ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Carbon storage project combines innovation and outreach

Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)

Geologists are hoping to learn a great deal about geologic carbon sequestration from injecting 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into sandstone 7,000 feet...

Shell details losses of Nigerian crude

Feb 22, 2012 (UPI)

U.S. petroleum company Shell Oil says Nigeria loses an estimated 150,000 barrels of crude oil each day because of theft in the Niger Delta region. Shell Sub-Sah...

Sandia National Laboratories researchers find energy storage solutions in MetILs

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three t...

Wringing more energy out of everyday motions

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing - especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities ...

South Sudan expels Chinese head of main oil firm

Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan has expelled the Chinese head of the country's largest oil firm Petrodar on charges of colluding with former civil war foe Sudan to "steal" millions...

Stanford scientist to discuss the challenges of carbon sequestration at AAAS

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

When the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first comprehensive report on major greenhouse gas emitters last month, power plants topped the list, accoun...

Caspian gas consortium picks TAP pipeline

Feb 21, 2012 (UPI)

The consortium controlling Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz II natural gas field this week tapped the proposed Trans-Adriatic Pipeline as a possible route to Europe. The...

Jordan PM plans to visit Iraq after Egypt gas cuts

Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)

Jordanian Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh said Tuesday he plans to visit Iraq "very soon" to look for alternatives for Egypt's gas after repeated cut-offs in suppl...

Ecuador court rejects Chevron arbitration ruling

Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)

A court in Ecuador has flatly rejected a call by arbitrators to give Chevron temporary protection from a $9.5 billion pollution ruling, but will allow the US oi...

Expert panel deliberates hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development

Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)

The use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development took center stage Friday as a panel of U.S. and Canadian experts discussed the contentious practice in ...

High oil prices test US economy, Obama

Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)

A jump in gasoline prices is threatening to smother the flickering flames of the US economic recovery and with them President Barack Obama's hopes of retaining ...

India criticized for Iran oil imports

Feb 21, 2012 (UPI)

A former U.S. State Department official denounced India's "ill-advised" decision to continue to purchase oil from Iran despite Western sanctions on the Islamic ...

Iran: More high oil prices ahead for EU

Feb 20, 2012 (UPI)

Last week's spike in oil prices is what's in store for Europe if it follows through on moves to ban Iranian imports, a senior Tehran lawmaker says. Hossein Ebra...

Canada threatens trade war with EU over oil sands

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

Canada has threatened to lodge a World Trade Organization complaint against the European Union if the bloc labels oil from Alberta's tar sands as highly polluti...

Iraq oil exports down, income up in January

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's oil exports dropped slightly in January but its income from oil sales was up due to higher prices per barrel, oil ministry figures published on Monday sh...

Japan says China ordered halt to marine survey

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

Japanese coastguards were ordered by a Chinese ship to stop a marine survey in disputed waters at the weekend, officials said Monday, the latest territorial row...

Fuel cells boost power-plant efficiency

Feb 17, 2012 (UPI)

Adding fuel-cell technology to power plants can nearly double a plant's efficiency and cut greenhouse-gas emissions, a U.S. materials-science professor says. Th...

Panel protects Chevron in Ecuador case

Feb 17, 2012 (AFP)

An arbitration panel in The Hague backed Chevron's bid for temporary protection from a $9.5 billion Ecuador court judgment against the oil giant, documents show...

A new class of bulk insulator but surface conductor material

Feb 17, 2012 (SPX)

As a result of a joint intensive work of several groups from five different countries, including Basque Country, a new wide class of topological insulators - ma...

South Sudan oil shutdown pushes up prices

Feb 17, 2012 (UPI)

South Sudan's 3-week-old shutdown of its oil industry in a dispute over oil revenues with the fledgling state's former leaders in Khartoum is likely to drag on ...