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Global recovery, China to pull oil demand in 2014: IEA
Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)
Global economic recovery and emerging markets led by China will boost growth of oil demand to a record high total next year, the IEA forecast on Thursday. Next ...
Libyan oil output falls amid security crisis
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
Libya's oil production has reportedly slipped by about 30 percent from the pre-civil war peak of 1.6 million barrels per day because of a nationwide security co...
Trial over Spain Prestige oil disaster ends
Jul 10, 2013 (AFP)
Hearings in the trial over one of Europe's worst oil spills wrapped up in Spain on Wednesday after eight months of testimony. The Prestige oil tanker spilled 50...
Global fears of running out of oil unwarranted, U.S. researchers say
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. researchers say fears of running out of oil are unwarranted, as the demand for oil -- but not the supply -- will reach a peak and then decline. Warnings of...
Treating oil spills with chemical dispersants: Is the cure worse than the ailment?
Jul 09, 2013 (SPX)
Treating oil spills at sea with chemical dispersants is detrimental to European sea bass. A new study, to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology m...
Gabon makes rare challenge to China over oil practices
Jul 09, 2013 (AFP)
Gabon has taken the exceptional step of withdrawing the right of Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of Chinese oil giant Sinopec, to exploit an oilfield, raising con...
China 'free coal' policy shaves years off life: study
Jul 08, 2013 (AFP)
A decades-old Chinese policy of giving free coal for winter heating to residents in the north has shaved more than five years off life expectancy there, a study...
BP fights 'feeding frenzy' of US oil spill claims
Jul 08, 2013 (AFP)
BP asked a US appeals court on Monday to scuttle a "feeding frenzy" of "fictitious" compensation claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Bri...
Bhutan banks on 'white gold' hydropower
Jul 07, 2013 (AFP)
Home to meditating monks and Himalayan nomads, the sleepy kingdom of Bhutan has set its sights on becoming an unlikely energy powerhouse thanks to its abundant ...
Northrop Grumman Provides LCR-100 Attitude and Heading Reference System for Sikorsky Offshore Rig Approach Capability
Jul 04, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman is supplying a modified LCR-100 Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) for the newly certified offshore rig approach feature on Sikorsky'...
Advance in creating a 'hydrogen economy'
Jul 04, 2013 (SPX)
A discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may represent a significant advance in the quest to create a "hydrogen economy" that would use this abundant ...
Analyzing the net energy of photoeletrochemical hydrogen production
Jul 04, 2013 (SPX)
A paper by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and colleagues examining the net energy of a hydrogen-generating technology, w...
US Navy bolsters presence in Gulf
Jul 03, 2013 (AFP)
The US Navy has deployed three additional coastal patrol ships to its Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, bolstering America's presence in the strategic Gulf, ...
Japan has 'serious concern' about China drilling rig
Jul 03, 2013 (AFP)
Japan said on Wednesday it has voiced "serious concern" to China at the construction of a drilling rig near a disputed and potentially rich gasfield in the East...
Israel's plan to export Mediterranean gas faces obstacles
Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)
Israel's plans to export 40 percent of natural gas production from its offshore fields in the eastern Mediterranean has sharpened a national debate. The governm...
New catalyst could cut cost of making hydrogen fuel
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
A discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may represent a significant advance in the quest to create a "hydrogen economy" that would use this abundant ...
Surprise superconductor
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
Superconductivity is a rare physical state in which matter is able to conduct electricity-maintain a flow of electrons-without any resistance. This phenomenon c...
Exotic alloys for potential energy applications
Jul 02, 2013 (SPX)
The search for thermoelectrics, exotic materials that convert heat directly into electricity, has received a boost from researchers at the California Institute ...
Petrocaribe weighs Venezuela's post-Chavez oil diplomacy
Jul 02, 2013 (UPI)
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was known for lavishing gifts of cheap oil on neighbors sympathetic to either his populism or strident anti-American r...
Power for seaports may be the next job for hydrogen fuel cells
Jul 02, 2013 (SPX)
Providing auxiliary hydrogen power to docked or anchored ships may soon be added to the list of ways in which hydrogen fuel cells can provide efficient, emissio...
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