Chevron Corp. has begun extracting crude oil from a Southern California field using steam produced by a 29-megawatt solar-thermal power plant built by BrightSource Energy Inc. The Oakland company's ...

Oil major Chevron has revealed plans to build and operate a solar-to-hydrogen production facility in California. The 5 MW project will use solar-generated electricity to split non-potable water into ...

COALINGA, California (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is building a solar plant here to create the steam that boosts production at an aging California oilfield, in a pioneering project the company aims to ...

"It basically works by reflecting the suns energy from this field of mirrors up to a receiver on top of the 330 foot tower," said Jerry Lomax with Chevron. There's a boiler full of water in the tower ...

Faced with the world's impending freshwater scarcity, researchers turned to solar steam generators, which are emerging as a promising device for seawater desalination. The team sought design ...

MUSCAT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - An Omani sovereign wealth fund and other investors are injecting $53 million into GlassPoint Solar, a California-based company which makes solar steam generators used to ...