ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Oct 22, 2012 (UPI)

Australian oil and gas company Santos Ltd. has launched the country's first commercial shale gas well in the Cooper Basin in South Australia. South Australian P...

Oil prices extend losses

Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices fell further on Monday in the wake of sharp pre-weekend losses, as investors balanced poor Japanese export data against Middle East unrest. Brent Nor...

Bad weather stops south Iraq oil exports

Oct 21, 2012 (AFP)

Oil exports through Iraq's southern oil terminals, through which the vast majority of the country's crude exports flow, have been suspended due to bad weather, ...

Canada opposes Petronas bid for Canadian gas producer

Oct 20, 2012 (AFP)

A top Canadian official said his country is not satisfied with the $5.3 billion bid by Malaysian state energy firm Petronas to buy the Canadian gas producer Pro...

British company claims 'gasoline from air'

Oct 19, 2012 (UPI)

A small British company says it has developed a technology that can produce gasoline from air that can then be used in any regular gas tank. The company, Air Fu...

Alberta to monitor oil sands

Oct 19, 2012 (UPI)

The Canadian province of Alberta said it will create an "arm's-length" agency to monitor the long-term environmental impact of oil sands development. Canada's o...

Cleaner fracking

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

The technology that opened a wealth of new natural gas resources in the U.S. is producing millions of gallons of dirty water - enough from one typical gas well ...

Indonesia's geothermal heats up

Oct 18, 2012 (UPI)

Mitsubishi Corp. will acquire a 20-percent stake in Star Energy Geothermal, a holding company that manages Indonesia's largest geothermal power station in Java ...

New cobalt-graphene catalyst could challenge platinum for use in fuel cells

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

There's a new contender in the race to find an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts for use in hydrogen fuel cells. Brown University chemist Shouheng S...

Oil prices slip as China slowdown weighs

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices eased Thursday as investors digested economic data on slowing growth in China, the world's biggest energy consumer. New York's main contract, light s...

Iran Guards reject accusation of oil spill plan

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Thursday rejected reported allegations from Western intelligence sources that it plans to damage an oil tanker in the Gulf ...

Fears grow Iran will block Hormuz Strait

Oct 18, 2012 (UPI)

Iran has denied a report it plans to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz with a giant oil spill. But as Iran's oil exports steadily fall because of U.S.-led sa...

Maliki mulls ditching Exxon for Russians

Oct 17, 2012 (UPI)

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is reportedly thinking of throwing out U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil from the giant West Qurna-1 oilfield for signing an "ille...

Pitt Engineers to Design Affordable CO2 Thickener to Augment Oil Extraction

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

Crude oil extraction could be improved significantly and accessible domestic oil reserves could be expanded with an economical CO2 thickener being developed by ...

GAIA commits with energy efficiency

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

The Electronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications Cluster in the Basque Country (GAIA-Cluster TEIC) has participated, together with an internationa...

Prestige oil spill disaster trial opens in Spain

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

Ten years after the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker off Spain, the ship's Greek captain and three others went on trial on Tuesday over the worst oil spill in...

Prestige oil disaster trial starts in Spain

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Seamen go on trial Tuesday over the sinking of the Prestige petrol tanker which spilt a devastating oil slick when it sank off Spain in 2002, with hundreds of p...

Sinopec, ENN drop $2.2 bn offer for China Gas

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

China's Sinopec and ENN Energy Holdings said Monday they have dropped a $2.2 billion offer for China Gas Holdings, the first hostile bid by a state-owned Chines...

Two Chinese kidnapped on Cameroon-C.Africa border

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Two Chinese nationals working on a road project in Central African Republic were kidnapped in an attack three weeks ago on a border post along the Cameroonian f...

Iran denies sanctions hitting oil sector

Oct 15, 2012 (UPI)

Iranian oil industry chief Mohammad-Ali Khatibi has denied an International Energy Agency assessment that Tehran's oil exports fell sharply last month. The Pari...