ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Total to airlift team to stricken North Sea rig this week

Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)

Energy giant Total said it will send a team of experts by helicopter to a stricken North Sea gas platform on Wednesday or Thursday to assess how to stop a poten...

Total losing $2.5 mln a day from North Sea gas leak rig

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

French energy giant Total said Monday a gas leak in the North Sea platform is costing it $2.5 million (1.87 million euros) a day, as Greenpeace said the rig was...

Oil higher in Asia on Chinese demand hopes

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices were higher in Asia on Monday as dealers were boosted by figures showing a rise in manufacturing activity in China, the world's largest energy user, ...

ASEAN struggles with South China Sea code

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

Southeast Asian foreign ministers wrangled Monday over a proposed code of conduct aimed at easing dangerous maritime disputes with Beijing in the South China Se...

Novel filter material could cut natural gas refining costs

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

Measurements taken by a team including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists show that a newly created material has the ability to se...

Iraq says Kurdistan smuggling oil through Iran

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's Kurdish region, which has halted crude exports in a row with Baghdad, owes the central government more than $5 billion and is smuggling the oil it produc...

Iraq rows with Kurds over oil and fugitive VP

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq was at loggerheads with Kurdistan Monday over the autonomous region's move to stop oil exports and allow Baghdad's fugitive vice president to visit Qatar d...

Uruguay mulls offering Iran rice for oil

Apr 02, 2012 (UPI)

Uruguay is considering offering Iran rice shipments in return for oil in apparent disregard of U.S.-led sanctions regarding Iran's disputed nuclear program. Uru...

US firm to make pay-out for China oil spill: report

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

ConocoPhillips and its Chinese partner will pay around 305 million yuan ($48 million) to fishermen in a northern port city over a major oil spill last year, a s...

Fusion presents low proliferation risk

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon-usable ma...

Falklands looks to future amid hopes for oil revenue

Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)

As the Falkland Islands prepares to mark Monday's 30th anniversary of a bitter war, its residents are instead looking to the future amid hopes of an oil boom. A...

Total awaits regulator's advice on stricken North Sea rig

Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)

French energy giant Total was awaiting advice from British regulators on Sunday on whether it was safe to approach a North Sea platform leaking flammable gas fo...

Kurds halt oil exports in payment row

Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's Kurdish region halted oil exports on Sunday after Baghdad's top energy official warned it to reconsider before following through on the threat over the g...

ASEAN buoyed by Myanmar but worried by sea disputes

Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)

The aftermath of landmark by-elections in former pariah state Myanmar is set to dominate this week's summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Cambodia -- unless a r...

Iraq working on Strait of Hormuz tension: deputy PM

Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq is "working very hard" with Washington and Tehran to reduce tensions over Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil chokepoint, Baghdad...

Philippines to build pier in disputed Spratlys

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines will "exercise territorial sovereignty" and build a pier in the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, officials said Friday. The depa...

U.S. stymies Iran bid to snatch Iraqi oil

Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)

The U.S. government is reportedly blocking Iranian moves to siphon oil from disputed oil fields on the border with Iraq to get around tightening international s...

AllCell White Paper Finds Lithium Ion Battery Costs Beat Lead Acid in Hot Environments

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

AllCell Technologies has released a white paper comparing the economics of lithium-ion and lead acid batteries for stationary energy storage systems (ESS). Even...

Russia's Gazprom cuts gas prices to Bulgaria: minister

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

Russia's gas giant Gazprom has agreed to cut natural gas prices to Bulgaria by just over 11 percent, Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said after talks ...

France willing to tap strategic oil stocks

Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)

France is willing to release oil from its strategic reserves to help tamp down the soaring world price of crude oil, Energy Minister Eric Besson says. The offic...