Environment conservation is the need of hour. If it is not conserved now then everyone including plants, animals, and human beings have to suffer with its harmful effects. The main cause of increased pollution is industrial waste which is ...
Shell is working to meet Brazil's stringent local content requirements, but says there is a worry about industry capacity four or five years down the line, Shell Brazil CEO Andre Araujo said Thursday. Local content rules set ...
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Qantas’s biofuel partner Solazyme has seen sales increases of 35 per cent at participating test sites in the US, where B20 algae-derived diesel fuel was sold alongside mineral diesel. And a post-sale survey has shown that drivers ...
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US policymakers should provide an opening for normal exports of light crude and other hydrocarbons that are seeing increased production due to the shale boom, ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Ryan Lance said Tuesday at an industry gathering. ...
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Gulf Keystone notes today’s update by MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc., the operator of the Akri-Bijeel Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (in which Gulf Keystone has a 20 per cent working interest), on its extensive exploration and ...
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The International OEKO-TEX Association will offer a free webinar on February 6 at 12:00 Noon EST to review the recently announced 2013 updates to the OEKO-TEX Standard 100, particularly as they apply to U.S. textile products manufacturers, ...
This Swiss paper describes an approach for assessing the risks caused by urban wet-weather discharges to the sediment compartment, based on total suspended solids (TSS), and is validated with field measurements. Sediment represents an ...
Shareholders in Russia's largest independent gas producer Novatek have approved a number of transactions, including supply deals to Russian power generator Mosenergo and petrochemicals company Sibur, and a eurobond issue worth $1.5 billion, ...
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With regard to product certification according to OEKO-TEX Standard 100, the OEKO-TEX Association has as usual updated the applicable test criteria and limit values at the beginning of year. After a three-month transitional period the ...
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In his first major decision, Mr M Veerappa Moily oil minister has given conditional approval to Reliance Industries and Cairn India to continue exploring for oil and gas within their producing fields. RIL and Cairn had not been able to ...
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ONGC, which had hired Citigroup, RBS and Standard Chartered to rate the bond issue, will use proceeds to fund the acquisition of stakes it bought in the Azerbaijan oilfields late last year. The company had bought US energy company Hess ...
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PTI reported that Reliance Industries has shut its seventh well on KG-D6 gas block due to high water and sand ingress as it awaits regulatory nod to carry out urgent work over to plug the problem responsible for drastic fall in output. ...
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The market research firm Ceresana forecasts the global solvent market to earn revenues of about US$33 billion in 2019. The firm highlights the dynamic economic development in emerging countries like China, India, Brazil and Russia, which ...
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On 19-21 November 2012 the twenty partners involved in an EU funded research programme held their kick-off meeting in Wageningen,The Netherlands.Led by Wageningen UR Food&Biobased Research,the 4-year project has the goal to develop a new ...
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated a better way to use photosynthesis to produce ethylene, a breakthrough that could change the way materials, chemicals, and ...
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