ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Myanmar-China gas pipeline starts flowing: company

Jul 29, 2013 (AFP)

Gas has started flowing to energy-hungry China through a pipeline from Myanmar, a Chinese state oil company said Monday, in a controversial project that highlig...

Ultra Smooth Mirrors for Demanding Applications

Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)

Optical Surfaces has been producing optical components and systems for more than 50 years and is acknowledged as one of the world's leading manufacturers of ult...

Blast halts Iraq oil exports to Turkey

Jul 28, 2013 (AFP)

A bomb hit a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq to Turkey on Sunday, stopping exports, a police officer and a senior official from the North Oil Company said. The ...

Saudi billionaire prince urges less reliance on oil

Jul 28, 2013 (AFP)

Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal has warned global demand for the kingdom's oil is dropping, urging revenue diversification and investment in nuclear...

Sixteen arrested at British anti-fracking protest

Jul 26, 2013 (AFP)

Sixteen protesters were arrested on Friday as British police broke up a blockade against exploratory drilling by a fracking company in southern England. Campaig...

Sudan delays oil pipeline closure: Ethiopia

Jul 26, 2013 (AFP)

Sudan will delay closing an economically vital pipeline carrying South Sudanese oil, the Ethiopian foreign ministry said on Friday. "The Government of Sudan has...

Israeli navy grapples with defending Med gas fields

Jul 26, 2013 (UPI)

Amid signs Israel's effort to patch up relations with one-time ally Turkey is in difficulties, the prospect of exporting gas from offshore fields to Europe via ...

Direct nitrogen fixation for low cost energy conversion

Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)

A simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs), which could be used in dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel...

Halliburton admits destroying US oil disaster evidence

Jul 26, 2013 (AFP)

Halliburton, the US energy services giant, has admitted destroying evidence relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the ...

The meeco Group adds iKUBE to its mobile energy product range

Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)

The meeco Group has recently added a new product innovation to its sun2live range of solar energy and storage solutions, called iKUBE. This mobile energy soluti...

Leaks prompt concern over bitumen extraction methods

Jul 26, 2013 (UPI)

A series of leaks at a Canadian oil company's oil sands operation has called into question the safety of bitumen extracting methods. Canadian Natural Resources ...

Oil market under pressure from China demand fears

Jul 25, 2013 (AFP)

World oil prices steadied on Thursday, remaining under pressure from concerns about an economic slowdown in top energy consumer China, analysts said. New York's...

Harvesting electricity from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

Jul 24, 2013 (SPX)

A new method for producing electricity from carbon dioxide could be the start of a classic trash-to-treasure story for the troublesome greenhouse gas, scientist...

Now gas-rich Israel goes for oil in East Med

Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)

Noble Energy, the Texas company that discovered rich natural gas fields off Israel and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, is getting ready to start deep-water...

Mineral Rich Australia May Contain World's Next Major Oil Find

Jul 24, 2013 (SPX)

Australia's massive mineral exports allowed it to weather the global recession, which began in 2008, quite nicely. The U.S. government's Energy Information Admi...

Oil prices tumble on poor China data

Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)

World oil prices dived on Wednesday following weak manufacturing data in China, which is the world's leading consumer of energy. Brent North Sea crude for deliv...

Reforms needed for investment in Australian LNG

Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)

An Australian oil and natural gas industry supporter warned that without policy reforms billions of dollars in new liquefied natural gas projects would be at ri...

West Africa becomes pirate hotspot amid oil boom

Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)

Pirates have looted a Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker off Togo and hijacked a Maltese oil products tanker off Gabon in recent days amid a sharp escalat...

Greenhouse gas seen as clean source of electricity

Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)

A troublesome greenhouse gas could be an energy source, say Dutch scientists describing a new method for producing electricity from carbon dioxide. Reporting th...

Iran signs major deal to export gas to Iraq

Jul 22, 2013 (AFP)

Iran has finalised a major contract to export gas to neighbouring Iraq, worth 3.7 billion dollars a year, local media on Monday quoted a deputy oil minister as ...