enhanced oil recovery News
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CSP Industry Experts and Customers to gather at 6th MENASOL event
CSP Today, along with PV Insider has launched the 6th Annual Middle East & North Africa Solar Conference & Exhibition (MENASOL) Taking place on 6-7 May 2014 in Dubai the event will bring together over 400 companies and individuals focused on getting CSP projects and profitable business in the MENA region. The markets of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan and Kuwait hold huge promise for CSP ...
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CSP Today webinar featuring HSBC Saudi Arabia and Eversheds LLP to discuss project bankability in Saudi Arabia
This complimentary webinar will discuss the investment criteria and challenges of securing finance in the world’s most promising solar market. Concentrated solar power has continued to battle against conventional power in Saudi Arabia’s energy mix. However, a recent announcement from Saudi Electricity Company about an ISCC plant with a 30MW unit of parabolic trough is an indicator ...
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NRDC releases new economic data on clean energy legislation
Statement by Dan Lashof, Director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The American Clean Energy and Security Act is a win-win for our economy and our environment. Under ACES, there will be more jobs, less global warming pollution and greater security, all for less than the cost of a postage stamp a day. These are the conclusions of ‘A Clean Energy Bargain,’ an ...
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An industry first: SNC-Lavalin successfully integrates a commercial post-combustion CCUS system into a coal-fired power plant
SaskPower recently set a precedent when it fired up a commercial-grade carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) system at its Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan. It’s the first time that a CCUS system of this size has ever been retrofitted into a coal-fired plant anywhere in the world. SNC-Lavalin was proud to provide complete EPC and training services for the project’s ...
By SNC-Lavalin
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ADA-ES Signs $19 Million Contract with DOE to Scale up Clean Coal Technology
Solid-Sorbent-Based Carbon Capture Technology Is Being Developed to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Power Generating and Industrial PlantsLITTLETON, Colo.- ADA-ES, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADES) (“ADA”) today announced that it has signed a new contract with the Department of Energy (DOE) to continue development of clean coal technology to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants and ...
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TVP Panels Demonstrate No Need For Cleaning In Year-Long Desert Environment Test
Today TVP Solar has revealed the result of one year's testing in Kuwait, demonstrating a unique feature of their MT-Power high-vacuum solar thermal panel: high efficiency operation despite dust accumulation, even in harsh desert environments with no cleaning. During the test period, July 2014 through July 2015, the never-cleaned MT-Power panel showed average efficiency reduction of just 11%, ...
By TVP Solar SA
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Siemens gasification technology for Canada’s first low-CO2 power plant
Siemens coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC power plant. EPCOR Power Generation is planning to build an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant (IGCC) featuring carbon capture and storage in Genesee near Edmonton, Alberta. The demonstration plant, with an installed capacity of approximately 270 megawatts, is scheduled to come on line in 2015. ...
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Utility CO2 mitigation markets will grow at double-digit rates
Operators of coal-fired power plants are committing billions of dollars in expenditures to reduce the quantities of CO2 per kilowatt of power produced. These expenditures are accelerating at double-digit rates. Forecasts of the revenues for CO2 capture, efficiency improvements and research are provided in the new Utility CO2 Mitigation Markets published online by the McIlvaine Company. The ...
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To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production
America's newest and cleanest coal-fired power plant comes with a catch: The heat-trapping carbon dioxide removed from its smokestack pollution will help force more oil out of the ground. Some environmentalists complain that it ends up releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is stored underground as waste. It's another example of the Obama administration promoting new, cleaner ...
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GE Completes Acquisition of John Wood Group PLC’s Well Support Division, Increasing Position in Enhanced Oil Recovery and Shale Gas Production
GE (NYSE: GE) is pleased to announce it has completed the strategic acquisition of John Wood Group PLC’s Well Support Division, expanding GE Oil & Gas’ extensive drilling and surface manufacturing and services portfolio. The John Wood Group PLC Well Support division, which has over 3,800 employees globally and operates approximately 20 manufacturing ...
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Chevron awarded rights to develop new venezuelan energy project
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today announced that a consortium led by its Venezuelan subsidiary has been selected to negotiate its participation in a project composed of three blocks in the Orinoco Oil Belt (Faja) of eastern Venezuela. 'We look forward to being part of this new opportunity that will expand development of one of the world's largest known hydrocarbon resources,' said Chevron ...
By Chevron
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GlassPoint to develop new 2 GW CSP plant in Oman; Spain set to kickstart solar growth
GlassPoint Solar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Occidental of Oman to develop a 2 GW CSP plant for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at the Mukhaizna oilfield. Preliminary studies have been completed and the partners have started engineering work to define the project scope and field integration plans, the companies said in a joint statement. GlassPoint is already developing the ...
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Over US$15 billion mining projects in Peru will open off-grid opportunities for CSP
Peru´s Minister of Energy and Mines announced the start of US$15 billion mining projects in Peru between this year and 2015. Given the high solar radiation of the country, this represents new opportunities for CSP to supply energy for the mining sector. Between the end of 2013 and first half of 2015, Peru will see the development of US$15 billion mining projects. According to Jorge ...
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Solar Turbines Partners with Chevron on Hydrogen-fueled Gas Turbine Engine
Chevron and Caterpillar-owned Solar Turbines are working together to adapt a low-emissions turbine engine partially fueled by hydrogen. Blending hydrogen with traditional fuels to power the engine could help reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Results from the collaboration could inform the potential of lower carbon turbine intensity operations in the future. “We believe this ...
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DOE signs cooperative agreement for new hydrogen power plant
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a cooperative agreement with Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) to build and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered electric generating facility, complete with carbon capture and storage, in Kern County, Calif. The new plant is a step toward commercialization of a clean technology that enables use of our country’s vast fossil energy resources while ...
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Saudi Arabia reveals plans for its first power plant using CSP to supply to the grid
Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has selected CSP to produce electricity with the 550MW Duba 1 project, an Integrated Solar Combined Cycle power plant (ISCC) located 50kmNorth of Duba near Tabuk, on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. This is the first time CSP has been chosen to be deployed above very small scale in the country. SEC has called for requests for expressions of interest (EOI) to ...
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Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector generates superheated steam above 500°C
Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector has successfully generated superheated steam at temperatures above 500°C at its 1.4 megawatt (MW) demonstration plant in Murcia, Spain, by implementing an innovative receiver design. “With this technical achievement, Novatec Solar takes a leading position in the development of high temperature CSP technology”, says Martin Selig, Head of ...
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GE Receives Key EPA ‘Mobile Certification’ for Waukesha Natural Gas Engines for Oilfield Power Generation
GE’s Technology Enables Firms to Replace Diesel Units with Lower Cost, Cleaner Gas Engines Waukesha Units Offer Ideal Field Gas-Fueled Solutions for Drill Rigs and Enhanced Oil Recovery Project Illustrates GE’s Role in Meeting Unconventional Gas Sector’s Technology Needs GE (NYSE: GE) today announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has certified two of the ...
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Southern Company, KBR to help drive global adoption of 21st century coal gasification technology
Southern Company – through subsidiary Southern Generation Technologies, LLC – and KBR, LLC, of Houston, Texas, have formed an alliance to market 21st century coal technology, Transport Integrated Gasification (TRIG™), to power companies worldwide. This innovative coal gasification process can provide power companies an efficient means to generate electricity using an ...
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Hyperlight Energy Awarded $1.5 Million from U. S. Department of Energy to Advance Low-Cost Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Collector
Hyperlight Energy, a developer and manufacturer of low cost Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology, announced today that it was selected by the U. S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to receive a $1.5 million award to develop a pilot CSP production line in San Diego, CA. The project will also validate a rapid field deployment design in a one-megawatt demonstration project at the ...
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