E Power Japan, a Japanese power venture set up by Houston-based Enron Corp and Orix Corp, plans to build a large-scale thermal power plant in the Aomori prefecture in the northern part of Japan's

Contaminated and diluted petrol is being sold to motorists from service stations across Melbourne, State Government tests have found.Poor-quality oil byproducts are being added to petrol or unleaded

A World Bank team, comprising Mr Alastair Mckechnie and Mr Samir Shukla, visited Shahabad to oversee the progress undertaken by the Haryana Power Utilities under the World Bank assistance

A formal meeting of Dabhol Power Company's (DPC) lenders is on the cards. The triggrer point for this meeting is the slippage on the part of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) in paying

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has proposed to invest Rs 4,162 crore for exploration of crude oil and natural gas for the two-year period ending March 2002. The company's board has

A joint venture of Taiwan's state-owned Chinese Petroleum Corp. is in talks with Siemens AG of Germany to build a natural-gas-fired power plant, a Chinese Petroleum executive

The European Union is like Gulliver, an economic giant tied down by its increasing dependence on foreign energy sources. So said Loyola de Palacio, the EU commissioner, as she published her green

Norway will approve construction on Wednesday of a new gas-fired power plant, putting Norway behind many nations in a drive to curb greenhouse gases, Norwegian media said on Tuesday.The daily

The Dabhol Power Company (DPC), which has yet to recover from the shock following the Maharashtra government's announcement to review the phase-II (1,444 mw), expects a cost over run of $227 million