ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)

In their latest experiment, Prof. Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Hamburg-based Center for Free-E...

Siemens tasked with control system for South Stream

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

German engineering company Siemens agreed to supply control systems for the offshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline, Gazprom said Friday. Gazprom said...

Canada's Sonoro Energy eyes Iraqi oil sands

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

Canadian energy company Sonoro Energy said it was exploring the opportunity to develop oil sands resources in Iraq. Sonoro said it met with Iraqi officials duri...

Pipeline boosts Iran, Pakistan defiance

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline recently inaugurated in the face of stiff U.S. opposition has bolstered an emerging partnership between the two Muslim states aga...

Maersk Drilling sees need for new rig fleets

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

Danish company Maersk Drilling said it's trying to breathe new life into an industry working with a fleet of offshore rigs in need of replacement. Maersk Drilli...

Shell to sell Australian refinery

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

Shell plans to sell its oil refinery in Victoria, Australia. Shell Australia's downstream vice president Andrew Smith said Thursday the decision to sell the Gee...

Oil imports from top three suppliers up for U.S.

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

An industry brief Friday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration finds U.S. oil imports are down, though imports from top foreign suppliers increased. E...

Romanians protest against gas fracking

Apr 04, 2013 (AFP)

Hundreds of Romanians protested in several cities on Thursday against plans for shale gas exploration, known as fracking, voicing concerns over environmental po...

Israel, Turkey may go for Med energy pact

Apr 03, 2013 (UPI)

The expected reconciliation between Israel and Turkey could lead to a ground-breaking strategic energy partnership in the politically turbulent eastern Mediterr...

Venezuela rivals trade military meddling accusations

Apr 03, 2013 (AFP)

The Venezuelan opposition and government accused each other on Wednesday of courting the country's military to meddle in April 14 elections to replace late pres...

Venezuela rivals accuse each other of military meddling

Apr 03, 2013 (AFP)

The Venezuelan opposition and the government accused each other on Wednesday of seeking support from the military to meddle in the April 14 election to replace ...

Scientists make hydrogen fuel from plants

Apr 03, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. scientists say their method of extracting large quantities of hydrogen from any plant could create a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source. Resear...

Discovery opens door to efficiently storing and reusing renewable energy

Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)

Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemic...

Arkansas opens probe into ExxonMobil spill

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

Arkansas opened an investigation into an ExxonMobil pipeline that unleashed thousands of barrels of crude and forced the evacuation of 22 homes, the state's att...

Two engineers killed in attack on Iraq gas field

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

Gunmen killed two Iraqi engineers, wounded a third and kidnapped another when they attacked a camp near a gas field run by a South Korean firm in Iraq's western...

Exxon-BHP plan floating gas processing

Apr 02, 2013 (UPI)

Exxon Mobil and BHP Billiton have submitted to Australia's federal environment department plans for a $10 billion floating liquefied natural gas production faci...

Shell to shut key Nigeria pipeline to repair oil theft damage

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

Shell plans to temporarily shut a key oil pipeline in southern Nigeria later this month to repair damage caused by oil thieves, leading to a cut of around 150,0...

Israeli navy seeks gas field defense force

Apr 02, 2013 (UPI)

Israel's navy is scrambling to assemble a force of new warships worth some $760 million to protect the country's natural gas fields in the Mediterranean as the ...

Wastewater injection spurred biggest earthquake yet

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep ...

Gas quakes anger Dutch farmers but relieve state coffers

Mar 31, 2013 (AFP)

Farmers living atop Europe's largest gas field in the isolated northern Netherlands are angry at increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by extraction. Freezin...