The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) has been working since its inception in 2012 to develop ways in which existing technologies can be transformed for new purposes, creating capabilities that are not known to other nations. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) applauded Wisconsin legislators and Gov. Scott Walker for enacting a bill that repeals the state’s moratorium on building new nuclear plants. Read More »

The American Petroleum Institute (API) recently released its 2016 Quarterly Well Completion Report for the first quarter, which shows a 70 percent decrease in estimated natural gas well completions compared with the first quarter of 2015. Read More »

A subsidiary of Silicon Ranch Corp. recently entered into a framework agreement with First Solar Inc., which will provide 231.6 MW DC of thin-film modules for Silicon Ranch projects set for construction in 2017 and 2018. Read More »

Chevron Pipe Line Co. and Wolverine Pipe Line Co. recently won the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) 2015 Distinguished Safety and Environmental Award for larger operators and small operators, respectively, at the 67th annual API pipeline conference, held recently in Carlsbad, California. Read More »

Saudi Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser spoke about his company’s commitment to capitalizing on the potential of the al-Hasa region, which boasts a wealth of oil and is also poised to become a center for innovation-driven industries, at the recent al-Hasa Investment Forum. Read More »

Navy Rear Adm. Andrew Lewis, vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently told Pentagon reporters that U.S.-led coalition forces are making significant progress in Operation Inherent Resolve, part of the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Read More »

A recent American Petroleum Institute poll, conducted by Harris Poll, found that 77 percent of registered voters are concerned that increasing ethanol blends could result in higher consumer costs for gasoline and reductions in the country’s fuel supplies. Read More »

Luminant recently closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of two combined-cycle natural gas plants in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market: the 1,912 megawatt-capacity Forney Power Plant in Forney and 1,076 megawatt-capacity Lamar Power Plant in Paris. Read More »

Chevron Corp. recently said Randolph Richards will replace the retiring 36-year company veteran Paul Bennett as corporate vice president and treasurer, effective May 1. Read More »

A recent engineering demonstration at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico successfully used a Multi-Mission Launcher (MML) to launch a Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor. Read More »

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recently praised a new initiative from the power industry, called Grid Assurance, which seeks to improve power-grid resilience as the likelihood of extended power outages increases due to factors such as cyber attacks and terrorism, without relying on federal assistance Read More »

Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work concluded his recent trip to the Pacific Northwest with a visit to Boeing’s final-assembly facilities in Renton, Washington, for the Boeing 737 and the derivative P-8A Poseidon, a military marine patrol aircraft. Read More »

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) vowed to fight a recent subpoena from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker that would require the nonprofit to turn over a decade's worth of materials regarding its work on climate change. Read More »

At the International Conference & Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) this week in Perth, Australia, officials announced that the 2022 conference would be held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Read More »

Lockheed Martin said this week that it is teaming up with Babson Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of Babson College, to create a college for entrepreneurship at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Saudi Arabia. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DoD) said this week that aircraft from Marine Corps. Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 4 have been deployed to Turkey to beef up the coalition's electronic-attack strength against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Read More »

Officials at Security Service Federal Credit Union recently announced that it hired Janet Anne Parcenue to be the company’s new manager of Commercial Credit Underwriting. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DoD) recently recognized Dominion with its “Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves (ESGR) Extraordinary Employer Support Award,” which celebrates the company's support of the National Guard and Reserve service by prior recipients of the Secretary of Defense Freedom Award, which Dominion won in 2008. Read More »

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) recently initiated its first cooperative effort in the energy industry by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with German company Wintershall, a subsidiary of BASF. Read More »