ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Iraq oil exports fall on weather, sabotage

Jul 22, 2013 (AFP)

Iraqi oil exports fell in June for the second month in a row as poor weather hit southern ports and saboteurs damaged a key pipeline, the oil ministry said Mond...

FuelFX Brings Revolutionary Augmented Reality Mobile Apps to Energy and High-Tech Industries

Jul 22, 2013 (SPX)

Complex technology stories come to life as FuelFX, a Houston-based multimedia and interactive application firm, takes communications into the next dimension wit...

Geothermal exploration causes quake in Switzerland

Jul 20, 2013 (AFP)

Geothermal exploration was the likely cause of a 3.6 magnitude earthquake Saturday in northeastern Switzerland, authorities said. Further seismic activity canno...

Indonesian graft court jails third Chevron employee

Jul 19, 2013 (AFP)

An Indonesian ant-corruption court on Friday jailed a third employee of the local subsidiary of US energy giant Chevron Corporation, in a case that has spooked ...

Algerian energy sector in decline amid security concerns

Jul 19, 2013 (UPI)

Algeria's oil industry, its economic mainstay, is in decline amid dramatic changes across the Arab world that could yet bring political upheaval to the pivotal ...

A 70-year-long experiment yields a result -- one drop of pitch

Jul 19, 2013 (UPI)

One of the world's longest-running experiments climaxed last week in a university lab in Dublin, Ireland, with a simple falling drop of pitch, researchers said....

Chile reports fracking 'milestone' in gas find

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

Chilean state oil company ENAP said it used fracking techniques to release what could be commercially viable quantities of natural gas and condensates in the co...

Israel's dilemma: Where to sell the east Med gas

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

The Israeli government, rejoicing in the Jewish state's growing reserves of natural gas off its Mediterranean coast and the possibility of oil as well, is wrest...

Ionic liquid breakthrough in thermal electrical energy

Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)

Harvesting waste heat from power stations and even vehicle exhaust pipes could soon provide a valuable supply of electricity. A small team of Monash University ...

Latest Intel processors score well in tests of laptop battery life

Jul 16, 2013 (UPI)

The latest generation of processors from U.S. chip giant Intel are performing as expected, especially in providing laptops with longer battery life, tests show....

Brussels says no plans for EU-wide shale gas ban

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

The European Union has no plans to impose a blanket ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial shale gas extraction method, but it will lay out rules to addre...

Imaging electron pairing in a simple magnetic superconductor

Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)

In the search for understanding how some magnetic materials can be transformed to carry electric current with no energy loss, scientists at the U.S. Department ...

Protests held as YPF, Chevron sign Argentina oil deal

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

Chevron and Argentina's state oil giant YPF signed a $1.2 billion agreement on Tuesday to exploit a huge oil reserve, triggering protests over the fracking it w...

DuPont Adds New Energy and Electronics Capabilities to Silicon Valley Technology Center

Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)

DuPont has announced the expansion of capabilities within its Silicon Valley Technology Center to include new innovations and collaborations in the fields of en...

Japan mulls nationalising unclaimed islands: report

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

Japan may nationalise any unclaimed remote islands in its waters in a bid to bolster its territorial claims, a newspaper said Monday amid a dispute with China o...

Oil slips on China's economic slowdown

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

World oil prices edged lower on Monday after weak economic data in both China and the United States, the two biggest global consumers of crude. In late afternoo...

Stanford researchers say 'peak oil' concerns should ease

Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)

Fears of depleting the Earth's supply of oil are unwarranted, according to new research, which concludes that the demand for oil - as opposed to the supply - wi...

Violence, bottlenecks threaten Iraq's new oil strategy

Jul 12, 2013 (UPI)

Iraq's troubled government is drawing up a new energy strategy that envisions investment of $620 billion in the next 17 years to triple production to 9 million ...

Big quakes trigger tremors at US oil and gas sites

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

Large earthquakes around the world have been found to trigger tremors at US sites where wastewater from gas drilling operations is injected into the ground, a U...

India rebukes Bhutan with fuel subsidy cut: report

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

India has cut fuel subsidies to neighbouring Bhutan as part of a rebuke to the kingdom for "taking the Indian government for granted", a report said Thursday, c...