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Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) recently said that it will invest CAN$2.6 million for the construction of a “waste-to-bio-pellets” facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Japan’s first new geothermal power plant in 15 years will open next month, heralding the start of a new chapter for the nation’s nuclear-hit energy industry.

China Everbright International is expanding its portfolio of waste-to-energy projects in China’s Shandong Province. The company this week said that it has secured a contract to build the Qihe waste-to-energy project in Qihe County.
 

AES Corp. and Alberta Investment Management Co. completed the $853 million joint acquisition of sPower from Fir Tree Partners Inc., in one of the largest clean-energy deals to date.

First the Model 3 electric car. Now the solar roof. In just one week, Tesla has challenged two distinct industries with radically new products. 

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä is set to deliver a 15-MW solar PV plant in Burkina Faso — creating Africa’s largest thermal-solar PV hybrid power plant. The solar PV development will be integrated with an existing 55-MW Wärtsilä thermal plant (running on heavy fuel oil), to power IAMGOLD’s Essakane Mine, 330km northeast of the Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou.

(Fri, 04 Aug 2017) Nearly 59 million barrels per day (b/d) of global petroleum and other liquids production moved on maritime routes in 2015, or almost 61% of the world total. Many of these products transited the Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz chokepoints around the Arabian Peninsula.

Petrochemicals, also known as petroleum distillates, are derived from various chemical compounds, mainly from hydrocarbons. These hydrocarbons are derived from crude oil, natural gas or renewable sources such as corn or sugar cane. Petrochemicals are primarily divided into three classes depending on their chemical structure – olefins, aromatics and synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen).

Tekmar Energy (Tekmar), global leaders in cable and SURF protection, has recently completed the successful delivery of j-tube seals and bend restrictors for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project.

MEC Resources advised that its investee company, Advent Energy (Advent) has received an initial assessment of its environment plan (EP) from the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environment Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for the planned 2D high resolution seismic survey in PEP11, offshore Sydney Basin.

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