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Edge Resources Inc. Kicks Off Multi-Well Drilling Program
Edge Resources Inc. ("Edge" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:EDE)(AIM:EDG) is very pleased to announce that, following from the oversubscribed financing (announced November 18, 2013), it has already secured a drilling rig for a multi- well drilling program in Eye Hill, Saskatchewan. The Company is planning on drilling a minimum of three wells back-to-back in December 2013.
The planned locations are within a few hundred meters of the existing, vertical well that has far e...
Oil and Gas
- Exploration - Dec 4, 2013
Day & Zimmermann Awarded Contract With PPL at Susquehanna Nuclear Plant
Day & Zimmermann (D&Z), the century-old, family-owned provider of construction and engineering, staffing and defense solutions for leading corporations and governments around the world, announced today it has been awarded a three-year contract with PPL Susquehanna to provide ongoing supplemental labor support for the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania, about 20 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre. The Susquehanna plant has two boiling water reactors with a combin...
Nuclear
- Contracts, Power Generation - Dec 4, 2013
Statoil awarded exploration permit offshore New Zealand
Statoil has obtained 100% equity share in an exploration permit in the Reinga-Northland Offshore Release Area in the New Zealand Block Offer 2013.
The permit covers approximately 10,000 square kilometres and is located approximately 100 kilometres from shore to the west of New Zealand's North Island, in water depths ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 metres.
"We are very pleased with the award, which is in line with the sharpened exploration strategy Statoil has pursued over the las...
Exploration
- Oil and Gas - Dec 5, 2013
GM Announces $24-M Landfill Gas Investment
General Motors announced today a $24-million investment in electrical generation equipment that will allow the company to use more landfill gas at its Fort Wayne, Ind., and Orion, Mich., assembly plants.
The new equipment will generate more than 14 megawatts of electricity from landfill gas, a renewable energy source, which will help GM avoid producing more than 89,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. That’s equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 18,542 passenger vehicles....
Power Generation
- Clean Transport - Dec 4, 2013
EU says Gazprom offers to settle anti-trust case
The European Commission said Wednesday that Russian gas giant Gazprom has offered to settle an anti-trust probe which has caused tensions between the EU and Moscow.
At a meeting with senior company officials, "Gazprom expressed its willingness to explore the possibility of a commitment-based solution to ... competition concerns," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.
Gazprom will present "draft proposals in writing in the coming days, which the Commission wi...
Oil and Gas
- Dec 4, 2013
EU allows Gazprom to take over Dutch, German gas companies
The European Commission cleared Russian gas giant Gazprom on Wednesday to take joint or sole control of four Dutch and German gas companies.
Gazprom is take joint control of WINZ and Wintershall Services of the Netherlands, which are involved in oil and gas exploration and production in the North Sea.
It will take over completely Wingas and WIEH which supply gas mainly in Germany.
The Commission said it took the decisions after concluding the transactions "would not raise com...
Oil and Gas
- Dec 4, 2013
Microgrid control technology to enable greening of remote island
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has delivered and commissioned a microgrid control solution that enables the island of Faial in the Atlantic ocean to add more wind energy to its power mix without destabilizing the network.
Faial is one of nine volcanic islands in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago located midway between Europe and North America, about 1,500 kilometers from the mainland. The island of 15,000 inhabitants has an electricity network which operates as...
Wind
- Dec 4, 2013
Ascent Solar's Flexible Photovoltaic Modules Selected for The Volvo Pure Tension Pavilion Project
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a manufacturer of award winning flexible CIGS thin-film photovoltaic modules as well as consumer and off-grid products integrated with the flexible modules, announced the company's proud involvement in the Volvo Pure Tension Pavilion project, where Ascent's revolutionary, flexible and lightweight CIGS solar modules were selected for integration into the Pavilion's tensioned mesh membrane structure.
The striking pavilion is a porta...
Solar
- Clean Transport - Dec 4, 2013
