Berlin (AFP) May 06, 2014 - German engineering giant Siemens on Tuesday announced it would buy the energy production arm of Britain's Rolls Royce for 950 million euros ($1.3 billion) to strengthen its standing in the oil and gas industry.
Stockholm (AFP) May 06, 2014 - Swedish energy giant Vattenfall said Tuesday that it had given up its research on CO2 capture and storage, intended to make the company's coal power plants greener.
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2014 - The North American energy landscape is undergoing dramatic change. Unconventional oil and gas resources are fuelling an energy boom that is having profound economic, environmental, and social impact
Penryn, UK (SPX) May 05, 2014 - LDD has successfully completed drilling monopile foundations for RWE Innogy's Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm, North Wales, UK. LDD has been working on the project since 2011, when it designed, built
Baghdad (AFP) May 04, 2014 - Iraq's oil exports rebounded last month, government figures released on Sunday showed, despite militant attacks that forced the authorities to stop pumping crude through northern pipelines bound for Turkey.
Khartoum (AFP) May 02, 2014 - Two Chinese and an Algerian abducted from a Sudanese oilfield have been released after two weeks in captivity, official media said on Friday.
The Hague (AFP) May 01, 2014 - Dutch police on Thursday arrested around 30 Greenpeace activists, including the captain of the lobby group's flagship Rainbow Warrior, as they tried to stop a Russian tanker delivering Arctic oil from docking.
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) May 01, 2014 - The Breeze Production system takes wind farm management software beyond mere analytics by letting wind farm owners benchmark their production assets. Wind farm owners around the globe are stru
Boston MA (SPX) May 01, 2014 - Materials that can be used for thermoelectric devices - those that turn a temperature difference into an electric voltage - have been known for decades. But until now there has been no good explanat
Sydney (AFP) April 30, 2014 - An Australian and Chinese consortium on Wednesday won a 98-year lease on the world's biggest coal export port for Aus$1.75 billion dollars (US$1.62 billion), the New South Wales government said.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 30, 2014 - A Rice University laboratory has flexible, portable and wearable electronics in its sights with the creation of a thin film for energy storage. Rice chemist James Tour and his colleagues have
Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 30, 2014 - A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel veh
Norwich, UK (SPX) Apr 30, 2014 - Bacteria could mop up naturally-occurring and man-made leaks of natural gases before they are released into the atmosphere and cause global warming - according to new research from the University of
Guelph, Canada (SPX) Apr 30, 2014 - A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands co
London (AFP) April 29, 2014 - Legal arguments begin in court on Tuesday in a compensation claim brought by about 15,000 members of Nigeria's Bodo community against oil giant Shell for the damage caused by two spills in 2008.
Moscow (AFP) April 29, 2014 - Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom posted a second successive drop in annual profits on Tuesday and warned that the escalating crisis in Ukraine could disrupt its crucial supplies to Europe.
