Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Residents can expect regular electricity cuts starting this month as officials work to switch the capital to a more efficient power system. All of the power substations on Abu Dhabi island will be converted to an automatic system that will allow the Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC) to repair problems remotely. These updates to the system
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Wayne Gardner-Young hopes to build the attraction, along with a hotel, cafes and restaurants, to sit alongside a five-star touring caravan site with a spa, plus a variety of holiday apartments and lodges. The entrepreneur, whose interests range from Azure, formerly Victoria’s Nightclub, Glasgow, to the £23m transformation of a West Lothian wasteland into an adventure
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
One of the northernmost oil-drillings ever in the Arctic started this week, 250 kilometers of the coast of Finnmark. The only oil-company based in the Barents Region is partner. Optimism is again characterizing the petroleum industry drilling the northern areas after Norwegian oil major Statoil last month announced a large-scale oil discovery at the Skrugard field in the
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Which do you value: production or consumption? The preference has long defined economic questions ranging from tax policies to development. Now it matters in national carbon accounting too. If you look at production, you count the carbon that comes from a territory’s smokestacks, exhaust pipes and forest fires. With consumption you tot up the carbon
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
P2 Energy Solutions today announced it has completed the asset acquisition of Canada-based WellPoint Systems Inc., provider of several leading energy product families including BOLO Financial Management Software, IDEAS International Oil & Gas Venture Management System, Energy Financial Management and several mid-stream solutions. This acquisition has created the largest independent technology company providing solutions to the
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Spatial Dimension is pleased to announce that FlexiCadastre has been selected as Uganda’s new Mining Cadastre and Registry System. The Ugandan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, through the Department of Geological Survey and Mines recently signed a contract with MTL Consulting Company Limited of Tanzania to design, develop and commission an advanced rules and
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
e-on software, the leader in 3D sky, light and nature technologies, announced today the immediate availability of Vue 9.5 xStream and Infinite, its professional solutions for the creation, animation and rendering of natural 3D environments. Vue xStream and Vue Infinite are the company’s flagship solutions for the creation of natural 3D environments. Vue Infinite operates as
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Cadac Organice, Microsoft Partner Network member and developer of the Cadac Organice Product Suite (a SharePoint based solution for engineering document management and document control), introduces a SharePoint framework for the mining industry. The Cadac Organice Product Suite offers solutions for engineering document management and document control and is entirely based on Microsoft SharePoint. Leveraging SharePoint as the platform for
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Having established the largest non-industrial catalysis research and development effort in the U.S., a group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is making changes to better focus on key scientific problems that they believe will help the nation secure a strong, clean energy future. This renewed focus will be aimed
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A proposed 300-megawatts offshore wind power project that would be located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina received an initial blessing from state regulators to move forward yesterday. The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s approval of the Desert Wind Energy Project, which plans to install an estimated 150 wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, will allow the project to begin the likely arduous
