With a combined membership of over 14,000 individuals and 300 companies across 100 countries, the Energy Institute is the leading chartered professional membership body for those working and studying in energy, providing a wide range of energy courses. Providing an independent focal point and a powerful voice to engage business and industry, government, academia and …
The long-term corporate credit rating on IEC was lowered to ‘BBB’ by S&P from ‘BBB+’ on March 24, 2009. The rating remains on CreditWatch with negative implications, where it was placed on Dec. 20, 2008. The rating is Baa2 by Moodys. In October 2010, S&P cut IEC’s credit to BBB-negative falling because of the lack …
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The combination of reactive power and true power is called apparent power, and it is the product of a circuit’s voltage and current, without reference to phase angle. Apparent power is measured in the unit of Volt-Amps (VA) and is symbolized by the capital letter S. As a rule, true power is a function of …
Smart meters allow suppliers to record customers’ gas and electricity use at a distance and let consumers see how much energy they are using. Smart meters would remove the need to have people going round homes checking meters. It would also mean an end to estimated bills, which would reduce the need for call centre …
The tender consists of two BOT projects to set up two 80 to 110 MW thermo-solar power plants at Ashelim in the Negev each on 4,500 dunam of land. The tender was published in March 2008. 7 companies passed the P.Q phase of the project. The credit rating agency Diroog gave the projects a credit …
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The movement of coastline land-ward in response to a transgression. This can occur during a sea-level rise with low sediment flux. Retrogradational stacking patterns of parasequences refer to patterns in which facies become progressively more distal when traced upward vertically
Asian gas hub Rising liquidity in LNG derivatives has important implications for the evolution of an Asian gas hub. It suggests the Asian gas market will develop differently to the US and Europe, even if the emergence of a dominant Asian gas hub appears to make sense as a counter point to its US and …
If one examines the spectrum of fuels for power generation, in terms of flexibility of use and pollution, then coal is visibly the least flexible and most problematic of fuels, whilst the most flexible is gasoil / diesel, in the middle of the market we have fuel oil and natural gas. In the span of …
This log measures the electrical current that occurs naturally in boreholes as a result of salinity differences between the formation water and the borehole mud filtrate (formation and surface). These logs are used as indicators of permeable beds (including determining permeable sands and impermeable shales) or for locating bed boundaries. The SP log was one …
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