House Republicans on Friday criticized an Obama administration study of hydraulic fracturing as unnecessary and plagued by delays and excessive costs. "We all want to ensure safe and responsible production of oil and natural gas, but the ...
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Electricity is one of the necessities people cannot live without. Due to risen energy consumption over the past decades, it has become necessary to look into new ways of generating electricity. Traditionally, electricity has been produced ...
The office of Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced that the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) will provide Turkey's Borusan Mannesmann Pipe $1.6 million to close the deal on the steelmaker's $148 million investment in a pipe mill in Baytown, ...
South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp, the world's largest buyer of LNG, said Thursday it imported 34.97 million mt of LNG in 2012, up 2.9% from a year earlier. The state utility said it plans to import 37.90 million mt of LNG in 2013, ...
Many of the goals outlined by President Obama last night in his State of the Union speech will take time, and the cooperation of Congress, to meet. But work on his challenge to Americans to save energy at home can begin right away by taking ...
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Shell said Thursday it remains on track to grow its oil and gas production by over 20% in the next five to six years, despite weak North American fuel prices continuing to dent the performance of its key upstream growth centre. ...
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Methanex Corporation and Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced the execution of a 10-year agreement to supply all of the natural gas required for Methanex's one million tonne per year methanol plant in Geismar, Louisiana. Commencement of ...
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In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
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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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Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has issued a statement suggesting it will take legal action against companies exporting crude oil without dealing with the central government, including the confiscation of cargoes and ...
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The first day of Iraq’s fourth energy auction resulted in just one successful bid, with four of the today’s six exploration fields receiving no bids from the 47 pre-qualified bidders.. A consortium of Kuwait Energy (40%), ...
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In early 2010, French owned steel pipe maker V&M Star began building two mills where the Briar Hill works had stood on Youngstown’s northwest side. They were the first new mills in the Mahoning Valley since early last century. This ...
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The project is unprecedented by scale for Eastern Russia's gas industry it features extremely harsh geographic conditions and calls for advanced engineering solutions. Gas production in Yakutia will evolve as a unified complex with ...
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Reuters reported that Borusan Mannesmann, Turkey’s leading steel pipe manufacturer, will invest USD 150 million in building a production facility in the United States. The company in a statement with the Istanbul Stock Exchange ...
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