The government of Canada will invest in technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in oil sands by converting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into commercial products, the National Research Council Canada (NRC; Ottawa) says. The three-year Algal Carbon...
European energy commissioner Günther Oettinger has challenged EU member states to complete the internal, European energy market, to secure supplies in a cost-effective and sustainable way. "We have an internal market, but yet countries seek to solve...
The company will be allowed to export at a rate of up to 1.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) for a period of 20 years....
Industrial group UPM- Kymmene (Helsinki) has registered a court request with the Helsinki District Court to invalidate Neste Oil's (Espoo, Finland) biodiesel patent, alleging it does not differ from previously patented innovations, UPM tells CW. UPM...
Competitively priced energy will be essential if the European Union is to deliver jobs and growth alongside progress in combating climate change, Cefic said at a business summit held recently at Brussels. Cefic leaders urged policymakers to balance climate...
The European Commission says it has carried out unannounced inspections at the premises of several companies operating in the crude oil, refined oil products, and biofuel sectors amid concerns that the companies may have colluded in reporting distorted prices...
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (Iffco; New Delhi) and Vale (Rio de Janeiro) have signed a five-year agreement, under which Vale will supply Iffco with rock phosphate from its Bayóvar mines, in Peru, for the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers...
An appeal preventing Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE; Northwich, UK), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Chemicals (Mumbai), from building an energy-from-waste (EfW) facility to supply the company's soda ash plant at Lostock, UK, has been dropped, TCE has...
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) is leading a consortium sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bonn) to develop cobalt-based, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) for use in photovoltaic and other indoor and outdoor applications, the...