Abu Dhabi (AFP) March 21, 2018 - Chinese oil giant CNPC has signed a deal worth $1.18 billion (950 million euros) for stakes in two Abu Dhabi oil and gas concessions, the Gulf emirate's state producer said Wednesday.
Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 - A new paper production technique promises to reduce the industry's reliance on wood. Researchers have developed a way to turn cow and elephant dung into paper.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Boston MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 A motif of Japanese basketweaving known as the kagome pattern has preoccupied physicists for decades. Kagome baskets are typically made from strips of bamboo woven into
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 - Rice University engineers have zeroed in on the optimal architecture for storing hydrogen in white graphene nanomaterials - a design like a Lilliputian skyscraper with floors of boron nitride si
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - New U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan individuals and digital currency transactions are a largely symbolic move from the White House, a risk consultant group said.
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - Founding members of environmental group Greenpeace said they were arrested while protesting the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 - The Colonial Pipeline, which carries fuel from Texas to New York, ruptured last fall, dumping a quarter-million gallons of gas in rural Alabama. By the time the leak was detected during routine insp
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - HighPoint Resources Corp. started trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange, a company that represents a pure Colorado shale player, an executive said.
New Delhi (AFP) March 20, 2018 - The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave, India's foreign minister said Tuesday.
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - With Iran on the radar, a risk premium was apparent in the price of oil early Tuesday as the main benchmarks jumped more than 1 percent.
Prague (AFP) March 20, 2018 - Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming, chairman of CEFC China Energy, will quit the firm's European operation CEFC Europe, according to the regional headquarters in the Czech capital Prague.
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - After announcing it would remove oil from its name, Norwegian energy major Statoil said it's now operating a legacy oil and gas asset in the North Sea.
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 - Birds do it and so do doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks. But tokamak chirping - a rapidly changing frequency wave that can be far above what the human ear can detect - is hardly we
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - With gas prices about 10 percent higher than they were at this point last year, the situation may be near the point of U.S. economic strain, analysis found.
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 - Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated a new approach to making self-assembled biomaterials that relies on protein modifications and temperature. The hybrid approach allows rese
Washington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 - Universal access to electricity and a bigger footprint for renewable energy are critical to sustainable development, though progress is lacking, the IEA said.
