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BP entering Ohio’s Utica/Point Pleasant shale

    BP has signed an agreement with the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley (ALOV) to lease approximately 84,000acres in Trumbull County, Ohio in the Utica/Point Pleasant shale basin.

Westinghouse focus on modular reactor development

Westinghouse Electric Co. will be applying to the Department of Energy for up to USD452 million for the rapid development and deployment of the company’s small modular reactor technology in Cranberry, Pennsylvania.

Obama plans Keystone XL expedited pipeline

    President Barack Obama has expressed plans to fast-track an oil pipeline, directing federal agencies to expedite the construction of a 780km pipeline to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast from Oklahoma.

NPPD proceeds with coal plant cleanup

    Through Nebraska Public Power District received pardon from one federal environment regulation after a U.

Demystifying nuclear power

    The Tennessee Valley Authority is taking steps to help the population nervous of nuclear power following last year’s reactor disaster in Japan.

Shell Quest CCS Project invites public comment

      In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their oil sand bitumen upgrader, the Scotford Upgrader in Edmonton, Alberta, Shell Canada Limited is proposing the Shell Quest CCS Project, a fully integrated project involving the capture, transport, injection and storage of carbon dioxide.

Vale awards Jacobs with acid plant contract

    Vale Canada Ltd. granted a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Pump storage plant proposed by Klickitat PUD

    A USD2.5 billion plan to create one of the region’s larger power generation plants, could be made possible with a proposed change in Washington state law.

EPA awards Raytheon with 2012 ENERGY STAR award

Raytheon Company has been awarded the 2012 ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the fifth consecutive year, for ongoing leadership in energy conservation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and innovative energy efficiency practices.

Oil producers oppose Seaway request

    Oil producers in North America are hoping to ease the disconnect in the crude markets by addressing the reversal of the Seaway pipeline to run to refineries nest the Gulf of Mexico from the central United States.