ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Aug 03, 2012 (UPI)

The Philippines summoned the Cambodian ambassador to explain comments in a newspaper over the South China Sea dispute between the Philippines and China. Departm...

Argentina looks to China to fund shale oil

Aug 03, 2012 (UPI)

Frustrated in its attempts to draw Western investors into Spanish oil company YPF it nationalized in April, Argentina is looking to China to fund its future pla...

Geothermal System Installed at Goddard's Building 25

Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is pleased to announce the start-up of a new geothermal system for Building 25's Network Testing and Training Facility. The n...

Investigations of Shell's Nigeria spills a 'fiasco': Amnesty

Aug 03, 2012 (AFP)

Rights group Amnesty International said Friday investigations into Shell oil spills in Nigeria were a "fiasco," alleging the company repeatedly blamed sabotage ...

Is the Eurozone Doomed? An Interview with Mike Shedlock

Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)

As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have a number of important questions th...

Baghdad reels as Total signs with Kurds

Aug 02, 2012 (UPI)

The Iraqi government's oil dispute with the semiautonomous Kurdish enclave reached crisis point Tuesday after French oil giant Total signed an exploration deal ...

Iraqi Kurdistan says will resume oil exports

Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's Kurdistan region said it will resume oil exports during the first week of August as a confidence-building measure, after stopping them for more than four...

Never again a flat vehicle battery

Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)

RUB researchers develop an early warning system for vehicle batteries Battery management permanently checks the age, state of charge and operational reliability...

Exxon Valdez to be dismantled in India

Aug 01, 2012 (UPI)

The giant tanker Exxon Valdez, involved in one of the world's worst oil spills, can be dismantled at a ship-breaking yard in Gujarat, an Indian court has ruled....

Falklands tensions rattle oil investors

Aug 01, 2012 (UPI)

Diplomatic tensions with Argentina over the Falklands are rubbing salt into the wounds of investors who poured millions into an offshore quest for oil and natur...

Gas plant plans could threaten fossils

Aug 01, 2012 (UPI)

Paleontologists in Australia say important 130-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprints are threatened by plans to build a liquid natural gas refinery. T...

New method to encourage virtual power plants for efficient renewable energy production

Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Southampton have devised a novel method for forming virtual power plants to provide renewable energy production in the UK. In...

China reports oil extraction success

Aug 01, 2012 (UPI)

A pilot project in China to obtain oil from complex geological structures has been successful, the country's largest oil and gas producer says. Data showed the ...

Argentina to drill for oil near Falklands

Aug 01, 2012 (UPI)

Argentina is taking its offshore oil exploration program closer to the Falklands waters as part of its campaign to assert a sovereignty claim on the British ove...

Iraq oil revenues up $1 billion in July

Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's revenues from oil, which account for the lion's share of the country's income, were up by about $1 billion in July compared to the month before, an oil m...

Philippines hits out at Cambodia in China row

Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines said Tuesday it had summoned Cambodia's ambassador to explain comments he made accusing it and Vietnam of playing "dirty politics" in trying to ...

BP plunges into net loss on huge $5.0-bn writedown

Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)

British energy giant BP said Tuesday that it plunged into a second-quarter net loss, hit by lower output, falling oil prices and a near $5.0-billion (4.1-billio...

French Total signs Iraqi Kurdistan oil deal

Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)

French energy giant Total said on Tuesday it has signed an oil exploration deal for areas in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, putting it on a collision co...

US imposes new sanctions on Iran oil sector

Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday imposed new economic sanctions on Iran's oil export sector and on a pair of Chinese and Iraqi banks accused of doing busine...

Philippines offers up China-claimed oil prospects

Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines will offer three oil and gas exploration contracts in the disputed South China Sea later Tuesday, including two in areas claimed by China, an of...