Samarra, Iraq (AFP) Feb 26, 2011 - An attack on Iraq's biggest oil refinery early on Saturday left two engineers dead and one of its refining units badly damaged, prompting the facility to shut down, a senior official said.
Seville, Spain (SPX) Feb 25, 2011 - The knowledge and experience acquired following the start-up of the second generation bioethanol pilot production plant in Babilafuente in 2009, located in the Biocombustibles de Castilla y Leon (BC
Emeryville CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2011 - Amyris has announced that it has completed multiple runs of its fermentation process using Amyris engineered yeast to produce Biofene, Amyris renewable farnesene, in 100,000 and 200,000 liter capaci
Beijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2011 - China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said that some of its facilities were attacked in unrest-hit Libya and that the company was evacuating its Chinese employees out of the country.
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 25, 2011 - Chromatin has announced that its sorghum hybrids showed top performance in its 2010 biomass and sugar testing programs when compared to other materials from public, private, and commercial sorghum c
Visalia CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2011 - EdeniQ has announced that it has concluded an agreement to install a third Cellunator device at E Energy Adams, a 50 MGPY (million gallon per year) corn ethanol plant in Adams, Nebraska. Edeni
Essen, Germany (UPI) Feb 25, 2011 - German utility RWE said it expects three years of falling profits because of stagnant power prices, a painful tax on its nuclear reactors and higher costs related to the company's carbon dioxide footprint.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Feb 25, 2011 - Joule Unlimited has supported the high-productivity potential of its production process with the publication of a detailed analysis and model of its breakthrough solar-to-fuels platform. Publi
Auckland, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 25, 2011 - LanzaTech has signed a memorandum of understanding with Posco, one of the largest steel producers in the world, covering the implementation of its gas fermentation technology to convert the steel ma
Moscow (AFP) Feb 25, 2011 - Russia announced Friday that it may send one or even two of the high-tech warships it is buying from France to help protect a chain of islands that are being bitterly claimed by Japan.
London Gatwick Airport (AFP) Feb 24, 2011 - Britain's first rescue flights left Libya and a warship started loading stranded nationals Thursday as Prime Minister David Cameron apologised for the delay in getting them home.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2011 - China on Thursday ramped up a massive air, sea and land operation to evacuate more than 30,000 citizens from unrest-hit Libya, with a first jet leaving Tripoli and ships with evacuees bound for Greece.
Paris (AFP) Feb 24, 2011 - A foreign military intervention in Libya is not currently on the cards, French Defence Minister Alain Juppe said on Thursday, although setting up and enforcing a no-fly zone is worth looking at.
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Feb 24, 2011 - Israel's navy is drawing up plans to protect the state's new-found strategic resource, a natural gas bonanza in the eastern Mediterranean, parts of which Lebanon and the Palestinians claim.
Millbrook, NY (SPX) Feb 24, 2011 - Forest biomass could replace as much as one quarter of the liquid fossil fuel now being used for industrial and commercial heating in the Northeastern United States. That's according to a new report
Hanoi (AFP) Feb 24, 2011 - A South Korean firm and a Chinese sovereign wealth fund on Thursday agreed to buy stakes in a power project in energy-hungry Vietnam, the project developer said.
