Posts on ‘April 6th, 2008’

upstreamonline.com: Floating LNG on menu at Prelude By Russell Searancke Shell’s Prelude gas field off north-west Australia could be the location of the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production and storage vessel, said Shell’s executive director of gas and power Linda Cook. Cook told the APPEA conference in Perth, Australia, that FLNG had [...]

The expansion will require driving 50,000 concrete piles into the swampy soil. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: A $7 Billion Expansion Updates Texas Refinery Aramco, Shell to Double Size Of Historic Plant, Modify It To Handle ‘Nastiest Crudes’ By NEIL KING JR. April 7, 2008; Page B1 PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Oil companies are traveling farther [...]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Sempra’s Flow to Natural Gas Proves Timely Investment in LNG Comes as Utilities Begin to Shun Coal By REBECCA SMITH April 7, 2008; Page B5 As utilities abandon plans to build coal-fired power plants, a big bet Sempra Energy has made on natural gas is turning out to be timely.   [...]

Financial Times: Moot but advantageous By Della Bradshaw Published: April 7 2008 03:00 | Last updated: April 7 2008 03:00 It was on April 8 1908 that 33 aspiring managers gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, to begin a new type of degree, a masters in business administration. Eight – all men – finished the two-year course [...]

The Guardian: Climate target is guaranteed catastrophe Nasa scientist warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions Ed Pilkington in New York Monday April 7 2008 One of the world’s leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because [...]

All charged up: the electric Tesla Roadster, on sale in California, does 135mph with a range of 225 miles Daily Telegraph: Green cars set for a bright future By Russell Hotten Monday 07/04/2008 Fuel cells, hybrids, biodiesel, electricity, even compressed air: no one wants to talk about petrol any more. The motor industry has predicted [...]

Daily Telegraph: Spain’s gain from wind power is plain to see By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Oviedo, northern Spain Last Updated: 11:58pm BST 06/04/2008 Windmills pay. On a breezy Saturday at the end of March, Aeolian Parks scattered across the hill-top ridges and off-shore sandbanks of Spain produced 40.8pc of the country’s electricity needs – 9,862 [...]

Shell’s Brand shame By Paddy Briggs Take a good look at the photograph. What do you see? It’s a Shell petrol station, of course, and easily recognisable as such but when do you think that the photo was taken? If you said sometime in the 1970s or 1980s you would be logically correct. The visual [...]

SeekingAlpha: The Real Solution to the Energy Problem Jerry Pham: Bio & more articles We have now spent over $1 trillion to get oil from the Middle East. We spend billions of dollars to maintain military bases in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait. We’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest in order to keep crude flowing [...]

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Energy economy booming in Houston By The Associated Press Sunday, April 6, 2008 HOUSTON — Filling up in the nation’s energy capital is as painful as anywhere these days. Twenty bucks barely makes a dent on the gauge when gasoline prices are $3.25 a gallon and edging higher. But after filling up in [...]

NewsRoom Finland: Niinistö tops Finnish president poll 4.4.2008 at 15:15 Sauli Niinistö (cons), speaker of Finland’s Parliament and run-off presidential election candidate in 2006, comfortably took first place in a poll where Taloustutkimus asked the public’s opinion on a number of potential 2012 election candidates. Weekly Suomen Kuvalehti published the findings in its Friday issue. [...]