ENERGY TECH - AFRICA DAILY

Sep 27, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Russia is expanding gas exports to the Asian Pacific region. This year it is to supply 16 extra batches of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Japan as part of the S...

Oil rebound on China stimulus hopes

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices recovered on Thursday on talk of fresh Chinese stimulus moves and one day after New York crude had plunged close to a two-month low point on eurozone...

Cambodia gears for offshore drilling

Sep 27, 2012 (UPI)

Cambodia aims to begin its first offshore oil production next year, a government official said. "We would like to proceed quickly, on a fast-track basis," Sok K...

Total head against environment risk of Arctic oil: FT report

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

Oil companies should not drill for oil in Arctic waters, the head of French oil group Total, Christophe de Margerie, told the Financial Times in an interview pu...

Using Information and Communications Technology to Create Cohesive, Sustainable Cities

Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)

More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and countries such as India and China are in need of hundreds of additional cities to accommodate...

Electric Bike Technologies and AllCell Technologies to Partner for E-Bike Battery Sales

Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)

Electric Bike Technologies LLC (makers of the E-BikeKit electric bike conversion kit) and AllCell Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join...

3M Hosts Energy-Efficiency Workshop to Improve Energy Efficiency Manufacturing

Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)

3M hosted a regional energy-efficiency workshop in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR Industrial Partnership for companies...

Libyan violence threatens oil recovery

Sep 26, 2012 (UPI)

The assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and the dangers posed by rival militias that refuse to bow to the North African country's post-Gadhafi governm...

KYOCERA Implements Renewable Energy Technology in Launch of US-Japan Smart-Grid

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Kyocera Corporation, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan and a number of other companies, research institutes and ...

France's top court upholds convictions over Erika oil spill

Sep 25, 2012 (AFP)

France's top court on Tuesday upheld energy giant Total's conviction for negligence in a 1999 shipwreck and oil spill that blackened much of the country's Atlan...

EU: Reverse gas flows to Ukraine by 2014

Sep 24, 2012 (UPI)

Improvements needed to transmit natural gas from Europe to Ukraine for the first time could be finished by mid-2014, EU Energy Minister Gunter Oettinger says. O...

Continental shelf exploration: are we ready for it?

Sep 24, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Continental shelf exploration could bring a breakthrough for Russia's energy sector, experts say. To prove their words, this year's St.Petersburg International ...

Tanker runs aground off Estonia, no spill threat: police

Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)

An oil tanker ran aground off the Estonian capital Tallinn early Monday, but there was no threat of pollution from the vessel, police in the Baltic state said. ...

Pricing pressures for Australian LNG

Sep 24, 2012 (UPI)

Australia's liquefied natural gas sector is facing increasing pressure amid Japanese Industry Minister Yukio Edano's call last week for a change to the oil-link...

Canada woos Asia for LNG

Sep 21, 2012 (UPI)

Canada is touting its potential to be a major supplier of liquefied natural gas to Asia. Five LNG projects to be developed on Canada's west coast could go onlin...

New EU deep-water oil rules advance

Sep 21, 2012 (UPI)

A key European Parliament committee has approved new rules for deep-water oil drilling that tighten environmental liability requirements on energy companies. En...

Shell wants Greenpeace protest ban or hefty fine

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Royal Dutch Shell counter-attacked against Greenpeace on Friday, asking a judge to ban the group protesting near any of its property, with a million-euro fine a...

World record holder

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Northwestern University scientists have developed a thermoelectric material that is the best in the world at converting waste heat to electricity. This is very ...

Nexen shareholders approve takeover by China's CNOOC

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

Nexen shareholders on Thursday overwhelmingly approved Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC's $15.1 billion takeover bid for the Canadian oil and gas company....

Big Oil faces crisis with Iraq over Kurds

Sep 20, 2012 (UPI)

Top international oil companies operating in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave are heading for a showdown with Baghdad, which brands their deals with the in...