ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Dec 03, 2012 (UPI)

Argentina's YPF energy company, nationalized earlier this year, is on an expansion drive despite an impending new compensation battle with former majority owner...

Sri Lanka to buy Iraqi oil after US sanctions on Iran

Dec 02, 2012 (AFP)

Sri Lanka will purchase oil from Iraq after the United States imposed new sanctions on Iran, the island's main supplier of crude oil, a report said Sunday citin...

Canada seeks access to new oil markets

Dec 01, 2012 (AFP)

Canada is scrambling to build an expansive new oil pipeline network to reach new markets including Asia as its sole customer, the United States, hikes productio...

Trojan Battery's Industrial Line Surpasses 15-year Cycle Life In IEC 61427 Testing

Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)

Trojan Battery has announced that its Industrial line of batteries for renewable energy applications has achieved a major milestone in Trojan's ongoing IEC 6142...

Baghdad-Kurdistan talks stall over military command

Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Friday that talks on reducing tensions with the federal government have stalled over the contentious issue of a newly...

Fracking in Michigan

Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)

University of Michigan researchers are conducting a detailed study of the potential environmental and societal effects of hydraulic fracturing, the controversia...

OriginOil's Second Licensing Agreement Targets Canadian Oil Sands Market

Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)

OriginOil has announced that its second original equipment manufacturer?s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. Pr...

Report warns against increased LNG exports

Nov 30, 2012 (UPI)

A new report from the Sierra Club cautions against exporting liquefied natural gas and urges the U.S. Department of Energy to closely consider the environmental...

DNV KEMA expands High-Power Laboratory to facilitate super grids

Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)

Energy consulting and testing and certification company DNV KEMA will invest approximately EUR 70 million in the expansion of its High-Power Laboratory in Arnhe...

Lebanon steps on gas, but progress slow

Nov 29, 2012 (UPI)

Lebanon's government, which is struggling to keep the crisis-ridden Mediterranean country functioning, has approved a six-member board to regulate the vast natu...

Ecuadoran villagers drag Chevron to Canadian court

Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)

A 19-year court battle that resulted in a staggering US$18.3-billion judgment from an Ecuadoran court against Chevron last year moved to Canada on Thursday as t...

Graphite experiment shines new light laser-driven fusion

Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)

An international team led by researchers from the University of Warwick and Oxford University is now dealing with unexpected results of an experiment with stron...

BP may pay price of Emirates-U.K. spat

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

BP could be cut out of its stake in the United Arab Emirates' giant concession in the Persian Gulf because of a diplomatic wrangle with Britain that is degradin...

Shale development threatens China's water

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

As China readies for the water-intensive process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to tap into massive reserves of shale natural gas, concerns are rising re...

Philippines refuses to stamp Chinese passports

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines said Wednesday it would refuse to stamp Chinese passports containing a map showing most of the China South Sea as belonging to China, as it step...

Ecuador opens bidding for Amazon oil exploration rights

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

Ecuador opens bidding by private and state companies Wednesday for rights to explore for oil in 16 blocks in the Amazon amid protests from indigenous communitie...

Saudi king's health spurs succession issue

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

The Saudi royal family has denied reports King Abdallah, 89, has been placed on life support following spinal surgery but the monarch's failing health has broug...

Transforming noise into mechanical energy at nanometric level

Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers at the Freie Universitat Berlin, co-ordinated by Jose Ignacio Pascual (current leader of the Nanoimagen team at CIC nanoGUNE), have develo...

Turn to gas to fight climate change, Qatar says at UN talks

Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)

Qatar on Monday shrugged off criticism of its record-busting carbon emissions and instead extolled the virtues of its key export, natural gas, as it opened a ma...

SOCAR touts TANAP at Westminster meeting

Nov 26, 2012 (UPI)

The president of Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR says it is ready to move ahead with a trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline after parliamentary approval...