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An international team of experts including scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is currently testing to see whether depleted natural gas reservoirs can be used as carbon sequestration facilities in the long run.
Their proof-of-concept experimen... |
6 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Nowadays, companies struggle to fight the energy crisis by exploiting both traditional sources of power and renewable alternatives. The current price of natural gas makes this resource appealing.
However, the technology used to obtain it is highly controversial, since experts now warn that it could contaminate wate... |
6 January 2012
02:50 GMT |
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A recent report indicates companies behind processes involving hydraulic fracturing are aware of the risks implied by this technique and communicate them to shareholders but fail to inform the public opinion. The current legal framework compels enterprises to reveal the emerging threats posed by their operations, t... |
12 December 2011
05:23 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) have just released a new study, which was able to identify the bacteria responsible for breaking up a large chunk of the natural gas that was released in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill last summer.
The investig... |
4 October 2011
01:34 GMT |
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Using initial funding totaling $20 million, researchers at the San Francisco, California-based startup Siluria are now trying to develop a method of transforming methane directly into ethylene. If they succeed, then they could change the way a wide variety of plastics and chemicals are produced.
Methane is the pri... |
3 October 2011
04:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators has recently developed a new approach for studying how much oil and natural gas were spilling out from the BP/Deepwater Horizon spill site last spring. This is now possible by analyzing air chemistry measurements taken at the time.The method was created by scientists at the US National Oceani... |
15 March 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Various companies and governments have gotten it into their heads that they need to tap into the massive deep-sea deposits of natural gas that exist in the Levant Sea, a portion of the Mediterranean.The developers want to exploit these fields regardless of legally-binding restrictions placed on deep-sea exploitations... |
9 February 2011
05:46 GMT |
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With the depletion of the world's fossil fuel reserves staring us in the face, we need to realize that we are now heading towards the Big Transition, which will seriously test our resolve, a new report shows.According to many analysts, the Peak Oil event and the subsequent drop in resources are the main events t... |
8 October 2010
09:08 GMT |
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A team of experts proposes a new method of transporting natural gas, which could see the stuff being moved between distant destinations without the risk of dangerous explosions. At this point, it's not exactly practical to move natural gas around too much, because the chemical is unstable, and the risk of explos... |
7 September 2010
03:20 GMT |
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A team of experts has recently established a new organization meant to promote research, development and innovation in the field of prospecting for, and extracting oil and natural gas. The international Center for Drilling and Wells for Improved Recovery is supported by a number of organizations and universities in N... |
30 August 2010
10:01 GMT |
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A new study shows that, even with all their downfalls, fossil fuels are still reigning supreme when it comes to people' choices for fueling cars, power plants and so on.Even though scientists across the globe are drawing attention to the fact that fossil fuels need to be replaced, authorities seem to be unwillin... |
25 August 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Millions of kilograms of plastics are produced around the world every single day. In addition to being disposed of improperly, and polluting the environment, plastic is also a material based heavily on crude oil. Its main raw material is ethene, a compound of which some 130 million kilograms are produced every single... |
31 March 2010
05:39 GMT |
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On the morning of May 29, 2006, at around 5 am, the inhabitants of the area around Sidoarjo, in Indonesia, started noticing a mud volcano erupting nearby. This was the first day of the nightmare that was yet to come. Starting that day, the volcano has spewed around 100,000 tons of mud, or the equivalent of 60 Olympic... |
12 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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According to geological estimates, between 30 and 35 percent of the world's undiscovered oil deposits are found in the Arctic, alongside 13 percent of the globe's natural gas reserves. With the effects that global warming has on the North Pole, the ice barriers that once made it impossible to even consider ... |
29 May 2009
19:01 GMT |
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The Russian government-held company Gazprom, the world's largest producer of natural gas, and the giant Shell Corporations have only recently signed an agreement that would basically allow the European monopoly to start selling its products on the US market, the largest of the kind in the world. The products wil... |
13 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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The US Congress now finds itself in a dilemma – how to impose changes in the way America produces electrical energy, while at the same time keeping standards high. And the best place to start thinking about this is the Capital Power Plant, a 99-year-old facility that is supplying power to the important building... |
2 March 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it was seeking to revise regulations set in place last June, which forced refineries to be very careful about the amounts of emissions they pumped into the atmosphere. Following the lobby of several major oil associations, EPA seeks to give companies ... |
13 December 2008
03:19 GMT |
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The construction of new coal-powered power plants in the US has now grinded to an almost complete standstill, because tighter carbon capture and storage regulations are in place in most states. And because most builders cannot afford the technology needed for sequestration, they simply prefer not to build the plant a... |
5 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's plans, of curbing Russian gas flares to 5 percent by 2011, went up in flames on Thursday, when the Energy and Natural Resources ministries announced that the country would be unable to sustain such massive cuts in such a short time. Instead, the two state departments said that 201... |
4 December 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Increasing electricity demand in Europe has prompted EU officials to elaborate a strategic energy grid development plan, which is to break the vicious circle that keeps the Union dependent on Russia for most of its gas imports. Seeing how 42 percent of all gas coming into the Old Continent is delivered by the Russian... |
17 November 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Increasing carbon emissions from power plants relying on fossil fuels for generating electrical current have prompted utilities companies to try and combine both polluting and clean energy techniques in a single facility. As a result, the Electric Power Research Institute will outfit two natural gas-powered plants in... |
12 November 2008
06:27 GMT |
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North Carolina State University recently received a grant from NSF (the National Science Foundation) for the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy Delivery Management Systems they want to develop, dubbed "Internet for energy." The $18.5 million (about 13.5 million Euros) invested by NSF will prov... |
12 September 2008
06:42 GMT |
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I think it is pretty obvious that the petrol alone will not be sufficient enough to satisfy our energy needs in the near future. Thus, the scientists are permanently looking for alternative fuels and energy production devices. Natural gas is just one of the alternatives. Now you are probably wondering why we are not ... |
22 January 2008
06:05 GMT |
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