ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

South Sudan accuses Khartoum of attacks, seizes oil fields

Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)

Sudanese aircraft and ground troops attacked multiple positions in South Sudan's oil rich border regions Monday but were repulsed after fierce battles, Southern...

Quantum copies do new tricks

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

One of the strange features of quantum information is that, unlike almost every other type of information, it cannot be perfectly copied. For example, it is imp...

Sanctions against Iran put cloud over global growth

Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)

Tightened sanctions by the West have yet to dissuade Iran from pursuing its controversial nuclear programme but have triggered an oil price spike that could tri...

Hitachi and SaskPower team up on Test Facility for CO2 Capture Technology

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Hitachi has announced that the Company has agreed to collaborate with Saskatchewan Power to jointly construct a Carbon Capture Test Facility, ("CCTF"). The test...

Better Organic Electronics

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s La...

Lower Poland shale gas reserves estimated

Mar 23, 2012 (UPI)

Poland's supply of shale natural gas reserves may be much smaller than early estimates but still enough to cover its needs for decades, a government report says...

Troubled Nigeria's oil output under threat

Mar 23, 2012 (UPI)

Nigeria's oil production is under threat because of escalating piracy off West Africa, a simmering insurgency in the Niger Delta, the theft of up to 150,000 bar...

Shell sued in Britain over Nigeria oil spills

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

Lawyers for more than 11,000 Nigerians initiated formal legal proceedings against oil giant Shell in London on Friday after the breakdown of negotiations on com...

UF researchers look for ways to make an emerging technology safe for environment

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

The percentage of electronic waste occupying our landfills has grown at an alarming rate over the last decade, giving rise to concerns about the toxicity of com...

Study finds room to store CO2 underground

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of carbon...

Oil spikes on Iran fears; other markets hit by China data

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices jumped late Friday on Iran supply tensions, but most commodities fell this week as worse-than-expected economic data from China and Europe stoked con...

Vietnam asks China to release 21 fishermen

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Vietnam has asked China to immediately release two Vietnamese boats and 21 crew detained more than two weeks ago while fishing near the disputed Paracel Islands...

Vietnam, China in new spat over fishermen detentions

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

China said Thursday the detention of two Vietnamese fishing boats and 21 crew near the disputed Paracel Islands was lawful, after Hanoi demanded their "immediat...

Oil prices tumble on weak Chinese data

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

World oil prices tumbled Thursday in reaction to weak Chinese economic data and after France said industrialised countries were considering the release of crude...

Croatia joins EU oil embargo against Iran

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Future European Union member state Croatia announced Thursday that it had joined the bloc's embargo of Iranian oil. Josko Klisovic, the country's assistant fore...

Romania sees shale gas as boon despite controversy

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Romania is looking to exploit shale gas reserves in a drive for energy self-sufficiency, but critics organising demonstrations on Thursday warn of big risks for...

Iraq ascendant as power shifts in OPEC

Mar 22, 2012 (UPI)

Amid the threats to global oil supplies caused by the Persian Gulf confrontation between the United States and Iran, the longtime oil-power rivalry between the ...

Lukoil, Samsung in deal to up Iraq output

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Lukoil signed a $1 billion deal with South Korea's Samsung Engineering on Thursday to develop Iraq's second-biggest oil field, in which the Russian energy giant...

Japan pledges major cut in Iran oil imports

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

Japan said Wednesday it would continue reducing its Iran oil imports "considerably", while hailing a US decision to exempt it from new sanctions against doing b...

'Electric' effect of plants is studied

Mar 21, 2012 (UPI)

Plants, long known to be the "lungs" of the Earth that create oxygen, may also play a role in electrifying the atmosphere, Australian researchers say. A link be...