President Bush will send Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to Saudi Arabia for a one-day meeting of oil producers.
Bodman will lead a U.S. delegation at the meeting on Sunday in the port city of Jiddah in Saudia Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer. The Saudis called the meeting of oil producing countries and consumers to discuss [...]

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman rejected a call by some members of Congress to release oil from the government’s emergency stockpile — the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
He said the oil is needed to respond to future supply emergencies and not to influence prices.
Bodman also said at a House hearing that he does not believe that rampant market [...]

Energy provider Southern Co. said Monday construction has begun on what it called an efficient, low-emission coal facility which will help the company meet increased power demand.
The facility, at the Stanton Energy Center in Orange County, Fla., will turn coal into synthetic gas for generating electricity, while reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides [...]

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, [...]

U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman said Richton, Miss., will be the next site for the expansion of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a national asset intended to protect the U.S. against severe supply disruptions that could harm our economy and threaten our national security,” said Secretary Bodman. [...]

President Bush’s proposed 2008 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy largely passes over “clean coal” projects in Wyoming and the West.
U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., grilled Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman last week for not following certain directives set forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Provisions such as a Western coal-gasification demonstration project are [...]

Energy ministers from the U.S., China, India, Japan and South Korea are gathering in Beijing Saturday for a meeting aimed at boosting China’s influence over key energy markets while alleviating worries over its huge and growing appetite for oil.
The talks, hosted by China’s top economic planner, Ma Kai, are part of a broad diplomatic offensive [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy formally announced Friday that salt domes in Richton are the preferred site to expand the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve.
“As an inland site, Richton will have less vulnerability to hurricane impacts and will be connected by pipeline to the Capline pipeline system and to refiners and marine facilities in Pascagoula for [...]

Cleaner coal technology hit a speed bump Tuesday in South Dakota, as a major power supplier announced it did not receive a key federal tax credit.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative had proposed a plant near Huron or Mobridge to use integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC.
The technology converts coal to a gas before burning, which greatly [...]

Nuclear specialists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory participated in a project that removed about 90 pounds of weapons-usable uranium from Poland to a safe location in Russia, a lab official said Friday.
“ORNL personnel were involved both in the initial assessment which took place over six months ago and in the removal, which occurred earlier this [...]