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S.Africa to start processing shale gas applications

Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)

South Africa will process applications for shale gas exploration but hold off on controversial fracking drilling while new rules are drafted, the mines minister...

LEDs winning light race to save energy, the environment

Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

Today's light-emitting diode light bulbs have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps. And that gap is expected to grow significantly as tech...

Nationalized YPF draws Russian investor

Sep 07, 2012 (UPI)

Argentina's nationalized YPF energy company is pursuing talks with Russia's Gazprom to forge a partnership and secure needed cash investment in the company. Arg...

Nigeria has former militants guarding oil

Sep 07, 2012 (UPI)

Nigeria has hired former militants to provide pipeline security in the country's troubled Niger delta. In the past year the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. ha...

Oregon poised for wave energy

Sep 07, 2012 (UPI)

The United States' first commercially licensed grid-connected wave energy device is in its final stage of testing before its scheduled launch next month in Oreg...

S.Africa lifts freeze on shale gas exploration

Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)

South Africa on Friday said it was lifting a freeze on shale gas exploration in a move condemned by environmentalists who fear that controversial fracking will ...

Ugandan govt. releases oil exploration map

Sep 06, 2012 (UPI)

Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has released an oil exploration draft map. The cartography details lands targeted for the construction of an...

The Real Cause of High Oil Prices - An Interview with James Hamilton

Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)

Nowadays the energy picture is confusing at best as the more information we are shown the more blurred our vision seems to become. Mixed messages, poor reportin...

Greensmith now providing distributed energy storage systems

Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)

Greensmith Energy Management Systems is now with fourteen customers, including eight electric utilities using the company's field-tested suite of product offeri...

Ship's captain apologises for New Zealand disaster

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

The Filipino captain of the ship that caused New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster has issued a public apology for the catastrophe and for trying ...

Greek owner of NZ oil spill ship to pay up to $31 million

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

The Greek owners of the ship at the centre of New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster agreed Tuesday to pay up to NZ$38 million ($31 million) toward...

Using magnetism to understand superconductivity

Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)

Might it one day be possible to transmit electricity from an offshore wind turbine to land-based users without any loss of current? Materials known as "high tem...

EU renews push for trans-Caspian pipeline

Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)

The European Union this week restarted negotiations with Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan on the possibility of an undersea trans-Caspian natural gas pipeline. A spo...

TransCanada submits new US route for Keystone pipeline

Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)

Pipeline operator TransCanada on Wednesday offered to re-route its planned Keystone XL pipe to avoid environmentally sensitive areas as it carries oil from Cana...

Nigerian oil output slumps

Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)

Nigeria's oil production has fallen below government projections. Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Finance had projected in this year's budget that the country's o...

Waste silicon gets new life in lithium-ion batteries at Rice University

Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at Rice University and the Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have developed a way to make flexible components for rechargeable lithium-ion ...

Iran has 'problems' selling oil: Ahmadinejad

Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)

Iran has "problems" exporting its oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted on Tuesday, but he said his government was determined to overcome that and other c...

Philippines hails Clinton remarks on South China Sea

Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)

Philippine officials praised US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's call for a peaceful resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea, saying Tuesd...

Iran is 'only power' that can secure Gulf: commander

Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)

Iran is the "only power" that can secure the oil-rich Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday, adding that the reinforced US navy presence in the...

Oil prices advance on China, Europe stimulus hopes

Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)

Global crude oil prices rose Tuesday as weak manufacturing numbers from Europe and China lifted hopes of fresh central bank stimulus measures, analysts said. Br...