VIEW FROM THE TOP
Mike Major, Chief Executive of the EIC, interviews Dr Andy Spurr, Managing Director of Existing Nuclear at British Energy about the outlook for the nuclear industry in the UK
KIOGE 2009 PREVIEW
plus event previews for Oil & Gas Indonesia in Jakarta, the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, CIPPE in Beijing and Australasia Oil & Gas in Perth
CARBON STORAGE SET TO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO NORTH SEA INDUSTRY
Within a few years, carbon capture and storage could be an industry the size of the present day North Sea oil and gas business. This simple reverse of the oil and gas business – putting CO2 gas back into the ground – offers Britain a means to achieve its stated emissions reduction targets while continuing to use fossil fuels to generate electricity
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FIELDS OF GOLD:
THE RACE IS ON TO DEVELOP IRAQ'S VAST RESERVES OF OIL AND GAS
As the chaos from years of war and dictatorship subsides, the focus in Iraq shifts to its vast oil and gas reserves, and how best to harness their economic potential for the benefit of its people. Iraq's prized reserves are its most valuable asset, while to the international oil and gas sector they potentially offer a wealth of commercial opportunity. The question is can they work together for mutual benefit?
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EDF OUTLINES SUPPLIER OPPORTUNITIES ON ITS UK NEW BUILD PROGRAMME
In June EDF Energy took the unprecedented step of holding a supply chain forum to showcase its proposed UK nuclear new build programme, defining the central role that British businesses could have in delivering its planned investment in nuclear power
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ELETROBRÁS LIGHTS THE WAY IN LATIN AMERICA
Brazil's Eletrobrás is Latin America's largest electric utility company, covering generation, transmission and distribution. Eletrobrás offered ENERGY FOCUS a unique insight into its operations, current and planned projects, which serve to highlight the fact that there is phenomenal growth in this region yet to be seen
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A WAVE OF INNOVATION HITS THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND
This time next year, the world's largest wave energy demonstrator project will have been constructed off the coast of Cornwall in South West England. Called Wave Hub, the £42 million project will have an initial capacity of up to 20MW and allow arrays of wave energy devices to be tested on a scale never seen before
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ORMEN LANGE STRETCHES THE LIMITS OF DEEPWATER TECHNOLOGY
It is twelve years and billions of dollars of investment on from the moment that geologists confirmed that they had discovered a vast new reservoir of natural gas in the southern region of the Norwegian Sea. The Ormen Lange field, aptly named after a Viking longship meaning Long Serpent, is Norway's first true deepwater project
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