Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced the execution of an agreement for a joint venture with StatoilHydro whereby StatoilHydro will acquire a 32.5% interest in Chesapeake’s Marcellus Shale assets in Appalachia for $3.375 billion, leaving Chesapeake with a 67.5% working interest. The assets include approximately 1.8 million net acres of leasehold, of which StatoilHydro will own approximately [...]
VIASPACE Inc., a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with WonATech of Korea for VIASPACE to sell and distribute WonATech’s fuel cell test stations outside Korea.
Fuel Cell test stations that can test [...]
Quorum Business Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of business and information technology solutions for the oil, gas, and renewable energy industry, announces that Mustang Fuel Marketing Company has entered into an agreement to license Quorum Gas Marketing to manage its commercial natural gas marketing activities.
“We were in the market for a system to manage [...]
At its recent Annual Meeting, the New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse & Recycling (NYSAR3) named Meg Morris, Director for Environmental Science & Community Affairs at Covanta Energy, as Recycler of the Year for a Private Company.
“Meg has worked tirelessly to support recycling and has brought credibility and professionalism to every position she’s held [...]
Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.
The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest [...]
Solar Power, Inc. has completed its first sale to a prominent German solar integrator of its photovoltaic solar modules for use in the integrator’s Germany-based installation projects. An initial supply of SPI’s 200-watt panels was shipped to the integrator at the end of December 2008. The transaction follows IEC certification in early December 2008 of [...]
Patagonia, the outdoor apparel company, has formally launched its “Vote The Environment” campaign in advance of the presidential election this November 2008. The aggressive three-part campaign asks customers to (1) register to vote, (2) educate themselves on the environmental records of candidates and (3) place the environment at the top of their priority list in [...]
Gulf Publishing announced its ninth installment of the Marketing in the Oilfield Conference will take place on 28 August 2008 at the Marriott Houston Westchase Hotel. The conference, titled “Technology and Marketing: Friends or Foes?” will provide energy industry marketing professionals with the latest research and best practices for successfully marketing oilfield technology and practical [...]
American Alternative Energy Systems Energy Corp. company president Jeff Kulman announced today that the Company has reached an agreement in principle with Waste to Energy (Canada) Gasification Systems Inc. of Toronto, Ontario to obtain the distribution rights to the patented Waste to Energy (”WTE”) downdraft gasifier technology for the Americas. The system was developed in [...]
Greenbox Technology, creators of energy management software for the home, announced today that they have partnered with smart grid infrastructure experts Silver Spring Networks to successfully deploy the Greenbox(TM) interactive energy management platform for Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E). The goal of OG&E’s Positive Energy(TM) SmartPower program is to empower customers to better manage their [...]