Saturday, August 7th, 2010
NOVINTE BULGARIA – The Russian South Stream gas pipeline will pass through the town of Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, announced Saturday. Borisov spoke in an interview for the largest private TV Channel bTV, after the conclusion of his talks with Serbian President, Boris Tadic, late Friday. Read More
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
NORWAY POST – The North Sea’s largest jack up accommodation unit with 447 single cabins, has arrived in Eydehavn for hook up and final commissioning before mobilising for Ekofisk Field and the client ConocoPhillips. The accomodation unit “Haven” has been built for Master Marine by Drydocks World, Graha Shipyard at Batam, Indonesia, and was towed to
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
INSIDE COSTA RICA – Argentina and Uruguay agreed on Wednesday to establish a commission of science and technology to monitor the Uruguay River on the border of both countries.The commission will include four scientists from the two countries, said Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his Uruguayan counterpart Luis Almagro.Scientists will study and monitor the
Friday, August 6th, 2010
RDC ScanEx – Over 300 “hot spots” have been detected on July 29 using satellite images in the European part of Russia and the Urals Federal District. Operational satellite-based monitoring of fire situation has been conducted by ScanEx RDC. Read More
Friday, August 6th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don’t even know how to google properly. Read More
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The eventual realisation of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020 is partly and critically tied to the amount of achievements the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development is able to make. However, the ongoing implementation of the economic diversification policy of the government by the ministry tends to provide a
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
NEW ELECTRONICS – Based on Withers & Rogers LLP’s analysis of the incidence of international patent filings relating to global navigation satellite systems (gnss), the number of applications rose from 462 in 2004 to 961 in 2009 – a rise of 108%. The patent specialist believes this is probably partly due to companies filing multiple
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
ASDI – At the end of June 2010, there were 21 repositories within the ASDD with a total of 27,800 dataset descriptions available for searching. However, the Australian Antarctic Data Centre and WALIS ASDD nodes were down at that time. Statistics are provided for the ASDD covering: Read More
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
BBC – An international team of researchers has developed a model that suggests degradation of tropical forests occurs in a series of “waves”. High-value trees were felled in the first “wave”, followed by a wave that removed mid-value timber before the remaining wood was felled for charcoal. The team hopes the model will help manage
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
SAUDI GAZETTE – Saudi Arabia will account for 16.04 percent of Middle East and Africa (MEA) regional power generation by 2014, with a growing theoretical supply surplus if there is sufficient additional investment in capacity, Business Monitor International (BMI) said in its latest “Saudi Arabia Power Report” released o Tuesday.BMI’s MEA power generation estimate for
