Chevron Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia, has started producing crude oil from the North Duri Field Area 12 in Indonesia, where Chevron produces nearly half the nation’s crude oil.
First oil was achieved on Nov. 14, 2008, and production is projected to increase to 34,000 barrels of crude oil per [...]
Total announced positive appraisal results for the Moho Nord Marine-3 well, lying around 80 kilometers offshore of the Republic of Congo in 1,030 meters of water in the northern part of the Moho-Bilondo license. The discovery follows on from the Moho Nord Marine-1 and 2 finds in 2007.
Moho Marine Nord-3 was drilled to a total [...]
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) — U.S. researchers have taken one step closer to creating high-efficiency solar cells using cheap plastic with a dash of silicon, it was announced on Saturday.
The solar cells, being developed by researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), have significantly greater sunlight absorption [...]
By STEVE HART
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
A Petaluma startup is hoping to plug in to the booming market for solar technology with an automated system for cleaning photovoltaic panels.
OCS Energy’s SolarWash system can increase the output of solar energy plants by 5 to 25 percent, said Rich O’Connell, the company’s CEO.
Dirt, leaves, moss, mold, sap, bugs — [...]
BEIJING, Nov 30 (Reuters) - China’s top coal-producing province, Shanxi, will embark on a programme to create several giant mining groups as it continues shutting small mines, state media reported on Sunday.
Shanxi, in the country’s north, has been plagued by deadly accidents in smaller mines, and the provincial government has announced plans to shut them [...]
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Sheikholeslam said his country needs nuclear energy as a substitute for its oil resources.
“Iran will have oil for over 100 years but once its energy resources is depleted, nuclear energy will be the only logical substitute,” the Islamic republic news agency quoted Sheikholeslam as saying.
Iran is in a row [...]
By Maher Chmaytelli and Ayesha Daya
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — OPEC deferred a decision on reducing production this year by two weeks to gauge the impact of earlier cuts, as it seeks to push oil prices back up to $75 a barrel.
Crude has dropped 62 percent from July’s record of $147.27 a barrel as the global [...]
By Katarzyna Klimasinska
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Poland, which generates 93 percent of its electricity from coal, is considering building its first nuclear plant by 2023 in the northern town of Zarnowiec, as it seeks to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from power generation.
“We will need nuclear energy if it turns out that renewable sources aren’t efficient enough, [...]
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The Chenery Extended Program, or Chen-Ex, has received a $500 grant from the Exxon Mobil Educational Alliance to support the program’s tuition-free music classes. Matt and Mark Jamieson of Concord Avenue Mobil, at 365 Concord Avenue in Belmont, worked with Chen-Ex Director, Kendra Blitz to secure this grant, which is one of 4,000 [...]
By Nidaa Bakhsh
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Total SA, Europe’s third-largest oil company, will shut a crude unit for maintenance this weekend at its Vlissingen refinery in the Netherlands.
Total will halt the so-called crude distillation unit until around Dec. 10, the Paris-based company said in a statement on its Dutch Web site.
The refinery, which can process [...]
