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The first 110-MW unit of the Sarulla geothermal project began commercial operations in late March. When completed, the full project in Indonesia’s North Sumatra will have a capacity of about 380 MW. The project combines flash and binary geothermal technologies.
 

(Mon, 03 Apr 2017) The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is proposing changes to its Petroleum Marketing data collection in 2017

(Mon, 03 Apr 2017) Capital expenditure for 44 U.S. onshore-focused oil production companies increased $4.9 billion (72%) between the fourth quarter of 2016 and the fourth quarter of 2015 based on their public quarterly financial statements. This increase in investment spending was the largest year-over-year increase for any quarter by these 44 companies since at least the first quarter of 2012. More ›

Lekoil has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with GE Oil & Gas (GE), a subsidiary of General Electric Company for the development of a work program for the Ogo field in OPL310.

Petro River Oil, an independent oil and gas exploration company utilizing the latest 3-D seismic technology, announced the spudding of 1 of the 4 exploration wells in its Pearsonia West Concession.

Eni fired up its new High Performance Computing (HPC3) in the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone (PV). HPC3 allows Eni to fully support all the activities in the Exploration and Production sector.

The Ohio House of Representatives yesterday voted 65-31 to pass a bill that would end the state’s current mandate for the amount of renewable energy utilities must provide customers in Ohio.

For over a century, the landscape north of Kimberley, British Columbia, was used for intensive industrial hard-rock mining — but now it’s home to the largest solar farm in all of British Columbia. Over the decades, the site of Teck’s (formerly Cominco’s) Sullivan Mine hosted a steel mill, fertilizer plant and tailings ponds, rendering the area tree-less for the foreseeable future.

There are six oddly-named streams in the bioeconomy, and it reminds one of the nomenclature of subatomic quarks. There is upstream, midstream, downstream, main-stream, waste-stream, and slip-stream. But of all the streams, perhaps there is nothing so vital yet muddled as the identity of the mainstream and that of the slipstreams.

China’s solar PV industry continued its recovery in 2016, with gross output value reaching 336 billion yuan (US$49 billion), a rise of 27 percent compared to 2015, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.

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