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Exxon sells Iraq oil stake to PetroChina: ministry
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
American energy giant Exxon Mobil on Thursday sold part of its controversial stake in a massive Iraqi oilfield to PetroChina and Indonesia's Pertamina amid a lo...
Enhancing battery performance
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
The ever-increasing market for portable electronic devices such as laptops, cell phones and MP3 players has resulted in an equally heavy demand for secondary ba...
Holistic Cell Design Leads to High-Performance, Long Cycle Lithium-Sulfur Battery
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) ...
Researchers convert thermoelectric material into high performance electricity
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
A team of Clemson University physicists consisting of nanomaterial scientists Apparao Rao and Ramakrishna Podila and thermoelectricians Terry Tritt, Jian He and...
Novel Material Stores Unusually Large Amounts of Hydrogen
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has synthesized a new material that stores an unusually large amount of hydrogen. Performing high-pressure X-ray studies at...
X-rays reveal another feature of high-temperature superconductivity
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which they lose all electrical resistance. Scientists ...
Iraqi Kurdish oil exports to Turkey may start next month
Nov 27, 2013 (AFP)
Oil exports from autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan to Turkey could start next month, the region's prime minister said as he held talks in Ankara Wednesday on planned e...
Minister says Poland to produce shale gas next year
Nov 27, 2013 (AFP)
Poland will begin commercial production of shale gas next year, the Deputy Environment Minister said Wednesday, becoming the first European country to use the c...
Sinopec suspends executives over China pipeline blast: Xinhua
Nov 27, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese oil giant Sinopec has suspended two executives following a pipeline explosion in the coastal city of Qingdao which left more than 50 people dead, state ...
Argentina, Repsol said nearing compensation compromise
Nov 26, 2013 (UPI)
Argentina and major Spanish oil producer Repsol are nearer a compromise over last year's government unsettling seizure of Repsol unit YPF. Not only did the nati...
Iran deal 'will lead to surge of oil to Asia'
Nov 26, 2013 (AFP)
Iran's deal with Western powers to curb parts of its nuclear programme is likely to lead to a sizable increase of shipments of oil from the Islamic Republic to ...
JPL to Assist in Oil and Gas Tech Development
Nov 26, 2013 (JPL)
Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., met with top executives of the Norwegian-based oil and gas company, Statoil, o...
Chevron alleges Ecuador fraud in oil pollution case
Nov 26, 2013 (AFP)
US energy giant Chevron claimed Ecuador used fraud to win an Ecuadoran pollution case against it, in final arguments at a trial Tuesday in a New York federal co...
Optimizing electronic correlations for superconductivity
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
The decadeslong effort to create practical superconductors moved a step forward with the discovery at Rice University that two distinctly different iron-based c...
Turkey could increase oil imports from Iran
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
Turkey could increase its oil imports from neighbouring Iran once the sanctions are lifted as part of a landmark deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, the energy ...
China oil pipeline explosion toll rises to 52
Nov 24, 2013 (AFP)
The death toll from an oil pipeline explosion in a Chinese coastal city rose to 52 Sunday, as rain and the close proximity of dangerous gases hampered the rescu...
Cutting-edge coal plants planned in Fukushima: report
Nov 23, 2013 (AFP)
A Japanese utility plans to construct two cutting-edge coal power plants in Fukushima, an area severely hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster, a report said Saturday...
18,000 evacuated after pipeline explosion in China: govt
Nov 23, 2013 (AFP)
Some 18,000 people were evacuated from a Chinese coastal city after an oil pipeline explosion killed at least 47 people and sent thick black smoke billowing int...
Ben Gurion Researchers Develop New Type of Crude Oil Using Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed an innovative process to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into a renewable alternative fo...
EU: Deal nearly done for reverse gas flows from Slovakia to Ukraine
Nov 22, 2013 (UPI)
A European Union official said this week Ukraine is quickly nearing a deal with Slovakia allowing it import gas from its neighbor through reverse west-east flow...
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