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Breaking News Tue, 9 Feb 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bottom second left, visits Iran's Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP), a new facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, just outside the city of Isfahan 255 mile (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2009. The West fears the reactor could eventually be used for producing a nuclear weapon. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the plant's opening during a ceremony in the central city of Isfahan. The plant will produce pellets of uranium oxide to fuel the heavy-water research reactor, which is scheduled to be completed in 2009 or 2010.
(photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Iran's Two-Edged Bomb
The New York Times
| Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. | WITH Iran having notified the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency on Monday that any day now it will begin enriching its stockpile of uranium in order to power a medical reactor, we should admit that Washington's approach to countering the Islamic Republic is lead...
Petrol oil station, India
(photo: WN / Geeta)
Oil falls under $72, euro zone worries weigh
The Guardian
* Worries over euro zone fiscal health weigh down market * Market awaits weekly API oil inventory data due later * U.S. snowstorm, geopolitical tension offer price support By Jennifer Tan SINGAPORE, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Oil sank below $72 a barrel on Tuesday, after rising nearly 1 percent the day befor...
New Managing Director for Ashtead Technology
Subsea World
| Ashtead Technology is pleased to announce that Mark Derry has joined the company as Managing Director – Offshore Division.  Mark joins from SBS Marine where he was Managing Director. | Mark has gained considerable experience, in the subs...
Water management for steam-assisted heavy oil production
HeavyOilinfo
Hydrogeologist Ken Campbell spoke with heavyoilinfo.com about the challenges of water supply and disposal for steam-assisted heavy oil production operations. | Introduction | Water supply challenges | Wastewater disposal challenges | Using oilfield t...
Software module enables efficient plant management
Processingtalk
| Intergraph has released Smartplant Construction: a Smartplant Enterprise software module created specifically for process, power and marine companies. | The module is intended to help these companies to more efficiently plan and manage plant, ship ...
GE Oil & Gas Unveils New PVi Integrity Management System to Help Operators Manage Pipelines
GE Oil & Gas
| HOUSTON, TEXAS - December 18, 2008 :- GE Oil & Gas’ PII Pipeline Solutions is introducing Integrity Management System (IMS), a first-of-its-kind pipeline integrity management software system to help pipeline operators more effectively manage the in...
A wintry snow scene in Piedmont Park in en:Atlanta,
GFDL / File Upload Bot
Wintry weather drives energy prices higher
Houston Chronicle
| NEW YORK - Energy prices climbed today as another winter storm was expected to dump even more snow on the East Coast. | Already, parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Was...
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, May 4, 2009.
AP / Richard Drew
Stocks trade mixed as European debt woes remain
Philadelphia Daily News
| STEPHEN BERNARD and TIM PARADIS | The Associated Press | NEW YORK - Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting...
A man walks past a screen showing the European stock markets fall in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The Paris stock exchange briefly suspended calculating the benchmark CAC-40 index on Wednesday amid a massive influx of sell orders that caused it to plummet nearly 8.2 percent, an exchange spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)hg3
AP / Thibault Camus
European stocks stabilize but debt fears linger
Breitbart
| People stand in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm... | LONDON (AP) - Markets stabilized in Europe on Monday, but fell in Asia and the U.S., as investors we...
Vandals compound fuel crisis, break NNPC pipeline
Business Day Online
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) efforts to put an end to the excruciating fuel scarcity bedevilling the country suffered a setback on Sunday following the vandalisation of the pipeline at Abaji in Kogi State conveying crude oil...
China ends building lighthouses in East China Sea
China Daily
| BEIJING: China has completed construction of 13 permanent facilities - stone tablets and lighthouses - on islands and reefs in the East China Sea, in an effort to clarify its territorial waters' baseline in the oil-rich area. | A naval survey team ...
ENI, PPL start offshore oil, gas exploration
The News International
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | By Salman Siddiqui | KARACHI: Though Pakistan has never been successful in exploring oil and gas reserves in offshore areas in the country it is once again making all efforts to achieve the goal in the Arabian Sea. | The ...
Offshore Companies
Tiefpumpen & Windenergieanlage im Oelfeld Erdpress
(photo: Creative Commons / Techcollector)
Austria's OMV in talks with UAE for gas projects
The Guardian
* Talks are "very preliminary" * OMV proposing a number of project ideas ABU DHABI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Austrian oil company OMV is in preliminary talks with state run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to undertake gas projects in the United Arab Emirates, an OMV executive said on Tuesday. The UAE has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves but has been ...
Offshore Investment
Drugs - Medicine - Health
(photo: WN / sweet)
Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo
The New York Times
| With the possible demise of health care legislation, getting back to business as usual may not be the best thing for the nation's drug makers. | After all, in return for the prospect of tens of millions of newly insured customers and a large degree of regulatory certainty, the pharmaceutical industry had agreed to pay a relatively small price: $8...



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