Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
China National Petroleum Corp., or CNPC, offered the highest royalty and a refinery to win Afghanistan’s first oilfield auction last month, using a strategy that helped Chinese companies gain access to African resources. CNPC will pay 15 percent royalty on oil from three blocks in northern Afghanistan and 30 percent corporate tax and also build a
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Hands Off Our Land campaign is calling for the Coalition to look again at proposed changes to planning laws which risk undermining the safeguards that have protected the countryside for almost 70 years. Follow the latest developments here. Read More
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Under the contract, the company will provide preliminary engineering design services for the Southeast LRT line from downtown Edmonton to Mill Woods and the West LRT line from Lewis Estates to downtown Edmonton. The new, low-floor LRT system will include approximately 17 miles of double track with more than half a mile in tunnels and
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
The government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Sunday signed an agreement for $25 million in soft loan to improve governance and service delivery in tax collection and land record management. Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, secretary to the Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Thevakumar Kandiah, Country Director of ADB’s Bangladesh Resident Mission, inked the deal at
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Bridge Marine Science Group (BMSG), an award winning Welsh business is to receive a £265,200 financial boost to assist talented individuals and enterprises in the marine sector. The money will be used to drive forward growth in the marine industry and create 20 new jobs in South West Wales.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
u-blox has selected Spirent’s GSS6700 Multi-GNSS GPS + GLONASS simulator and Spirent’s GSS6400 GPS + GLONASS Record & Playback test system to evaluate performance of its new GNSS receiver components. “u-blox conducts rigorous testing on all new receiver designs,” said Clemens Buergi, Vice President of Software at u-blox. “To make this process as efficient as possible,
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Every day, countless people use Google Maps or other online mapping services to figure out how to walk or drive from one place to another. But for the 185 million people in wheelchairs around the globe, stairs and other uneven surfaces are constant obstacles in their daily lives. One year ago this month, 31-year-old social entrepreneur
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
A prominent lava flow descends the eastern flank of Kizimen Volcano, located in the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) in this false-color satellite image acquired on September 4, 2011 (top). An image of the peak from September 6, 2009 (lower), shows the extent of the changes that have occurred since Kizimen began erupting in late 2010. Read More
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Fast to learn and easy to use point cloud tool box for AutoCad Undet will be introduced by JSC InfoEra at Intergeo 2011. Undet is entry-level point cloud processing software for object analysis, 2D drafting and 3D modeling. With just a core feature set Undet will let you manage and use point clouds quickly and easily without extensive
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
AVEVA announced today that SungDong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (SungDong) has extended its contract for the use of AVEVA Marine to drive the design of commercial vessels. The new licenses will be used throughout its four shipyards in Korea for the design and production of vessels which include bulk carriers, container carriers and FSOs (Floating Storage & Offloading). SungDong selected AVEVA as its key solution partner due to its outstanding record in hull
