ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Rusal taps Hong Kong executive after oligarch fight

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

The world's biggest aluminium producer Rusal on Friday named the head of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange as new chairman after a bitter public struggle betwee...

White House: No release of oil reserves

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

The White House has denied news reports that U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to release oil from strategic petroleum...

Spain clears oil exploration off Canary Islands resort

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

Spain's deficit-laden government approved Friday oil exploration by Repsol YPF SA off the Canary Islands despite opposition by the archipelago, which fears dete...

2,000 child soldiers in South Sudan ranks: UN

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan must uphold promises to abolish its use of child soldiers, with some 2,000 minors still serving in its rebel turned regular army, the UN's top exper...

Trans-Caspian pipeline talks progressing

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

Momentum is quickly building to conclude a trans-Caspian Sea pipeline agreement between the European Union, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, officials' comments ind...

Optics Express focus issue: Modular ultrafast lasers

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Ultrafast lasers, lasers that emit light pulses that are as short as a few femtoseconds, have enabled a wide-range of fundamental science and applications over ...

Laser lightning rod: Guiding bursts of electricity with a flash of light

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Using an experimental apparatus reminiscent of a classic Frankenstein movie, French researchers have coaxed laboratory-generated lightning into striking the sam...

Baghdad, Kurds square off in oil dispute

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

The simmering dispute between Iraq's central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region over oil has ramped up a couple of notches amid a swelling politi...

US to step up minesweeping in Gulf

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

The US Navy said Thursday it is doubling the number of minesweeping ships and helicopters based in the Gulf, amid growing tensions over Iran's threats to close ...

Israel oil find sharpens Med energy scrap

Mar 15, 2012 (UPI)

The discovery of potential oil reserves of 232 million barrels, plus another natural gas field off Israel's coast couldn't have come at a better time for the Je...

Global Oil and Gas Pipelines Market Expected to Total $60.29bn in 2012

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Visiongain's: The Oil and Gas Pipelines Market Analysis 2012-2022 report calculates the global oil and gas pipelines market to be worth $60.29bn in 2012. The gr...

Clooney: Obama to raise Sudan with Hu in Seoul

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Oscar winner George Clooney Thursday said President Barack Obama would press China's President Hu Jintao when they meet in Seoul this month for action on averti...

Outside View: Wisdom of drilling for oil

Mar 15, 2012 (UPI)

Gasoline prices are zooming past $4 a gallon and the United States is hardly freer from the grip of imported oil or closer to robust economic recovery. With his...

Visiongain Reveals the Top Twenty Companies in the Evolving $39bn Shale Gas Market

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Currently, North America is seeing a period of substantial oversupply as booming production coupled with unmatched demand leave a glut of gas on the market. As ...

Japan indicts Chinese trawlerman at centre of spat

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Japan on Thursday indicted a Chinese trawlerman whose ramming of two Japanese coastguard vessels sparked a diplomatic showdown, in a symbolic move that was like...

Chevron suspends Brazil oil output following new spill

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

US oil giant Chevron announced Thursday it was seeking temporary suspension of production operations off southeastern Brazil after a new spill was discovered. C...

Niobrara Shale Puts Colorado in the Spotlight as 'Oil Rush' Takes Hold

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Colorado is set to emerge as a major oil producer, thanks to developing interest from oil companies in the Niobrara shale, a new report by market intelligence e...

South Sudan speaks of progress in talks with Sudan

Mar 14, 2012 (AFP)

After months of failed talks, South Sudan says relations with its former civil war foe have become 'positive', with deals concluded this week on borders and cit...

The shape of things to come

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

When oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico in late April 2010, friends asked George Haller whether he was tracking its movement. That's because the McGill...

Seoul warns Beijing over island claim

Mar 14, 2012 (UPI)

South Korea has warned China that it will protect what it claims is South Korean territory -- Ieodo Island, even though the landmass is about 15 feet below sea ...