July 22, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Years represent vehicle availability in the midsize passenger car size class. Vehicle price and fueling costs are important factors consumers take into account when deciding to purchase a new light-duty vehicle. While vehicle purchase is influenced by cost and fuel economy, other important factors such as […]
Washington — Pressure is building here for lawmakers to pass a bill that would funnel billions of dollars of U.S. investment into strengthening Africa’s electricity production and distribution capabilities, and could offer broad new support for off-grid opportunities. With half of the U.S. Congress having already acted on the issue, supporters are now hoping that […]
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11 writers jostle for $ 100,000 literature prize 17 August 2013 FOLLOWING Monday’s release of the 11 writers in contention for the 2013 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, October can’t come soon enough for the literati anxious to know who takes home the $ 100,000 prize. “This list is hot,” one of the […]
It is difficult to see any positive interpretation of the changes and conflicts that are increasingly filling the headlines of the press. Fluctuating optimism over the return to credible export production from Libya, to take but one example, is no sooner reported when the news comes of increased fighting in Tripoli, including the international airport. […]
July 17, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information AdministrationNote: Resource categories are not drawn to scale relative to the actual size of each resource category. The graphic shown above is applicable only to oil and natural gas resources. Crude oil and natural gas resources are the estimated oil and natural gas volumes that might be produced […]
Two Harare businessmen have been fined US$ 4 500 by Zesa Holdings for illegally connecting electricity at their business premises. The matter only came to light after the Zesa loss control unit, acting on a tip-off, inquired and confirmed that the owner of Big Apple, a Nigerian, Mr Christian Okeke and one Mr Matanhire operating […]
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In an early section of these notes on high-pressure water and its uses, there was a review of some of the ways in which jet power could be assessed. For the most part the best way to see how changes in a system alter the way the jets cut is to run a simple cutting […]
July 18, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2014 Transportation energy consumption, including energy demand from light-duty vehicles, heavy-duty vehicles, aircraft, marine vessels, rail, and other sources, reached 13.8 million barrels per day oil equivalent (boe/d) in 2012 (28% of all energy consumption in the United States), down from a peak of […]
The United States Embassy in Monrovia has disclosed that the hydro power plant project in Suakoko, Bong County, remains on course. Recently, this paper reported that USAID has withdrawn support from the construction of a one megawatt hydro project in Bong County. However, U.S. Ambassador Deborah Malac clarified that USAID is still committed to provide […]
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NLNG set to increase cooking gas supply 19 August 2013 The Nigerian Liquifield and Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited has assured consumers that it will supply enough Liquifield Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking gas, to the market. To do this, it has increased the supply of the product from 150,000 to 250,000 metric tonnes […]
THE government stands to gain under the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) entered between the state and Statoil Company, the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) has maintained. Dismissing claims circulating in the local media that the government stands to lose billion of shillings annually under the PSA contract, outgoing TPDC Managing Director Yona Kilagane, said the […]
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Although I bought one of the earliest versions of Poser, then produced by Fractal Design, back in the early 1990’s I have not done much with the program until recently. It is now in at least it’s tenth version and along the way has become much more sophisticated. Figure 1. My earliest Poser Manual cover […]
Commissioners for Finance from the 36 states of the federation rose from their monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting in Abuja, yesterday, insisting that petroleum products subsidy must be removed. While their position was consistent with that of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, it sharply contradicted the thinking of the Nigerian Senate, which […]
BY FESTUS AHON ABUJA—As Deltans celebrate the swearing in of Dr. Steve Oru as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs by President Goodluck Jonathan, stakeholders and political leaders in the state have described his appointment as a good omen for the development of the Niger Delta region. In separate chats with Vanguard, Deltans said Oru’s knowledge […]
July 15, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, modified from Although light-duty vehicle types such as diesel, full-hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and plug-in electric have garnered significant attention in recent years as ways to reduce petroleum consumption and lower consumer fuel costs, standard gasoline vehicles, including those that use micro and mild hybridization, of new sales […]
