Oil prices were virtually unchanged in Monday trade after recent strong rises fuelled by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and as major crude producer Iran said OPEC would hold a special meeting next month.
A parliamentarian from the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) described the oil contracts signed between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and international companies as “legal,” adding the oil minister’s statements about them “lack accuracy.”
On January 1st, 2009 another of the world’s largest Q-Max LNG carriers was delivered to Nakilat and Qatargas Operating Company Limited at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., Okpo shipyard on Geoje Island.
The inedible nuts of the jatropha plant consist of 30 percent to 40 percent oil that can be converted into biofuel.
(Credit: Air New Zealand)
Air New Zealand, along with Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and Honeywell, retooled one of the four Rolls-Royce RB211 engines on a Boeing 747-400 to run on an …
It’s taken three years of post-Hurricane Rita restoration work but BP’s Texas City refinery began operating at full capacity this week, meeting its own end of 2008 deadline.
Al-Waha Chinese Company started executing the first stage of al-Ahdab oil excavation project in western Wassit, the province’s governor said on Friday.
Chinese oil engineers have begun work on developing a major Iraqi oil field following the signing of a three billon dollar contract, a senior Iraqi official said on Saturday.
(Arabic) Oil prices trade at $46/barrel in early 2009 - down 54% from same period, last year.
A solar-paneled Prius done by Solar Electric Vehicles.
(Credit: SEV)
Toyota is developing a solar-powered Prius, the Nikkei newspaper has reported yet again.
It was interesting when we heard about this in July.
But it seems to us that someone over at Toyota has now been fake-leaking/hinting news about …
Filed under: Hydrogen, Legislation and Policy, USA
Federal funds for the auto industry are being handed out left and right these days, and the US Fuel Cell Council thinks that the Feds should find $1.2 billion for a Fuel Cell Stimulus Plan. The USFCC says that the money will create an estimated 24,000 jobs as well as “put hundreds of fuel cell vehicles and up to 100 megawatts of fuel cell power into customers’ hands, reap efficiency, environmental and security benefits and create green jobs and high-tech manufacturing capacity for the American economy.” Specifically, the Council thinks the government should:
You can read the full USFCC proposal here (page 2) and in the two-page gallery below. Green Car Congress reminds us that last July, a National Research Council study estimated that it would take about $200 billion between now and 2023 to make fuel cell vehicles competitive with gas-powered ones, and the government would have to pay about $55 of that.
Gallery: USFCC Proposal
[Source: USFCC via Green Car Congress]
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