ENERGY TECH - WIND DAILY

May 04, 2012 (AFP)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday pressed Sudan for a definitive end to bombings against South Sudan, after Khartoum said it would comply with a U...

Netanyahu OKs key defenses for gas fields

May 04, 2012 (UPI)

Amid concerns that a new Middle East war is looming, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved a special budget to fortify and protect Israel's ric...

Dutch court OKs big gas storage project

May 04, 2012 (UPI)

Construction on Europe's biggest natural gas storage facility can begin north of Amsterdam after a ruling this week by the Netherlands' Council of State. Wednes...

US proposes more fracking disclosure

May 04, 2012 (AFP)

US regulators proposed Friday that companies using fracking to explore for natural gas must disclose the chemicals they use, but only after they drill -- sparki...

US doubles military aid to Philippines

May 04, 2012 (AFP)

The United States will this year double military aid to its ally the Philippines, which is engaged in a prolonged maritime stand-off with China, the foreign dep...

First 'microsubmarines' designed to help clean up oil spills

May 04, 2012 (SPX)

Machines could play an important role in cleaning up oil spills, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. It appears in the journal ACS N...

Venezuela spending spree clouds future

May 03, 2012 (UPI)

As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez clings to power while battling cancer, the country's future is further clouded by unbridled government spending that has no ...

Greenpeace activists held after they board Shell icebreaker

May 03, 2012 (AFP)

Swedish police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea Thursday in a bid to block plans by Anglo Dutch giant She...

China sends more ships to disputed shoal: Philippines

May 03, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippine military on Thursday accused China of sending more ships to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, describing the move as an insult that would ...

Sudans on brink of all-out war over oil

May 03, 2012 (UPI)

Sudan and the infant state of South Sudan, which became independent a scant 10 months ago after a decades-long civil conflict with the north, are once more on t...

India to cut back on Iran oil purchases: report

May 03, 2012 (AFP)

India's two biggest importers of crude oil from Iran will cut shipments from the Islamic republic by at least 15 percent this financial year due to US pressure,...

UN gives Sudan, South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities

May 02, 2012 (AFP)

The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions. With...

Shell icebreaker heading for Arctic: Greenpeace

May 02, 2012 (AFP)

A Finnish icebreaker contracted to Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has left Helsinki for the Arctic despite Greenpeace's attempts to block its departure, the enviro...

Report: Poles to bid for Czech pipelines

May 02, 2012 (UPI)

Poland has joined a group of potential bidders interested in buying the Czech Republic's natural gas transit operator, a Prague report indicated this week. The ...

Philippines asks US for radars, patrol boats and aircraft

May 02, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines said Wednesday it has asked the United States to supply its armed forces with patrol boats and aircraft as well as radar systems amid an escalat...

S. African official mulls support for shale gas exploration

May 02, 2012 (AFP)

Controversial exploration of South Africa's Karoo region for shale gas might be worth the trouble if the work is subjected to strict controls, a national enviro...

Japan buys stake in Australia LNG

May 02, 2012 (UPI)

Australia's Woodside Petroleum will sell a 14.7 percent stake in its $30 billion Browse liquefied natural gas project to Japanese companies Mitsui and Mitsubish...

Taiwan sets up airborne unit for Spratlys

May 02, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan's defence ministry said Wednesday that it has formed a special airborne unit capable of scrambling to the contested Spratly islands in just hours, as ten...

Superconducting strip could become an ultra-low-voltage sensor

May 01, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers studying a superconducting strip observed an intermittent motion of magnetic flux which carries vortices inside the regularly spaced weak conducting...

April oil exports highest since 1989: Iraq

May 01, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's crude exports in April were the highest monthly figure in more than 20 years, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Tuesday. Overall Iraqi oil expor...