Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - The provincial government in Alberta said its energy minister is headed to China to drum up investment interest in the oil and gas sector.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2015 - China's ruling Communist party said it is investigating the former boss of state-run energy giant Sinopec for alleged corruption - the latest figure in the oil sector to be probed.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2015 - The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with UC Irvine and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar international research consortium that
Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 08, 2015 - New findings at Oregon State University have overturned a scientific dogma that stood for decades, by showing that potassium can work with graphite in a potassium-ion battery - a discovery that coul
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - Canadian energy company Encana said it would use proceeds from the sale of its Colorado shale acreage to add flexibility during the downturn in the oil economy.
Ankara (AFP) Oct 8, 2015 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Russia that Ankara has alternatives to Moscow for building its first nuclear power plant and importing gas, as tensions rise over the Russian bombing campaign in Syria.
Hamilton, Canada (SPX) Oct 08, 2015 - McMaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car. The scient
New York (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - Geopolitical issues gave crude oil markets another rally opportunity Thursday after strong U.S. inventory data spoiled a surge in the previous session.
Moscow (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - There are no political affairs interfering with bilateral talks on building a natural gas pipeline through Turkey, Russian energy company Gazprom said.
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - Norwegian energy company Statoil reported on oil leak Thursday near the Statfjord oil field in the North Sea, though it's too early to guess on volumes.
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - Norwegian energy company Statoil said it awarded two new contracts to help build the processing platforms for the giant offshore Johan Sverdrup oil field.
Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - Threat of a presidential veto on a House measure to lift the U.S. ban on crude oil exports suggests the effort is dead in the water, a refinery group said.
London (UPI) Oct 8, 2015 - Getting the nod from the Gabonese government for oil field development will help stimulate West African operations, Tullow Oil said.
Goteborg, Sweden (SPX) Oct 07, 2015 - Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have arrived at how what is known as time-reversal symmetry can break in one class of superconducting material. The results have been published in th
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2015 - Novel and scalable technology and production process combining algal biomass cultivation, harvesting and concentration as well as extraction and fractionation of fatty acids from the biomass results
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Oct 07, 2015 - An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, has estimated the amount of hydrocarbons - the primary ingredient in crude oil - that are produced by a massive population o
