Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Aug 22, 2012 - One of the main development targets in the wind turbine sector is to keep turbines running for several decades, if possible without a single interruption for servicing. This demands a lot of those c
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Aug 22, 2012 - Nigeria's capital Abuja has been experiencing fuel scarcities since the country's petroleum workers went on strike a week ago.
Falls Church, VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2012 - Northrop Grumman has received the rating of Reasonable Assurance from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, a third-party verification body, of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory for calenda
Belgrade, Serbia (UPI) Aug 22, 2012 - The new Serbian government said this week it hopes to stimulate the country's renewable energy sector by instituting public tenders for energy permits.
Sydney (AFP) Aug 21, 2012 - Australian officials on Tuesday welcomed Chevron's decision to bow out of Woodside Petroleum's massive Browse liquefied natural gas project as a chance for Chinese investors to buy in.
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 21, 2012 - Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC Tuesday said its first-half net profit fell 19 percent year-on-year amid rising costs and a drop in production after the closure of a major oil field.
Philadelphia (UPI) Aug 21, 2012 - Less-expensive solar technology using common metals could cover America's rooftops and supply a significant part of the country's electricity, scientists say.
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 - A new process for converting municipal waste, algae, corn stalks and similar material to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel is showing the same promise in larger plants as it did in laboratory-scale devi
Columbus, OH (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 - Algae are high on the genetic engineering agenda as a potential source for biofuel, and they should be subjected to independent studies of any environmental risks that could be linked to cultivating
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 - With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, scientists have described development and successful laboratory testing of a new biorefi
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 - Mo Ehsani, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, has designed a new, lightweight underground pipe he says could transform the pipeline construction industry. Instead
Buenos Aires (UPI) Aug 20, 2012 - Argentina's $2 billion biofuels export market is at risk from an EU trade dispute that has been complicated by Argentine seizure of local energy company Repsol YPF.
Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 20, 2012 - Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and Boeing has opened the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center, a collaborative effort to support commercia
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2012 - Amid policy debate over potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States, a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy predicts the long-term volume of ex
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 20, 2012 - Tokyo's seeming fixation with squabbles over the outposts of its former empire are symptomatic of a foreign policy drift as Japan struggles to find its place in the 21st century, analysts say.
Washington (AFP) Aug 20, 2012 - The United States said Monday that oil companies should not bypass Iraq's central government after authorities in the autonomous Kurdish north signed dozens of deals with foreign energy firms.
