When upgrading a critical pipeline link to bring natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea westward to Turkey and Europe, a joint venture of Bechtel and ENKA had to bring high-level engineering to a remote site in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
Parsons Corp. has been named the EPC partner for development of a proposed $3.4-billion regional underground storage facility for natural gas liquids and derivatives.
With new procedures in place to streamline permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in late August slated 12 LNG terminals for environmental review.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Sept. 6, leaving at least seven dead and damaging buildings and structures in the region, including a 1,650MW coal-fired thermal power plant that was taken offline.
Twenty-eight projects totaling $38 million to support early stage R&D of innovative hydrogen and fuel cell technologies got boosts from the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Wind technology costs and power prices are falling for land-based and offshore wind projects, according to three Energy Dept. reports released Aug. 23.
Under some scenarios, a new Trump administration proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants could curtail the construction of new natural gas combined-cycle power plants by as much as 30% and increase the use of existing coal plants by 13%, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own regulatory impact analysis on its proposal, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.
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