The management of transmission pipeline integrity faces unique challenges and issues compared with plant equipment and surface transport equipment. Those issues unique to pipelines include the multiple threats to pipeline integrity, many of which are time dependent and the consequence to the public and environment. A structured, program level approach to pipeline integrity has developed [...]

North American shale E&P will be a hot topic at this month’s 3rd E&P Technology Summit at the JW Marriott, Houston on Oct 21st-22nd: www.exproevent.com China’s CNOOC tests U.S. with Chesapeake shale deal Mon, Oct 11 2010 HONG KONG/HOUSTON (Reuters) – China’s top offshore oil producer, CNOOC Ltd, will pay $1.1 billion for a stake [...]

Unconventional E&P and shale play strategy will be a key topic explored at the 3rd E&P Technology Summit at the JW Marriott Houston, Oct 21st-22nd – www.exproevent.com The exploitation of shale gas in emerging countries will help offset energy poverty by offering an affordable energy source, the chairman of the Quebec Oil and Gas Association [...]

Petrobras are past and present speakers at WTG’s portfolio of oil & gas summits including E&P: www.exproevent.com and Refining: www.globalrefiningsummit.com next month in Houston. Brazilian state oil company Petrobras raised $70 billion in the world’s biggest share offering, giving the company the financial muscle it needs to tap vast offshore oil reserves. Brazil’s federal government [...]

Peter Voser, CEO WTG will be welcoming Paul Goodfellow, VP Development – Onshore Gas, Shell E&P as one of our Keynote Speakers at next month’s 3rd E&P Technology Summit – www.exproevent.com – at the JW Marriott in Houston. Paul will be addressing exactly the unconventional gas landscape that Shell CEO, Peter Voser, spoke about this [...]

Networking giant Cisco Systems announced Tuesday a deal with meter maker Itron to advance Internet Protocol-based communications for the power grid. The two companies will create a reference design for using the IPv6 Networking Protocol to connect everything from people’s homes to power distribution equipment on the grid. That reference design will form the basis for gear [...]

Since the utility announced the project in Boulder in 2008, its costs have nearly tripled from initial estimates. But the utility says it’s still learning valuable lessons in providing power. This week the Colorado Public Utilities Commission is holding hearings on the project and how much of its costs Xcel Energy can recover from customers [...]

Should utilities be incentivised to meet low carbon targets or should traditional a mandate approach for regulation be imposed? Rachel Fletcher (Ofgem, UK), Hélder Milheiras (ERSE, Portugal) and Francis Ghigny (CWaPE, Belgium) will be discussing such topics as:  - Different forms of regulations in different regions – what can be learned and standardised  - Mechanisms and frameworks [...]

Malaga Smartcity Tour has now been confirmed as a part of the Smart Grid Summit 2010. Smartcity is a pioneer project where new systems and technologies are applied to reduce electricity consumption in Malaga, involving 11,000 homes and 1,200 businesses in the area of the Misericordia Beach. With this objective, energy generation systems based on renewable energy [...]

PotashCorp has become one of the darlings of Canadian industry, and it now seems to be the target of one of the world’s largest mining companies. The deal has been rejected as one would expect, but usually in these situations the target is now “in play” and could quickly become the prize in a global [...]