China on Monday announced the results of its second shale gas bidding round, awarding the 19 blocks on offer to 16 domestic companies. The winners were announced at a press conference held by the Ministry of Land and Resources. ...
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Franklin Electric marked the commercial launch of its artificial lift pumping solutions with significant orders from key global customers. Exxaro, a South Africa-based mining group which provided several test sites for the product, has ...
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Exxaro, a South Africa-based mining group which provided several test sites for the product, has placed an inaugural order for seven complete pumping systems for its Botswana Coal project, while a strategic customer in the northwestern ...
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A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA on Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. The space agency noted that it has yet to find definitive evidence ...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency said it has analyzed water samples from four shale plays across the country, but released no test results or preliminary conclusions Friday when it issued a progress report on its investigation of the ...
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The Mars Science Laboratory space-probe successfully delivered the Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars as scheduled on August 6th 2012, and all being well the exploration vehicle will soon be about its business. Curiosity's agenda ...
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When the blades started spinning on SC Johnson's two new wind turbines, the company's Waxdale manufacturing facility began to further minimize its dependence on fossil fuels. The addition of the turbines means that products made and ...
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Mr John Dizard said that it is profitable to explore and produce gas in Ukraine now. Gas is cheaper in America and to get sizeable returns companies search for more cost effective deals elsewhere. The Ukrainian gas prices are high enough to ...
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INTERFAX-CHINA reported that China's natural gas production is expected to reach 176 billion cubic meters per year (bcm) by 2015, according to a five-year development plan for the gas industry released by the National Energy Administration ...
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While solar power,wind power and tidal power grab the daily headlines,a vastly different green energy technology is quietly making real progress across the globe. Anaerobic waste water digestion technologies respond not only to industry's ...
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China will consider linking gas prices across the value chain as well as the establishment of a national natural gas trading market during the current 12th Five Year Plan period to 2015, according to an official development plan for natural ...
A new Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA) undertaken by the Intertek Group for UK-based Symphony Environmental Technologies’ d2w oxo-biodegradable plastic carrier bags and bread bags revealed that the oxo-biodegradable bag performed 75% ...
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Italian carmaker Fiat is planning to unveil its Panda 4×4 car at the upcoming 2012 Paris Motor Show in France. The new car will be offered with two powertrain options, which include a 0.9litre TwinAir Turbo, which will generate a ...
A new research at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in US has found that biodegradable plastics used to make packaging can release large amounts of methane gas when they decay fast in landfills. NCSU doctoral student James Levis, ...
Today, as part of the business trip by Gazprom delegation to the Republic of Belarus, a working meeting took place between Mr Alexey Miller chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Mr Alexander Lukashenko president of the Republic ...