ENERGY TECH - INTERN DAILY

Mexico to Privatize State Oil Company Pemex?

Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)

Big potential changes south of the border. Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto has announced that he wants increased private investment in the nation's e...

ASEAN wants India's help in China disputes

Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)

Southeast Asian countries on Thursday urged India to intervene to help resolve bitter territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea, saying it was "cru...

Engineers roll up their sleeves - and then do same with inductors

Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)

On the road to smaller, high-performance electronics, University of Illinois researchers have smoothed one speed bump by shrinking a key, yet notoriously large ...

Keystone XL: Welcome to the Proxy Energy War

Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)

Now that elections are over, everyone is waiting for a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, but it's not so easy amid the atmosphere of protests that have even...

BLM Onshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales Garnered Millions for Taxpayers in 2012

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior K...

Future of PNG deep sea mining uncertain

Dec 19, 2012 (UPI)

The future of deep-sea mineral mining off the coast of Papua New Guinea faces uncertainty. Canadian company Nautilus Minerals' Solwara 1 Project in the Bismarck...

BP says sells stake in China gas field to Kuwait

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

British oil giant BP said on Wednesday that it had agreed to sell its stake in China's Yacheng gas field to the state-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration...

Oil prices gain on US budget hopes, as coal set to dominate

Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices rallied on Tuesday as hopes grew of a US deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts in the United States -- the world's biggest co...

U.S. sued over offshore oil lease plan

Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)

An environmental group has sued to halt the U.S. administration's plan to auction offshore oil and gas drilling leases, the first since the 2010 Gulf oil spill....

Nanofibers clean sulfur from fuel

Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)

Sulfur compounds in petroleum fuels have met their nano-structured match. University of Illinois researchers developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub...

Coal use set to surpass oil in a decade: IEA

Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)

Coal is set to surpass oil as the world's top fuel within a decade, driven by growth in emerging market giants China and India, with even Europe finding it hard...

Australia unveils carbon capture plant

Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)

Australia's first carbon capture plant has entered the demonstration phase. The $208 million Callide Oxyfuel Project is one of only a few coal-fired low emissio...

How to get fossil fuels from ice cream and soap

Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)

Writing in PNAS, the researchers have shown that the emerging field of synthetic biology can be used to manipulate hydrocarbon chemicals, found in soaps and sha...

Iran oil revenues halved by sanctions: minister

Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)

Iran is losing half of its oil revenues because of international sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini sai...

China makes U.N. appeal for maritime claim

Dec 17, 2012 (UPI)

China has submitted to the United Nations what it calls geological evidence that would mean disputed islands in the East China Sea close are Chinese territory. ...

Incoming Japan PM pledges no compromise on islands

Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)

Japan's premier-in-waiting Shinzo Abe came out fighting Monday after his sweeping election victory, saying there can be no compromise on the sovereignty of isla...

Chevron to pay $155 million for Brazil oil spill

Dec 15, 2012 (AFP)

US oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay 310 million reales ($155 million) to Brazil for an oil spill last year that fouled beaches in Rio de Janeiro, officials s...

Chavez health raises succession worries

Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)

The next few weeks to the scheduled Jan. 10 presidential inauguration in Venezuela will determine how politics will affect ordinary lives in the oil-rich nation...

Algeria pushes $80 billion energy drive

Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)

Algeria's state energy company Sonatrach is pushing an $80 billion, five-year investment program to expand its oil and natural gas industry and is offering an i...

Encana sells stake in oil field to PetroChina subsidiary

Dec 13, 2012 (AFP)

Encana on Thursday sold a stake in its Duvernay oil field in Canada's Alberta province to Phoenix Duvernay Gas, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned PetroChina f...