The USA and the EU have agreed on a trade deal which appears to avert a trade war. The EU will import more natural gas and soybeans from the USA and both sides will lower industrial tariffs. There will be no new tariffs while further negotiations are completed. There is the claim that they will …
China National Petroleum (CNPC), the largest state-owned producer of oil and natural gas in the China, reportedly plans to nearly double natural gas production from shale sources this year and wants a five-fold increase in such production by 2020. China has a lot of natural gas reserves but it has tougher geology than the USA …
BP predicts natural gas (and biogas) to overtake oil as the world’s primary energy source in around 2040 as demand for the least polluting fossil fuel grows. VP Dominic Emery highlighted estimates for demand growth for gas in China of around 15 percent year-on-year last year and said BP expects overall gas demand to grow …
General Electric plans to cut 12,000 jobs in its power division as the industrial conglomerate’s new CEO institutes sweeping changes and the company grapples with a decline in business for coal and natural gas products. The company will cut nearly one in five positions in its GE Power unit. Overall, the layoffs equal about 4% …
Could we cure climate change? Geoengineering researcher Tim Kruger wants to try. He shares one promising possibility: using natural gas to generate electricity in a way that takes carbon dioxide out of the air. Learn more — both the potential and the risks — about this controversial field that seeks creative, deliberate and large-scale intervention …
The United States announced six goals to achieve global energy dominance. 1. Revive and expand nuclear energy sector 2. Address barriers to financing of overseas coal energy plants 3. Build an oil pipeline to Mexico 4. Sell more American natural gas to South Korea 5. Approve two long-term applications to export additional natural gas from …
A Chinese company has built a machine that has a creative way of setting girders into place for high speed rail bridges. The SLJ900/32, made by the Beijing Wowjoint Machinery Company, is a 580 ton, 300 foot long and 24 foot wide mega machine that looks more like a train than a crane Instead of …
A woman was kept alive with no lungs for six days while she waited for a transplant in April last year. It is thought to be the first operation of its kind in the world and she was kept alive with a small, artificial lung. Melissa Benoit, who lives in Canada, had developed life-threatening complications …
Amazon Prime Air is a delivery system from Amazon designed to safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles, also called drones. Prime Air has great potential to enhance the services we already provide to millions of customers by providing rapid parcel delivery that will also increase the overall …
Microsoft Skype just expanded its feature allowing users to translate their speech in real time. The company announced that Skype Translator, previously only available for calls made between one Skype client and another, will now include all calls to mobile phones and landlines. The Translator feature currently supports nine spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.the world’s largest contract maker of semiconductors, plans to invest NT$500 billion (US$15.7 billion) in its 3-nanometer (3nm) and 5-nanometer (5nm) processes, with the aim of mass-producing the chips by 2022, Technology Minister Yang Hung-duen said Tuesday. The project is expected to create more than 10,000 jobs and construction is slated to …