Algiers — The exploitation of shale gas doesn’t represent a threat to the environment in Algeria, declared Monday a senior official at Sonatrach, mentioning some assets specific to the regions and the nature of the rocks to be fractured. Speaking during the 9th North Africa Oil and Gas Summit being held on 7-9 December in […]
Luanda — A floating facility designed to store, produce and unload the crude oil on (FPSO CLOV) in Angolan offshore Block 17 was inaugurated Thursday in Luanda. The project, worth USD 9 million, was inaugurated by the French owned Oil Firm “Total E & P” in partnership with the Oil Ministry and National Society of […]
December 2, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: In this context, the Northeast includes the Northeast Census region as well as Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia. Republished December 2, 2014, 11:00 a.m. to update text. Spurred by growing natural gas production in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, the natural gas pipeline industry is […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has reemphasized the need to ensure that the New Oil and Gas Laws will reflect the good of society and strengthen the overall growth and development of the country. Speaker Alex Tyler said the validation phase on the New Oil and Gas Laws is a key component in […]
December 5, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. crude oil and lease condensate proved reserves rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2013, increasing by 9% from the 2012 level to 36.5 billion barrels, according to the report released yesterday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). U.S. crude oil and lease condensate proved […]
South Africa has made good progress on climate policy, but that could be held up by a new emerging political economy in the country that can only be described as “more coal, more nuclear, and more gas”, said Saliem Fakir of the WWF . Sadly for South Africans, while there is an understanding of the […]
December 3, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Data not collected in 2009-11. Republished December 3, 2014, 10:00 a.m. to correct map note. Eligibility and participation in customer choice programs, which allow residential and commercial customers to purchase natural gas from nonregulated energy suppliers, have increased over the past 12 years. The number of […]
opinion By Zerihun Abebe Yigzaw Looking at the earth during a night flight across the continent Africa tells all the grim story of a darker and invisible continent; face it, it is not as illuminated as many continents are on earth – mainly Europe, North America and parts of Asia. Save for the North-Eastern corner […]
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Emmanuel Azuken, Political Editor LAGOS—Plans for tomorrow’s primaries to produce the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for Lagos State took a twist last night after 11 of the 12 aspirants demanded a change of the procedures to allow for direct primaries. The stance of the 11 aspirants was purportedly to avoid constitutional […]
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In the earlier posts on this chapter of waterjet technology I have dealt with the changes in cutting performance when a waterjet stream cuts in to material that is either under pressure, or contains internal stresses that may not be obvious at first glance. In this post I will focus, instead, on the changes in […]
Photo: OPEC headquarters. analysis By Anthony Goldman When politicians, fund managers and development professionals look to highlight the success of democratic Nigeria, they typically point to one, key statistic: when the military stood down in 1999 after an almost unbroken generation in power, per capita income in Africa’s most populous state was USD1,940; by 2013, […]
The price of all grades of petrol will fall by 69 cents a litre in December, said the Department of Energy (DoE) on Friday. A litre of petrol will cost R12.47, while it cost R12.06 at the coast. The price of Diesel 0.05% Sulphur will decrease by 53.3 cents a litre, while that of Diesel […]
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In the last post I described how we initially came up with a simple design for drilling through material, using an axially aligned jet and a larger jet offset to one side at an optimal angle of around 20 degrees. One of the problems with the use of this design is that the outer jet […]
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed the 2014/2015 fiscal budget into law, but has vetoed a line item which calls for signature bonus in the amount of US$ 25 million on account of oil blocks. According to an Executive Mansion release, the Liberian President said in good conscience she had decided to exercise the right […]
November 25, 2014 Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-895, “Annual Quantity and Value of Natural Gas Production Report”; Form EIA-914, “Monthly Natural Gas Production Report”; the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and predecessor agencies; state agencies; LCI; DI; Ventyx; BENTEK Energy; and EIA estimates based on historical data Republished November 25, 2014, 10:15 […]
