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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.

Energy Tech

Syracuse chemists combine biology, nanotechnology to create alternate energy source

Syracuse NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2016 - Chemists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have made a transformational advance in an alternate lighting source--one that doesn't require a battery or a plug. Associate Professor

Mar 8, 2016

Oil and Gas

Transocean delays rig work

Zug, Switzerland (UPI) Mar 8, 2016 - Offshore rig company Transocean said Tuesday payments and delivery for five new drilling rigs was now delayed following an agreement with its contractor.

Mar 8, 2016

Energy Tech

100 million-degree fluid essential to fusion

Acton, Australia (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - Some scientists believe fusion power - the energy that powers the stars - is the future of sustainable energy.

Mar 7, 2016

Oil and Gas

Clinton, Sanders both say they’re wary of fracking

Flint, MI. (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - Both candidates for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination said they do not support the drilling practice behind the shale oil and gas boom.

Mar 7, 2016

Oil and Gas

Iranian oil headed to Europe

Tehran (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - The Iranian Oil Ministry said Monday a tanker of crude oil was on its way to Europe for the first time since sanctions eased after July's nuclear deal.

Mar 7, 2016

Oil and Gas

North Dakota losing more rigs

Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - The number of rigs in active service in North Dakota, the No. 2 U.S. oil producer, declined from last week despite the recovery in crude oil markets.

Mar 7, 2016

Wind Daily

Norway’s Statoil makes U.S. wind energy bet

New York (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - A capital fund set up by Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil said it made its first ever renewable energy investment with an eye on small-scale U.S. wind.

Mar 7, 2016

Oil and Gas

Oil prices up on Chinese optimism

New York (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - China again pushed market momentum, with weekend economic pledges spilling over to Monday and lifting crude oil prices near the $40 per barrel mark.

Mar 7, 2016

Oil and Gas

U.S. rig count drops 18 percent

Houston (UPI) Mar 7, 2016 - From January to February, the number of rigs working on exploration and production activities in the United States dropped 18 percent, Baker Hughes reported.

Mar 7, 2016

Energy News

China emissions goals less ambitious than 2015 cuts: plan

Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2016 - China on Saturday set less ambitious climate change goals for this year than it achieved in 2015, as the world's biggest polluter struggles to wean itself off harmful fossil fuels.

Mar 5, 2016

Oil and Gas

Board supervisor at OMV steps down

Vienna (UPI) Mar 4, 2016 - A board supervisor at Austrian energy company OMV said he was stepping down now that the foundations are in place for future momentum.

Mar 4, 2016

Oil and Gas

Build contracts awarded for European gas pipeline

Baar, Switzerland (UPI) Mar 4, 2016 - A pipeline consortium slated to bring non-Russian natural gas through southern Europe said it awarded contracts for pipeline construction in Greece and Albania.

Mar 4, 2016

Oil and Gas

Class-action suit filed against Chesapeake, SandRidge

Dallas (UPI) Mar 4, 2016 - Chesapeake Energy and SandRidge energy worked to rig bids and limit competition for oil and gas acreage in Oklahoma, a class-action suit alleges.

Mar 4, 2016

Energy Tech

Device ‘fingerprints’ could help protect power grid, other industrial systems

Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2016 - Human voices are individually recognizable because they're generated by the unique components of each person's voice box, pharynx, esophagus and other physical structures. Researchers are usin

Mar 4, 2016

Oil and Gas

Gazprom gets loan from Bank of China

Shanghai (UPI) Mar 4, 2016 - In a first, Russian energy company Gazprom said it secured a five-year loan from the London branch of the Bank of China for more than $2 billion.

Mar 4, 2016

Oil and Gas

Greenpeace: Russia has no appetite to control oil spills

Moscow (UPI) Mar 4, 2016 - Following an oil spill in eastern Russia, Greenpeace said oil companies struggling through a market downturn have no appetite to fix aging pipelines.

Mar 4, 2016