Pungesti, Romania (AFP) Dec 02, 2013 - Hundreds of Romanian riot police armed with batons early Monday forcibly removed some 100 villagers who had been camping out for weeks in protest of Chevron's plans to drill for shale gas, witnesses said.
Singapore (UPI) Dec 2, 2013 - Singapore is on course to become Asia's premier liquefied natural gas trading hub, says a key executive.
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Dec 02, 2013 - Turkey's energy minister on Monday mooted three-party talks with Iraq's central government and the autonomous Kurdish region to resolve a long-running row over the export of oil to international markets.
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 01, 2013 - Iraq's oil exports rose for a third successive month in November but remained below historic highs as the country looks for revenues to fund much-needed reconstruction, data released Sunday showed.
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Nov 30, 2013 - Baghdad has barred Turkish private planes from flying to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, officials said Saturday, ahead of an energy conference that Ankara's energy minister was expected to attend.
Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2013 - China and India are among countries that have dodged US sanctions by cutting back on Iranian crude, Washington said Friday as it pledged to aggressively enforce such punitive measures despite a recent nuclear deal with Tehran.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2013 - A Chinese government-backed environmental group said Friday it has launched legal action against state-owned oil giant PetroChina for almost $10 million over pollution.
Durham NC (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Copper adorns the Statue of Liberty, makes sturdy, affordable wiring, and helps our bodies absorb iron. Now, researchers at Duke University would like to use copper to transform sunlight and water i
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - The ever-increasing market for portable electronic devices such as laptops, cell phones and MP3 players has resulted in an equally heavy demand for secondary batteries - more commonly known as rech
Baghdad (AFP) Nov 28, 2013 - American energy giant Exxon Mobil on Thursday sold part of its controversial stake in a massive Iraqi oilfield to PetroChina and Indonesia's Pertamina amid a long-running row with Baghdad.
Fort Collins CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Tim Bauer, Nathan Lorenz and Bryan Willson, founders of Envirofit International have been named this year's Energy and Environment Innovators by The Economist magazine, based in London. The 10
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the s
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - An international team of researchers has synthesized a new material that stores an unusually large amount of hydrogen. Performing high-pressure X-ray studies at DESY's PETRA III and other light sour
Clemson NC (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - A team of Clemson University physicists consisting of nanomaterial scientists Apparao Rao and Ramakrishna Podila and thermoelectricians Terry Tritt, Jian He and Pooja Puneet worked synergistically t
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which they lose all electrical resistance. Scientists have now used powerful X-rays to estab
New York (AFP) Nov 27, 2013 - Chevron claimed Tuesday that corrupt Ecuadoran plaintiffs mounted an elaborate fraud to win a multi-billion-dollar case against it for polluting the Amazonian rainforest, in arguments before a US court.
