ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Europe must save gas plants for energy security: GDF Suez chief

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

Europe must save its gas-fired electricity plants by paying for them to remain available for peak demand or face a threat to its energy security, warned Wednesd...

BP signs deal on controversial north Iraq oilfield

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

British energy giant BP has signed a deal with Baghdad on an oilfield at the heart of a dispute between the central government and Kurdish authorities in northe...

China's Xi agrees $3 bn in credits for Kyrgyzstan

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

China on Wednesday agreed credits worth over three billion dollars for energy projects in its northern neighbour Kyrgyzstan, during a visit by President Xi Jinp...

Producing hydrogen from water with carbon/charcoal powder

Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)

In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from ordinary water - one of the keys to the much-discussed "hydrogen economy" - sc...

Poland anchors energy strategy in coal, shale gas: PM

Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)

Central European powerhouse Poland will anchor its energy strategy in coal and shale gas, with only limited investment in renewables, Prime Minister Donald Tusk...

Japan and India to push for better LNG pricing

Sep 10, 2013 (UPI)

Japan and India said they were planning a liquefied natural gas importers' group as a way to reduce the Asian price and diversify their import sources. LNG pric...

Philippines mulls removing 'Chinese' blocks at shoal

Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)

Philippine officials are considering removing concrete blocks allegedly installed by China on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, the Filipino navy chief s...

Exploring for Oil in Nicaragua: Friends in High Places

Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)

On 17 July, Nicaragua announced that US-based Noble Energy would invest $30 million in drilling two offshore wells in the Caribbean-launching Nicaragua's first-...

Wiring microbes to conduct and produce electricity faster

Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)

A team of researchers in Ireland have found evidence that altering the chemistry of an electrode surface (surface engineering) can help microbial communities to...

Chevron claims new proof of fraud in Ecuador pollution ruling

Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)

US oil giant Chevron, hit in Ecuador with a record $19 billion fine for pollution, asked Monday for the court to consider what it claimed was "new evidence" the...

PetroChina denies more officials probed for graft

Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)

PetroChina, the listed arm of China's largest oil producer China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), rejected a media report Monday that said two of its executives ...

Shell opens compensation talks over massive Nigeria oil spill

Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)

Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell held compensation talks in Nigeria on Monday with leaders of a community devastated by two massive oil spills in 2008, activists ...

Uzbekistan, China sign agreements worth $15 billion

Sep 09, 2013 (AFP)

Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday signed agreements worth $15 billion in key sectors, including the exploitation of ...

Electronics advance moves closer to a world beyond silicon

Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a ...

U.K. scientists say shale gas' carbon footprint on par with others

Sep 09, 2013 (UPI)

Shale gas extraction in Britain would have a similar carbon footprint to other fossil fuels, a government report says. The report by the Department of Environme...

Bolivia to launch lithium-ion battery plant

Sep 08, 2013 (AFP)

Bolivia will launch South America's first plant producing lithium-ion batteries next year using Chinese technology, authorities said Sunday. "We are talking abo...

China, Kazakhstan eye deals worth $30 bln

Sep 07, 2013 (AFP)

Kazakhstan and China plan to sign 22 agreements worth around $30 billion, including in the key energy sector, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Saturda...

Destabilization fears over Somalia's first oil deal

Sep 06, 2013 (UPI)

There are growing concerns that a groundbreaking oil exploration contract between the Western-backed transitional government of war-torn Somalia and a British-r...

Shell in compensation talks over Nigeria oil spills

Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)

Shell is to begin compensation talks with thousands of Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were ruined by two massive oil spills in the Niger Delta, th...

Libya in crisis as armed groups throttle oil supplies

Sep 04, 2013 (UPI)

Lawless Libya, these days seen as a major haven for al-Qaida, is facing its greatest crisis since Moammar Gadhafi was toppled and killed in October 2011, as arm...