The latest Arctic blast has culminated in rare winter snows across portions of the Southeast and Gulf Coast. National snow cover is now up to 42.1% (vs. 31.2% last month), with some areas as far south as northwestern Florida now with a ...
Tags: Weather, food, Market Factors
The California Energy Commission (CEC) is set to offer $10m in funding for natural gas vehicle incentives in a move to reduce the purchase price of new on-road natural gas vehicles. CEC is currently seeking applications from original ...
Tags: Natural Gas Vehicle, incentives
China imported 1.85 million mt of natural gas via pipelines in December 2013, a 20.1% year-on-year increase, data released by the General Administration of Customs showed Wednesday. Customs data records natural gas trade data in metric ...
Tags: Natural Gas, LNG imports
Africa's biggest oil producer seeks balance between its profits and benefits in emerging markets such as China As Nigeria's government prepares to implement the Petroleum Industry Bill that will provide "long-term" investment prospects, ...
Tags: oil producer, Mineral
China's unconventional natural gas output was 112 billion cubic meters in 2013, up only 0.34 percent year-on-year, a record low in five years, Sublime China Information Group Co Ltd said on Tuesday. Although the government has put great ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Mineral
Markets for use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and to power industrial equipment are poised to take off in the next few years, the head of Encana said in Houston on Tuesday. "We at Encana believe that natural gas creates an ...
Tags: Natural Gas, transportation fuel
Richard Kolodziej, president of NGVAmerica for 18 years, will retire after a replacement is selected by the board of directors, the association said. Kolodziej, 67, will stay on as an advisor to the natural gas-vehicle organization to ...
Tags: Transportation
Grid operators have met their match and it's a growing number of distributed generators—erstwhile electricity consumers who've ended their reliance on the grid because their needs are met by rooftop solar panels. But this exodus from ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Veliky Novogorod to become largest gas carrier in Gazprom’s fleet Wednesday, Jan 22, 2014 A naming ceremony took place today for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier at STX O&S shipyard in the city of Jinhae (South Korea). The ...
Tags: Veliky Novogorod, LNG, Gazprom, GM&T
Argentina's YPF increased oil production 3.4% in 2013 from 2012 at blocks it operates in the country, helping the state-run energy company recover from a decade-long decline, it said Monday. Natural gas production rose 2.2% over the same ...
Tags: Energy Secretariat, oil, state-run energy company, dwindling production
Packaging services provider Sonoco has unveiled a new biomass facility at its Hartsville plant in South Carolina as part of a $100m investment in the Darlington County compound. According to the company, the new boiler can generate about ...
Tags: Packaging Plant, Printing
Though Chinese shipbuilding has yet to come in from the cold, recent restructuring, cuts in overcapacity and upgrades have given the troubled industry more hope, a report showed. The industry received in 2013 new orders with dead weight ...
China is expected to exceed Europe to become the largest energy importer in the world by 2035, said a report issued by British oil giant BP. The annual Energy Outlook 2035 report released on Wednesday forecast global energy consumption to ...
Tags: Oil Consumer, Energy Importer
Yole sees $13BN CMOS image sensor market by 2018 20 Jan 2014 Consumer and automotive applications to boost market as pixel resolution improves. High-performance CMOS Analysts at Yole Développement have updated their forecast for ...
Tags: Yole, Technical challenges, CES, CMOS
Greater attention must be paid to generating renewable heat if the climate protection targets set in Germany and around the world are to be met. At 40%, the heating market accounts for the largest proportion of energy consumed in Germany ...
Tags: Renewable Heating Set, Fuel, Energy, Heating Market