After several minor-to-moderate earthquakes shook the U.S. interior in 2011, a number of reports suggested a link between hydraulic fracturing—a technique used to extract natural gas from shale-gas deposits—and increased seismic activity in areas typically not prone to such events.
U.K. nuclear power ambitions took a big step forward with the 18 June award by French government-owned EDF Energy plc., London, of a roughly $3.2-billion civil work contract (£2b) at its planned new plant in Somerset.
Although a World Bank inspection panel has criticized on environmental and other grounds a mammoth coal-fired powerplant under construction in South Africa, the project will proceed and the bank
Reliance Industries Ltd., India's largest private sector company with annual revenues in excess of $66 billion, has begun construction of a $12-billion coke gasification plant.
The discovery of concrete cracks from an alkali-silica reaction, or ASR, in five safety-related structures at New Hampshire's Seabrook nuclear powerplant has prompted plant owner NextEra Energy Resources to launch several ASR studies as part of a comprehensive corrective action plan.
Shell Canada announced plans in May for Canada’s largest liquefied-natural-gas, or LNG, facility on British Columbia’s central coast near Kitimat. Shell also is considering an option for the future expansion of the facility, dubbed LNG Canada.
Egyptian construction firm Orascom Construction Industries is positioning itself to be a major player in the Middle East’s reconstruction boom after successfully negotiating for a $363-million natural-gas turbine plant in Iraq.
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