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• About Butane

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Janis Baltins What is Butane? Butane is a pure hydrocarbon gaseous compound at room temperature. It is alkane derived from natural gas, it has carbon atoms (CH3CH2CH2CH3 or C4H10). It is also colorless and odorless. It is not a synthesized product. It is produced, along with hundreds of other hydrocarbon ...
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• Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
  3 days ago

• ONGC to invest $174 mn in Myanmar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has been allowed to make an investment of up to $173.85 million in a hydrocarbon assets in Myanmar.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.The investment ...
  1 week ago

• Allied Energy Forms Operating Company in Texas

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 136
  Allied Energy, Inc. announced that the Company has recently formed Allied Operating Texas, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allied Energy, Inc.“Allied Operating Texas, LLC was formed to operate our East Texas projects,” said Steve Stengell, Allied’s President.Oil and natural gas drilling, completion and ...
  1 week ago

• High gas price only profits Reliance Industries: Court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday observed that the country will stand to gain if natural gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin is sold at a lower price, while Reliance Industries alone will benefit if the consideration is higher.“If the price is less, the country gains. If it’s more only you ...
  1 week ago

• My Favorite Ball Watches At JCK, Big And Lots Of Lume

  
  aBlogtoRead.com — Authority: 499
  Ball watches have been really popular that last few years ago and are probably the nicest watches (at least from a price perspective) to feature tritium gas tubes in their watches. All of their watches feature the wonder lume, that is made exclusively by MB Microtec in Switzerland. They are small tubes filled with ...
  1 week ago

• Bioreactor. “… flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 131
  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has informed:“After World War II, America was the unrivaled leader in basic and applied sciences.”“It was this leadership that led to enormous technological advances. ARPA-E is a crucial part of the new effort by the U.S. to spur the next Industrial Revolution in clean energy ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Latest Numbers On Arctic Oil and Gas Potential

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 486
  Some interesting readings I came across on hydrocarbon resources and challenges over the last few days. Geology.com has published a report by the Energy Information Administration on the latest estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the Arctic basins. And the number is large - ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Much Oil Underneath?

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 486
  A friend asked me a few days ago why the Karnataka government were giving two different estimates for iron ore potential in the state. One file says that the iron ore reserves are about 3,447 million tonnes, while another department file says that the state has about 9,000 million tonnes of iron ore resources. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government to make Oil Safety Directorate statutory body

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora Tuesday said the government would take steps to make the Oil Industry Safety Directorate a statutory body as part of its efforts to enhance security for the hydrocarbon industry.Speaking at the presentation of oil industry safety awards, Deora ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ben & Jerry’s Cleaner Greener Freezer

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 142
  New hydrocarbon freezers—freezers that use propane or butane as opposed to Freon or other coolants—are being tested by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company at stores in the Washington D.C. and Boston, MA areas over the next two years.According to the Associated Press, these new freezers take advantage of the way ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can the Oil Market Keep Up With Oil Prices?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  It might be a comforting thought to believe that world oil output can increase. Indeed, many policymakers in the U.S. and Europe apparently dream themselves to sleep at night pondering how the current oil volume of about 85 million barrels per day could move upward to, say, 95 million barrels per day – ‘if only ...
  3 weeks ago

• Geologists find traces of oil and natural gas in Rajasthan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By YogeshSursagar (Rajasthan), Oct.18 (ANI): Geologists have found traces of oil and natural gas in Jodhpur-Marwar region of Rajasthan. Researchers have claimed that the sandstone found at the mines in the region date back to about 600 million years, which would put the fossil in the Ediacaran age, just before the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Genetic modification makes for frisky fruit flies

  
  Just A Theory — Authority: 122
  Biologists have genetically altered fruit flies so that they no longer produce pheromones, leading to their fellow insects becoming less discerning in their intimate endeavours. Published in this week’s Nature , Joel Levine and his team genetically destroyed the cells that create the fruit flies’ sex scent. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Absent pheromones turn fruit flies into irresistible ‘Marilyn Monroes’!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Oct 15 (ANI): Absence of certain pheromones turn fruit flies into sexy Marilyn Monroes, irresistible to males not only from its own but other species as well, reveals a new study.In the University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory, Professor Joel Levine’s team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they ...
  3 weeks ago

• ONGC wins most blocks in hydrocarbon auction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has bagged 13 blocks in the latest round of auction of hydrocarbon assets, which saw only about half of the oil blocks receiving bids.“If ONGC is getting those blocks, then they should find resources to meet their commitments,” said Petroleum ...
  4 weeks ago

• IANS top stories at 7

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  NATIONALIndia tests nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile — Second Lead moved at 1810Mayawati moves apex court to stall Taj corridor scam trial - moved at 1746 Central forces should stay in West Bengal: Buddhadeb — moved at 1545Consult us on Teresa’s remains: Catholic bishops — moved at 1503INTERPakistani ...
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• Poor response to India’s auction of hydrocarbon assets (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) India received bids for just 36 hydrocarbon blocks out of 70 on offer under the new round of auction, which the oil ministry admitted as being a “poor” response, with even Reliance Industries abstaining from a single bid.The deadline for receiving bids for the eighth round of auction for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Oil regulator says poor response to hydrocarbon auction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The response for the latest round of auction for handing over hydrocarbon assets in India for exploration and development has been “poor”, with even Reliance Industries refraining from making a single bid.The deadline for receiving bids for the eighth round of auction under what is called ...
  4 weeks ago

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