State-owned PetroChina has hiked its shale gas production target significantly and now expects to produce 2.6 billion cubic meters/year next year, a senior executive was reported as saying Monday. This is an increase from an earlier ...
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IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Northwestern University have developed a technique to grow hexagonal- and cubic-phase gallium nitride (h-/c-GaN) on standard (100) silicon (Si) [Can Bayram et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., ...
Firm will now distribute a range of 3D puzzle vases in the UK. Paul Lamond Games has secured an exclusive deal with top puzzle and game brand, Pintoo, which will see it distribute a range of 3D puzzle vases in the UK. Pintoo - formerly ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a cleanup plan to address contaminated ground water and soil at the Mattiace Petrochemical Co., Inc. Superfund site in Glen Cove, New York. The ground water and soil are contaminated ...
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
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Sycamore Partners announced that it has completed its acquisition of The Jones Group Inc. The transaction is valued at approximately $2.2 billion. "We are excited to have finalized the acquisition of The Jones Group and are confident ...
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ETH Zürich and Philips Technologie GmbH have developed 981nm-wavelength passively mode-locked electrically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (EP-VECSELs) with “the shortest pulses (2.5ps), highest average ...
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US over-the-counter thermal coal prices changed little Thursday, as competing natural gas futures got a boost from end-of-season gas storage stocks falling to 822 Bcf, a level not seen since 2003. The increased consumption of gas this ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that it has supplied large diameter pipes (LD pipes) for the compressor station at the Yurkharovskoye gas field.? The deposit is located beyond the ...
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Researchers in France have reported on solar cell devices based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [Sirona Valdueza-Felip et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p032301, 2014]. Conversion efficiencies of up to 2% ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, Sinopec, said Monday it expects its Fuling shale gas project in Chongqing, central China, to reach production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters/year during 2017, up from 600 million cu m/year currently. ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is developing techniques to monolithically integrate high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) ...
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Everyone knows the stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones. Innovation happens when people look at their surroundings in new ways. The checkoff helps manufacturers innovate with U.S. soy by supporting research and development of ...
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China's CNOOC International Ltd has started preparation work for oil and gas exploration in Iceland's offshore Dreki Area, an official with CNOOC's Investor Relations Department said Friday. This makes CNOOC the first Chinese upstream ...
Canada's leading light oil producer Penn West will invest C$900 million ($815 million) in 2014 on its assets in Western Canada, targeting an annual average output of 101,000-106,000 b/d of oil equivalent, CEO Dave Roberts said Friday. ...
Tags: Light Oil Producer, Mineral