Linde North America and Shell Oil Company have executed a long-term contract for Linde to supply hydrogen for Shell’s Deer Park, Texas, complex. The hydrogen will be used primarily for the production of clean-burning transportation fuels at Deer Park Refining Company, a 50:50 joint venture of Shell and PMI Norteamerica S.A. de C.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Linde...
Hydrogen Energy International LLC, a joint venture of BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto, announced plans to file an AFC (Application for Certification) before the California Energy Commission on Thursday, July 31, 2008, for a proposed hydrogen fuel production facility and power plant in Kern County, California. The filing initiates a comprehensive regulatory review process and, upon approval, grants...
There’s a saying in these parts: Where oil flows, a city grows.” Yet more than just oil and gas is fueling a recent growth spurt for the southeastern New Mexico town, whose 2,700 residents have begun to feel the initial impact of a $1.5 billion uranium enrichment plant going up nearby. Situated on 640 acres just east of town near the Texas border, the first major nuclear facility to be...
In the portfolio of possibilities for the development of Alaska energy resources, coal gasification has taken a prominent position in the past year. In November 2005 Agrium announced its Blue Sky project, to use coal gasification as an alternative to natural gas to feed its fertilizer plant at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula ”” in August the company announced that it was progressing to phase...
India has to aggressively exploit its limited uranium reserves while seeking opportunities for international nuclear cooperation without affecting the autonomy of its atomic energy programme, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said today. Addressing members of the Department of Atomic Energy at a function here to mark 50 years of Asia’s first nuclear research reactor Apsara, he said,...