ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Simulations uncover obstacle to harnessing laser-driven fusion

Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)

A once-promising approach for using next-generation, ultra-intense lasers to help deliver commercially viable fusion energy has been brought into serious questi...

Turkey PM confirms talks with Iraqi Kurds on energy deal

Mar 29, 2013 (AFP)

Turkey is discussing the terms of an energy partnership with Iraqi Kurds, the country's prime minister said Friday in the first public confirmation of a project...

Hess completes sale of Caspian assets

Mar 29, 2013 (UPI)

Hess Corp. said it sold its interests in the giant Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli complex in the Caspian Sea. Hess said it closed a deal to sell its 2.72 percent interes...

Big Oil's hassle with Iraq is China's gain

Mar 29, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. oil companies seem to be losing interest in Iraq, which a decade ago was seen as the big prize in the global energy business with the world's fifth largest...

As Cyprus Collapses, It's a Race to the Mediterranean Gas Finish Line

Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)

Cyprus is preparing for total financial collapse as the European Central Bank turns its back on the island after its parliament rejected a scheme to make Cyprio...

China's coal power sapping up water supply

Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)

Northern China's electricity sector is depleting the arid region's water, says a new study. Coal-fired power generators in the north, along with coal mining in ...

Hybrid ribbons a gift for powerful batteries

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

Hybrid ribbons of vanadium oxide (VO2) and graphene may accelerate the development of high-power lithium-ion batteries suitable for electric cars and other dema...

US to hold Keystone pipeline hearing in Nebraska

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

The US State Department said Wednesday it will hold a public meeting in Nebraska in April on a controversial $5.3 billion Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, just day...

Trojan Battery Introduces Single-Point Watering System For Its Flooded Batteries

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

Trojan Battery has launched a single-point battery watering system for its line of flooded batteries for renewable energy and backup power applications. The new...

Outside View: Future of Levantine Basin

Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)

I had the privilege recently of lecturing an elite group of young Lebanese journalists from most of the city's top publications for a seminar on "Covering the O...

5.7 quake tied to wastewater injection

Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)

Columbia University researchers say a 5.7 magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 may be the largest ever linked to the injection of wastewater into the ground. The...

Greenhouse gas may be fuel source

Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)

Excess carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, the major driving force of global climate change, could someday be a fuel source, a U.S. biotechnologist says. Mich...

China's Sinopec says net profit down 12.8% for 2012

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese oil giant Sinopec's annual net profit for 2012 fell 12.8 year-on-year, the firm said, with high crude-oil costs and a slowdown in the global and Chinese...

Greenhouse gas emissions of cars could drop 80 percent by 2050

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 perc...

Signalhorn Expands in Oman for Oil and Gas Customer

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

Signalhorn Group of Companies has been awarded seven new locations in Oman requiring robust communications solutions. Signalhorn has successfully transitioned a...

India prepares for shale gas auction

Mar 25, 2013 (UPI)

India is preparing to launch its first auction of shale natural gas blocks, a government official said. Indian Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said Saturday he ex...

Iraq to auction gas exploration blocks: ministry

Mar 24, 2013 (AFP)

Iraq plans to hold an auction of gas exploration blocks open to international energy companies later this year, the fifth of its kind since 2009, a spokesman sa...

NRL Nike Laser Focuses on Nuclear Fusion

Mar 24, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have successfully demonstrated pulse tailoring, producing a time varying focal spot size known as 'focal zoomi...

Iran faces oil losses as Asian buyers balk

Mar 22, 2013 (UPI)

Sanctions-battered Iran faces losing a big part of its oil export revenues as key Asian trading partners cut back on Iranian imports because of escalating U.S. ...

Venezuela tries economic fix before polls

Mar 22, 2013 (UPI)

Venezuelan Acting President Nicolas Maduro introduced economic reforms, including a second devaluation in less than two months, as part of the caretaker governm...