RSS Feed en-us Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:01:00 The U.S. government on Monday announced selections for the award of approximately 40 million dollars in total to two teams led by Westinghouse Electric Co. and General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP). http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3444 Three of the world's largest oil suppliers have clandestinely cut their ties with Iran. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3443 Developed countries are "outsourcing" more than a third of their carbon emissions associated with products and services to other countries, researchers say. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3442 India has decided to formally back a climate change accord struck in Copenhagen last year that includes non-binding limits on global warming, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Tuesday. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3441 Ethanol, the commodity that cost Bill Gates more than $44 million the last time prices collapsed, is poised to rally as much as 20 percent as the fastest drop since 2008 spurs demand. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3440 Israel is expected to unveil plans this week to build a nuclear power plant, reports say. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3439 The controversy surrounding fracking fluids is getting louder. Websites and media savvy organizations are getting more press on this issue, using a very simple and powerful pitch - are the chemicals used in fracking fluids in oil and gas wells contaminating our drinking water? http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3438 The top U.S. environmental regulator said she was "very concerned" about fluids blamed by some for polluting water supplies near sites where drillers use them to extract natural gas from shale deposits. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3437 The global slump in demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is temporary and demand will recover within the next two to three years, Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil said in an interview on Monday. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3436 Exxon Mobil Corp., BP Plc and Total SA are investing in assets that previously weren't worth their time or money after oil-rich nations reduced access to reserves and exploration drilling faltered. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3435 Poor countries should be helped to build their own nuclear power stations to help fight climate change, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3434 Oil and gas services company Petrofac said it was confident for 2010 as it expects further investment in oil and gas projects, after it doubled its order backlog and posted net profit above forecasts in 2009. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3433 If you're into energy, this week is Christmas in March in Houston. It's CERAWeek, the five-day confab covering all things energy-related. For the cognoscenti, it's brimful of gifts of information and informed opinion. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3432 To the Mexican people, one of the great achievements in their history was the day their president kicked out foreign oil companies in 1938. Thus, they celebrate March 18 as a civic holiday. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3431 Floridians have suffered through the coldest winter in almost 30 years. In some parts of South Florida, it's been colder than anytime in the last 83 years. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3430 Transonic Combustion, a startup based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a fuel-injection system it says can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by more than 50 percent http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3429 Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank on Monday, assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3428 Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy company, must pay $1.2 million to 16 Louisiana workers who claimed they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when they were cleaning used oil drilling pipes, a jury said. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3427 Kairiki Energy Ltd., an Australian oil explorer whose shares have tripled in the past year, is seeking partners to develop a crude field in the Philippines with potential reserves of 600 million barrels. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3426 Since mapping the human genome 10 years ago, J. Craig Venter has found plenty of work. The biologist now is burrowing into DNA in as many forms as he can discover, in organisms from the sea and deep underground. His goal: to use the building blocks found in naturally occurring DNA to make synthetic cells. http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=3425