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US Promise Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Mine Technology
President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign promised to “develop and deploy clean coal technology” as part of an overall energy strategy.
Farmer Blockade Of BHP Billiton Coal Mine Exploration at Liverpool Plains
In a shareholders’ report to be published today, the company says environmental concerns are the main reason for narrowing its search to ridge country surrounding the Liverpool Plains.
The news is scant comfort to the farmers whose land is still being targeted for coal mining against their will.
“With the effect of the subsidence from longwall coal [...]
Rusian Mining Exploration Company, Russia’s Norilsk Nickel Stretches From Arctic to SA, US to Australia
In July 2007, a Canada-domiciled mining company was acquired by a Russian group for $5,2-billion. That company was LionOre, and it had assets in Southern Africa – an 85% share in Tati Nickel, in Botswana, and a 50% stake in Nkomati Nickel, in South Africa.
LionOre’s buyer was the giant Russian mining and metallurgical group, OJSC [...]
Oil Mine Exploration Investment Future, Extraordinary Potential of Oil Shale
Along the western slope of the Rocky Mountains lies a possible path toward energy independence.
The world’s largest deposit of oil shale is hidden here, beneath a landscape dotted by pinyon pines and twisted junipers.
If the oil industry can learn how to extract oil and gas from the oil shale in a cost-effective manner, the United [...]
Petroleum Oil Exploration Plan in Sudan
A key rebel leader in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region has singled out oil companies as military targets, particularly from China, posing a threat to the Asian nation’s crude imports and adding to the mounting challenges it faces over its involvement in Africa.
In a face-to-face interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Abdelwahid Nur, head of one of [...]
Grants looks to reclaim title of “Uranium Capital of the World”
It might have been the tombstone for an industry.
The neatly inscribed chunk of rock 25 miles north of Grants marks the final resting place of about 7 million dry tons of tailings – the finely crushed radioactive leftovers of extracting uranium from rock – from the mill site at Ambrosia Lake.
It’s meant as a warning [...]
Oil Exploration Report : Chevron profit jumps 24% on strong refining margins
Chevron Corp., the nation’s No. 2 oil company, said Friday its second-quarter net income rose 24%, propelled by robust refining margins in its core West Coast fuel market and a $680 million gain from the sale of its stake in Houston power company Dynegy.
The results put Chevron CVX at the top end of Big Oil [...]
S. Korea extracts alternative fuel gas hydrate from waters
South Korea has extracted gas hydrate — an alternative fuel source Seoul hopes might help reduce its heavy dependence on oil imports — in its eastern territorial waters, a news report said Sunday.
Gas hydrate, a crystalline compound of water and natural gas found in ocean beds, can be converted for use as liquid natural gas.
The [...]
S. Korea extracts alternative fuel gas hydrate from waters
South Korea has extracted gas hydrate — an alternative fuel source Seoul hopes might help reduce its heavy dependence on oil imports — in its eastern territorial waters, a news report said Sunday.
Gas hydrate, a crystalline compound of water and natural gas found in ocean beds, can be converted for use as liquid natural gas.
The [...]
