Ottawa (AFP) Oct 11, 2012 - Canada's industry minister announced Thursday a 30-day extension to review Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC's $15.1 billion takeover bid for the Canadian oil and gas company Nexen.
Baghdad (UPI) Oct 11, 2012 - Chinese oil companies are showing a growing interest in Iraq's oil industry, which the International Energy Agency expects to more than double production by the end of the decade to 6.1 million barrels per day.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Emerging from the global economic recession, investments in renewable energy technologies continued their steady rise in 2011, with total new investments in renewable power and fuels (excluding larg
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - A new Economic Policy Institute study finds that industries with higher proportions of green jobs have higher job growth than does the overall economy. In Counting up to green: Assessing the g
New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Expanding production of palm oil, a common ingredient in processed foods, soaps and personal care products, is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Catalysts are substances that speed up the rates of chemical reactions without themselves being chemically changed. Industrial catalysts come in two main types - heterogeneous, in which the catalyst
London, UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Following record droughts across the United States the benefits of the ethanol subsidy were once again hotly debated and biofuels in general found themselves generating quite a few unflattering head
Upton NY (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - Using a computational model they designed to incorporate detailed information about plants' interconnected metabolic processes, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labo
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - Engineering faculty and students at the University of Colorado Boulder have produced the first experimental results showing that atomically thin graphene membranes with tiny pores can effectively an
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 10, 2012 - Iraq insisted on Wednesday its oil output could reach up to 10 million barrels per day by 2020, far higher than a prediction from the International Energy Agency which outlined several risks.
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 10, 2012 - Japan and India on Wednesday launched a joint research project into pricing structures in LNG markets, the Japanese government said, amid complaints that energy-hungry Asia is paying above the odds.
Rabat, Morocco (UPI) Oct 10, 2012 - Morocco is driving to become the world's leading solar power state, with a 7,400-acre pilot project in the Sahara Desert it hopes will lead to vast carbon-free solar energy plants that could supply much of Europe's electricity needs.
Raleigh, NC (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows users to better determine the amount of charge remaining in a battery in real time. That's good news
Seoul, Korea (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - Environmental problems, such as depleting natural resources, highlight the need to establish a renewable chemical industry. Metabolic engineering enhances the production of chemicals made by microbe
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - quantum computers are ever going to perform all those expected feats of code-breaking and number crunching, then their component qubits - tiny ephemeral quantum cells held in a superposition of inte
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - There is a popular belief in the Middle East that Washington's foreign policy, particularly as it relates to this precarious region, is largely driven by America's dependency on, and insatiable appe
