Monday, October 7, 2013

STUFF ... US poised to be world's largest producer of petrol products, NG by yearend: EIA ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) launched finance program targeting US residential market ... UN group moved to develop global airline emission rules, rejecting EU system ... NRC postponing public meetings in shutdown ... Kansas Supreme Court unanimous decision to scrap permit for Sunflower El Power coal-fired power plant project ... Decline in Greenland caribou from dwindling Arctic sea ice ... Giant meltwater channels contribute to Antarctic ice shelf loss: study ... Cleveland aims to reduce GHG emissions 80% by '50 ... First Energy to close 2 coal power plants in PA ... Trans Canada delaying ap for $12B Energy East pipeline ... EU proposal to regulate land for biofuel crops stalled in Parliament ... Industry coalition demanding UN panel withdraw report linking biofuels to food insecurity ... UCLA scientists found way to produce 50% more fuel from sugar ... Beijing to build 4 NG power plants to replace 4 coal power plants ... Cooling pumps failed at Fukushima ... Iraq oil exports fell to 2.1Mb/d in Sept from 2.6M in Aug. Basra oil terminal construction, north pipeline bombings, projects slippage ... Noble Energy found NG deposit off Cyprus. Up to 6TCF ... India making deals with Russia on LNG, nuke techs ... West Canada's 1st crude-by-rail terminal to start shipping 50Kb/d oil sands crude to US next month. Expansion to 100K by 2H14 ... Chevron draft shale NG production agreement with Ukraine ... Gazprom to begin Arctic oil production this year. Greenpeace activist "pirates" still in jail ... Brit comp to survey onshore Lebanon oil/NG potential ... Japan's GHG emissions 2nd highest on record last FY. Fossil power replaced nuke ... Bangladesh began building their 1st nuke power plant. To provide 10% of country's power. Govt plans 20Gw total power capacity by '21 ... OPEC: N America oil production to start falling in '19 from decline in shale oil wells ... Koch said ops at its 1st LNG production facility in Eagle Ford to start in '15. To supply Eagle Ford production ... Uganda to approve oil production licenses for at least 6 of 20 fields ... Shell plans to sell its 100K acre Eagle Ford stake, 600K acres in Kansas ... S Africa to source biofuels, sorghum production may grow 5x ... ND to be 9th state to offer E15 ... World fossil fuel demand too high to be controlled: anonymous ... Rigzone.com solving oil industry generational gap of knowledge, experience, wisdom ... LNG locomotives to be common in US by '16. In '11, US railroads used over 3B gal of diesel ... US frack industry has used 250B gal of water since '05. Over 80K wells drilled. 127T gal in Lake Erie (3% of Great Lakes) ... 49Mw biomass plant to be built near Tokyo. Online by '16. $165M. Woody biomass, palm kernel shells feedstock ... Sumitomo to build 35Mw geothermal power plant in Indonesia. Online mid '15 ... Schmid (Germany) to build S America's largest solar panel factory in Argentina. 70Mw/yr capacity ... Local comps, Swiss developer dominated Russia's clean energy auction ... Tata Steel targeting downstream PV cost reductions with commercial ground mount system ... Bluefield Solar Income Fund to buy 5 English PV projects ... Egypt to launch 200Mw solar tender this month. 10 20Mw plants ... UK subsid in Philippines to build $500M clean energy projects by '17 ... China bank providing $18M for 27Mw wind farm in S Africa ... Abengoa 400M Euro share offering ... Solar Grid Storage (PA) to raise $50M to finance 50Mw of solar/batt storage projects ... Calif "Shared Renewables" bill now law. Allows all customers of state's largest utilities to buy 100% of el from clean/ren sources.

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