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Japan disaster leads to falling oil prices
Crude oil prices felt following Japan’s strongest earthquake record, shaking whole oil markets and raising concerns about weakening world demand.
read more... 14/03/2011
Shanghai thermal power broke the world record for the lowest coal consumption in its power generation
Shanghai No.3 power plant’s mega kilowatt power generators broke the world record for the lowest coal consumption for its electricity generation, having reached a coal consumption of 279.39 g per KWh for a power generation of 11 billion KWh during last year.
read more... 22/02/2011
Exxon Mobil drills a record long well at Sakhalin-1, Russia
Exxon Neftegas, the subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that it has drilled an extended-reach (ERD) well with a world record length at the Sakhalin-1 Project in the Odoptu field, offshore Russia.
read more... 31/01/2011
Gazprom increases daily gas production by 22%.
Oil production in Russia, hit a new record. Russia's oil production increased to 10.26 million barrels per day in October, beating the high of 10.16 million barrels per day in September.
read more... 03/11/2010
Record generation for UK wind power
On Monday, according to the UK National Grid, Britain’s wind farm reached a record power output, generating the same amount of electricity as almost four nuclear power stations.
read more... 09/09/2010