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Venezuela arrests three generals for alleged coup plot

Mar 26, 2014 (AFP)

Three Venezuelan air force generals accused of plotting a coup against the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro were arrested Tuesday, amid a widening...

Tullow upbeat about Kenyan oil prospects

Mar 26, 2014 (UPI)

British energy explorer Tullow Oil said Thursday some of its oil reserve areas in Kenya were poorly developed, though it remained upbeat about the potential. Tu...

Canada signs off on four LNG export licenses

Mar 26, 2014 (UPI)

Canada is well positioned to help meet the growing market demands for liquified natural gas, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford said. "World ener...

Gazprom wants bigger stake in LNG market

Mar 26, 2014 (UPI)

Russian energy company Gazprom said it aims to seize 15 percent of the global market share of liquified natural gas within the next 15 years. The Gazprom board ...

Appraisal wells completed for Johan Sverdrup

Mar 26, 2014 (UPI)

Swedish energy company Lundin Petroleum said Thursday it completed two appraisal wells in the Johan Sverdrup prospect in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea. ...

Gazprom mulls LNG export future with Kuwait

Mar 25, 2014 (UPI)

Russian energy company Gazprom said it was looking at ways to expand the level of cooperation in the gas sector with its counterparts in Kuwait. Gazprom Chairma...

Pseudogap theory puts physicists closer to high temperature superconductors

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Physicists are one step closer to developing the world's first room-temperature superconductor thanks to a new theory from the University of Waterloo, Harvard a...

Economy in oil-rich North Dakota booming

Mar 25, 2014 (UPI)

Jack Dalrymple, governor of the oil-rich state of North Dakota, said personal income growth has outpaced the national average by 5 percent. The Bureau of Econom...

Senate panel reviews prospects for energy exports

Mar 25, 2014 (UPI)

The United States is in a unique position to use its energy resources to increase its leverage on the international stage, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said. Legisl...

Pioneering research offers new insight into improved wave energy testing

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Pioneering research could provide a significant boost in the vital quest to harness wave power as a viable renewable energy source for the future. Scientists fr...

Brazil ex-president backs Petrobras refinery enquiry

Mar 24, 2014 (AFP)

Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Sunday said Congress should investigate a growing scandal surrounding the controversial 2006 purchase by...

Busy US Gulf ship lane closed due to oil spill

Mar 24, 2014 (AFP)

A busy shipping lane to the port of Houston, Texas was closed Monday as clean up crews struggled to remove oil that spilled in a weekend barge crash. The barge ...

Box-shaped pressure vessel for LNG developed by KAIST research team

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

Korean researchers successfully showcased the installation and operation of a box-shaped, high-pressure tank for the storage of liquefied natural gas in Pohang,...

Antimony nanocrystals for batteries

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from ETH Zurich and Empa have succeeded for the first time to produce uniform antimony nanocrystals. Tested as components of laboratory batteries, t...

Bitterness over Exxon Valdez lingers, 25 years on

Mar 22, 2014 (AFP)

On a cold March night 25 years ago, the supertanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef off the coast of Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the sea. I...

Birth of a New Ukrainian Nation?

Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)

Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula is now Russia's. It was done with an impressively organized non-violent military operation, and supported by the foregone conclusion...

Pentagon to host Saudi deputy minister for talks

Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)

The Pentagon was due to host Saudi Arabia's deputy defense minister for talks Thursday as the two sides try to smooth over differences on US policy towards Iran...

Kurds offer to export 100,000 bpd of oil in Iraq row

Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region pledged Thursday to export 100,000 barrels of oil per day through central government-controlled pipelines in a bid to resolve a...

Sorption energy storage and conversion for cooling and heating

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

In many industrialized countries, city skylines are dominated by imposing glass facades and skyscrapers made of concrete and steel. There is a drawback to these...

Lockheed Martin and Atlantis Resources: Harnessing the Power of Ocean Tides

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

Adding to its recent momentum in ocean energy, Lockheed Martin has announced that it is further advancing the next generation of tidal energy. Lockheed Martin h...