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Shell Canada to explore offshore Nova Scotia

According to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Shell Canada won its call for bids to secure the exploration rights on four parcels of deepwater land off the southwest shore of the province.

Continental Nickel starts mining in Tanzania

newsitemCanadian mineral explorer Continental Nickel Limited is set to begin mining nickel in southern Tanzania following positive exploration results.

Vermont Yankee allowed to keep generating

newsitemA district court has ruled that Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant may continue to operate beyond the end of its original 40 year licence in March, granting Entergy a long awaited victory over the state of Vermont.

Solar project

newsitemPSEG Solar Source has completed the acquisition of a 25.2MW DC solar project developed by juwi solar Inc. The PSEG Queen Creek Solar Farm is expected to begin construction in January 2012 and be completed in the 3rd quarter of 2012.

Subsea systems contract

newsitemFMC Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to provide subsea systems and life-of-field services for its Lucius project.

DeepOcean awarded contract by Petrobras

newsitemDeepOcean, part of DeepOcean Group Holding AS, has received a two year contract valued at approximately USD 60 million from Petrobras E&P Services.

Dow Site to use UOP tech to convert propane

Honeywell company, UOP LLC has been chosen to provide technology for propylene production by the Dow Chemical Company at a Texas production site.

BW agree on Dominican InterEnergy joint venture

  InterEnergy Holdings has agreed to form a joint venture with BW Gas to build a Liquefied Natural Gas terminal as part of a logistics solution to bring natural gas to the Dominican Republic in San Pedro de Macoris.

KBR wins ExxonMobil contract

newsitemKBR has won a contract to provide construction services for ExxonMobil's new synthetics lubricant base stock facility to be built at the company’s refinery and chemical plant complex in Baytown, TX.

Hutchens named UniSource president

newsitemUniSource Energy Corp. has appointed David G. Hutchens as President of the company. Paul Bonavia, who has been president and chief executive officer, will maintain his position as CEO and continue to serve as chairman of UniSource Energy's Board of Directors.