Shanghai (AFP) Oct 28, 2016 - Chinese oil giant Sinopec, Asia's biggest refiner, net profits leapt sixfold in the third quarter, it said Friday, as low crude prices lowered its costs.
New York (UPI) Oct 28, 2016 - Pessimism expressed about the outcome of production efforts from OPEC members and weak quarterly results pushed oil prices lower in early Friday trading.
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Fusion energy researchers have discovered that they can rapidly extinguish and cool a magnetically confined fusion plasma hotter than the center of the sun by injecting a large quantity of neon gas
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratories (PPPL) and collaborating institutions presented results from research on the National Spherical Torus Exp
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Researchers working on the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego are working to show how plasma transport and atomic physics come together to provide power exhaust solutions. One of the grand challenges facin
Paris (UPI) Oct 28, 2016 - French energy company ENGIE said Friday it's now the first European player to have a framework to do work in a Ukrainian gas system overshadowed by Russia.
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - This past year saw the commissioning and initial operation of a new large-scale plasma experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Greifswald, Germany. Designed, constructed, and operated by the Max-P
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Magnetic fusion is all about managing the interface between hot plasma and ordinary materials. The strong magnetic field in a tokamak- the vessel used in this fusion approach- is a very effective in
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Researchers at General Atomics (GA) have invented a new kind of gamma ray camera that can image beams of energetic electrons inside ultra-hot fusion plasma. The device is used in ongoing globa
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Researchers working at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics (GA) have created an important new tool for controlling fusion plasmas that are hotter than the sun. Energy and mo
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - The tokamak is an experimental chamber that holds a gas of energetic charged particles, plasma, for developing energy production from nuclear fusion. Most large tokamaks create the plasma with solen
Junau, Alaska (UPI) Oct 28, 2016 - U.S. advocacy groups, some of which staged high-profile protests against Shell, said Arctic oil and gas should be left out of the nation's energy agenda.
Chicago (AFP) Oct 28, 2016 - Police in the US state of North Dakota arrested oil-pipeline protesters en masse Thursday after a tense standoff and bursts of violence that continued into the night.
Washington (UPI) Oct 28, 2016 - Areas off the New York coast will be open for offshore wind energy bidders, but some area is reserved because of ecological concerns, the U.S. government said.
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Oct 28, 2016 - With an eye on the national budget, Nigeria's state oil company said it would work closely with police in an effort to tackle militant threats.
Houston (UPI) Oct 28, 2016 - Baker Hughes said Friday it was too early to offer a comment on rumors of a possible partnership offer from General Electric, the second such effort this year.
