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By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – The cost of offshore wind energy in Britain can become competitive with more established forms of energy in the next decade through better technology and bigger turbines, a Dong Energy executive told Reuters on Wednesday. Offshore wind is one of the most expensive renewable energy technologies in Britain, because manufacturing and maintaining turbines strong enough to withstand marine environments is costly. The sector still
(Reuters) – U.S. oil company Chevron Corp said on Wednesday it was selling its 40 percent stakes in two Nigerian shallow water offshore oil blocks. Chevron Nigeria Limited said in a statement it was offering Oil Mining Leases (OML) 86 and 88 in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria for sale.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. has been forced to halt operations at three offshore oil platforms because it couldn’t deliver to refineries in the wake of a broken pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast, the company said.
The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt operations at three offshore platforms because it couldn’t deliver oil …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt drilling at three offshore platforms, the company said Tuesday.
Olive Garden’s quarterly sales rose 3.4 percent at established locations as customers spent more at the struggling Italian chain. Parent company Darden Restaurants is moving away from some of the heavy …
By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenian police used water cannon to disperse thousands of people protesting in the capital Yerevan on Tuesday against a hike in electricity prices and detained more than 200 of them. Opposition parties condemned the police action and demanded the release of the 237 held after a rally that showed heightened social tensions in the cash-strapped South Caucasus country. A member of the opposition Armenian
Now scientists want to bring that silence to the world of wind turbines—quieting the noisy rotating monoliths that can irritate neighbors. Scientists at the University of Cambridge are testing a prototype coating. Based on the structure of an owl’s wing, when applied to the blades of wind turbines it could significantly reduce the amount of noise they make.
Spanish protest party Podemos teamed up Monday with a top US anti-austerity economist to launch a green energy plan which they said could create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Vying to drive out Spain’s governing conservative Popular Party in the year-end general election, Podemos turned for its energy investment programme to Robert Pollin, who has worked as an adviser to the US Department of Energy and the United Nations. In
More than 2,500 new wind turbines, amounting to 7.1 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity, are now unlikely to be built in Britain because of a fast-tracked subsidy cut outlined by the new government. British energy minister Amber Rudd said an earlier than planned reduction in onshore wind subsidies was necessary to avoid spending more than required to meet Britain’s legally binding green energy targets. “We are reaching the limits
