ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Three Chinese doctors slain in north Nigeria: police

Feb 10, 2013 (AFP)

Men armed with knives slit the throats of three Chinese doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in Nigeria's volatile northeastern town of Potiskum, police said, in...

US to decide soon on Canada pipeline project

Feb 08, 2013 (AFP)

The United States will make a decision soon on the fate of a controversial Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, new Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Friday, as he m...

Argentina ups stakes in Falklands claim

Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)

Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman raised the stakes in the diplomatic debate on his country's claim on the Falkland Islands during a London visit marke...

Oil majors scramble for Abu Dhabi deal

Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)

The world's oil majors are scrambling to get a piece of the biggest oil deal ever offered by the United Arab Emirates, the world's fourth largest oil exporter. ...

Tensions rise as Iraqi Kurds' oil flows to Turkey

Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)

As Iraqi Kurdistan exports oil northward to Turkey through its own pipeline despite dire warnings from Baghdad about the consequences of such independent action...

Technip to build pipe at Gannet platform

Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)

French engineering company Technip said it was awarded a construction contract by Shell to work in the Gannet field off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. Technip...

Iran slams new 'hostile' US sanctions on oil exports

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

Iran on Wednesday slammed as "hostile" new US sanctions aiming to prevent importers from buying Iranian oil using foreign currencies, saying it will seek to cir...

Lebanon's plans for gas boom falter

Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)

Lebanon's dysfunctional government desperately wants to start awarding contracts for natural gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean and start a process th...

Japan's TEPCO to buy 800,000 tonnes of LNG from US

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power station said Wednesday it plans to buy 800,000 tonnes of light liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually fro...

Libya rebels say oil crisis can be resolved, but no end in sight

Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)

Eastern separatists blockading three of Libya's oil export terminals say the six-month-old crisis crippling the country's energy industry could be resolved with...

Spain's Endesa launches large-scale energy storage project

Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)

Spain's Endesa this week launched the country's first grid-connected energy storage plants, aiming to demonstrate the viability of a key renewable technology. T...

When Wind Turbine Blades and Solar Panels End Up in Landfills

Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)

Richard Gross, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), is deeply troubled by the fa...

All-Brazilian heavy oil output under way

Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)

An all-Brazilian heavy oil operation is under way with every stage of the extraction, output, storage and supply reported to have been conducted with local expe...

Sinopec aims for cleaner fuel

Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)

Chinese state-owned oil refiner Sinopec said it is upgrading its desulfurization capabilities to sell cleaner gasoline beginning in 2014. Sinopec Chairman Fu Ch...

Hungary moves ahead on E.ON purchase

Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)

Budapest is moving ahead with its nationalization of German energy company E.ON's gas business in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced. Orban, speakin...

French minister supports allowing 'clean' shale gas fracking

Feb 03, 2013 (UPI)

A split over France's ban on shale gas development has emerged within the government, with one minister supporting an experimental type of "clean fracking." Fre...

Oil prices rise after upbeat US, China data

Feb 01, 2013 (AFP)

Oil prices finished higher Friday in New York, buoyed by greater optimism about global growth following encouraging indicators from the US and China. A barrel o...

New semiconductor research may extend integrated circuit battery life tenfold

Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University have demonstrated that use of new m...

Deuterium Uptake in Magnetic Fusion Devices with Lithium Conditioned Carbon Walls

Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)

The research of a multi-institutional team from the U.S., Japan, and France, led by Predrag S. Krstic of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences and Jean...

Study finds Mexico's energy reforms represent 'abundant opportunities'

Jan 31, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. energy companies will benefit from "abundant opportunities" as a result of Mexico's energy reforms, a private economic analysis indicated. Mexico's energy ...