Welwind Energy International Corp., announces that it has successfully signed a second joint venture partnership for a 50% interest in the Ningxia Tianjing Helanshan wind farm project. This joint venture is for an interest in a 30.9MW wind farm which completed construction in February 2008. Ningxia Tianjing Shenzhou Windfarm Ltd was established on May 16, [...]
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Copenhagen Climate Change Conference – Current Situation and Likely Outcome” report to their offering. At the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, world leaders will seek to agree on a global framework by which to tackle climate change. The world is looking to [...]
On November 13, 2008, towns and cities around the world will focus on a common global concern — transportation usability and its impact on our environment. World Usability Day 2008 will launch the Global Transport Challenge at www.worldusabilityday.org to help individuals measure their everyday travel usage; monitor their carbon travel footprint and compare it with [...]
Reval, a global leader in financial risk management solutions and services, announced today that it was recognized with an Alexander Hamilton Award at the 13th annual Treasury & Risk Magazine awards ceremony this week. Reval was awarded the silver award in the Technology of the Year category for its best in class FAS 157 Solution. [...]
Massey Energy announced that its board of directors has elected Baxter F. Phillips, Jr. to be president of the company, a position formerly held by Don L. Blankenship. Blankenship will continue to serve the company as chairman and CEO.
Phillips most recently served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of the company. In his [...]
Texas Allied Petroleum, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has successfully reworked its Cooper Cove, Herrick and Little Laramie fields in Wyoming. Daily production from the three fields is approximately 100 barrels of oil per day. A surface discharge system is currently being permitted, which has potential to increase production and decrease [...]
In a ceremony attended by representatives of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and KfW Entwicklungsbank, the Government of Nepal has inaugurated and put into operation the Middle Marsyangdi hydropower plant situated west of the capital Kathmandu. KfW Entwicklungsbank financed the power plant on behalf of the BMZ with some [...]
Chevron Corporation announced that two of its subsidiaries have entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of Ultrapar Participações S.A. (Ultrapar) to sell Chevron’s fuels marketing business in Brazil for approximately $730 million plus a working capital adjustment. The final amount will vary based on exchange rate fluctuations and the actual working capital sold.
Under the [...]
Mayor Luis Ferrer of General Trias, Cavite had today, signed a 25 year contract for the operation and management of the Biosphere process and technology with Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation right there in the heart of Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ).
Mayor Ferrer had announced in a press briefing that General Trias is strategically located in [...]
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 [...]