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Chevon Texaco Corp. is partnering with other research facilities to integrate world petroleum research.

White House officials told National Petroleum Council members about the importance of studies conducted by the council on forming a long-term US energy, environmental, and economic strategy. The studies concern trends in transportation fuels in the US and the productive capacity for conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources.

The US will focus more on Eurasia, West Africa, and Latin America to diversify its oil supply sources and bolster energy security in the face of increasing imports and rising [...]

Western Resources and Paul Corp. both conducted studies involving particulate contaminants in insulating fluids. Western Resources found that Beta rated synthetic media filters removed particles more efficiently, saving costs in labor and material. Paul Corp. found that since particles have a detrimental effect on insulating fluids, better filters are a significant improvement., Western Resources accumulated extensive experience in the reconditioning of electrical insulating fluids with high efficiency filtration, concluding that the Beta rated synthetic fiber high dirt capacity filters are significantly more [...]

Hydrogen-producing algae and dung-producing cows are but two potential energy sources being considered as California and the Northwest brace for electricity shortfalls. The cow dung is a sure thing. Only [...]

IN THIS FOUR-PART SPECIAL SECTION, POWER ENGINEERING EXAMINES VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN TODAY'S COMPETITIVE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. Project management these days is much more comprehensive and [...]

No, this isn't about hippies and the 1960s, but it is about powerful grass. With the goal of replacing up to five percent of the fuel burned with biomass, Alliant [...]

You've heard the old saying 'making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.' The Department of Energy (DOE) is trying to apply that adage to a new problem: greenhouse [...]

Customer satisfaction has become both buzzword and dead horse in this uncomfortable hiatus between regulation and deregulation. That old retail mentality of 'the customer is always right' rears its head [...]

Atlanta-based Future Energy Resources Corp. (FERCO) received $16 million from the Turner Foundation and a group of private investors to commercialize FERCO's biomass gasification technology currently in operation at the [...]

DynaMotive Technologies Corp. and Orenda Aerospace are working together to test DynaMotive BioOil as a 'green' gas turbine fuel. The program involves a series of combustion and turbine tests in [...]

The field is producing about 14,700 b/d of oil and 22 MMcf/d of gas. Full production is expected by the end of 1999. The company also announced that it participated [...]

Animal-caused outages are a multimillion dollar a year problem affecting every electric utility in the country. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Southern Engineering teamed up to address this [...]

Resumed drilling near the Long Valley Exploratory Well near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., may provide new clues about the role of underground magma in California's energy future. A team from the [...]

The National Petroleum Council said the findings in its 2007 report on the state of the energy industries in the United States still apply. The report has highlighted the need for the country to come up with a national energy strategy consensus. It also said coal and natural gas remain indispensable in meeting the country's energy demand.

A growing number of businesses appear ready to adopt distributed energy to address their concerns about power reliability and energy-price volatility, according to energy market intelligence company Primen. Primen's study, [...]

Biofuels production in Cameroon is in its early stages as only the Bollore group is implementing an experimental biofuels production program. Plans for increasing biofuels production in the country have been proposed, but civil society groups are opposing this due to environmental and social issues.

Composite Energy of Scotland initiated a project to study the possibility of evaluating carbon dioxide storage in coal. The project is financed by BG Group, Scottish Power and Royal Bank of Scotland.

UAE: The Abu Dhabi Electricity and Water Authority (ADWEA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's ministry of science and technology to carry out a feasibility study into [...]

The German manufacturer of high temperature superconducting (HTS) wire for electric power applications, Trithor, has signed agreements with Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden to accelerate developments [...]

Work being carried out by a group led by Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems Limited (R-RFCS) into the advancement of Europe's fuel cell capabilities has received financial backing from the European [...]

Con Edison engineers are studying the future of reliable electricity at the new $10 million Con Edison Cable & Splice Center for Excellence in the Bronx in conjunction with the [...]

A BOLSTERED FEDERAL BUDGET for oil and natural gas research and development projects for the US Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy would be a 'wise investment,' in US [...]

Lignite is noted primarily for its low heating value relative to bituminous coals, typically in the range of 6,200-7,200 Btu/lb. The low heating value is due largely to high moisture [...]

DCH Technology Inc. and Los Alamos National Laboratory are signing a cooperative research and development agreement to commercialize a patented Circular Fuel Cell Stack, which uses a proton exchange membrane [...]

The long-hypothesized Nordic Gas Grid has moved a step closer following the signing of a feasibility study by seven Finnish, Danish and Swedish energy companies and the European Commission. This [...]

Conoco (U.K.) Ltd. disclosed test results for an appraisal well in Buckland discovery on U.K. North Sea Block 9/18a. Borgsten Dolphin semisubmersible rig drilled the well to 12,109 ft total [...]

Farmers in the Northeast and Midwest may soon be growing willow trees for biomass power, according to a recent announcement from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy. Part of the [...]

Petersfield, UK-based Neural Technologies Ltd was established in 1987 to utilize neural computing for business and industrial problems. Pipeline corrosion, optimal drilling conditions, catalytic cracking process innovations and car engine design/fuel need models have been developed by neural computers for the oil and gas industry. Neural computing systems are under development that will create new neurons as they are needed for problem solving., Conventional computers are brilliant at performing calculations quickly but unable to cope with data that doesn't fit their programmed expectations. Neural computers are like us: They can deal with unfamilar [...]

Sedgwick Energy Ltd has researched vapor cloud explosions (VCE) and developed a new way of estimating damage potential that departs from the traditional formula involving TNT blast pressure profiles. The VCE model takes into account the effect of the burning process in creating blast pressure, while the TNT model assumes a point source explosion. The research shows that well laid out oil and gas plants suffer lower maximum losses., A fresh look at the effects of vapor cloud explosions (VCEs) has resulted in a more accurate way of calculating the outcome of blasts at oil and gas plants. This [...]

October's 'Environmentally Speaking' column reported the happy news of coal's apparent emancipation. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent ruling did it; solid waste residue from coal-fired power plants now is [...]

During the early part of 1978 the United States Congress enacted several tax incentives in order to stimulate the commercialization of alternate energy technologies. The outcome was that by 1982 [...]