That's the conclusion of a study recently conducted by a team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego. They found panels that hadn't been cleaned or rained on for 145 days during a summer drought in California lost only 7.4% ...
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State-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Wednesday it has signed a cooperation agreement with US-based Hess for a block in China's western Xinjiang province. CNPC said the contract for the Malang block in the Santanghu Basin was ...
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The Clever Travel Companion was launched after the founders had been pick pocketed and lost their valuables multiple times while traveling off the beaten track. When traveling one should be able to focus on the trip and not have to ...
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QBP's Steve Flagg has lassoed some 200 dealers and their staff for the company's annual Saddle Drive—a three-day event to show off its 2014 line of bikes and accessories. This is the company's third annual event at Snow Basin, an ...
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Atlanta-based company OCI Resources LP, an affiliate of soda ash producer OCI Wyoming, has filed to raise US$115 million through an initial public offering (IPO), according to a Wall Street Journal report. The newly launched company ...
Santos has made a fourth gas discovery offshore Western Australia at its Winchester-1 exploration well in the prolific Carnarvon Basin, the company said in a statement Thursday. Santos Vice President Western Australia and Northern ...
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Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India jumped Friday as grain activity on the Atlantic continued to lend support, sources said. Since activity on the west coast of India ...
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PetroChina has received Chinese and Australian federal government approval to acquire from ConocoPhillips a 29% stake, valued at around A$32 million ($29 million), in a shale gas joint venture in Western Australia's Southern Canning Basin, ...
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Producers in Alberta's liquids-rich shale play at Duvernay are likely to invest some C$1 billion ($955 million) in drilling activities over the remaining six months of 2013, with that figure likely to rise further next year, oil and gas ...
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India ended the week higher Friday, helped by robust activity in the Atlantic basin. "The Atlantic basin is firm for both Supramaxes and ...
Australia's Sino Gas & Energy Holdings said Wednesday that it has signed its first sales agreement for gas from the Linxing block in central China that allows pilot production to start in December this year. The agreement is for gas to be ...
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Kitchen Faucets were once a mundane kitchen necessity for washing dishes, food prep and water supply. Manufacturers are now turning kitchen faucets into attention getting features and packing them with lots of innovative added function. ...
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Kitchen Faucets were once a mundane kitchen necessity for washing dishes, food prep and water supply. Manufacturers are now turning kitchen faucets into attention getting features and packing them with lots of innovative added function. ...
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Production of light, sweet crudes from unconventional oil fields in the US is ramping up so fast that at some point it will outpace the country's refining capacity and -- at least for the Gulf Coast -- this could occur within two years, a ...
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Shell is hoping to extend the life of an offshore oil field in Brazil's Campos Basin until 2021, potentially adding five years of operation and as many as 20 million more barrels, Osman Tosun, the company's field development manager, said ...
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