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More Rigs Running in U.S. and Canada

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. this week rose by seven from the week before.
Of the 1,913 rigs running nationwide, 1,530 explore for natural gas, 375 for oil and eight are considered “miscellaneous,” according to Baker Hughes Inc., which tracks rig operations worldwide.
A year ago the rig [...]

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Kenyan petroleum firm in new investments

The state-owned Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), has laid out plans for a Liquid Petroleum Gas(LPG) plant in the country`s coastal city of Mombasa at a cost of US$50 million, authorities announced here Monday.
A similar plant would soon be constructed in Nairobi, after an Indian firm, BARAT Ltd, was awarded the tender at a cost of [...]

80,000 job vacancies seen in mining sector

Canada’s rich mining industry is expected to face a shortage of 80,000 workers over the next decade, Human Resources Minister Monte Solberg said on Wednesday.
“We know that having enough skilled workers is a serious problem,” Solberg said in the prepared text of a speech he was giving to a mining human resources forum.
He said 400,000 [...]

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Cambria Residents Fight To Keep Ethanol Plant Out

There is a battle brewing in the Columbia County Village of Cambria where residents have been fighting for four years to keep an ethanol plant out.
Frustrated residents said they feel that no one at the county or state level is hearing their pleas, and they are quickly running out of options.
Cabbage Road, at the edge [...]

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EIA Issues Production Study for Arctic Refuge

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas production would increase U.S. crude oil production by an additional 780,000 barrels per day by 2027, according to a government study.
The report, prepared by the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, says petroleum from the area would cut U.S. [...]

ConocoPhillips, EnCana to form pair of oil ventures

U.S. energy giant ConocoPhillips and Encana Corps, Canada’s largest hydrocarbons producer, has agreed to spend 10.7 billion dollars over next decade in a deal to marry the oil from EnCana’s vast oil-sands properties with ConocoPhillips’ U.S. refineries, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The companies, via a pair of joint ventures, aim to increase the [...]

OPG Ontario Nanticoke 1 coal unit back in service

Ontario Power Generation’s 490-megawatt Unit 1 at the Nanticoke coal-fired power station in Ontario returned to service by early Monday, the Independent Electricity System Operator said in a report.
The province-owned generating company shut the unit by February 2.
The 3,920 MW Nanticoke station, which entered service between 1972 and 1978, is located on the north shore [...]

Idaho Falls voters mull buying in to Utah coal plant

Last winter, Idaho lawmakers banned new coal-fired power plants for two years. But the law does not prevent cities, like Idaho Falls, from buying coal power from across the Utah border.
Many officials in this mid-sized eastern Idaho city are pushing voters to say yes to a ballot question that would authorize [...]

Allis-Chalmers Closes Acquisition of DLS Drilling Logistics & Services Company

Allis-Chalmers Energy Inc. (Amex: ALY – News) announced today the closing of its acquisition of DLS Drilling Logistics and Services Corporation, from Bridas International Holdings Limited, Bridas Central Company Limited and Associated Petroleum Investors Limited. The acquisition purchase price consisted of approximately $93.7 million in cash, 2.5 million newly issued shares of Allis-Chalmers’ common stock [...]

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Solar Thermal Electric Hybrid Power Plant

Solar MW Energy Inc. and affiliate Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. has commenced the development of another “jewel” near Barstow’s Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, Southern California. A nominal in the aggregate of 59.4 megawatt (MW) solar thermal electric hybrid, utility-scale merchant power plant, to be sited on green field land parcel, privately owned by the [...]

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