Norway sold 9.9 billion cubic meters of gas in January, down 6% from 10.5 Bcm a year earlier and below the 10.2 Bcm in December, according to preliminary figures Friday from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. It said gas and oil ...
President Obama is giving federal agencies slightly more than one year to draft a rule proposal that would boost fuel economy and tighten greenhouse-gas emissions for medium- and heavy duty trucks. Obama directed the National Highway ...
Tags: Transportation, Trucks
China's shale gas industry could soon be entering its boom years. Thanks to the top two oil and gas giants - China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec Group - the nation's shale gas output soared from 25 million cubic meters in 2012 to ...
Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
Tags: Nova Scotia, Oil Pipeline
A demonstration truck built by Cummins Inc. and Peterbilt Motors Co. achieved a 10.7 mile-per-gallon fuel economy reading last month under real-world driving conditions, the companies announced. The project is part of the U.S. Department ...
Tags: Transportation
Argentine Presidential Chief of Staff Jorge Capitanich said Monday that a proposed reduction in state energy subsidies will help increase investment in the sector, making it possible to boost gas production and scale back imports. "What ...
Tags: Energy Subsidy, Gas Imports
India's state-owned refiners, who have all posted net losses over the first nine months of fiscal year 2013-2014 (April-March), are expected to turn in a profit for the full year as the government is likely to fully compensate them for ...
Tags: Refiners, Full-Year Losses
A new study published in the journal Science says that the total impact of switching to natural gas depends heavily on leakage of methane (CH4) during the natural gas life cycle, and suggests that more can be done to reduce methane ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Pouches are giving world dominance a good and ardent go but cans remain the food and drink package of choice. Three of every four people prefer steel cans, based on features such as recyclability, taste quality, shelf life, safety and ...
Pump sales in China will reach$8.5 billion in 2014.This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine Pumps World Market report. Over$3 billion will be spent by municipalities for wastewater and drinking water plants.The continuing population ...
Tags: Pump, wastewater, drinking water
MHI concludes collaborative agreement in engineering with OMT,an European ship designer--target on expansion of licensing business Thursday,Feb 06,2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,Ltd.(MHI)has concluded an agreement with Odense Maritime ...
Tags: MHI, Heavy Industries, Engineering
As a range of climate change mitigation scenarios are discussed, University of Washington researchers have found that the injection of sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and curb the effects of global warming could ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
To enter into symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, host plants reprogram their root cells. An LMU team has now identified a calcium-binding protein complex that can be persuaded to spontaneously induce the formation of root nodules. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
This year's spike of U.S. liquified propane (LP) prices has been blamed on increased grain drying, harsh winter weather, low supplies and exports. But, the increased amounts of product being exported, while many U.S. LP users struggle to ...
Tags: Propane, propane stocks, LP prices
On February 2,2014,Sulzer signed an agreement for the acquisition of a 75%stake in Saudi Pump Factory with Nabil Al Hashim,the owner and founder of the company. The agreed purchase price for the 75%stake is CHF 33 million.Closing of the ...
Tags: Pump, Sulzer.Saudi Pump