If it’s news to you, you’re not alone. Livermore National Laboratory has been testing radioactive devices – exploding depleted uranium and tritium into the open air – just 50 miles east of San Francisco since 1961. And now the lab has a permit to raise the amount of radioactive material they detonate yearly from 1,000 [...]
Speculations are rife that an impending power supply crisis is stage-managed to justify the jacking up of expenses in the acquisition of coal supply, enabling the government to come up with additional funds for its candidates’ campaign kitty.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s latest allegation came in the light of reports on expected series of [...]
Net oil imports to the Philippines fell 2.6 percent in volume terms last year partly due to conservation measures implemented as prices soared, the government said on Sunday.
Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla said the country’s net oil imports fell to 100.8 million barrels last year compared with 103.46 million in 2005.
However, the Southeast Asian country’s net [...]
The Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation on Thursday approved two injection wells for a Wyoming-based company that proposes pumping groundwater produced by coal-bed methane drilling back into the ground.
Pinnacle Gas Resources Inc. initially sought permits for four injection wells but said one well got delayed because of weather and, for the time being, [...]
In December, when Congress moved the line on offshore drilling closer to Florida’s shores, it was touted as a major victory for Florida’s tourism-based economy because the measure preserved a significant no-drilling zone along Florida’s coastline.
But the area opened to oil and gas drilling was just a fraction of the publicly-owned waters the industry hoped [...]
An energy company has tentative state approval to drill two injection wells for a pioneering step in Montana’s emerging coal-bed methane industry: Water brought forth in the extraction of coal-bed methane would be sent back into the ground.
The Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation on Thursday approved conditionally two injection wells for Wyoming-based Pinnacle [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy has rejected all bids for the purchase of up to 4 million barrels of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Officials in the department’s Office of Fossil Energy said they determined the bids were too high and not a reasonable value. Another solicitation for bids is to be issued this [...]
U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has signed a so- called record of decision that makes way for a $569 million coal-fired power plant to be built near Orlando, Fla., the Department of Energy said Tuesday.
The plant, which will use a unique coal gasification technology to make it cleaner and more efficient than traditional coal plants, [...]
Sierra Geothermal Power Corp. reported today that drilling has been completed at the company’s Reese River Project, Lander County, Nevada. Well 56-4 was successfully drilled to a total depth of 1200 m (3930 ft). Testing for geothermal reservoir characteristics has now begun with results pending. The drilling program was operated by Sierra Geothermal’s US [...]
Ridgeway Petroleum has successfully completed the purchase of a New Mexico oilfield that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has identified as having considerable enhanced oil recovery (EOR) potential.
The acquisition is the first of several oilfields the Company is targeting as part of its strategy to build a substantial EOR reserve base in the Permian [...]
