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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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High oil prices may spell the death knell for major new additions to global gold reserves , according to one of Australia's foremost equities analysts. Addressing the 2008 Paydirt Gold Conference in Perth, Western Australia, earlier this year, corporate analyst and equities market author, Peter Strachan, said oil-reliance could hamper future growth in gold production volumes.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 02:46 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Wartsila North America Inc. began detailed engineering and manufacturing on a 163 MWe gas-fired power plant for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E). Plant construction could begin later this year and be completed in the fall of 2009. Construction cost is estimated at $250 million, or around $1,500/kW. Coming to PG&E: A Wartsila 18V50DF dual-fuel engine.
In April 2006 Wartsila was selected to deliver the power plant to PG&E. The project has been subject to the approval of the California Public Utility Commission and environmental permits issued by the California Energy Commission. All approvals have now been received.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 10:18 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
How animal droppings are being used to overcome the threat of polluted mine waters and save lives in the poorest parts of the world.
You heard it here first: llama dung lies at the heart of one of the more unusual solutions to a worldwide pollution problem – an idea dreamt up by Prof Paul Younger at Newcastle University.
Younger and the research team he first established in 1992 are now renowned for pioneering community-based projects to remedy water pollution in abandoned mines and similar industrial and post-industrial sites, using ecologically friendly methods.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 02:04 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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When BP (BP) announced on June 10 that its massive Thunder Horse offshore oil and gas production facility would ease into operation June 14, the milestone came both ahead and woefully behind schedule.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 12:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
New Delhi: State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) is close to receiving an order for 50 onshore oil rigs from West Asia, expected to be worth around Rs5,000 crore and the firm’s first significant win in a business where it sees significant opportunity—oil exploration and production.
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Friday 13 June, 2008 04:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
GE Oil & Gas' PII Pipeline Solutions is introducing more flexible service offerings to help pipeline operators better evaluate potential third-party mechanical damage (dents), the single-most significant integrity threat to both liquid and gas networks globally.
With operators struggling to evaluate the large population of dents in their networks, GE is offering innovating integrity engineering solutions to more accurately measure the severity and potential threat of dents reported by in-line inspection runs.
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Wednesday 11 June, 2008 12:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Expanding the presence of its large combined-cycle technology in Spain, GE Energy will supply a turnkey power station to Endesa Generación, S.A. that will add 840 megawatts of capacity to the country’s electricity grid. This output will be largely used by Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia and the city that leads Spain in electricity consumption.
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Friday 6 June, 2008 02:05 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
It's among the great ironies of modern life. In order to fuel our twenty-first century global society, we rely profoundly on fossil fuels that are millions of years old.
Most scientists believe that the oil, coal and gas we use to generate electricity, run our cars and transport food began their existence as ancient plants and algae. Buried under heavy layers of sediment, they transformed chemically under immense heat and pressure into rich sources of fuel.
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Thursday 5 June, 2008 08:51 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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We asked our readers: With gas prices at $4 a gallon , should the U.S. do more to utilize its own oil resources? Here are your responses:
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Thursday 5 June, 2008 08:32 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
Kuwait will consider integrating its new 615,000-barrel-a-day refinery at Al-Zour with a massive petrochemicals complex if the refinery is changed to produce a full range of products.
The $15bn Al-Zour refinery, which is currently under construction, is primarily geared towards providing fuel oil for the state's power plants. However, the discovery of the state's first non-associated gas reserves in 2006 has since led to hope that Kuwait will be able to use gas for power generation instead, enabling Al-Zour to produce other products.
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Saturday 31 May, 2008 08:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
The University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) has joined forces with the US Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a process to create jet fuel from coal and biomass.
Funded by a $10m grant, researchers at the new Alternative Aerospace Fuels Research Facility plan to design and construct a coal and biomass gasifier for the production of synthesis gas, and hope to have it up and running early in 2010.
We note that back in 2003, South Africa's Sasol claimed a breakthrough with synthetic jet fuel from coal and a search on Google brings up a multitude of sites - anyone got more information?
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Friday 30 May, 2008 12:18 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Despite the absence of enabling laws and robust enforcement of local content, Nigerian investors still build factories to produce steel and pipe products for the oil and gas industry.
Nigerian participation at all levels of the oil and gas industry is dismal, one of the lowest levels of indigenous involvement in the world.
While it is a cash cow, the oil and gas industry is also prohibitive in its costs, with huge technological and financial barriers to entry.
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Friday 30 May, 2008 06:38 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
FMC Technologies , Inc. has received an award to supply the subsea production system for Petrobras’ Tambaú gas field. The award has a value of approximately $140 million in revenue to FMC Technologies.
The subsea production system, rated at 10,000 psi, will be installed in approximately 4,400 feet (1,350 meters) of water in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. FMC Technologies’ primary scope of supply includes four vertical subsea trees, with an option for two additional trees, as well as manifolds, controls and associated equipment. The project will be engineered and manufactured at FMC Technologies’ facility in Rio de Janeiro. Deliveries are expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 11:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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Advanced mining and mineral processing techniques to extract minerals will be developed through a new £6 million research centre, announced today. The centre is a partnership between Imperial College London, Envgland, and Rio Tinto, aimed at developing the mine of the future. It will push forward the development of innovative mining technologies and techniques to improve the extraction of minerals, whilst minimising environmental impacts. The partnership notes that “extracting minerals efficiently from deeper underground is becoming an important focus for mining research.”
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Saturday 24 May, 2008 08:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Vowing to reverse Indonesia's gradual decline as an oil exporter, Indonesian petroleum officials Wednesday promised to work with private oil giants to encourage new investment in East Asia's lone member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
"If you have any kind of suggestion, come to my office," Luluk Sumiarso, director general of oil and gas for the Indonesian energy ministry, told a petroleum industry gathering in Houston Wednesday. "We are listening for input from investors for improving our contract terms."
....click the link to read more
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Friday 9 May, 2008 06:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
BHP Billiton Ltd, Australia's biggest oil and gas producer, says the $1.16 billion Neptune oil operation in the Gulf of Mexico is facing further delays and cost increases after structural problems with the platform.
BHP Billiton, which holds a 35 per cent interest and operates the project, said additional reinforcement was required in the platform.
....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 10:20 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
Today, with gold hovering at $1,000 an ounce , Paul Glavinovich, son of a former manager of Nome’s gold dredges, remembered Nome’s historic treasure-scooping boats, cousins to the Fairbanks dredges.
The son of a Balkan immigrant, Paul Glavinovich Jr.’s father, Carl Glavinovich Sr., arrived from Croatia to this country just before World War I. In the 1920s, a young medical student, Glavinovich Sr. heard about driving point for the Nome gold fields and went north for the summer.
....click the link to read more
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Monday 5 May, 2008 10:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Aaron White has suddenly found his services in as much demand as the latest version of Grand Theft Auto. The 29-year-old is about to graduate with a certificate as a petroleum engineering technologist from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary and already has several job offers.
Two years ago he was an underemployed University of Calgary graduate working as a server in a restaurant. Today he can command a starting salary of between $60,000 and $65,000 a year.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 06:09 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - War Eagle Mining Company Inc . today announces that it has successfully completed Phase 1 of a two-phase investigation into the recovery of germanium (Ge) and gallium (Ga) from flyash generated at the ELCOGAS S.A. Puertollano power plant in Spain.
Phase 1 consisted of a structured programme of analytical and laboratory processing test work carried out on selected samples of flyash by three of Spain's leading research organisations who have experience in various aspects of research on Germanium in flyash and have a combined expertise equal to any in the world:
AICIA (Andalussian Association for Research and Industrial Cooperation) through the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Seville, CSIC/IJA (Institute of Earth Sciences 'Jaume Almera', Spanish Research Council) which is a large research organisation based on the campus of Barcelona University, and the University of Barcelona, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering.
....click the link to read more
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Friday 25 April, 2008 10:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
The days when American journalists wandered around Tripoli , acting as covert target spotters for the US Air Force to target Muammar Qaddafi for assassination, are gone. The maverick Berber has outlived, outwitted, outsourced, and outprofited five US presidents, four Russian heads of state.
He has also just cut a 50% discount out of the Soviet-era debt he ran up for the arms that warded off a land invasion in the 1980s. For the first time, Qaddafi's long-held dream to place Libya, and himself, at the energy supply crossroads between Africa, the Mediterranean, and Europe has a better than 50% chance of materializing. Qaddafi has also cocked a snook at the pro-American rivals he has always detested in neighbouring Algeria. And all because of President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom.
....click this link to read more
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 02:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
He could be called the prince of the pumps. Josef Waltl is the Royal Dutch Shell PLC executive who runs the multinational energy giant's retail network, an empire of pumps and shops that encompasses 90 countries, 45,000 sites - company-owned sites and contractors - and a million employees. The Austrian-born, London-based executive was recently in Toronto for a global awards extravaganza that recognized 700 Shell retailers for their performance.
....click the link to read more
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