(Tue, 01 Sep 2015) The recent rise in domestic crude oil production from 5.6 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2009 to 8.7 million b/d in 2014 and the prospect of continued supply growth have sparked interest in the question of how the relaxation or removal of current policies, which restrict but do not ban exports of crude oil produced in the United States, might affect markets for both crude oil and petroleum products over the next decade. This new EIA report explores this issue.
(Tue, 01 Sep 2015) Biodiesel plants and ethanol plants were added as new layers. Updates to existing layers include coal mines, Federal and Indian lands, liquefied natural gas import/export terminals, natural gas processing plants, oil and gas wells, petroleum ports, petroleum product terminals, petroleum refineries, and solid biomass resources. These changes were also implemented on related interactive State maps such as the Energy Disruptions and Flood Vulnerability Assessment maps.
(Tue, 01 Sep 2015) This map displays boundaries, structure (elevation of the top contours), and isopachs (thickness contours) for major low permeability oil and gas plays in the lower 48 States along with energy infrastructure information.
BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) - China will spend at least 2 trillion yuan ($315 billion) to improve its power grid infrastructure over the 2015-2020 period, a report by a government newspaper said on Monday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-led oil company Petrobras said late Monday that it would raise the wholesale price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 15 percent effective Tuesday, the first price adjustment for the essential cooking gas in 13 years.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 31 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour aimed at showing how the state's melting permafrost and eroding coastlines are a preview of bigger disasters to come unless the world does more to slow climate change.
On Aug. 27, Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure government announced it has leased 22 small hydropower projects located in the northern and western provinces to private investors to spur the country’s hydroelectric energy program. According to energy experts at the ministry, the plants would add about 24.6 MW of hydroelectric energy to the national grid.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 31 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour aimed at spotlighting how its melting permafrost and eroding coastlines show the United States is already being hurt by climate change.
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