Energy

Westport Innovations Inc. has entered into an additional agreement with General Motors for a second advanced technology development program.

Westport and GM are now developing two different combustion, controls and emissions approaches to natural gas engines, with the first cooperative technology project being announced in June 2011.

The new program will optimize advanced natural gas technologies and applications for maximum CO2 reduction and fuel efficiency in light-duty vehicles.

Savannah River Remediation (SRR) uses up to the minute technology and the smartest industrial methodology to carry out its taxing contract – to clean up a 60-year legacy of radioactive liquid waste in South Carolina.

Canada Energy Partners has acquired all of the outstanding shares of Hudson's Hope Gas Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GeoMet Inc, for a consideration of two million shares.

GeoMet is the 50 percent owner and operator of Canada Energy Partners’ Peace River Coalbed Methane (CBM) Project. The two million shares of the company issued to GeoMet are subject to a 12-month hold period.

UK-based oil giant BP has agreed to sell its interests in the Jonah and Pinedale upstream operations in Wyoming to Houston, US-based LINN Energy LLC.

Natural gas processor Atlas Pipeline Partners LP has brought online the expansion at Velma, a new state-of-the-art cryogenic facility in Oklahoma.

The expansion supports the partnership's long-term, fee-based agreement with XTO Energy Inc, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, to provide natural gas gathering and processing services for up to an incremental 60 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) from the Woodford Shale.

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Jorf Lasfar Energy Company, has secured financing for the expansion of its coal-fired power complex in Morocco.  

The company signed financing arrangements for $1.4 billion equivalent of 16-year, multi-currency non-recourse project financing for the 700 MW expansion of the power complex.

With Eskom no longer having the sole responsibility for electricity generation in South Africa, new independent providers are moving into the market. Cennergi, one of the most recent entrants, is setting itself ambitious targets.

French manufacturer Soitec has announced the completion and grid connection of the largest concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant in Italy.

Located in the Belpasso municipality in Sicily’s Catania province, the 1.17 MW-peak (MWp) facility is now ready to generate clean, reliable electricity for the local power grid.

The utility-scale plant will generate enough electricity to supply approximately 300 homes each year and is expected to offset more than 125 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

UK-based interim power solutions company Aggreko has joined forces with South Africa’s Shanduka Group to provide power from a gas field in Mozambique.

The two companies will provide a 107 MW power plant which will use gas from Mozambique’s Temane gas field to provide an interim power supply to South African power utility Eskom and its Mozambican counterpart, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM).

Johnson Controls today participated in a signing ceremony in Tianjin, China to announce a planned $200 million automotive battery plant, pending final approval.

The state-of-the-art facility will supply automakers and the aftermarket in China with high quality maintenance-free lead-acid starter batteries and advanced batteries for start-stop vehicles.