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The Trump administration, which was looking to have a plan in place this week to bail out America’s coal country, will instead have to wait until the new year.

(Mon, 11 Dec 2017) This report provides yearly estimates of the number of producing oil and natural gas wells grouped into 26 production volume brackets ranging from less than 1 barrel of oil equivalent per day (BOE/day) to over 12,800 BOE/day.

(Mon, 11 Dec 2017) The United States has a diverse energy landscape that is reflected in differences in state-level emissions profiles. Between 2005 and 2015, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions decreased in 43 states (including the District of Columbia) and increased in 8 states.

CB&I has received full notice to proceed by Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) for the project management services for a propane dehydrogenation unit (PDH) and a polypropylene plant in the western Atyrau region of Kazakhstan.

Fluor has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Vopak Terminal Durban to deliver the Vopak Growth 4 Project in Durban, South Africa.

As soon as solar started being introduced to the grid, operators and engineers raised concerns about solar resources causing instability. Is it possible, however, for utility-scale solar PV plants to provide grid reliability services? Mahesh Morjaria, vice president of PV systems for First Solar, says yes.
 

Electric grids are mighty complicated. Of course, if you’re in the industry, you don’t need me to tell you that. When we created these huge networks of wires to pass electricity from generator to user, we simultaneously needed to track where the energy originated and where it went so we could figure out how to pay people for the energy they provided.

(Fri, 08 Dec 2017) India is the third-largest steel producer in the world after China and Japan, having surpassed other large steel-making countries such as the United States, Russia, and South Korea over the previous decade, according to the World Steel Association

So if solar won’t be growing in the United States, where should developers look for new markets? One place is in disaster relief. Yung Wong, engineering manager with WorldWater and Solar Technologies explained that when disaster hits, the first thing that the Red Cross and the military do is fly in water bottles.

Simmons Edeco, a supplier of wellhead and valve maintenance, asset integrity solutions and onshore drilling services to the global oil and gas industry, has been awarded a contract by EDF Energy, the UK's producer of low-carbon electricity.

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