The U.S. Energy Department cannot meet its own post-Sept. 11 security standards to repel a terrorist force at the Fort Knox of uranium, a facility in Tennessee that stores an estimated 189 metric tons of bomb grade material, agency officials acknowledged.
The material is stored in five masonry and wood frame buildings at the Y-12 facility, [...]
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 [...]
THE cost in lost revenue to fluorspar producer Sallies of a nine-month delay in the minerals and energy department granting it a mining licence was about R50m, it emerged from the company’s annual financial results released yesterday.
This represented the difference between the 150000 wet metric tons that the company could have produced and the 94885 [...]
The Energy Department is prepared to provide oil from the government’s emergency supplies if a refinery requests it because of the disruption of supplies from Alaska, a department spokesman said Monday.
“We’re taking a very serious look at this,” said spokesman Craig Stevens, referring to the loss of nearly half of oil shipments from Alaska’s North [...]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is looking at the conversion of retired oil-based power plants into natural gas fuel as a way of shoring up power supply and bring notches higher the country’s bid for energy independence.
Among the five-point reform package that Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla has unveiled to be part of his department’s [...]
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 [...]
