September 2007

Monthly Archive

Stranded Natural Gas Reserves

Posted by Energy Business Reports on 27 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Oil & Gas

Stranded reserves are expected to be a major source of natural gas for world LNG trade. It has been estimated that these reserves comprise about 50% of the natural gas reserves held by the top 10 countries, and between 2,755 and 3,350 tcf worldwide.

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Nanotechnology in the Energy Industry: Applications and Market Potential

Posted by Energy Business Reports on 25 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Industry News

Nanotechnology refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the molecular level in scales smaller than one micrometer, normally 1 to 100 nanometers, and the fabrication of devices within that size range. For scale, a single virus particle is about 100 nanometers in width.

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Venture Capital and the Energy Industry

Posted by Energy Business Reports on 24 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Industry News

As deregulation and industry restructuring progress, however, prospects for high-growth technology companies in the utility industry are evolving.

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Emissions Trading in Europe 2007

Posted by Energy Business Reports on 21 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Oil & Gas, Industry News

Emissions trading has emerged over the last two decades as a preferred environmental policy tool. One key advantage to emissions trading is that it gives countries and firms flexibility in meeting their emissions targets, rather than imposing predetermined technologies or standards.

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Advanced Metering Infrastructure Market Potential

Posted by Energy Business Reports on 20 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Power

In the 1990s, general advances in technology began to be applied to metering, more significantly in the area of communications. Technology has advanced to collect and read the meter without a visual inspection, through the use of radio, power line, and wireless-based communications — collectively known as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).

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