Angola’s state oil firm Sonangol on Monday requested prequalified bidders to submit bids for ten onshore oil blocks as Africa’s second largest crude exporter aims to open up new exploration opportunities. U.S. oil major Chevron, Italy’s ENI, commodities trader Glencore and Portugal’s GALP were among the prequalified companies who could operate the blocks, Sonangol said in a press release. Sonangol said last year that the 10 blocks may hold, on
The Galapagos islands are known, of course, for those lumbering, giant tortoises and as the inspiration for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now they boast another cool distinction: an airport believed to be the only one in the world working exclusively on wind and solar energy. The metamorphosis to an earth-friendly place serving nature-loving tourists could not be more stark, considering that the airport was actually born of war.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes were mixed on Friday as investors assessed the latest batch of earnings reports. Google surged after reporting strong results, while Chevron and other oil and gas companies followed the price of crude oil lower.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes were mixed on Friday as investors assessed the latest batch of earnings reports. Google surged after reporting strong results, while Chevron and other oil and gas companies followed the price of crude oil lower.
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s sole 24,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery has been shut since Tuesday after parts of the plant were damaged when it was fed highly acidic crude, its vice-president said on Friday. Vice-President Inonge Wina told parliament the Indeni refinery remained closed and an investigation had been launched to establish which firms imported the unsuitable oil. “It is unfortunate that the feed that was imported had some corrosive agents,”
TEMELIN NUCLEAR PLANT, Czech Republic (AP) — A quarter-century after the collapse of communism, Central Europe faces a new divide: irreconcilable visions of nuclear power that pit nations once on the opposite sides of the Iron Curtain against one another.
Yemeni rebels fired rockets at the oil refinery in port city Aden on Thursday, sparking a new blaze in the facility that has repeatedly come under attack, an industry official said. Thick smoke formed over the refinery, which rebels hit with Katyusha rockets, witnesses and the industry official said, adding that residents in nearby areas were evacuated. “Two Katyusha rockets, fired by the Huthis, hit the refinery in the morning,
Japan is known for its expensive, upper-crust golf clubs, CNN reported. Now, the country is facing a severe over-development of golf courses. Kyocera has already begun construction of a 23-megawatt solar power plant on an abandoned golf course in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and plans to develop a 92-megawatt plant at an abandoned golf course in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Consol Energy Inc. is laying off nearly 500 workers from its natural gas and corporate divisions. The Cecil, Pennsylvania-based company said Tuesday that it’s cutting 290 jobs from its gas and corporate …
Online store Amazon said it has contracted Spanish utility Iberdrola to build and manage a wind farm in North Carolina, United States, to power its current and future cloud data centers. Amazon affiliate Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Monday the wind farm would be operational by December of next year, putting it on track to surpass a goal for 40 percent its electrical grids to be powered by renewable