A Brazilian consortium and a Pakistani-Canadian company, Hashwani and Son Inc, signed a $300 million agreement for the development of energy and infrastructure projects in Pakistan. The signing
The Fond du Lac Ojibwe Band in Cloquet, Minn., is exploring the potential of using the winds, flowing waters and wood as sources of renewable energy. "This is something the tribes have always been
Canada's second-largest offshore oil project remained idle as regulators looked into the cause of an oil spill into the Atlantic Ocean eight days ago to determine if it was safe to restart
The IndianOil Corporation board on Monday cleared an investment of Rs 150 crore in Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd to take a 7.5 per cent stake in the loss-making firm promoted by The Chatterjee Group.
Two new gas fields have been discovered in upper Assam's Dibrughar district and explorations were on for finding oil in Brahmaputra river bed, Union petroleum and natural gas minister Mani Shankar
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is likely to forge an alliance with Statoil of Norway in its hunt for oil and gas in deep sea, where the exploration giant has so far been unsuccessful despite
Much has been written about an evolving power trading industry in India. At the outset, it is necessary to recognise that power trading is altogether a new concept, with generation having been a
A sub-group under the department of coal has finalised the norms for coal consumption of different grades by captive power plants (CPPs). According to officials, the basis of consumption has been
Gail India is in talks with China Gas Holding Company Ltd for picking up a minority stake in the latter for supplying gas in that country even as it is considering investing over Rs. 2,000 crores
The Oil India Limited and the Assam Gas Company are bringing in a team of experts from abroad for exploration of natural gas beneath the bed of Brahmaputra. This was disclosed by the Union Petroleum
The chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said on Tuesday that a plan for establishing another nuclear power plant in Karachi would soon be placed before the government. Talking to media
While city life demands a solar panel on the roof for hot water, out here the only renewable source of energy is used extensively for a host of activities, especially those related to the rural
A demonstration against the proposed thermal power station to be constructed at Embilipitiya (Sri Lanka) will be held at 10 a.m. today at the main Embilipitiya bus stand. The campaign is organised by
Gas Authority of India Limited is going for a massive exploration of gas in Tripura as they, for the first time, got the exploration right independently in a large part of the state. The company is
Supply of power to eight villages of the Kingri taluka remains disconnected for the last three months. Residents of the villages staged a sit-in outside the press club and said that power supply to
Using electronic regulators that reduce power consumption leads to wave form distortions in voltage and losses in transmission . It also reduces the life of transformers, thereby imposing a
Researchers at the MS University's applied physics department, in collaboration of BARC, have set upon developing cost-effective lamps which can be placed near nuclear power stations so that
The Madhya Pradesh government today said the private Maheshwar power project would be completed by 2010. And by then the central power projects will contribute 1,401
Technology is often associated with the urban sector as it is believed that only those in cities keep up with changing technology. A visit to Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Hassan and other parts of
General Electric Co.'s GE Energy subsidiary and California-based power company Calpine Corp. agreed to build an advanced combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in North America, the companies
