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The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Bio Fuel

Hydrogen and plastic production offer new catalyst with a dual function

Bochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 - Chemists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have developed a new, low-cost catalyst for plastic production. It turns a biorefinery product into a starting material for the synthesis of plastics, which

Jul 27, 2018

Oil and Gas

Eni expects production to increase 4 percent this year

Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 - Italian energy company Eni said Friday it was expecting a 4 percent increase in oil and gas production from 2017 driven by gains across its entire portfolio.

Jul 27, 2018

Energy Tech

Liquid microscopy technique reveals new problem with lithium-oxygen batteries

Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 - Using an advanced, new microscopy technique that can visualize chemical reactions occurring in liquid environments, researchers have discovered a new reason lithium-oxygen batteries - which promise

Jul 27, 2018

Oil and Gas

Price of oil unfazed by strong U.S. GDP figures

Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 - Crude oil prices ahead of the start of U.S. trading on Friday were unmoved by strong GDP figures as market watchers wait for the next shoe to drop.

Jul 27, 2018

Bio Fuel

Team shatters theoretical limit on bio-hydrogen production

Lincoln NB (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 - In 1977, researcher Rudolf Thauer proposed a theoretical ceiling on the amount of hydrogen that bacteria could produce via fermentation, the sugar-converting process also responsible for yogurt, bee

Jul 27, 2018

Oil and Gas

Oil and gas production up, payrolls down in Texas

Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 - Oil and gas producers in Texas are doing more with less, but this has a negative side as companies need fewer workers on their payrolls, an economist said.

Jul 27, 2018

Oil and Gas

Weatherford says second quarter loss due to seasonal trends

Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 - The head of oil and gas field services company Weatherford said Friday the company would have to take a challenge of a second quarter miss head on.

Jul 27, 2018

Energy News

Germany thwarts China by taking stake in 50Hertz power firm

Berlin (AFP) July 27, 2018 - The German government said Friday it took a minority stake in electricity transmission firm 50Hertz for national security reasons, thwarting Chinese investors from buying into the strategic company.

Jul 27, 2018

Oil and Gas

Shell announces multi-billion dollar share buyback program

Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2018 - With debt obligations easing, Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday it was making progress through divestments and announced a $25 billion share buyback program.

Jul 26, 2018

Oil and Gas

Crude oil prices flat despite easing trade tensions

Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2018 - Crude oil prices were relatively unchanged Thursday ahead of the start of U.S. trading on concerns that easing trade and supply tensions may be fading.

Jul 26, 2018

Oil and Gas

Equinor moves rig to Norwegian field slated for 2019 startup

Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2018 - The Norwegian government gave Equinor consent to start production drilling in an oil field in the Norwegian Sea set for a production start next year.

Jul 26, 2018

Oil and Gas

Gazprom pipeline to China nearly completed

Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 - Russian natural gas company Gazprom said Wednesday that just over 90 percent of its Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China is completed.

Jul 25, 2018

Oil and Gas

Continental Resources production below guidance

Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 - U.S. shale player Continental Resources reported weather-related issues for production in the second quarter, but hinted at strong second-half gains.

Jul 25, 2018

Oil and Gas

Oil prices move higher on U.S. supply drain

Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 - Crude oil prices were edging higher before the start of U.S. trading on Wednesday on data showing a drain in supplies, though trade issues could mute the rally.

Jul 25, 2018

Energy Tech

Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds

Boston MA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 - To sustain human civilization in the future, clean energy sources must be harnessed to replace the fossil fuels that are now polluting our atmosphere. Solar and wind energy can supply all the necess

Jul 25, 2018

Energy Tech

The relationship between charge density waves and superconductivity

Ames IA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 - For a long time, physicists have tried to understand the relationship between a periodic pattern of conduction electrons called a charge density wave (CDW), and another quantum order, superconductiv

Jul 25, 2018