Technologies

Ormat Technologies announced Monday that it has exercised some previously announced options completing four 25-year purchased power agreements with Bismarck, ND-based Basin Electric Power Cooperative for small amounts of electricity that will be generated with some of Ormat’s recovered energy generation equipment on natural gas transmission pipeline compressors. Collectively, the deals amount to 22 MW and will be phased in over the next two years.

Reno, NV-based geothermal power company Ormat Technologies Inc. said last week that it signed a shared-cost agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to validate its proven geothermal power production system’s applicability to using the hot water produced as an offshoot of oilfield production. DOE and Ormat will conduct the research and development work at the DOE’s Rocky Mountain Oil Test Center near Casper, WY.

Vancouver-based Encore Clean Energy Inc. is targeting the oil and natural gas production industry with new technologies that allow producers to use their wastewater and other byproducts to produce power for operations.

Vancouver-based Encore Clean Energy Inc. is targeting the oil and natural gas production industry with new technologies that allow producers to use their waste water and other byproducts to produce power for operations.

North America is a high cost environment and ExxonMobil Corp. is working on new technologies to get the costs down so it can pursue development on the continent, Chairman Lee Raymond said Wednesday.

North America is a high cost environment and ExxonMobil Corp. is working on new technologies to get the costs down so it can pursue development on the continent, Chairman Lee Raymond said Wednesday.

Calgary-based but U.S.-traded Energy Exploration Technologies (NXT) said late Monday that it has acquired a 33.33% working interest in 1,094 hectares (four gas spacing units) of Crown lands in the Tenaka area in northeast British Columbia.

Energy Exploration Technologies (NXT) said Tuesday that pipeline construction would commence in the first week of the new year to connect the company’s Poblano-area natural gas wells in Sublette County, WY to existing transmission lines in the vicinity of the Jonah gas field.

Calgary-based Energy Exploration Technologies (NXT) said on Friday that it has acquired an interest in over 3,300 additional acres covering its Antelope Tail prospect in the Green River Basin of Wyoming, increasing its project area including its adjacent Poblano acreage block to a total of 25,000 acres.