ENERGY TECH - SKY NIGHTLY

France's Total eyes new China tie-up: report

Mar 18, 2012 (AFP)

French energy giant Total SA has reached an agreement with China's Sinopec on a joint venture for shale gas and refining, the Wall Street Journal reported Monda...

Iraq moves to diversify oil export options from Hormuz

Mar 18, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq moved on Sunday to diversify its oil export routes to reduce the impact of a potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran on Baghdad's oil-dependent i...

Chevron execs barred from leaving Brazil

Mar 17, 2012 (AFP)

A judge barred 17 Chevron executives from around the world from leaving Brazil in an oil spill investigation as prosecutors readied new charges over a second sp...

Clooney arrested in Sudan protest

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

Actor George Clooney and several members of the US Congress were handcuffed and arrested Friday outside Sudan's embassy as they demanded an end to an offensive ...

Rusal taps Hong Kong executive after oligarch fight

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

The world's biggest aluminium producer Rusal on Friday named the head of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange as new chairman after a bitter public struggle betwee...

White House: No release of oil reserves

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

The White House has denied news reports that U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to release oil from strategic petroleum...

Spain clears oil exploration off Canary Islands resort

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

Spain's deficit-laden government approved Friday oil exploration by Repsol YPF SA off the Canary Islands despite opposition by the archipelago, which fears dete...

2,000 child soldiers in South Sudan ranks: UN

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan must uphold promises to abolish its use of child soldiers, with some 2,000 minors still serving in its rebel turned regular army, the UN's top exper...

Trans-Caspian pipeline talks progressing

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

Momentum is quickly building to conclude a trans-Caspian Sea pipeline agreement between the European Union, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, officials' comments ind...

Optics Express focus issue: Modular ultrafast lasers

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Ultrafast lasers, lasers that emit light pulses that are as short as a few femtoseconds, have enabled a wide-range of fundamental science and applications over ...

Laser lightning rod: Guiding bursts of electricity with a flash of light

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Using an experimental apparatus reminiscent of a classic Frankenstein movie, French researchers have coaxed laboratory-generated lightning into striking the sam...

Baghdad, Kurds square off in oil dispute

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

The simmering dispute between Iraq's central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region over oil has ramped up a couple of notches amid a swelling politi...

US to step up minesweeping in Gulf

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

The US Navy said Thursday it is doubling the number of minesweeping ships and helicopters based in the Gulf, amid growing tensions over Iran's threats to close ...

Israel oil find sharpens Med energy scrap

Mar 15, 2012 (UPI)

The discovery of potential oil reserves of 232 million barrels, plus another natural gas field off Israel's coast couldn't have come at a better time for the Je...

Global Oil and Gas Pipelines Market Expected to Total $60.29bn in 2012

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Visiongain's: The Oil and Gas Pipelines Market Analysis 2012-2022 report calculates the global oil and gas pipelines market to be worth $60.29bn in 2012. The gr...

Clooney: Obama to raise Sudan with Hu in Seoul

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Oscar winner George Clooney Thursday said President Barack Obama would press China's President Hu Jintao when they meet in Seoul this month for action on averti...

Outside View: Wisdom of drilling for oil

Mar 15, 2012 (UPI)

Gasoline prices are zooming past $4 a gallon and the United States is hardly freer from the grip of imported oil or closer to robust economic recovery. With his...

Visiongain Reveals the Top Twenty Companies in the Evolving $39bn Shale Gas Market

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Currently, North America is seeing a period of substantial oversupply as booming production coupled with unmatched demand leave a glut of gas on the market. As ...

Japan indicts Chinese trawlerman at centre of spat

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Japan on Thursday indicted a Chinese trawlerman whose ramming of two Japanese coastguard vessels sparked a diplomatic showdown, in a symbolic move that was like...

Chevron suspends Brazil oil output following new spill

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

US oil giant Chevron announced Thursday it was seeking temporary suspension of production operations off southeastern Brazil after a new spill was discovered. C...