ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Natural gas considered for trucking fuel

Mar 22, 2013 (UPI)

Amid the nation's shale gas boom, natural gas is being considered as an alternative to diesel to fuel heavy trucks. The "Blueprint for a Clean and Secure Energy...

Shale gas in line for Britain tax breaks

Mar 22, 2013 (UPI)

Shale gas would get "generous" tax breaks under the government budget proposal unveiled this week by British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Speakin...

A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology

Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)

An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning - while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas - has passed a milestone o...

PetroChina says 2012 net profit falls 13%

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

PetroChina on Thursday reported that 2012 net profit fell 13.3 percent, despite increased production, as the oil giant was hit by a slowdown in the growth rate ...

Alloy developed at Sandia has potential for electronics in wells

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

An alloy that may improve high-temperature electronics in oil and geothermal wells was really a solution in search of a problem. Sandia National Laboratories fi...

Transportation Study Reveals Deep Cuts to Petroleum Use and Carbon Emissions

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have announced the release of the Transp...

Lebanon's rifts threaten Med gas bonanza

Mar 21, 2013 (UPI)

As Lebanon makes its first moves to explore what look like major natural gas fields in the Mediterranean, there are concerns the country's unexpected chance for...

Oil prices mixed in Asia, China manufacturing picks up

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

Oil prices were mixed in Asian trade Thursday as data showing Chinese manufacturing picking up strongly in March was offset by profit taking, analysts said. New...

'Dirty blizzard' in Gulf may account for missing Deepwater Horizon oil

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill acted as a catalyst for plankton and other surface materials to clump together and fall to the sea floor in a massive ...

DNV KEMA's new Multiphase Flow Lab to enhance Oil and Gas quality assurance

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Energy consulting and testing and certification company DNV KEMA is officially opening a new Multiphase Flow Laboratory (MPFL) in Groningen, the Netherlands. Th...

Saving 70 Percent or More of Energy Use in Your Home

Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)

Cutting your home's energy use by more than two-thirds of what it presently uses is increasingly a topic of discussion, and a goal, in the home energy performan...

Oil Explorers Beware: Hackers Are Eyeing What You Know

Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)

While most would think that the risks junior oil and gas companies are taking in exploring new frontiers as far away as the remote reaches of Africa are related...

Iraq to spend $173 bn on energy infrastructure

Mar 16, 2013 (AFP)

Iraq plans to invest $173 billion in its energy infrastructure over the next five years in order to dramatically ramp up crude output, Oil Minister Abdelkarim a...

Boeing Receives FAA Approval of Certification Plan for 787 Battery Solution

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Boeing has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the company's plan to test and certify improvements to the 787's battery sys...

Pope may be dragged into Falklands dispute

Mar 14, 2013 (UPI)

Pope Francis, acclaimed worldwide as a powerful new champion for the world's poor, risks becoming embroiled in Argentina's increasingly strident rhetoric of a s...

Cuba anxious about post-Chavez Venezuela

Mar 14, 2013 (UPI)

Cuba is fervently hoping the death of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won't disturb the status quo in the Caribbean island's lucrative relationship with o...

Paraffin encapsulated in beach sand material as a new way to store heat from the sun

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

The search for sustainable new materials to store heat captured from the sun for release during the night has led scientists to a high-tech combination of paraf...

Vietnam anti-China activists mark island battle

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Activists in Hanoi chanted anti-China slogans and laid flowers Thursday at a protest marking the anniversary of a battle over the contested Spratly Islands in w...

Report: India's coal power a killer

Mar 14, 2013 (UPI)

Emissions from coal-fired power plants caused up to 100,000 early deaths in India last year, a new report from Greenpeace said. The "Coal Kills" report released...

ENI sells Mozambique stake to CNPC for $4.21bn

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Italian energy group Eni said Thursday it has sold a 20 percent stake in an offshore energy field known as Area 4 in Mozambique to China's state-owned giant CNP...