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British PM urges EU to cut shale gas red tape
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso that the continent risks being left behind in the shale gas re...
Israeli navy to get 2 German frigates to shield natural gas fields
Dec 17, 2013 (UPI)
The Israeli navy is getting two German-built frigates under a $1.37 billion contract that will build up its maritime firepower, officials said. Their primary mi...
Canadian court greenlights Ecuadoran lawsuit against Chevron
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
Ecuadoran villagers can seek to enforce in Canada a multi-billion-dollar Ecuadoran judgment against Chevron for polluting the Amazonian rainforest, a Canadian c...
China natural gas represents 'golden opportunities'
Dec 17, 2013 (UPI)
The development of China's natural gas sector offers "golden opportunities" for investors, a report by the China Energy Fund Committee says. Patrick Ho, deputy ...
British utility Centrica wins bidding for Ireland's Bord Gais Energy
Dec 16, 2013 (UPI)
A $1.54 billion offer from British utility Centrica is the winner in bidding for the energy business of Ireland's Bord Gais, the Dublin government announced. Ir...
Lockheed Martin Manufacturing Tanks to Store and Transport Liquefied Natural Gas
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Building on a 38-year history of manufacturing external tanks for NASA's Space Shuttle program, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is producing Liquefied Natural Gas (...
Negative resistivity leads to positive resistance in the presence of a magnetic field
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
In a paper appearing in Nature's Scientific Reports, Dr. Ramesh Mani, professor of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University, reports that, in the prese...
CWRU researchers report nanoscale energy-efficient switching devices
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology, and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at Case Western Reserve Un...
Can We Turn Unwanted Carbon Dioxide Into Electricity
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers are developing a new kind of geothermal power plant that will lock away unwanted carbon dioxide (CO2) underground - and use it as a tool to boost el...
Deep Carbon Observatory scientists discover quick recipe for producing hydrogen
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists in Lyon, a French city famed for its cuisine, have discovered a quick-cook recipe for copious volumes of hydrogen (H2). The breakthrough suggests a b...
Libya faces economc dangers over oil shutdown
Dec 13, 2013 (UPI)
The six-month shutdown of Libya's oil industry by rogue militias and disgruntled tribesmen has forced the government to dip into the country's foreign reserves,...
Gunmen kill 18 pipeline workers in Iraq: police
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
Gunmen Friday shot dead 18 people -- most of them Iranians -- who were working on a gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq northeast of Baghdad, police officers said. T...
Lithuania hails progress on LNG during EU presidency
Dec 13, 2013 (UPI)
Lithuania's president this week hailed progress on liquified natural gas projects during its EU presidency and predicted successor Greece will do the same. Pres...
Russia says Arctic crew cannot leave country: Greenpeace
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
Russia has denied foreign Greenpeace activists permission to leave the country pending their trial over an Arctic protest, the group said on Friday, some two we...
Anadarko tumbles on multi-billion dollar ruling
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
Shares of Anadarko Petroleum plummeted Friday after a judge ruled that the oil company owes litigants billions due to a fraudulent reorganization designed to av...
Another cost blowout for Chevron's Gorgon LNG in Australia
Dec 12, 2013 (UPI)
Oil and gas giant Chevron Corporation has revealed the cost of its massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on Western Australia's Barrow Island has increas...
Persian Gulf states seek joint military command -- again
Dec 12, 2013 (UPI)
On the face of it, the decision by the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf to establish a joint military command indicates the six member states of the Gulf Coo...
Added molecules allow metal-organic frameworks to conduct electricity
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Sandia National Laboratories have added something new to a family of engineered, h...
Nigeria's leader under fire over missing $50B in oil money
Dec 12, 2013 (UPI)
President Goodluck Jonathan is under growing pressure from top-level corruption in Nigeria's oil industry, with the central bank asking what happened to $50 bil...
Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'tinker toy' materials to appear in Science
Dec 11, 2013 (SPX)
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, a development t...
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