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BP talks with China for refinery
Beijing (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 - British oil giant BP is negotiating with China to build a sizable refinery in China, the world's second-largest fuel market.
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EU close to gas loan deal with Ukraine
Brussels (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 - The European Union says it is close to handing Ukraine a loan package to reform the country's run-down gas sector.
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Scientists Refine Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Power Plants
State College PA (SPX) Jul 27, 2009 - Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) can be an important part of the solution to America's energy crisis, says Dr. Andrew Goudy of Delaware State University. He is leading a research team striving to solve a key technical FCV puzzle.
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Silicon With Afterburners Could Be Boon To Electronics Manufacturer
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 27, 2009 - Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore's Law as they make microprocessors both smaller and more powerful.
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Algae blooms into promising biofuel
Washington (AFP) July 26, 2009 - Some call it pond scum, but algae is drawing increasing attention as a source of biofuel that can help replace petroleum or fuels made from crops like corn or soybeans.
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A Green Process For Biodiesel From Feather Meal
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 - Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from chicken feather meal, made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste that accumulate annually in the United States alone.
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Biofuel And Crop Research Grows
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 - CSIRO and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers, have been awarded a A$1.6 million grant to increase the understanding of genes responsible for growth and yield in grasses for use as bio-energy and food crops.
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China stumps up one billion dollars for Ecuador crude
Quito (AFP) July 24, 2009 - China has agreed to pay Ecuador one billion dollars in August as part of a deal to supply the energy-thirsty Asian giant with crude oil.
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Iran turmoil signals gas pipeline woes
Tehran (UPI) Jul 24, 2009 - The continuing political turmoil sweeping Iran is expected to impact the Islamic Republic's pressing need to develop its natural gas sector, which is widely perceived as the country's answer to its worsening economic problems.
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Power system would recharge without wires
Oxford, England (UPI) Jul 24, 2009 - A power system now in development could charge cell phones and other gadgets without the use of wires, researchers at a conference in Britain said.
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Rocket Flies With Renewable Fuel
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 - Flometrics has successfully flown a liquid fueled rocket with a renewable version of JP-8. and liquid oxygen. The fuel was developed by the EERC under a DARPA contact.
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Are ‘green’ governments color blind?
London (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 - In Europe, as in most parts of the world, green is good, but what that means in practice is harder to define.
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EU eyes binding targets to cut energy consumption
Aare, Sweden (AFP) July 23, 2009 - With the EU striving to meet its ambitious climate goals, the European Commission quizzed member nations Thursday on whether to make targets for cutting energy use legally binding.
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Iraq’s future hinges on shielding oil
Baghdad (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 - As Iraq struggles to stand on its own two feet amid a U.S. military pullback, the country's future depends largely on protecting its formidable oil wealth.
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BP Solar International Plant Using Energy Automation Systems
Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 22, 2009 - The country's leading manufacturer of solar panels to generate electricity has cut its greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs through use of energy saving technologies engineered and manufactured by Energy Automation Systems, Inc. (EASI).
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BP seeks to maintain North Sea oil and gas
London (UPI) Jul 22, 2009 - North Sea oil and gas production may have passed its peak. But if BP has its way, the steep decline in its U.K. and Norwegian fields will flatten out with daily production stabilizing at some 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent over the next decade. That is about half the Group's North Sea production peak of about five years ago.