ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Israel OKs oil drilling on occupied Golan

Feb 22, 2013 (UPI)

Israel's go-ahead for oil exploration on Syria's Golan Heights, largely occupied since the 1967 Middle East war, is likely to stir a diplomatic hornet's nest an...

Previewing the next steps on the path to a magnetic fusion power plant

Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists around the world have crossed a threshold into a promising and challenging new era in the quest for fusion energy. So says physicist George "Hutch" N...

Dopants dramatically alter electronic structure of superconductor

Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)

Over the last quarter century, scientists have discovered a handful of materials that can be converted from magnetic insulators or metals into "superconductors"...

Nigeria's president ditches bank chief who triggered $50B oil scandal

Feb 21, 2013 (UPI)

An explosive scandal over oil revenues in Nigeria has gone toxic, with President Goodluck Jonathan suspending the Central Bank governor who blew the whistle on ...

Catalyst Uses Use Iron To Split Hydrogen Gas And Make Electricity

Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)

To make fuel cells more economical, engineers want a fast and efficient iron-based molecule that splits hydrogen gas to make electricity. Online at Nature Chemi...

Europe bids to tighten offshore drilling rules

Feb 21, 2013 (AFP)

Europe moved Thursday towards agreement on new rules governing offshore oil and gas drilling in response to a major environmental disaster off the United States...

Southeast Asia key for LNG

Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)

Southeast Asian countries will drive overall Asian liquefied natural gas demand through 2025, a new report says. Represented predominately by Indonesia, Thailan...

Chinese oil firm Addax targets Nigeria for growth

Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese energy firm Addax said on Wednesday it was seeking further growth in Nigeria after the recent purchase of a significant offshore stake from France's Tot...

Israel has $500M gas deal with Jordan, but wider exports still unclear

Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)

Israel has signed its first gas export deal, selling gas worth $500 million to Arab peace partner Jordan, but debate is still unresolved on whether the Jewish s...

Troubled Baghdad scales back oil strategy

Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)

The brewing oil war between Iraq's central government and a defiant Kurdistan, and wider security concerns, are forcing Baghdad to downsize its ambitious plans ...

India moves ahead in forming coal regulator

Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)

India has given the go-ahead for the creation of a regulator for the country's coal sector. "The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given [the] nod to th...

Merkel cautious on 'fracking' in Germany

Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday expressed caution over whether the revolutionary oil and gas technique of "fracking" could be introduced in Germany, sayin...

Nigeria: State oil company to be probed over '$20B subsidy racket'

Feb 19, 2013 (UPI)

Nigeria is to carry out a forensic audit of the state oil company over an alleged $20 billion subsidy racket that officials say may help explain what happened t...

BP vows to 'vigorously defend' itself at US oil spill trial

Feb 19, 2013 (AFP)

British energy giant BP vowed Tuesday to "vigorously defend" itself in court next week against US government claims for "excessive" fines in the 2010 Gulf of Me...

Wildlife group says China can still prosper with reduced coal use

Feb 19, 2013 (UPI)

China can still prosper economically while removing coal from its power mix, a report from the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday. "By fully embracing energy co...

Turkey defies allies to pursue Iraqi Kurd energy ties

Feb 19, 2013 (AFP)

Turkey is defying Washington and Baghdad in developing a broad energy partnership with Iraqi Kurds as it pushes to secure affordable oil and gas supplies to fue...

Quantum Dot Harvester Turns Waste Heat Into Electricity At The Nanoscale

Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)

A new type of nanoscale engine has been proposed that would use quantum dots to generate electricity from waste heat, potentially making microcircuits more effi...

Romgaz lands option for Black Sea field

Feb 18, 2013 (UPI)

Romania's state-owned Romgaz has acquired a 10 percent participation option from OMV Petrom and Exxon Mobil in a Black Sea natural gas exploration effort. Roman...

Greek PM hails TAP agreement

Feb 15, 2013 (UPI)

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras this week hailed the signing of a three-country agreement on the Greece-Albania-Italy Trans-Adriatic Pipeline. The politica...

Iraq's oil rift deepens over Exxon move

Feb 15, 2013 (UPI)

Exxon Mobil, the world's biggest oil company, is pushing ahead with its controversial drive to develop oil fields in Iraq's independence-minded Kurdish enclave ...