A U.S. astronaut on the final shuttle mission said on Friday China's first space station will be a welcome addition to the orbital brotherhood, Reuters reported.
"China being in space I think is a great thing. The more nations that get into space, (...)
With the end of the space shuttle program, the U.S. government intends to stimulate development of private space transportation and also to lay the foundation for an entire new industry to service satellites in orbit, according to Reuters.
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NASA has unveiled a new look and name for its previously planned moon capsule, according to AP.
The crew capsule named Orion was a cornerstone of former President George W. Bush's plan to return astronauts to the moon. A year ago, President Barack (...)
NASA managers cut short Friday's spacewalk by two Endeavour astronauts because one of their carbon dioxide sensors stopped working, according to AP.
The astronauts were nearly five hours into a routine planned six-and-a-half hour spacewalk at the (...)
Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- A U.S. congresswoman shot in the head last month is able to laugh at jokes, recognize visitors and even offer a poignant response when asked recently by her husband how she was doing, AP reported.
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Awwal 09, 1432 H/Feb 12, 2011, SPA -- Seahawk Drilling Inc. said it is filing for bankruptcy protection and plans to sell its fleet of offshore oil rigs, boats and other equipment to a competitor for $105 million, according to AP.
Houston-based (...)
Qa'dah 19, 1431, Oct 27, 2010, SPA -- Ali Dogru of the EXPEC Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC) was recognized with the Innovative Thinkers Award at the World Oil 2010 awards dinner reception, held recently in Houston.
The reception was themed (...)
Qa'da 10, 1431, Oct 18, 2010, SPA -- Aramco Services Co. (ASC) recently conducted its annual “Road to Success” orientation program for company-sponsored students attending colleges and universities for the first time this fall in the United States (...)
BP Plc will remove a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico under watchful eyes of investigators probing the deadly April 20 explosion, Reuters quoted the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill response as (...)
BP Plc will get the go-ahead to finish a relief well to finally seal its blown-out oil well but is doing a last batch of testing and planning first, the top government official overseeing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said on Saturday.
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BP Plc on Tuesday suspended work on a relief well aiming to bore into its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well because of bad weather, a spokesman said.
Spokesman Max McGahan said BP stopped drilling because the National Hurricane Center said the (...)
A key two-step procedure to seal BP Plc.'s Macondo well could begin late on Monday, the top U.S. oil spill official said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
"That could start as early as Monday night" or perhaps early on Tuesday, retired Coast Guard (...)
The rig drilling the relief well intended to permanently seal BP Plc's blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well has returned to the spill site, the company that owns the rig said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
"As of our last report, the (Development (...)
BP Plc said on Sunday its new cap has stopped the oil that has gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for three months and hopes to keep it that way until a relief well can permanently seal the leak next month, according to Reuters.
The British energy (...)
BP Plc expressed growing confidence on Saturday that its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well was effectively sealed, but a pressure test was likely to be extended to ensure there were no seabed leaks, according to Reuters
BP started a pressure test on (...)
The first of two relief wells is expected to intercept BP Plc's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of July and the leak could be plugged by early to mid-August, a BP executive said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
"The anticipation is (...)
With a storm threatening to disrupt oil-siphoning efforts at BP Plc's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, the U.S. Coast Guard today said collection efforts would be suspended five days before the forecast onset of gale-force winds, Reuters reported.
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BP Plc said on Wednesday that its containment cap system captured 10,440 barrels of oil on Tuesday, a lower collection rate than usual because of a fire-induced five-hour shutdown.
The cap had been capturing more than 15,000 barrels a day since (...)
Aramco Services Co. (ASC) initiated and recently hosted a technical exchange meeting in North America on valve technology.
Called “Advances in Valve Technology and Applications,” the event brought together 130 senior-level valve experts to exchange (...)
Space shuttle Atlantis is expected to dock with the international space station on Sunday after officials decided there will be no need to perform a maneuver to avoid a piece of debris.
NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, had (...)
In recognition of its excellence in global energy, Saudi Aramco was honored as the 2010 “International Energy Company of the Year” by Hart Energy Publishing, one of the world's largest energy industry publishers.
Dawood M. Al-Dawood, Saudi (...)
Four workers were killed on Friday in an early morning fire at Tesoro Corp's 120,000 barrel-per-day Anacortes, Washington, refinery, the worst refinery accident since a March 23, 2005, fire at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery.
Three other (...)
Former first lady Barbara Bush was hospitalized Saturday in Houston to undergo routine tests but doctors don't suspect anything serious, a family spokeswoman said.
Bush, 84, was being treated at Methodist Hospital and should be released in a (...)
A strong world economy relies heavily on reliable and affordable energy supplies, according to Khalid A. Al-Falih, President and CEO of Saudi Aramco.
He focused on this point during his keynote address recently at world energy leaders who had (...)
A small aircraft crashed into a building next to an FBI office in the Texas state capital of Austin today, Reuters quoted local officials as saying.
The plane crashed into a seven-story building at about 10 a.m. CST (11 a.m. EST), said Helena (...)
