Energy Tech
Sudan accuses South Sudan of plot
Khartoum, Sudan (UPI) Feb 23, 2012 - Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie has accused South Sudan's negotiators of scheming to overthrow Sudan's government.
Energy Tech
Iran tensions keep oil prices at 9-month highs
New York (AFP) Feb 22, 2012 - World oil prices clung at nine-month highs Wednesday, boosted by fears that tensions over key crude producer Iran's nuclear program could curb supplies.
Bio Fuel
Maize hybrid looks promising for biofuel
Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 22, 2012 - Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have identified a new contender in the bioenergy race: a temperate and tropical maize hybrid. Their findings, published in GCB Bioenergy,
Bio Fuel
Plant toughness: Key to cracking biofuels?
Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2012 - Along with photosynthesis, the plant cell wall is one of the features that most set plants apart from animals. A structural molecule called cellulose is necessary for the manufacture of these walls.
Energy Tech
Sandia National Laboratories researchers find energy storage solutions in MetILs
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Feb 22, 2012 - Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today's batterie
Energy Tech
Shell details losses of Nigerian crude
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Feb 22, 2012 - U.S. petroleum company Shell Oil says Nigeria loses an estimated 150,000 barrels of crude oil each day because of theft in the Niger Delta region.
Energy Tech
South Sudan expels Chinese head of main oil firm
Juba (AFP) Feb 22, 2012 - South Sudan has expelled the Chinese head of the country's largest oil firm Petrodar on charges of colluding with former civil war foe Sudan to steal millions of barrels of its oil, a minister said Wednesday.
Energy Tech
Stanford scientist to discuss the challenges of carbon sequestration at AAAS
Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2012 - When the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first comprehensive report on major greenhouse gas emitters last month, power plants topped the list, accounting for more than 70 percent of indus
Energy Tech
Wringing more energy out of everyday motions
Durham NC (SPX) Feb 22, 2012 - Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing - especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities like walking. Duke University en
Energy News
Anonymous says power grid not a target
Washington (AFP) Feb 21, 2012 - Hacker group Anonymous strongly rejected suggestions on Tuesday that followers could cause a power outage by staging a cyberattack on an electricity grid.
Energy Tech
Caspian gas consortium picks TAP pipeline
Baku, Azerbaijan (UPI) Feb 21, 2012 - The consortium controlling Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz II natural gas field this week tapped the proposed Trans-Adriatic Pipeline as a possible route to Europe.
Energy Tech
Ecuador court rejects Chevron arbitration ruling
Quito (AFP) Feb 21, 2012 - A court in Ecuador has flatly rejected a call by arbitrators to give Chevron temporary protection from a $9.5 billion pollution ruling, but will allow the US oil giant to appeal to the supreme court.
Energy Tech
Expert panel deliberates hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 21, 2012 - The use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas development took center stage Friday as a panel of U.S. and Canadian experts discussed the contentious practice in a three-hour symposium hosted by the A
Energy Tech
High oil prices test US economy, Obama
Washington (AFP) Feb 21, 2012 - A jump in gasoline prices is threatening to smother the flickering flames of the US economic recovery and with them President Barack Obama's hopes of retaining the White House.
Energy Tech
India criticized for Iran oil imports
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 21, 2012 - A former U.S. State Department official denounced India's ill-advised decision to continue to purchase oil from Iran despite Western sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Energy Tech
Jordan PM plans to visit Iraq after Egypt gas cuts
Amman (AFP) Feb 21, 2012 - Jordanian Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh said Tuesday he plans to visit Iraq very soon to look for alternatives for Egypt's gas after repeated cut-offs in supplies to the energy-poor kingdom.