ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Oil and gas found in Central Asian basins for Premier Oil

Apr 28, 2013 (UPI)

Premier Oil, which has headquarters in London, said Monday it made a gas discovery in Pakistan and found oil while drilling off the coast of Indonesia. The comp...

New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Energy Power the Grid

Apr 28, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery ...

GL RC Certifies Alstom's 1MW Tidal Turbine Prototype

Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)

Tidal energy is a new, promising realm of renewable energy. As technology advances, GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) is contributing its expertise by certify...

Electricity blackouts return to haunt Maduro

Apr 26, 2013 (UPI)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro put the country's electricity supplies on an emergency footing after Caracas and outlying areas plunged into darkness amid r...

British Columbia Liberals' shock win keeps pipeline afloat

Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)

British Columbia Liberals won an upset in the Canadian province's elections, officials said Wednesday, raising hopes for a pipeline from Canada's oil sands to t...

China, India spar over Persian Gulf oil

Apr 26, 2013 (UPI)

China's plan to build a second aircraft carrier and the Indian navy's recent test-firing of a submarine-launched cruise missile should be ringing alarm bells in...

Government portal offers a closer look at oil sands

Apr 26, 2013 (UPI)

The governments of Canada and the province of Alberta have launched an online portal for monitoring the environmental effects of oil sands. Information on the s...

Permit delays raise US-Canada pipeline costs: company

Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)

Delays in greenlighting TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline will increase construction costs and postpone its in-service date by at least six months, the company...

Southeast Asian leaders urge China to discuss rows

Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)

Southeast Asian leaders on Thursday called for urgent talks with China to ensure that increasingly tense territorial disputes over the South China Sea did not e...

Tullow Oil reviewing options for Mauritania

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

Tullow Oil will put its plans in Mauritania on hold to review data from what Exploration Director Angus McCoss said Friday was a bold effort in a frontier area....

India to get LNG from the US

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

India's largest natural gas importer has signed a supply agreement to receive liquefied natural gas from the United States. The deal calls for Houston's United ...

Obama lacks leadership on Keystone XL, API says

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

The American Petroleum Institute said the White House is showing a lack of leadership by not pushing the Keystone XL oil pipeline forward. The U.S. State Depart...

Baker Hughes to disclose chemical ingredients in fracking fluid

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

Oil services company Baker Hughes said it could disclose the ingredients of hydraulic fracturing fluids without comprising trade secrets. Energy companies have ...

Lebanon feuds could hurt its quest for gas

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

Lebanon's political and sectarian rivalries, along with its maritime dispute with Israel, could hamper the country's drive to exploit large natural gas fields i...

Crimean shipyards considered for Russian LNG fleet

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade said Friday it was reviewing options to build ships for liquefied natural gas transport at Crimean ports. The governm...

London offers financing for shale gas technology

Apr 25, 2013 (UPI)

The British government said it would provide more than $3 million in funding for environmental management associated with shale gas exploitation. "We must explo...

Canada warns against US rejection of pipeline

Apr 24, 2013 (AFP)

A senior Canadian official on Wednesday warned against a US rejection of the massive Keystone XL pipeline, saying it would be a "serious reversal" in the neighb...

Syria's energy: Mediterranean gas may be the prize

Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)

Syria's top rebel commander is reportedly seeking Western support for taking over oil fields held by Islamist factions but the real conflict over Syria's energy...

NASA to foot the bill for U.S. production of nuclear spacecraft fuel

Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)

NASA says it will begin footing the bill for all production in the United States of plutonium-238 fuel used in satellites and spacecraft. Costs of plutonium-238...

Coal still accounts for bulk of power on British grid

Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)

The share of renewable energy on the British grid increased in the three months ending in February, though coal still dominated, the government said Thursday. T...