Sydney (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Monitoring the clean-up of a huge oil spill in pristine Australian waters could take as long as seven years, an official said Wednesday as environmentalists urged a wide-ranging inquiry into the disaster.
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Brazil's state-run oil group Petrobras said Thursday it has signed a contract permitting the first payment from a 10-billion-dollar loan from China to help it finance upcoming investments.
Baghdad (UPI) Nov 4, 2009 - Baghdad's deal Tuesday with BP and the China National Petroleum Corp. to invest $15 billion in the giant Rumaila oil field to help rebuild Iraq's ramshackle oil industry gives energy-hungry China its first real grip on Middle Eastern oil.
Oslo (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Norwegian energy group Statoil said Wednesday it was selling some of its US offshore oil assets to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market.
Brussels (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - The European Parliament's environment committee on Wednesday approved a list of 164 industrial sectors that will win free carbon emissions permits for the next five years if no global deal on climate change is negotiated next month.
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - Governor Deval Patrick has signed the Green Communities Act, a comprehensive energy reform bill resulting from close collaboration with House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, who filed the bill in 2007, and Senate President Therese Murray, who led the Senate to pass its version in January.
Manhattan KS (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - Two Kansas State University engineers are assessing systematic production methods that could make the costs of algae oil production more reasonable, helping move the U.S. from fossil fuel dependency to renewable energy replacements.
Milwaukee WI (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - Business owners should think twice before tweaking workplace temperature settings this fall. According to a new survey of office workers, sixty-nine percent said they would be willing to sacrifice their preferred ideal temperature in the office to help their company conserve energy.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their ideal salaries in 2008, according to a new type of theoretical analysis proposed by a Purdue University researcher to determine fair CEO compensation.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - With over 31,000 miles of underground cable running along the streets of Manhattan accessible by 51,000 manholes, maintaining the electrical system that was built over a century ago is a huge challenge for Con Edison, New York City's electrical utility. Add to that rising costs, limited budgets, and a new mandated inspection program and it is clear that a system for prioritizing manholes in need of repairs and upgrades is critical.
Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much more ethanol-tolerant than the bacteria in which these structures are normally found.
La Jolla CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - The San Diego region has been allocated financing opportunities for 192 solar installation projects for public facilities, which will promote hundreds of new green jobs and increase by more than 40 percent the capacity of locally produced solar energy with an estimated 20 megawatts of additional solar power.
Washington (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - The United States and the European Union opened high-level talks Wednesday aimed at boosting chances of switching to a clean, sustainable energy economy, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said.
Sydney (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 - A blaze at an oil rig off Australia was brought under control on Tuesday when experts managed to plug a leak that has spewed tonnes of crude over the past 10 weeks, the well's operator said.
Durham NC (SPX) Nov 03, 2009 - By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life.
Baghdad (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 - Iraq formally signed a deal with Britain's BP and China's CNPC on Tuesday to almost triple production at a giant southern oilfield.
