TOKYO (AP) — JCG Corp., a Japanese engineering company, and French oilfield services company Technip S.A. say they have won a contract for a liquefied natural gas plant in central Russia.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Cabinet has approved a proposal to revamp its troubled electricity industry and foster more competition by obliging utilities to split power generation and distribution into separate businesses.
During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Mongolia, the countries pledged to expand collaboration on defense and energy development, The Wall Street Journal reports.
TOKYO (AP) — The utility that operates Japan's crippled nuclear plant says it deserves most of the blame for the crisis, in the company's strongest remarks about its own shortcomings.
Toshiba Corp., a Japanese maker of nuclear reactors, plans to enter the solar power generation industry with 6.5 megawatts of new capacity in Japan, Bloomberg reports.
TOKYO (AP) — Concrete rubble litters streets lined with shuttered shops and dark windows. A collapsed roof juts from the ground. A ship sits stranded on a stretch of dirt flattened when the tsunami roared across the coastline. There isn't a person in sight.
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese government regulators said Wednesday that for the first time they will conduct their own investigation into the country's nuclear crisis to address key unanswered questions.
Russian-owned Rosatom said it is leading the bidding to build two new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic, a day after Westinghouse made the same claim, The Wall Street Journal reports.
China enacted final anti-dumping duties on Japanese and U.S. imports of the resorcinol, a chemical used in adhesive, dyes and cosmetics. The move represents the latest in a string of new Chinese chemical tariffs, Reuters reports.
The Energy Information Administration said coal's market share for electricity generation rebounded since March 2012 on higher natural gas prices, MarketWatch reports.
Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe switched his position on offshore drilling of the state's coast, supporting a pro-drilling bill introduced by Virginia's Democratic senators, The Washington Post reports.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer urged NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane to complete an investigation and hold a public hearing before allowing the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to restart, Southern California Public Radio reports.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., called for a GAO report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's procedures for determining the costs of new regulations, Platts reports.
FracFocus, an industry-backed registry for hydraulic fracturing chemicals, will update its system to allow regulators to search through a database of chemicals next week, Bloomberg reports.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent four staffers to assist Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate special election, Roll Call reports.
A group of two dozen Senate Republicans urged President Obama against making Keystone XL pipeline approval contingent on "unrelated" climate change policies, The Hill reports.
The American Petroleum Institute issued a white paper projecting new federal rules could increase gasoline prices by as much as 25 cents a gallon, The Washington Examiner reports.
California Jerry Brown contended news media inadequately report on climate change and give too much coverage climate skeptics, The Sacramento Bee reports.
