Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2014 - Switching the polarity of a magnet using an electric field (magnetoelectric memory [MEM] effect), can be a working principle of the next-generation technology for information processing and storage.
Paris (UPI) Sep 16, 2014 - On the heels of reports predicting low oil demand, a director at the OECD said from France the global economy was expanding at only a moderate pace.
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Sep 16, 2014 - Oil production from Norwegian territory in August was 10 percent higher than what was predicted, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Tuesday.
Columbus, Ohio (UPI) Sep 16, 2014 - It's bad well design, not hydraulic fracturing itself, that's leading to contamination of drinking water, research led by Ohio State University finds.
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2014 - A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging
Paris (UPI) Sep 16, 2014 - French engineering company Technip said Tuesday it won a refinery contract in Bahrain that could increase output by 34 percent.
Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) Sep 16, 2014 - Reliable natural gas deliveries to Europe depend largely on contractual issues in Ukraine, Russian energy company Gazprom said Tuesday.
Oslo, Norway (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - A subsidiary of Norwegian oilfield services company Aker Solutions said Monday it won a $465 million contract for work off the coast of Brazil.
Houston (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - There's no threat to oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico from hurricanes, British oil company BP states from its storm prediction center.
Brussels (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - The trade deficit for energy for the 28 members of the European Union was down 8 percent from the first six months of 2013, data Monday show.
Tehran (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - Gas can't be sent through a pipeline to a power plant in Iraq until next year because of the security situation there, an Iranian development official said.
Moscow (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - Russian oil company Gazprom Neft said Monday it reached a milestone with the production of its 1 millionth barrel of oil from the arctic Prirazlomnoye field.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2014 - For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to
Moscow (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - A spokesperson for the Russian Energy Ministry said Monday it was postponing trilateral talks with the European Union and Ukraine.
Tokyo (UPI) Sep 15, 2014 - A Japanese company said its water-powered emergency battery generates enough juice to charge a smartphone up to 30 times.
Jyvaskyla, Finland (SPX) Sep 15, 2014 - Moventas and Eesti Energia have agreed on the service of two WWD3 turbines at the Aulepa wind park in Western Estonia, plus a lubrication upgrade for all of Aulepa's sixteen turbines by year-end. Em
