The government of the Australian state of New South Wales will invest A$50 million ($47 million) in the state's mining and gas industries -- mainly to ensure legal compliance -- NSW resources and energy minister Anthony Roberts said ...
Tags: Mining Industries, Gas Industries
DTE Electric, Michigan's largest power utility with more than 2.1 million customers, plans to retire a third of its coal-fired generation, more than 2,000 MW, by 2025, and rely more on natural gas and renewables, mostly wind, the company ...
Tags: natural gas, renewables
The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
Tags: fuel consumption, crude production
UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
According to Statistics Canada, Canadian industries operated at 82.5 percent of their production capacity in the first quarter, up slightly from 82.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013. The mining and oil and gas extraction industries ...
Tags: Mining, transportation equipment
Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has stated that it has dispatched four pipes of 1,420 mm diameter with wall thickness of 21.7 mm, with external and internal anti-corrosion coating, made of MMK's sheet steel of K60 grade for the ...
Tags: Welding Pipes, Gas Pipeline
Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending June 13 the US rig count decreased by six to 1,854, following a six-rig decrease the week before.? The rig count is still up by 83 from 1,771 rigs during the same week a year ago.? The gas rig ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has been selected by independent energy company Tenaska Solar Ventures (an affiliate of electric generation firm Tenaska of Omaha, NE, USA) to design and build the 150MWAC Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to C3 Petrochemicals LLC in Alvin, Texas. C3 plans to construct a new propane ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Gas
Oman's crude and condensate production in May edged up 1.3% to 935,898 b/d, from 924,270 b/d in April, the country's oil and gas ministry said in its monthly oil report. Oman produced a total 29.013 million barrels of oil and condensate ...
The NYMEX July natural gas futures contract closed 25.4 cents higher to a $4.762/MMBtu settlement on Thursday after the US Energy Information Administration reported a lower injection to storage inventories than most expected, prompting ...
Tags: Natural Gas, EIA
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices closed mostly lower on Thursday, despite the sharp jump in the broader energy complex, led by a 5.6% increase in the front-month natural gas futures price to $4.762/MMBtu. "Coal is marching to its ...
Tags: coal prices, natural gas
Spot gas prices on the Dutch and German trading hubs extended Wednesday's gains Thursday morning, in line with the UK NBP where the day-ahead also moved higher from its previous close. At midday London time, the day-ahead contract on the ...
Tags: gas, gas export
French pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced some updates in its 2014 guidance, following its Brazilian customer Petrobras' decision to eliminate most of its tube inventories by the end of the year, while maintaining its drilling plans. ...
In 2013, the world's direct reduction iron (DRI) output increased by two million tons or 2.8 percent year on year to a record 75.2 million tons, even though two key producing countries, India and Venezuela, saw significant declines in ...
Tags: DRI Capacity, Steel