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Sinopec 'cooperating' in Hong Kong bribery probe
Jan 31, 2014 (AFP)
Sinopec, China's biggest oil refiner, said Friday it is cooperating with a Hong Kong graft investigation after reports accused the company of bribery relating t...
Market Disruptor: Nuclear Restarts Spells Trouble for LNG
Jan 31, 2014 (SPX)
There are two major factors that have emerged in the last five years that have sparked a surge in LNG investments. First is the shale gas "revolution" in the Un...
Shell suspends drilling in Alaska as profits plunge
Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)
Royal Dutch Shell will suspend drilling in offshore Alaska after a US court decision and as the oil major streamlines operations following a slump in annual pro...
Pilot project in restaurant delivers on promise of energy savings
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
An energy-efficient hot water system proved its value in a commercial restaurant application during a special project overseen by the Food Service Technology Ce...
Fraunhofer And K.A Care Combine Research Resources
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, K.A.CARE, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, based in...
Colorado State Researchers Collaborating on Commercial Freezer Technology
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
Colorado State University researchers are teaming with a Boulder company to develop a commercial refrigeration system that could save supermarkets up to 65 perc...
American DG Energy to Oversee Complete Energy Plant Conversion
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
American DG Energy has announced that it has reached agreements with Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. to manage an energy plant conversion, along with installation...
Island channel could power about half of Scotland
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the country, engineer...
Atomic-Scale Catalysts May Produce Cheap Hydrogen
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) may work as an effective catalyst for creating...
South Sudan agrees truce, but crisis not over yet
Jan 24, 2014 (AFP)
South Sudan's government and rebels have signed a ceasefire, but analysts warn that bringing battling gunmen on the ground under control and making the truce st...
Energy-dense sugar battery developed to power the world's gadgets
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batt...
Ukraine sets back Gazprom profits by 10.5%
Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)
Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom reported on Thursday a 10.5-percent plunge in third-quarter profits but gains over the first nine months of 2013 thanks boomi...
Energy storage in miniaturized capacitors may boost green energy technology
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries - storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices like camera flas...
US leg of controversial Canadian oil pipeline opens
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Oil started to flow on Wednesday through the southern US leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, its Canadian operator said, while Washington mulls wheth...
EU issues framework for shale gas exploitation
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
The European Commission issued Wednesday recommendations to ensure that clear environmental safeguards are in place when the controversial technique of "frackin...
Iraq oil exports, revenues dip in 2013
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's oil exports and revenues declined in 2013 compared to the previous year, official figures showed Wednesday, despite efforts to dramatically ramp up crude...
Iran's oil minister to seek investment at Davos
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Iran's oil minister will hold a "face-to-face" meeting at Davos with major oil companies to try to coax them back to the sanctions-hit Islamic republic, media r...
New EPA Rule Requires Chemical Disclosure for Offshore Fracking
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of Califor...
Norway to build modern icebreaker for oil, gas exploration in Arctic by 2016
Jan 21, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The Kronprins Haakon modern icebreaker for exploration of resources in the Arctic will be ready by 2016, Norway's Minister of Fishery Elisabeth Aspaker said at ...
Oil prices drop on China data
Jan 20, 2014 (AFP)
Oil prices fell on Monday as China's economic growth data fuelled concerns over energy demand in the world's second largest economy, traders said. New York's ma...
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