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Alex Parker

Shelling In - what assets will bring shell back on top? - 1 views

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    As Shell tries to raise $15 billion in asset sales, Paul French examines the offshore activity that will help bring the company back into favour with investors The year didn't start well for Royal Dutch Shell.
Alex Parker

Six of the most promising new green power technologies - 1 views

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    From concentrated solar power to floating wind turbines and from printable organic solar cells to biomass gasification, power-technology.com picks six of the most promising new green power technologies. Concentrating solar power technology Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology involving the use of mirrors to focus sunlight onto a receiver that captures and converts the solar energy into heat for electricity generation has been in use since 1980s.
Alex Parker

Celebrating Surya - India's lofty solar ambitions - 1 views

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    In line with their ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the Indian government has recently announced plans for what could become the world's most powerful solar plant.
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Solar farms - abuzz with biodiversity? - 1 views

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    Britain's ability to generate green electricity is growing, but with utility-scale solar farms typically covering up to 100 acres of land or more - usually in rural areas - is it good news for wildlife?
Alex Parker

Inspiring development - BP's UK Upstream Learning Centre opens - 1 views

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    BP has opened its first-ever UK centre dedicated to training and development via life-size simulators, augmented reality and 3D visualization capability. Offshore-Technology's Heidi Vella was invited to the centre to experience the centre first-hand. In July, BP opened the doors to its shiny-new Upstream Learning Centre built on spare land at its International Centre for Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sunbury-on-Thames.
Alex Parker

Black gold billionaires - the 10 biggest oil producing countries - 1 views

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    The world's 10 biggest oil producing countries account for over 65% of the world's total oil output with Saudi Arabia, the United States and Russia - the top 3 oil producers - contributing significantly more than all seven other countries put together.Offshore-technology.com profiles the 10 biggest oil producing countries based on the latest production data.
Alex Parker

The Alternative Power Dock - 1 views

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    Alternative maritime power for docked container vessels has made steady progress throughout the decade. But isn't it time more ports and shipping lines adopted the technology? asks Alex Hawkes. As the climate talks in Copenhagen draw to a close and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) comes under increasing pressure to address the shipping industry's carbon emissions, alternative maritime power (AMP) is looking an increasingly obvious solution.
Alex Parker

Breaking the ice: researchers chart new ground in Arctic oil spill response - 1 views

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    Founded in January 2012, the Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology Joint Industry Programme (JIP) has just moved into phase II of its research. As it tests the waters in six different areas - and welcomes its latest member Gazprom Neft - what lies ahead for response teams working in icy conditions?
Alex Parker

X2 Resources: Mick the Miner's big comeback - 0 views

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    After resigning from Xstrata in the wake of bitter merger negotiations with Glencore, Mick Davis is on the comeback trail with his new venture X2 Resources. Mining Technology recounts the fractious months leading up to Davis's departure from Xstrata and analyses his plans for X2, a new and well-backed force in the natural resources sector.
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Chile: earthquakes and instability threaten world's copper king - 0 views

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    The massive earthquake which struck Chile in early April this year miraculously left the country's copper operations unscathed. Copper prices rose markedly, however, as investors waited to see what the fallout could be for the world's biggest producer. How didChile's copper industry weather the earthquake so successfully and what could the consequences have been had things gone differently?
Alex Parker

Demolition of power plant deepens humanitarian crisis in Gaza - 1 views

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    The Gaza Power Plant exploded into flames on 29th July. It is believed to have been hit by multiple shells fired by an Israeli tank, though Israel have yet to accept responsibility for it.
Alex Parker

The world's biggest coal consumers - 1 views

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    The top ten coal consuming countries account for over 85% of the world's total coal consumption, with China alone consuming as much as rest of the world together. Mining-technology.com profiles the ten biggest coal consumers based on latest coal consumption and production data.
Alex Parker

Counting the real cost of gold - the reality of artisan mining - 1 views

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    What is the true cost of gold? Is it paid for in currency per ounce or in the blood, sweat and toil of those who mine it? Or is the ultimate cost paid by the environment which is desecrated to find it?A book from the Pulitzer Center, published...
Alex Parker

Video - The MTC 78000 heavy lifting crane at work on OSA Goliath - Offshore Technology - 1 views

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    One of the world's biggest cranes, the Liebherr MTC 78000, goes to work offshore, heavy lifting items for construction of offshore oil and gas rigs.
Alex Parker

Scarce supply - the world's biggest rare earth metal producers - 1 views

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    Rare earth elements (REE) such as scandium, yttrium and 15 other minerals are sought after for their unique technology applications, but their scarcity means those countries lucky enough to contain them hold significant sway over global supply. Mining-technology.com profiles the eight biggest rare earth producers based on latest production and reserve data.
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Leading the way - CCS fitted coal-fired power stations now a reality - 1 views

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    Despite being touted as the best way to clean up dirty fossil fuels, commercial deployment of carbon capture storage (CCS) in the power industry has been near non-existent. Now, for the first time ever, a coal-fired power plant is being retrofitted with CCS.
Alex Parker

Angra-3 PWR Nuclear - Power Technology - 1 views

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    The 1,405MWe Angra-3 PWR nuclear reactor project is on again. The Brazilian Government has announced plans to complete the reactor, which will work alongside the other two at Angra, which is between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The project is estimated to cost $5.6bn and is scheduled for completion in 2018.
Alex Parker

UK nuclear waste - where it's generated, contained, transported and stored - 1 views

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    It will be decades before the UK Government builds a long-term storage for the country's radioactive nuclear waste; but where is this waste produced, contained, transported and stored in the interim, and just how much of it is there? Via an interactive map, Future Power Technology, provides the answers to these questions.
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Sinfonia: energising the European smart city - 1 views

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    The EU-funded Sinfonia smart cities project aims to retrofit more than 100,000m2 of living space in two pioneer districts, optimising technologies for electricity grids and district heating and cooling. At the project's heart is collaboration - the sharing of processes to increase energy savings and develop a coherent framework to expand the use of renewables.
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Brits abroad - finding cleantech investment in Silicon Valley - 1 views

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    Breaking foreign markets and securing foreign finance is vital for many UK-based cleantech start-ups, but how should such companies go about selling their products overseas?
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