The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
The Supreme Court today admitted a special leave petition(SLP) challenging the controversial transfer of the Mukta-Panna oil fields in Bombay High from the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) to a joint consortium of Reliance Industries Ltd., and ONGC at an allegedly huge loss to the public exchequer.The SLP was …
Tata study: The flaring away of large quantity of natural gas produced in the Upper Assam oilfields, has been considerably reduced, but the state is now heading for a massive shortfall of gas by the end of the ninth plan. Studied carried out by Tata Energy Research Institute(TERI) have revealed …
Digging beneath a plain in Ethiopia, paleonotologists have found a skull and other fossils of what they say is a new prehuman species, possibly the long-sought link between apelike ancestors and the human family. Near the site, other scientists discovered the earliest known traces of stone tools used to butcher …
The world will have to use source of energy such as the sun and wind to keep climate change in check in the new millennium, organisers said in announcing the theme for Earth Day 2000.Energy and climate change are the focus of a worldwide campaign to draw attention to energy …
Sometime this month worldwide wind energy capacity will reach 10,000 megawatts - a record, and another demonstration that wind is the fastest growing of all renewable energy sources. The landmark figure for wind energy was announced at a meeting in Madrid of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency …
Ministers announced a coal-research programme in a bid to help British industry win overseas contracts worth about $48bn over the next 10 years. The 12m pound project aims to develop "cleaner coal" technologies that would improve the environmental acceptability of coal-fired power generation.
Global wind power capacity will more than triple over the five years to 2003, Danish wind energy consultancy BTM Consult ApS forecast yesterday. Installed capacity was just 10,000 megawatts (MW) at the end of 1998, but it is expected to soar by 21,000 MW to 2003. The consultancy said there …
The Tamil Nadu Government has requested Andhra Pradesh to advance the release of Telugu Ganga waters to May from July foreseeing shortage of drinking water in Chennai from June.
A key $5.5bn natural gas pipeline, extending 2, 655km from Papua New Guinea to Queensland Australia, now looks set for construction after Exxon agreed to intergate its Hides gas field in Papua New Guinea with Chevron's adjacent Kutubu field. Both fields now provide adequate gas for the potential execution of …
WB : With current reserves-to-production ration standing at 35 years, Bangladesh could easily earmark 2 TCF natural gas for exports that could fetch at least US$200 million a year beginning in 2005 according to a World Bank assessment. The Bank's economist Dr Zaidi Sattar in a paper said the gas …
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a case closely watched by energy companies and thousands of landowners began considering who owns vast deposits of natural gas that are mingled with coal on large tracts of land. In arguments before the U.S. high court, lawyers from Amoco Production Co., now part of …
About six tonnes of heavy water leaked out during inspection of a coolant channel tube at the Madras Atomic Power at the Madras Atomic Power Station(MAPS) last month, exposing some of the repair workers to excess tritium which is mildly radioactive, official confirmed.The leak, which occured on March 26 at …
The government of Ecuador has signed contracts with Wartsila NSD of Finland and Energy Development Corporation of the US to increase the country's electricity generating capacity by 510 megawatts, or 28 per cent of national demand, by the year 2001.
About six tonnes of heavy water leaked out during the inspection of a collant channel at the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) last month, exposing some of the repair workers to excess tritium which is mildly radioactive, officials confirmed.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC)will set up two major oil spill response centres in Mumbai and Kakinda along the western and eastern coasts of the country. This is being done to combat emergency situation arising out of oil spills. According to ONGC director (technical) R C Gourh, …
The state government has identified 4,419 villages where shortage of drinking water could become acute in summer and has drawn up an action plan to ensure supply to the precious liquid till the onset of the monsoon. States water supply minister Narottam Patel told reporters a sum of Rs 37,54 …
The Calcutta Municipal corporation, after failing to check the growth of illegal construction on colony or refugee lands, has decided to impose a blanket ban on construction over waterbodies in the city. The number of existing water bodies which has survived the onslaught of landsharks add up to about 5100, …
A proposal to build new nuclear reactor to replace those destroyed in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster would be unlikely to proceed following German government calls for adherance to strict financial criteria for any EU loans to finance the project, Greenpeace said.
