Brazil’s 2007-08 ethanol exports could slip to 2.5 billion liters, down about 20% from an estimated 3.1 billion liters this season, as the U.S. begins to sell ethanol abroad next year due to excess stocks, the president of sugar consultancy Datagro said Friday.
This year, the U.S. has been Brazil’s principal buyer of ethanol, in large [...]

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 [...]

Capital Reserve Canada and It’s Chairman, Mr. Donald Getty, are pleased to announce that further to the Press Release of September 20th, 2006, its wholly-owned subsidiary, Two Hills Environmental Inc., has closed the transfer of Mineral Rights to approximately 2500 acres of land adjacent to its property near Two Hills, Alberta for one million restricted [...]

Magnus International Resources, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire African Mineral Fields, a company which holds an exclusive option to acquire 100% interests in four gold projects in Uganda. The acquisition comes as part of Magnus’ decision to expand its mineral portfolio into Africa, which holds 55% [...]

Less than half the area on top of and below the Roan Plateau would be opened to natural gas drilling, according to a management plan released Thursday. The remainder would see protections designed to preserve wildlife, views and rare plants.
With the western flank of the Roan Plateau in view, Bureau of Land Management officials unveiled [...]

DEVELOPMENTAL
Cherokee County
# Marathon Oil will drill the Dixon “A” Well No. 5 in the White Oak Creek (Travis Peak) Field to 12,500 feet, 7.2 miles west of Alto in the Self, I Survey, A-793.
# The Barnes Gas Unit 1 Well No. 4 will be drilled by Southwestern Energy Production in the Overton (Cotton Valley [...]

Arkansas State University-Searcy, a technical campus of ASU-Beebe, will hold an Energy Training Council (E.T.C.) Safety Training course on Aug. 12. This course is designed for people interested in working for the Gas Drilling Industry.
The class will be offered from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuition is $100, which includes materials. This is a ten-hour [...]

The assets of the Harbin Gasification Plant and the Harbin Coal Industry Company have been injected free of charge into China’s second largest coal producer, the China National Coal Group, as their city plans to make the switch from coal [...]

A provision in a House-passed energy bill would take steps to reduce the time energy companies say they waste waiting for the government to act on permits to drill or mine for oil, gas and coal.
Interior Department officials have said they are struggling to keep up with the growing mountain of applications for permits to [...]