ENERGY TECH - SKY NIGHTLY

U.S. stymies Iran bid to snatch Iraqi oil

Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)

The U.S. government is reportedly blocking Iranian moves to siphon oil from disputed oil fields on the border with Iraq to get around tightening international s...

AllCell White Paper Finds Lithium Ion Battery Costs Beat Lead Acid in Hot Environments

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

AllCell Technologies has released a white paper comparing the economics of lithium-ion and lead acid batteries for stationary energy storage systems (ESS). Even...

Russia's Gazprom cuts gas prices to Bulgaria: minister

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

Russia's gas giant Gazprom has agreed to cut natural gas prices to Bulgaria by just over 11 percent, Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said after talks ...

France willing to tap strategic oil stocks

Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)

France is willing to release oil from its strategic reserves to help tamp down the soaring world price of crude oil, Energy Minister Eric Besson says. The offic...

Total identifies source of North Sea gas leak

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

French energy giant Total said Thursday it had identified the source of a gas leak on a North Sea platform which has sparked fears of an explosion and wiped bil...

Senate rejects 'Big Oil' tax breaks

Mar 29, 2012 (UPI)

As the U.S. Senate voted 51-47 against a bill that would remove billions of dollars in oil company tax breaks, members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Nat...

Sudan seeks good relations with South: Bashir

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

Sudan seeks good relations with newly independent South Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir told an Arab summit on Thursday, after border clashes this week sparked ...

Ecuador's Supreme Court to hear Chevron's appeal

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

Ecuador's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear an appeal by US oil giant Chevron to overturn its 2011 judgment and record fine for environmental damage. Chevro...

PetroChina overtakes ExxonMobil in oil production

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

State-owned PetroChina has overtaken ExxonMobil as the world's biggest publicly-traded producer of oil, according to figures provided by the Hong Kong-listed fi...

Amid oil threat, Syria might be a way out

Mar 29, 2012 (UPI)

Strife-torn Syria has historically had a strategic position in the Middle East as the crossroads of empires and as Iran threatens to close the Persian Gulf's oi...

World oil output drops amid gulf fears

Mar 28, 2012 (UPI)

Global oil supplies are being increasingly squeezed, pushing up prices, because of an Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic Persian Gulf oil...

New twist on 1930s technology may become a 21st century weapon against global warming

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

Far from being a pipe dream years away from reality, practical technology for capturing carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas - from smokestacks is aiming fo...

Sudan, S.Sudan vow no war after border battles

Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)

Sudan and South Sudan vowed Wednesday to step back from the brink of all out war after three days of border violence including airstrikes and tank battles promp...

Study by Haverford College professor reveals unprecedented impact of Deepwater Horizon on deep ocean

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published in the journal Proce...

BP enters shale oil quest in Ohio

Mar 27, 2012 (UPI)

BP will explore for shale oil and natural gas in northeast Ohio after it acquired lease on thousands of acres of potentially energy-rich land in the state. BP s...

New air strikes on South as Sudan quits summit

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

Sudanese warplanes on Tuesday launched fresh air raids on oil-rich areas of South Sudan, a Southern official said, threatening a tentative rapprochement despite...

Arab economy ministers meet before Baghdad summit

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

Arab economy ministers opened talks in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday ahead of a regional summit, aiming to ramp up tourism in the region despite the bloody crack...

Sudan renews airstrikes of South Sudan oil region

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

Sudanese warplanes launched a second day of bombardment of oil-rich areas of South Sudan, after bloody clashes between ground troops of the rival states, a Sout...

Nuclear power plants can produce hydrogen to fuel the 'hydrogen economy'

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

The long-sought technology for enabling the fabled "hydrogen economy" - an era based on hydrogen fuel that replaces gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels, eas...

More economical way to produce cleaner, hotter natural gas

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

New technology is offering the prospect of more economical production of a concentrated form of natural gas with many of the advantages - in terms of reduced sh...