ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Probe 'blames Sinopec, city for deadly China pipeline blast'

Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)

An official inquiry blames China's state-owned oil giant Sinopec and local authorities in the city of Qingdao for a November pipeline explosion that killed 62 p...

Abe to offer help in Africa tour as Ethiopia hopes for trade

Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will offer humanitarian aid to Africa when he visits this week, the government said Wednesday, as his Ethiopian opposite numb...

China weighs in as S.Sudan peace talks open

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

Peace talks between South Sudan's government and rebels started in Ethiopia on Monday, as key power China added its weight to efforts to end weeks of fighting i...

Canada PM predicts Keystone pipeline 'will proceed'

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper predicted Monday that the United States will approve construction of the last leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeli...

Sudan, South mull joint oil protection force: minister

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

Sudan and South Sudan agreed Monday during a visit to Juba by President Omar al-Bashir to consider setting up a joint force to protect vital oilfields, his fore...

Beached Morocco oil tanker to be 'unloaded by Monday'

Jan 04, 2014 (AFP)

A Moroccan tanker carrying 5,000 tonnes of fuel that ran aground during a storm last month will have been pumped dry by Monday without any lasting environmental...

4 dead as Yemen army confronts tribe over hit pipeline

Jan 03, 2014 (AFP)

Clashes Friday between Yemeni soldiers who confronted armed tribesmen blocking access to a damaged oil pipeline killed four people in the central province of Ma...

Iraq oil pipeline bombed, pumping halted

Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)

Militants bombed a major oil pipeline in northern Iraq on Thursday, causing a fire and forcing pumping to be suspended, an official from the North Oil Company s...

Batteries as they are meant to be seen

Dec 28, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers have developed a way to microscopically view battery electrodes while they are bathed in wet electrolytes, mimicking realistic conditions inside act...

Two Libya army officers killed in Benghazi

Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)

Two Libyan army officers have been killed in the past 48 hours in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 revolt against Moamer Kadhafi, officials and ...

Fighting rages in S.Sudan oil regions, 'progress' for peace mission

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

Heavy fighting raged in South Sudan's oil-producing north Thursday, officials said, although neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia claimed "good progress" in efforts to...

'Thousands' killed as South Sudan slides toward civil war

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

Thousands of South Sudanese have been killed in more than a week of violence, with reports of bodies piled in mass graves, the UN said as it moved to nearly dou...

Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

Russia on Wednesday dropped all but one of the cases against 30 crew members of a Greenpeace protest ship following a Kremlin-backed amnesty. The move marks the...

Arab monarchies eye stronger ties with China

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

The six energy-rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf are seeking to strengthen ties with China, Gulf Cooperation Council chief Abdullatif al-Zayani said Wednesday af...

Greece won't cut heating oil tax despite smog: minister

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

Greece's government Wednesday ruled out reducing a tax on heating oil despite a sharp increase in smog resulting from extensive wood-burning. "Reducing the pric...

US judge rejects BP bid for extra proof in oil spill claims

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

A US federal judge has rejected a bid from BP to require companies prove their losses are directly linked to the 2010 massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill before ge...

Correa slams report on CIA role in Ecuador strike

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

Ecuador President Rafael Correa warned Monday that reports US intelligence played a role in a 2008 Colombian attack on FARC rebels in his country could threaten...

Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement Reached

Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)

The U.S. Energy Department, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), the Appliance Standards ...

'Universal ripple' could hold the secret to high-temperature superconductivity

Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)

UBC researchers have discovered a universal electronic state that controls the behavior of high-temperature superconducting copper-oxide ceramics. The work, pub...

US forces ready for possible new S.Sudan evacuations

Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)

The US military on Monday deployed a special Marine Corps unit and aircraft to the Horn of Africa to prepare for possible further evacuations of Americans from ...