Royal Dutch Shell PLC and privately held Virent Energy Systems, Inc. of Madison, Wis., will work together to convert plant sugars directly into gasoline and gasoline blend components, rather than ethanol.
The aim is to create new biofuels that can be used at high blend rates in standard gasoline engines. They could also eliminate the need [...]
As uncertainty clouds the mining of county’’s abundant wealth of coal, government has missed a deadline for doubling the current volume of power by generating an additional 4,000 megawatts of electricity under a master plan, reports UNB.
Eight new power plants, having a total 4,000MW capacity, were planned for setting up by 2005 as per the [...]
Norway’s state-controlled oil company Statoil ASA on Friday said it was cutting production at its Kvitebjoern field by the equivalent of 95,000 barrels of oil per day for the next five months as part of a reservoir management and drilling program.
The company said it decided to cut production in half at the North Sea field [...]
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) beneficiaries will play a vital role on ethanol production, said Aurelio “Lito” Lacson of the B.M. SB Integrated Biofuels Company in Negros.
Lacson said DAR should be instrumental in organizing CARP beneficiaries to form a cooperative that will serve as one of the [...]
Ethanol may not be the energy panacea many in Hawai’i had hoped for.
Producing the biofuel from sugar cane would help move Hawai’i away from dependence on imported oil while invigorating the farm industry.
Sounds great, but making it happen is far from simple.
The barriers to producing ethanol locally include:
# Building production plants.
# Getting water rights switched [...]
BACK in 1999, when she was the head of refining at Chevron, Patricia A. Woertz told a group of energy officials that it was time to stop mixing agricultural policy with fuels policy.
In that same speech, at a fuels conference in Washington, Ms. Woertz also publicly expressed worry about the unintended consequences of a federal [...]
GE Global Research has been awarded Popular Mechanics magazine’s 2006 Breakthrough Award for its development of an advanced hydrogen electrolyzer. The awards program, initiated last year, recognizes valuable work in science and technology that can play a critical role in improving lives, expanding knowledge and building a better future.
GE’s electrolyzer, which was developed by a [...]
FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NasdaqNM:FCEL), a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean electric power generation plants for commercial, industrial, and government customers, today announced development of a cost-efficient system to separate pure hydrogen from a gas mixture that then can be sold as fuel for hydrogen vehicles or industrial uses. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded [...]
Norsk Hydro ASA cut its 2006 oil and gas production target by 5 percent, or 30,000 barrels per day, on Friday, mainly due to delayed production.
The Oslo-based petroleum and light metals group now expects an average daily production of 585,000 barrels of oil equivalent, down from 615,000 barrels. Oil equivalents measure the energy content, rather [...]
