ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Exxon subsidiary detects Nigeria offshore oil spill

Nov 10, 2012 (AFP)

US oil giant ExxonMobil's Nigerian subsidiary on Saturday said a pipeline had been shut down after an oil spill off southern Akwa Ibom state. The source of Frid...

Iraq: Exxon pulls out, Russia wants in

Nov 09, 2012 (UPI)

Iraq's strategic effort to become the world's leading oil producer has taken some bad knocks, with the defection of Exxon Mobil and other majors to independence...

Iraq needs $1 trillion to rebuild: investment head

Nov 08, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq needs up to $1 trillion (784 million euros) over the next 10 years to rebuild its crumbling infrastructure and battered economy, its investment chief said ...

Gunmen kill two Chinese workers in Nigeria: company

Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)

Gunmen shot dead two Chinese construction workers in a town in Nigeria's volatile northeast on Wednesday, police and company officials said, the latest such kil...

Hydro-Fracking: Fact vs. Fiction

Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)

In communities across the U.S., people are hearing more and more about a controversial oil and gas extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing - aka, hydro...

Exxon tells Iraq it wants to sell oilfield stake

Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)

ExxonMobil has informed Baghdad it wants to sell its stake in a south Iraq oilfield, an official said Wednesday, indicating the US giant will focus on a controv...

Strategic oil needed if Iran shuts Hormuz

Nov 07, 2012 (UPI)

Strategic oil reserves will be needed if Iran seeks to close the choke point Strait of Hormuz because overland pipelines can only carry one-third of the oil sup...

Iraq inks oil exploration deal with Lukoil and Inpex

Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq on Wednesday signed a deal with Russia's Lukoil and Japan's Inpex to explore an area believed to contain oil, the latest step in Baghdad's efforts to boost...

Iraq expels Turkish firm from oil exploration deal

Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq expelled Turkish national energy firm TPAO on Wednesday from a consortium which won an exploration contract in south Iraq, in the latest sign of worsening ...

Temporary storage for electrons: Natural method of producing hydrogen

Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have found through spectroscopic investiga...

Iraq inks exploration deal with Pakistan Petroleum

Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq on Monday signed a five-year deal with Pakistan Petroleum for the company to explore a massive tract of land believed to contain gas, the latest step in Ba...

Turkey warns oil firms eyeing Cyprus shelf

Nov 05, 2012 (UPI)

Energy companies cooperating with Greek Cypriot offshore drilling plans will be banned from participating in new oil and gas projects in Turkey, Ankara says. Tu...

Oil prices higher after China data, before US vote

Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices climbed slightly on Monday as traders reacted to a pick-up in China's services industry ahead of Beijing's leadership transition and the US president...

Russia and China to drive the world oil market

Nov 05, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

The global oil market is moving east, says a recent report by The Wall Street Journal Europe. The oil that Russia exports to China, Japan, South Korea, the Phil...

Nuclear power or shale gas? Poland may have to choose soon

Nov 04, 2012 (AFP)

Poland has set it sights on building its first nuclear power station and developing shale gas, but experts believe it may soon have to choose one or the other a...

Syria rebels seize oilfield, down warplane

Nov 04, 2012 (AFP)

Rebels seized a major oilfield and shot down a warplane in eastern Syria Sunday, a watchdog said, notching up new battlefield successes even as the opposition m...

New Jersey struggles with gas supply

Nov 02, 2012 (UPI)

New Jersey residents are grappling with gasoline shortages in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. U.S. Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg , D-N.J., and Robert Menendez, D-...

Anger mounts in US storm zone over fuel shortages

Nov 02, 2012 (AFP)

New York commuters fought for car fuel at gas station forecourts Friday while mayor Michael Bloomberg faced pressure to call off his city's famed marathon as it...

Rice team boosts silicon-based batteries

Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work to make a high-capacity, long-lived a...

Falklands oil quest draws hedge funds

Nov 02, 2012 (UPI)

The Falklands' bid to enter the big league of oil producers in the South Atlantic is drawing hedge funds to what promises to be a multibillion-dollar enterprise...