Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 21, 2010 - South African petrochemical giant Sasol on Tuesday flew the world's first passenger aircraft using the company's own developed and internationally approved fully synthetic jet fuel.
Beijing (UPI) Sep 21, 2010 - Sino-Japanese diplomatic and business relations are being stressed as China starts to pressure Japan to release a detained Chinese trawler captain.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2010 - Piezoelectric materials have fantastic properties: squeeze them and they generate an electrical field. And vice-versa, they contract or expand when jolted with an electrical pulse.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 21, 2010 - Recent developments in the Arctic, such as the discovery of new oil deposits off Greenland and border delimitation expeditions in the Arctic by various nations, suggest it is time to begin a serious dialogue on the region. Russia intends to do just this with the forum The Artic - Territory of Dialogue.
London (UPI) Sep 21, 2010 - OPEC is feeling comfortable with the current oil price but its confidence can easily be dented by any combination of likely events, including conflict in Iran and Iraq's formal re-entry into the group's quota system, the London Center for Energy Studies said in its monthly oil report Tuesday.
Tianjin, China (UPI) Sep 21, 2010 - Russia and China, Eurasia's rising regional powers, are deepening their energy cooperation.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 21, 2010 - As industries and consumers increasingly seek improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing an unprecedented perspective on how lithium-ion batteries function.
Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 - US officials have finally declared BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico dead, five months after a deadly oil rig blast sparked one of the costliest and largest environmental disasters ever.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 - Iraq is to hold a public auction on October 20 for the rights to work on three gas fields, an oil ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Madrid (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 - Spain's government Monday approved the construction of the country's largest biomass plant, the renewable energy group Ence announced Monday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 - A senior US official on Monday defended a role for China in South Asia despite Indian sensitivities and said that New Delhi likewise had a role to play in East Asia.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Sep 20, 2010 - Cash-strapped BP is in talks with China's oil giant CNOOC to relieve itself of majority stake in Argentina's Pan American Energy LLC to raise cash for compensation claims.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 19, 2010 - China said Sunday it had suspended senior bilateral exchanges with Japan over an incident in disputed waters and warned relations with Tokyo had been severely hurt.
Ndjamena (AFP) Sept 19, 2010 - A Chinese engineer kidnapped in Chad said Saturday he had fled from captivity after unshackling himself from his chains while his abductors slept and fleeing to neighbouring Sudan.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 19, 2010 - A dispute between Beijing and Tokyo, sparked by Japan's arrest of a Chinese skipper in disputed waters almost two weeks ago, has turned into the worst row in years between Asia's two biggest economies.
Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2010 - BP prepared Saturday to conclude a months-long effort to end the worst maritime oil spill in US history with the cementing of its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well.
