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  Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 In the chemical and the petrochemical industries, separating molecules in an energy-efficient way is one of the most important challenges. Overall, the separation processes account for around 40% of the energy consumed in the petrochemical industry, and reducing this can help addressing anthropogenic carbon emissions. One of the most important products in the petrochemical industry is propylene, which is widely used in fibers, foams, plastics etc. Purifying propylene almost always requires separat ... read more |
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U.S. impact of Venezuelan sanctions mutedWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 New U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan individuals and digital currency transactions are a largely symbolic move from the White House, a risk consultant group said. ... more 
Statoil takes control over North Sea fieldsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 After announcing it would remove "oil" from its name, Norwegian energy major Statoil said it's now operating a legacy oil and gas asset in the North Sea. ... more 
Bill Barrett, Fifth Creek form pure Colorado shale playerWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 HighPoint Resources Corp. started trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange, a company that represents a pure Colorado shale player, an executive said. ... more 
Gas prices in the U.S. officially hurtWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 With gas prices about 10 percent higher than they were at this point last year, the situation may be near the point of U.S. economic strain, analysis found. ... more |
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Total next to take slice of Emirati pieWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 French supermajor Total said it's followed in the footsteps of its Italian counterpart, Eni, by making long-term commitments in Abu Dhabi. ... more 
OECD: Poland behind the energy curveWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Poland, which relies heavily on Russia as an energy supplier, lacks connections with the rest of Europe and is behind the curve on renewables, the OECD said. ... more 
Living sensor can potentially prevent environmental disasters from fuel spillsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 The Colonial Pipeline, which carries fuel from Texas to New York, ruptured last fall, dumping a quarter-million gallons of gas in rural Alabama. By the time the leak was detected during routine insp ... more 
Russia mulls fate of OPEC-led balancing actWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Russia is considering a wide range of scenarios on what to do with a multilateral effort to balance the global oil market, its energy minister said. ... more 
Oil prices down slightly, but lack clear directionWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Crude oil prices lacked clear direction early morning Monday as the market remains stuck between two competing production narratives. ... more |
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 Noble Group shares plummet on likely bond default 
Total says its position in Iran is secureWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 French energy company Total should be grandfathered into any deals it has in the Iranian energy sector if Washington tightens the sanctions noose, its CEO said. ... more  |
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Energy at the heart of sustainable development, IEA saysWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Universal access to electricity and a bigger footprint for renewable energy are critical to sustainable development, though progress is lacking, the IEA said. ... more 
FERC proposal on income tax questioned by pipeline companiesWashington (UPI) Mar 16, 2018 Pipeline company Enbridge Energy Partners said Friday it wants a rehearing after U.S. regulators revised how pipeline firms figure income tax allowances. ... more 
U.S. offshore ambitions reckless, sustainable investors sayWashington (UPI) Mar 16, 2018 U.S. efforts to tap oil and natural gas reserves offshore are reckless and out of step with efforts to address climate change, sustainable investors said. ... more
Oil prices barely in the black in Friday tradingWashington (UPI) Mar 16, 2018 Crude oil prices were barely holding in positive territory early in the Friday session in anticipation of data on the exploration and production sector. ... more 
Shell slims down with New Zealand gas field salesWashington (UPI) Mar 16, 2018 The sale of New Zealand acreage with hundreds of barrels of recoverable reserves is part of a long-term strategy to slim down, Royal Dutch Shell said. ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated a new approach to making self-assembled biomaterials that relies on protein modifications and temperature. The hybrid approach allows researchers to control self-assembly more precisely, which may prove useful for a variety of biomedical applications from drug delivery to wound healing.
The research appears online on March 19 in N ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Saft has installed two Li-ion energy storage systems to boost the operational efficiency of the existing solar PV plant at EXKAL's Marcilla manufacturing facility in Navarra, Northern Spain.
The Saft Intensium Mini E systems provide peak shaving to reduce peak demand charges from the site's electricity supplier as well as increasing self-consumption of solar power. The result is that EXKAL ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2018 
In a report on energy efficiency trends, British energy company BP said onshore wind could become the most economical source of electricity within 30 years.
A technology outlook for 2018 by the British supermajor finds coal is currently the largest source of global energy generation. There's enough on hand, the report read, to keep the grid satiated for more than a century based on curr ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 16, 2018 
Framatome has performed a comprehensive modernization of the instrumentation and control (I&C) technology of the Borssele Dutch nuclear power plant, operated by EPZ (Elektriciteits-Productiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland). The project started in 2014 and included the installation of a new reactor control and limitation system to monitor the operation of the plant and interfere in case of any deviat ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2018 
Last year, 81 million people worldwide experienced severe food insecurity. About 80 percent of them live in Africa.
While much of that food insecurity relates to civil war and violence in places like South Sudan and Nigeria, a good portion also stems from a sequence of five severe droughts that began in Ethiopia in 2015 and spread across parts of the continent in the ensuing three years. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 13, 2018 
Chinese bike-sharing start-up Ofo announced Tuesday that it has raised around $850 million from investors including e-commerce giant Alibaba, to finance its overseas expansion while it battles rivals in China.
Ofo, whose lemon-yellow bicycles are ubiquitous in Chinese cities, said on the social network Weibo that it had raised $866 million dollars.
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 Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Direct international flights resumed Tuesday from Sulaimaniyah airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, a week after Baghdad lifted an almost six-month-long blockade on the region's foreign air links.
A cargo plane carrying electronic devices touched down from the United Arab Emirates, an AFP correspondent said.
It was followed by a Royal Jordanian plane, with 39 passengers on board, which took off ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) March 17, 2018  Iran will not accept any changes to the nuclear deal, a senior official insisted Saturday, after the United States said it was seeking a "supplemental" accord with European powers.
"We will not accept any changes, any interpretation or new measure aimed at limiting" the 2015 deal between Iran and major powers, said Ali Shamkhani in remarks carried by ISNA news agency.
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 Beijing (AFP) March 17, 2018  China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term Saturday and elevated his right-hand man to the vice presidency, giving him a strong ally to consolidate power and handle US trade threats.
Xi's reappointment by the Communist Party-controlled legislature was a foregone conclusion, but all eyes had been on whether his former anti-corruption enforcer, Wang Q ... more |
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 Accra (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Ghana and the United States are working to forge closer ties between their armed forces but both countries denied that involved setting up military bases in the West African nation.
News reports in Ghana on Tuesday cited leaked documents from a recent cabinet meeting that formed the basis of a request to parliament to approve an agreement between the two governments.
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018  Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $8.5 million under the terms of a modified contract to a previous issued order on a basic order agreement.
The agreement gives the Navy the authority to exercised additional mission ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2018  Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called on the United States Tuesday to not act "emotionally" and to avoid a trade war, as President Donald Trump considers new punitive measures against Beijing.
After announcing tariffs on global steel and aluminium imports, Trump is now mulling new actions against China over its "theft" of US intellectual property.
Washington has long accused Beijing of forci ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2018 
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia would cut its military spending, a day after he won a presidential election with a landslide.
"We have plans to decrease our defence spending both this year and next. But this will not lead to any decline in the country's defence capacity," he said during a meeting with other candidates.
"We will not allow for any sort of arms race," h ... more |
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 Bristol, UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2018 
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered a way to re-use a common plastic to break down harmful dyes in our waste water. The paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces by a joint UK and Brazilian research team describes how synthetic dyes, used in the clothing industry world-wide, could be treated by the plastic found in packaging and cutlery - polystyrene.
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 Annapolis MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a study of the insects, arthropods, and other invertebrates in the area revealed striking declines of most invertebrates in the local ecosystem, a result that researchers say illustrates the hidden impacts of natural disasters.
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Cameron University compared the invertebrate community b ... more |
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