Energy Tech
BP signs $7.2 billion deal with India
Mumbai (UPI) Feb 22, 2011 - Oil giant BP will pay $7.2 billion for a 30 percent stake in 23 oil and gas blocks controlled by Reliance Industries Ltd. in India, BP announced.
Energy Tech
BP signs $7.2 billion deal with India
Mumbai (UPI) Feb 22, 2011 - Oil giant BP will pay $7.2 billion for a 30 percent stake in 23 oil and gas blocks controlled by Reliance Industries Ltd. in India, BP announced.
Energy News
EU, Russia meet for top-level energy talks
Brussels (UPI) Feb 22, 2011 - EU officials are meeting a Russian delegation led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week for difficult talks about Russian-European energy relations.
Energy Tech
Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant
Rumipamba, Ecuador (AFP) Feb 22, 2011 - She has no legal training, and doesn't speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home.
Bio Fuel
Advanced Ethanol Leaders Join RFA to Form New Advocacy Council
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2011 - Leaders in the world's advanced ethanol industry have joined with the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) to form the Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC). The AEC will be singularly focused on accelerating
Energy News
Australia’s electricity prices to rise
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Feb 21, 2011 - By 2015, Australia's electricity will cost more than double its 2008 price, a new study indicates.
Energy Tech
China warns its businesses in Libya
Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2011 - Beijing on Monday urged business travellers to defer plans to visit Libya and told Chinese companies there to take precautions as a popular uprising reached the streets of the capital Tripoli.
Energy Tech
Kollmorgen unveils modified power system
Radford, Va. (UPI) Feb 21, 2011 - A variant of a low-voltage power generation system for the U.S. Army's Fuel-Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator is being introduced by Virginia's Kollmorgen.
Energy Tech
New Material Provides 25 Percent Greater Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency
Ames IA (SPX) Feb 21, 2011 - Automobiles, military vehicles, even large-scale power generating facilities may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to a new alloy developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laborato
Energy Tech
OPEC needs to up output before new crisis
London (UPI) Feb 21, 2011 - Oil producer group OPEC needs to increase production to meet a growing global demand before considering further risks to supply from the developing crisis over democratic rights in the Middle East, the London Center for Global Energy Studies said Monday.
Energy Tech
Study Finds Massive Flux Of Gas And Liquid Oil At BP Gulf Well
Athens GA (SPX) Feb 21, 2011 - A new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge has found that up
Energy Tech
Western oil firms react to Libya crisis
London (UPI) Feb 21, 2011 - Western oil companies are re-evaluating operations in Libya following violent unrest that has helped push crude prices close to $105 a barrel.
Energy Tech
China upholds US geologist’s conviction
Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2011 - A Beijing court Friday upheld the conviction and eight-year sentence meted out to a Chinese-born American geologist over state secrets charges in a case that has further tested already strained ties.
Energy Tech
Coal’s ‘real’ cost could top $500 billion
Boston (UPI) Feb 18, 2011 - The real costs of coal to the U.S. public could total more than $500 billion annually, a new study claims.
Energy Tech
Iran seeks beat sanctions with pipelines
Tehran (UPI) Feb 18, 2011 - Despite tightening international economic sanctions, Iran is driving to boost its energy industry, including a natural gas pipeline to Iraq and Syria that may even run to southern Europe and another to run through Turkey to Europe.
Bio Fuel
Algae in wastewater seen as energy source
Rochester, N.Y. (UPI) Feb 17, 2011 - U.S. researchers say algae grown in wastewater could be a promising source of biofuel while cleaning up the wastewater at the same time.