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Troop loyalty a challenge for Venezuela's Maduro
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Venezuelan troops will parade past Nicolas Maduro after he is sworn into office Friday, but keeping their loyalty will be tricky for a leader lacking the charis...
Alberta investing in CCS for oil sands
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
The provincial government in Alberta, Canada, said it set aside more than $1 billion for carbon storage and storage facilities for oil sands projects. Provincia...
Arguments spill in battle over Canada-US pipeline
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Environmental versus business interests faced off Thursday in the battle over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada's tar sa...
U.S. oil inventories at record high
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
The amount of crude oil at Gulf Coast facilities reached the highest level ever because of production gains and new transit routes, the U.S. government said. Th...
Keystone's economic benefits for US questioned
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Backers of the controversial $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline project weighed by the Obama administration could boost US jobs and energy independence, but crit...
India to boost clean energy
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
India aims to double its renewable energy capacity to 55,000 megawatts by 2017, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. The initiative would include exploiti...
Libya expecting oil sector to recover
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
Libya's oil sector may be able to make up for losses incurred by a rebel blockade as soon as production and export levels return to normal, a spokesman said. Th...
Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group to Develop Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plant
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has announced that it is working with Reignwood Group to develop an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot power plant off the coast of so...
Canada: Chinese energy investment welcome
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
The Canadian government said it is open to more investment from Chinese energy companies. Speaking Tuesday to a gathering of Chinese and Canadian executives in ...
UCLA engineers craft new material for high-performing 'supercapacitors'
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
Taking a significant step toward improving the power delivery of systems ranging from urban electrical grids to regenerative braking in hybrid vehicles, researc...
N.D. governor questions coal pollution limits
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said a "one-size-fits-all" effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions isn't the right tool to control pollution. Dalrymple hoste...
Russia may lose energy game over Ukraine, U.S. says
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
Russia has "a lot to lose" if it continues to use energy as a geopolitical tool in the row over Ukraine, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said. Russian Presi...
Plasma Device Developed at MU Could Revolutionize Energy Generation and Storage
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
University of Missouri engineer Randy Curry and his team have developed a method of creating and controlling plasma that could revolutionize American energy gen...
More production expected from top U.S. oil shale basins
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
Oil production from some of the top shale basins in the United States is expected to increase by 70,000 barrels per day next month, the Energy Department said. ...
Canada's rising oil production at risk if no new pipelines
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
North America's pipeline network must be radically redrawn with new links such as Keystone XL to meet growing Canadian oil output, or risk a blow to the country...
FAR Ltd. expects oil bonanza offshore Senegal
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
Australian energy company FAR Ltd. said Thursday developing offshore reserves in Senegal may open the flood gates for new oil deposits. FAR Ltd. said drilling b...
Development of clean energy has 'stalled,' international agency says
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
The development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit climate change, the International Energy Agency in Paris said Wednesday. With power gene...
Shell shuts key Nigeria pipeline to repair oil theft damage
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
Shell has shut a key oil pipeline in southern Nigeria to repair damage caused by oil thieves, leading to a cut of around 150,000 barrels per day, the company sa...
Three years after Gulf spill, BP fights billions in fines
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
Three years after a deadly explosion on a BP-leased drilling rig unleashed the worst environmental disaster in US history, the British energy giant is fighting ...
Michigan Tech Scientist's Discovery Could Lead to a Better Capacitor
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
A new process for growing forests of manganese dioxide nanorods may lead to the next generation of high-performance capacitors. As an energy-storage material fo...
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