ACEC President David A. Raymond is urging the Senate to adopt a comprehensive approach to addressing rising energy prices that includes all options—expanded production of U.S. oil and gas and nuclear, along with wind and solar, as well as other renewable sources.
“This piecemeal approach to solving our national energy problem is ridiculous,” Raymond said. “The [...]
Piedmont Natural Gas announced its membership in the Council for Responsible Energy, a coalition of more than 190 organizations that have come together to raise awareness of natural gas as the comfortable, responsible energy choice for America’s energy consumers.
The Council, comprised of senior industry leaders from organizations nationwide, has launched a national campaign to communicate [...]
Aggreko, the global leader in temporary power and temperature control, today played a crucial role in supporting the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Aggreko was responsible for the supply of power to both the National Stadium and the International Broadcast Center, which was responsible for transmitting the ceremony to an estimated 4 [...]
Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. announced the Company has completed the acquisition of approximately 1900 acres of productive land adjacent to the Milnesand San Andres Unit currently 100% owned by the Company. The acquisition covers the southern limits of the Milnesand San Andres Oilfield and will be a logical later stage step-out to the Milnesand CO2 [...]
Global Earth Energy, Inc. announce it signed a Letter of Intent, or LOI, with “ADI,” the owners of a chemical plant near Wilmington, North Carolina. The LOI outlines Global’s plans to install a one million gallon per year biodiesel production site located on a chemical plant in Leland, NC.
Global will rent the land necessary [...]
Carbon Sciences Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into high value, earth-friendly products, announced today the opening of a new research and development center to expedite the development and commercialization of its technology.
Derek McLeish, the company’s CEO, commented on the move, “We are very excited about securing and [...]
SolFocus today announced its latest Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solution — the SolFocus 1100S. This new CPV system achieves panel efficiencies of 25% resulting in systems which produce the highest energy density and highest energy yield of photovoltaic systems available today. SolFocus customer EMPE Solar will deploy the SolFocus 1100S in its recently announced 10 megawatt [...]
IBM announced a collaboration with EDF, the leading electricity producer in Europe, on an ambitious project to explore key aspects of the energy systems that are important in EDF operations, in an effort to further energy sustainability. EDF and IBM will work together to develop high performance computing solutions which can significantly advance the operation [...]
Rentech, Inc. announced that the Company has successfully produced synthetic fuels at its Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) in Commerce City, Colorado.
Rentech’s PDU is the only synthetic fuels facility in the United States today producing transportation fuels. The facility is designed to produce approximately 420 gallons per day of synthetic jet and diesel fuels and demonstrates [...]
Earth Search Sciences, Inc., a technology company focused on the development of domestic, inland oil resources, today announced the appointment of a key addition to its senior management team. Michael D. Lockhart has been appointed as Earth Search’s Chief Scientist.
As Chief Scientist, Lockhart is responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive technology strategy for Earth [...]