Carbon Storage Comes to Disused Texas Oil Fields
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A short distance from Spindletop oil field, the site of the gusher that triggered the Texas oil rush more than a century ago, scientists have found a purpose for the long-disused underground reservoirs -- as storage for the pollution emitted by burning fossil fuels.
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By Rachel Melcer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Dec. 15--The parking lots, rusted tanks and idle equipment of a  century-old Sauget chemical plant will be transformed into a haven for biofuel  production, say officials at Solutia Inc., its owner.
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A vast new energy supply in hard-to-tap older oil fields may be generated simply by feeding fertilizer to some deep-dwelling, gas-making microbes, new research suggests.
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Imagine a place awash with more hydrocarbons than a Texan oilman can dream of and where no one has staked a single claim -- all that energy is just going begging.
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There's fuel is waste water. Who knew.
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Capgemini Energy, the services entity formed in July when it won a 10-year, $3.5 billion deal to manage back-office operations for TXU, plans to eliminate 200 to 230 former TXU positions.
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FORT WORTH, Texas  - Even in oil-rich Texas, homeowners seldom had companies at the front door asking permission to drill in their back yards -- until recently.
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Carcasses of unused oil equipment litter the Gulf Coast. Now they're being repurposed to harness the power of the wind. By John Geoghegan from Wired magazine.
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DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Oil-service equipment in the Gulf of Mexico is built to withstand the fierce winds of Hurricane Ivan. The bigger threat is a decline in demand for the companies&#39; equipment.
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If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere â and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
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The oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, long a subject of scrutiny by scientists, is only now becoming less of a mystery.
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A government and industry research project to learn ways to burn coal without emitting global warming gases is taking a major step forward Tuesday with an announcement on where the futuristic power plant will be built Â in Texas or Illinois.
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Power companies are planning to build about 150 coal plants in the next few years. Almost none of them will be built to capture carbon dioxide.
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Texans' fondness for large, manly vehicles has helped make the Lone Star State the biggest carbon polluter in the nation
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An oil deposit with an estimated 100-million-barrel reserve has been discovered off Cuba&#39;s coast by Canadian companies Sherritt International Corp.
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Dwindling petroleum engineers create another challenge for the industry.