natural gas sector.
Shaways is a member of the leading Kurdist ...
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North Dakota reducing flaring of associated gas
Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
State wide, more of the natural gas associated with shale deposits in North Dakota has been captured, a state energy director said.
North Dakota oil production is setting routine state records, with most of the output coming from the Bakken shale oil area. Gas associated with the oil had been burned off, or flared, because of a lack of infrastructure to capture it.
Lynn Helms, di ...
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Marathon closes on sale of Norwegian subsidiary
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
Norwegian energy company Det norske said Thursday it's one of the largest operators in the region now that it closed on an acquisition of a Marathon subsidiary.
Det norsk oljeselskap paid $2.7 billion total for the subsidiary in a deal unveiled in June.
"The sale of the Norway business was one of Marathon Oil's strategic priorities for 2014 and a continuation of our portfolio opt ...
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Chesapeake sells Marcellus, Utica shale for $5 billion
Oklahoma City (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Thursday it was selling its Utica and Marcellus shale assets to rival Southwestern Energy Co. for more than $5 billion.
Chesapeake, which has headquarters in Oklahoma, agreed to sell more than 400,000 acres in the Marcellus and Utica plays spread out over West Virginia and Pennsylvania. As of December, the company said the net proved reserves in the acreage ...
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U.S. confident oil-rich Yemen will withstand threats
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
With a major oil company fearful of the security situation in Yemen, the U.S. State Department said it's confident the government in Sanaa will stay in place.
The Yemeni government is facing dueling threats from the northern Houthi rebel movement and southern separatist groups that at times have been associated with al-Qaida.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told repor ...
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Volvo says will recruit 1,300 in Sweden as sales boom
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 16, 2014 -
Chinese-owned Volvo Car Group said Thursday it was expanding its Swedish workforce by about 1,300 as sales peak, bucking trends in the global auto industry which has been cautious about a gradual recovery.
"Volvo Cars will add a third working shift in its Torslanda, Gothenburg plant to meet the increasing customer demand for the company's new cars," the group said in a statement.
"Volv ...
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Russian gas giant Gazprom wants to tap Argentina market
Moscow (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
Russian gas company Gazprom said it may be interested in exploration and production in Argentina through an agreement with energy company YPF.
Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller hosted Miguel Galuccio, chief executive officer of YPF, at his Moscow office to discuss arrangements for liquefied natural gas to the Argentine republic and joint developments in the Latin American market.
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3M Solar Portfolio to be Showcased at SPI
St Paul MN (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
3M will highlight its expanded presence in the solar industry at this year's Solar Power International (SPI) Show, October 20-23 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Visitors to the 3M booth will experience 3M's broad range of solutions including Solar Films and Tapes, Light Management Solutions, and Specialty Glass for Conductive Pastes, all designed to enhance performance, improve reliability and reduc ...
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Alta and Airware Partner to Integrate Solar Into UAVs
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Alta Devices has announced cooperation with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to seamlessly integrate solar power into their aircraft.
Alta Devices holds the world record for solar cell efficiency at 28.8%, and has shown that by integrating its thin and lightweight solar material onto the wings of a small UAV, flight endurance can be increased by more ...
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JinkoSolar to Supply PV Solar Modules for Searchlight Solar Project
Shanghai, China (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
JinkoSolar Holding has announced that it will supply 21.5MW PV solar modules for the construction of the Searchlight solar project located near Searchlight, NV, approximately 50 miles south of Las Vegas.
The project was acquired by an affiliate of D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments, L.L.C. (DESRI) and Bright Plain Renewable Energy (BPRE), two investors active in the solar industry, from Amer ...
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SunEdison Slashes Costs With High Efficiency Module Tech
Belmont CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
SunEdison has announced new zero white space (ZWS) solar module technology. The technology can increase solar module power output by up to 15%, effectively decreasing the total system cost by up to 8%.
"SunEdison's ZWS technology is a major achievement that will significantly reduce the cost of solar energy," said Dave Ranhoff, president of solar materials at SunEdison.
"Most high ef ...
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Vista Solar To Take Part In US State Dept TechWomen Program
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Vista Solar, a leading Bay Area commercial solar installer, announced that it will participate in TechWomen 2014. As part of the U.S. Department of State's TechWomen exchange program, leading companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley will host 78 women from the Middle East and Africa during October.
Through mentorship and exchange, the program provides participants access ...
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ORNL makes first observation of atoms moving inside bulk material
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have obtained the first direct observations of atomic diffusion inside a bulk material. The research, which could be used to give unprecedented insight into the lifespan and properties of new materials, is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
"This is the first time that anyone has directly imaged single d ...
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Future computers could be built from magnetic 'tornadoes'
Sheffield, UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Magnetic materials form the basis of most hard disc drives as they are able to store data. A team from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering have been investigating whether they could also be used to perform calculations, and so take on the role of a computer's central processing unit (CPU).
Lead researcher, Dr Tom Hayward, explains: "Magnetic materials are useful for data s ...
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U.S. states get federal backing for clean-energy programs
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
The U.S. Energy Department said 13 states will get $5 million in funding to advance their local efforts to develop a clean-energy economy.
A state energy program from the federal department of energy has awarded more than $50 million in funding to 33 states and territories to help advance energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
"States and territories have used these fun ...
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Lockheed Martin claims nuclear energy breakthrough
Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2014 -
Lockheed Martin Corp says it has made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, with reactors small enough to fit on the back of a truck.
The aerospace and security firm, which made the announcement Wednesday, says it expects its first operational reactor to be ready in as little as 10 years.
And thanks to the reactor's smaller size, the company ...
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Balancing renewable energy costs
Paris (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Increasing reliance on renewable energies is the way to achieve greater CO2 emission sustainability and energy independence. As such energies are yet only available intermittently and energy cannot be stored easily, most countries aim to combine several energy sources.
In a new study in EPJ Plus, French scientists have come up with an open source simulation method to calculate the actual c ...
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New light on the 'split peak' of alcohols
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
For scientists probing the electronic structure of materials using a relatively new technique called resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering (RIXS) in the last few years, a persistent question has been how to account for "split peak" spectra seen in some hydrogen-bonded materials.
In RIXS, low-energy X-rays from synchrotron or X-ray free-electron laser light sources scatter off molecules ...
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