High fuel prices and renewed emphasis on energy independence could have consumers pumping gasoline made from coal in the not-too-distant future.
It’s not a pie-in-the-sky dream, researchers say, but proven technology pioneered in Germany and utilized in South Africa for more than 20 years.
Coal-to-liquid plants are now being proposed across the U.S., and West Virginia is [...]
Older oil fields, shunned by the giants of the industry, are turning into big business for a batch of smaller firms. NGP Energy Capital Management, ATP Oil & Gas and Whiting Petroleum are getting enough crude to fuel nine million cars a day from fields that BP and Exxon Mobil had given up for [...]
Frustrating Wyoming energy officials, Basin Electric Power Cooperative announced Friday it will team up with GE Energy and Bechtel Power to consider developing a coal gasification power plant in South Dakota.
North Dakota-based Basin Electric is in the permitting process for its 385-megawatt Dry Fork Station — a traditional pulverized coal power plant to be located [...]
The Department of Energy will award in mid-July this year the contracts for the exploration of four oil and gas blocks that were offered during the second of the Philippine Contracting Round (PCR).
Energy Undersecretary Guillermo Balce told reporters Tuesday that the contracts are being prepared and will be awarded within next month, or more than [...]
The federal government on Friday released a map of proposed Western energy corridors where new electricity transmission lines and pipelines for natural gas, oil and hydrogen could one day ferry energy from wells or power plants to the region’s cities.
The corridors cross 11 states and cover thousands of miles, stretching from Washington to Wyoming and [...]
The federal government on Friday released a map of proposed Western energy corridors where new electricity transmission lines and pipelines for natural gas, oil and hydrogen could one day ferry energy from wells or power plants to the region’s cities.
The corridors cross 11 states and cover thousands of miles, stretching from Washington to Wyoming and [...]
