opinion By Glenn Ashton · Our most recent round of load shedding, coupled to Eskom’s current application to increase power tariffs by over 25 percent, has raised the level of public anger and frustration with both the national power utility and government. Eskom has now ineluctably demonstrated its incapacity to deliver on its mandate to […]
May 13, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy ReviewNote: Ethanol volumes do not include gasoline that must be added to denature ethanol, rendering it undrinkable and therefore taxable as fuel rather than as beverage alcohol. In 2014, U.S. fuel ethanol production reached 14.3 billion gallons of ethanol fuel, the highest level ever. The […]
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When a waterjet first comes out of an orifice the flow (providing the upstream conditions are properly aligned) will form a cylindrical stream, with the jet pressure across that stream relatively constant. Within about an inch, depending on the flow conditions, ripples start to appear on that smooth cylinder (Rayleigh waves) and these grow and […]
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By Igoniko Oduma The Bayelsa State Government on behalf of farmers whose means of livelihoods were destroyed by the April 15 oil spill from Shell’s Kolo Creek manifold in Otuasega, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have concluded plans to initiate a legal action to obtain justice. It was gathered that the move, an […]
May 12, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update Republished May 12, 2015, 11:30 a.m., to correct an error in the text. Supply disruptions in the tightly balanced and relatively isolated California gasoline market have increased wholesale and retail gasoline prices over the past several weeks. This comes after markets had […]
May 11, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2015 Reference Case and Annual Electric Generator Report ()Note: Other includes hydropower, geothermal, biomass, municipal solid waste, and other gaseous fuels used in end-use sectors. In the coming decades, additions to U.S. electricity generation capacity are expected to be lower than in the recent […]
analysis By Nurye Yassin The road to success in the realm of foreign relations depends on a country’s sober assessment of the methods, including the use of soft power and hard power, used to pursue its national interests. In the 21st century, soft power, which is the ability to shape what others want and project […]
By Chibuzor Emejor Abuja — Petroleum Equalisation Fund[PEF]has revealed that it saved more than $ 2billion through “Project Aquila”, which is a high-tech electronic loading and delivery system introduced by PEF to check leakages in the system as well as enthrone transparency and due process. The agency’s outgoing Executive Secretary, Mrs. Adefunke Kasali, disclosed this […]
May 6, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) is the only nationally representative source of statistical information on energy-related characteristics, consumption, and expenditures for the nation’s 5.6 million commercial buildings totaling 87 billion square feet of floor space. , and consumption and expenditures data […]
opinion By Tarila Marclint Ebiede The recent presidential elections in Nigeria have bolstered hope for democracy, both in the country and across the African continent. The challenge now, as always, will be to realise the hopes and aspirations expressed by both voters and the victorious party. To do this, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, will have to […]
May 8, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) Increases in the size of commercial buildings have outpaced increases in the number of those buildings over the past decade, according to EIA’s . EIA’s CBECS is the only nationally representative data collection for building characteristics and energy use in commercial […]
May 7, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Turner, Mason & Company In response to multiple requests over the past years, EIA is developing a series of analyses that address the implications of current limitations on crude oil exports for prices, including both world and domestic crude oil and petroleum product prices, and […]
“A key feature of 2014 was the continuing spread of renewable energy to new markets. Investment in developing countries, at $ 131.3 billion, was up 36% on the previous year and came the closest ever to overhauling the total for developed economies, at $ 138.9 billion, up just 3% on the year. Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, […]
May 5, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: All sources are net receipts except field production. PADD is Petroleum Administration for Defense District. Monthly rail receipts of crude oil accounted for more than half (52%) of the crude oil supply to East Coast refineries in February. As U.S. and Canadian production of crude oil […]
