Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2013 - Until recently Tunisia was considered to be a minor league and relatively underexplored venue in Africa's rapidly expanding oil and gas scene. This situation has quickly changed with new bid rounds
New Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 12, 2013 - Technology that enlists natural soil bacteria as 21st century roughnecks is now commercially available and poised to recover precious oil remaining in thousands of exhausted oil wells, according to
Davis CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2013 - Taking an approach similar to that used for discovering new therapeutic drugs, chemists at the University of California, Davis, have found several compounds that can boost oil production by green mi
Sacramento CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2013 - Renewable energy is neither clean nor a solution to climate change according to a new Truthout interview with Ozzie Zehner, a visiting scholar at the University of California - Berkeley and author o
Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2013 - The United States is now the top market worldwide for wind power, says an industry report.
London (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - Despite the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon incident approaching, BP says it's committed to playing a major role in Gulf of Mexico operations.
Houston (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - Drilling efficiency overall in the United States is 3 percent better than it was at this time last year, oil services company Baker Hughes said Friday.
San Ramon, Calif. (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - The Vaca Muerta shale reserve area in Argentina could become one of the strongest contributors to Chevron's production growth, its vice chairman said.
Moscow (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - Russian energy company Gazprom Neft said it will help keep the lights on in parts if Iraq by connecting the Badra field to an eastern provincial power station.
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - Jordan wants to build an $18 billion oil pipeline from southern Iraq to beat the kingdom's crippling energy shortage, but it's also looking to built two nuclear reactors, a step the United States doesn't want its Arab ally to take.
Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - The Ukrainian government said Friday it was preparing documents to have its gas contracts with Russian energy company Gazprom revisited.
Lagos (AFP) April 11, 2013 - Shell on Thursday said it had launched a review of its oil and gas assets in Nigeria's massively polluted Ogoniland region, resuming work in the area two decades after unrest forced the company to pull out.
Washington (UPI) Apr 11, 2013 - Texas recorded the largest increase in proven oil reserves of any state, eclipsing North Dakota by nearly 2 billion barrels, the U.S. Energy Department said.
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 11, 2013 - More powerful batteries could help electric cars achieve a considerably larger range and thus a breakthrough on the market. A new nanomaterial for lithium ion batteries developed in the labs of chem
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 11, 2013 - ETH-Zurich researchers use x-ray tomography to screen lithium ion battery electrodes and can reconstruct the microstructure in high resolution. This helps to understand the discharging and charging
New Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 11, 2013 - Scientists have answered a question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the battery pack dies, leaving a
