Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2013 - Incorporating wind power into existing power grids is challenging because fluctuating wind speed and direction means turbines generate power inconsistently. Coupled with customers' varying power dem
New York (UPI) Mar 26, 2013 - Columbia University researchers say a 5.7 magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 may be the largest ever linked to the injection of wastewater into the ground.
Athens, Ga. (UPI) Mar 26, 2013 - Excess carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, the major driving force of global climate change, could someday be a fuel source, a U.S. biotechnologist says.
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Mar 26, 2013 - I had the privilege recently of lecturing an elite group of young Lebanese journalists from most of the city's top publications for a seminar on Covering the Oil & Gas Sector.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2013 - Rapidly growing trees like poplars and willows are candidate biofuel crops from which it is expected that cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels can be efficiently extracted. Domestica
Hong Kong (AFP) March 25, 2013 - Chinese oil giant Sinopec's annual net profit for 2012 fell 12.8 year-on-year, the firm said, with high crude-oil costs and a slowdown in the global and Chinese economy weighing on its bottom line.
Paris (UPI) Mar 25, 2013 - France has officially moved ahead with a second round of tenders for offshore wind farms, thorough which it seeking 1 gigawatt of new capacity.
New Delhi (UPI) Mar 25, 2013 - India is preparing to launch its first auction of shale natural gas blocks, a government official said.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 25, 2013 - A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles - cars and
Backnang, Germany (SPX) Mar 25, 2013 - Signalhorn Group of Companies has been awarded seven new locations in Oman requiring robust communications solutions. Signalhorn has successfully transitioned a global oil and gas drilling ope
Baghdad (AFP) March 24, 2013 - Iraq plans to hold an auction of gas exploration blocks open to international energy companies later this year, the fifth of its kind since 2009, a spokesman said on Sunday.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 24, 2013 - Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have successfully demonstrated pulse tailoring, producing a time varying focal spot size known as 'focal zooming' on the world's largest operating k
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 22, 2013 - An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning - while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas - has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use
Moscow (AFP) March 22, 2013 - China's new leader Xi Jinping and his Russian host, President Vladimir Putin, on Friday oversaw the signing of a raft of energy and other agreements as they sought to further tighten their countries' already close partnership.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Mar 22, 2013 - Sanctions-battered Iran faces losing a big part of its oil export revenues as key Asian trading partners cut back on Iranian imports because of escalating U.S. and European pressure.
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 22, 2013 - Researchers at the UAB's Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), have analysed the potential of different species of microalgae
