Washington (UPI) Aug 3, 2011 - Plans to use existing U.S. pipelines to carry increasing ethanol production poses the problem the fuel can dramatically degrade them, researchers say.
Paris (UPI) Aug 3, 2011 - Europe's appetite for biofuels increased but slackened its pace of growth in 2010, the third consecutive year the growth rate has declined, French analysts said this week.
Tehran (AFP) Aug 3, 2011 - Iran's conservative dominated parliament on Wednesday endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's pick, a Revolutionary Guards commander targeted by international sanctions, to head the key oil ministry.
Tokyo (UPI) Aug 3, 2011 - China's maritime activities are overbearing and arouse anxiety about its future direction, Japan's annual Defense Ministry white paper states.
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Aug 3, 2011 - South Korea is to build a liquefied petroleum gas facility in Nigeria.
Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Aug 3, 2011 - Pakistan's first 50-megawatt gasified Thar coal reserves project is nearly complete.
London (AFP) Aug 3, 2011 - Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in the Niger Delta which lawyers say have destroyed the livelihoods of a fishing community.
Brasilia, Brazil (UPI) Aug 2, 2011 - Brazil intends to bar all Falkland-flagged shipping from its ports and backs Argentina's position that British-backed oil exploration in the South Atlantic islands' waters is illegal, it emerged after the two countries' presidents met in Brasilia.
Brussels (AFP) Aug 2, 2011 - Energy producers expect European wind power generation to triple by 2020, with tens of thousands of new, ever-bigger wind turbines springing up, an industry body said Tuesday.
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 02, 2011 - Iraq's large oil-production potential could put it in a position to vie for leadership with Saudi Arabia in the world oil scene in the coming decades. But a new energy study released by Rice Univers
Upton NY (SPX) Aug 02, 2011 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a computational model for analyzing the metabolic processes in rapeseed plants - particularly those
Hanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Aug 2, 2011 - A Russian-Vietnamese joint venture has produced its first oil from the Visovol oil field in the Nenets autonomous region of Russia.
Manila (AFP) Aug 2, 2011 - The Philippines plans to auction off areas of the South China Sea for oil exploration, despite worsening territorial disputes with China over the area, an official said Tuesday.
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2011 - Although high-temperature superconductors are widely used in technologies such as MRI machines, explaining the unusual properties of these materials remains an unsolved problem for theoretical physi
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2011 - Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have discovered a new relation among electric and magnetic fields and differences in temperature, which may lead to more efficient thermoelectric devices
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Aug 01, 2011 - Boeing, Embraer, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced that they will jointly fund a sustainability analysis of producing renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane. T
