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  Notre Dame IN (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 Chemical engineers testing methods to improve efficiency of diesel engines while maintaining performance are getting help from a summer staple: Tiki torches. A team of engineers at the University of Notre Dame is using the backyard torches as part of an effort to mimic the soot oxidation process in a diesel engine - when soot in diesel exhaust collects in the walls of a particulate filter and has to be burned off - according to a study recently published in Catalysts. "This study is part of ... read more |
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Total makes another LNG splash with Ichthys project off AustraliaWashington (UPI) Jul 30, 2018 French supermajor Total said Monday it took another step toward LNG leadership with the start of operations at the Ichthys project off the Australian coast. ... more 
Rig company Diamond Offshore mentions 'prolonged downturn'Washington (UPI) Jul 30, 2018 Rig company Diamond Offshore on Monday became the latest energy company to report weak earnings during the second quarter, despite higher oil prices. ... more 
Supply-side disruptions push oil prices higherWashington (UPI) Jul 30, 2018 Iranian pressure and supply-side concerns surfaced before the opening bell on Monday to push the price of crude oil higher, after some profit taking last week. ... more 
Kurdish oil production passes target rateWashington (UPI) Jul 30, 2018 Production from an oil field in the Kurdish north of Iraq moved beyond its original target rate with the tapping of another well, Norway's DNO said Monday. ... more |
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Crude oil prices flat despite easing trade tensionsWashington (UPI) Jul 26, 2018 Crude oil prices were relatively unchanged Thursday ahead of the start of U.S. trading on concerns that easing trade and supply tensions may be fading. ... more 
Equinor moves rig to Norwegian field slated for 2019 startupWashington (UPI) Jul 26, 2018 The Norwegian government gave Equinor consent to start production drilling in an oil field in the Norwegian Sea set for a production start next year. ... more 
Oil and gas production up, payrolls down in TexasWashington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 Oil and gas producers in Texas are doing more with less, but this has a negative side as companies need fewer workers on their payrolls, an economist said. ... more 
Weatherford says second quarter loss due to seasonal trendsWashington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 The head of oil and gas field services company Weatherford said Friday the company would have to take a challenge of a second quarter miss head on. ... more
Price of oil unfazed by strong U.S. GDP figuresWashington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 Crude oil prices ahead of the start of U.S. trading on Friday were unmoved by strong GDP figures as market watchers wait for the next shoe to drop. ... more |
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Exxon Mobil shares slump again on disappointing resultsNew York (AFP) July 27, 2018 US oil giant Exxon Mobil reported another round of disappointing results on Friday, sending shares sharply lower at it moved to address rising criticism of its communications and operations. ... more  |
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Eni expects production to increase 4 percent this yearWashington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 Italian energy company Eni said Friday it was expecting a 4 percent increase in oil and gas production from 2017 driven by gains across its entire portfolio. ... more 
BP spends $10.5 billion for BHP's U.S. shale assetsWashington (UPI) Jul 27, 2018 British energy company BP said Friday it agreed to pay $10.5 billion to acquire the onshore U.S. shale assets from Australian mining giant BHP Billiton. ... more 
Russian gas needed in Europe, Wintershall saysWashington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 The European natural gas market needs diversity and Russian supplies are an important component of the mix, German energy company Wintershall said. ... more 
War-ravaged South Sudan at a glanceJuba (AFP) July 25, 2018 South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has been mired in a devastating civil war for more than four years, with tens of thousands of people killed, nearly four million displaced and its economy in ruins. ... more 
Gazprom pipeline to China nearly completedWashington (UPI) Jul 25, 2018 Russian natural gas company Gazprom said Wednesday that just over 90 percent of its Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China is completed. ... more |
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 Lincoln NB (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 
In 1977, researcher Rudolf Thauer proposed a theoretical ceiling on the amount of hydrogen that bacteria could produce via fermentation, the sugar-converting process also responsible for yogurt, beer and cheese.
Propelled by a genetic engineering technique that presents bacteria with a simple choice - adapt or die - research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln just punched through that ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jul 30, 2018 
Following the isolation of graphene in 2004, a race began to synthesize new two-dimensional materials. 2D materials are single-layer substances with a thickness of between one atom and a few nanometers (billionths of a meter). They have unique properties linked to their reduced dimensionality and play a key role in the development of nanotechnology and nanoengineering.
An international gro ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 19, 2018 
Using outputs from a high-resolution regional climate model, KAUST researchers have confirmed the potential for wind as a significant energy resource across the Arabian Peninsula. This is an important first step in developing a strategy for Saudi Arabia's wind energy sector.
As part of an ongoing collaboration with the University of Notre Dame in the United States, Marc Genton's research g ... more |
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 Paris (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 
Framatome recently signed a teaming agreement with AW Chesterton to become the exclusive distributor of its valve packing and mechanical seals to the majority of North America's nuclear energy fleet.
This agreement expands Framatome's valve and actuator machinery solutions, as well as its fluid sealing product lines, further solidifying the company's Nuclear Parts Center (NPC) as a one-sto ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) July 25, 2018 
Sri Lanka announced Wednesday it would waive debts for 200,000 women unable to repay microfinance loans and cap lending rates after a number of borrowers in drought-hit areas killed themselves.
Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said women in a dozen districts who had taken small loans from microfinance institutions would have their debts forgiven and interest paid off with immediate eff ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) July 30, 2018 
Uber on Monday said it is hitting the brakes on self-driving trucks, shifting gears to focus just on autonomous cars.
Uber is among a number of technology and car companies racing toward what some contend is an inevitable future in which vehicles drive themselves.
Uber's aspirations had included self-driving trucks, with the smartphone-summoned-ride service revving that effort with the p ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) July 29, 2018 
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday sacked his minister of electricity after three weeks of protests against corruption and chronic power cuts in the energy-rich country.
A statement from Abadi's office said the premier sacked Qassem al-Fahdawi - whose departure was demanded by protesters - "because of the deterioration in the electricity sector".
Iraq has been gripped by pr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 30, 2018 
Earlier this month, Russia's Strategic Missile Forces announced that the branch's rearmament with new nuclear delivery systems and their carriers would be completed by the mid-to-late 2020s. Sputnik explores what exactly such rearmament entails.
Last week, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a series of videos showing the testing and/or deployment of several of Russia's new weapons sy ... more |
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 Chikan, China (AFP) July 25, 2018  A year ago, customers queued round the block for Wu Ying's red bean and coconut ice puddings, but now the 60-year-old has to vault a barricade to reach her dessert shop.
Wu is one of several dozen inhabitants of a historic section of the town of Chikan in southern China who are stubbornly holding out against government pressure to sell their properties to make way for a "heritage" theme park ... more |
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 Kampala (AFP) July 28, 2018 
Uganda said Saturday it had sentenced 35 people from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo for up to three years for illegal fishing.
"We got 35 Congolese nationals. Thirty-one of them pleaded guilty and were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for illegal fishing and entry into Uganda in June," said Deogratius Kato, a fisheries protection officer on Lake Albert, which is ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2018 
Conti Federal Services has received a $69.4 million contract to build hardened aircraft shelters in Israel.
The award, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, comes under a firm-fixed-price foreign military sales contract, with Conti selected from three bidders.
Hardened shelters are meant to protect critical aircraft and personnel from air strikes, cruise missiles and ... more |
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 London (AFP) July 29, 2018  Britain's new foreign minister begins his first major international trip with a visit to China on Monday, bidding to strengthen trade ties with Beijing ahead of Brexit next year.
"The UK and China are both major powers with a global perspective", said foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt in a statement issued ahead of the visit.
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 Washington (AFP) July 27, 2018 
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday that he was considering a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as the leaders of their countries mull possible new talks.
"I am considering meeting with my counterpart but there has been no decision," Mattis told journalists at the Pentagon.
"I'm all for re-opening communications," he added. "It's most important that we talk with thos ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) July 27, 2018  Organisers have been forced to scrap the swimming leg of the Hamburg Ironman this Sunday due to high levels of algae in the city's Alster river caused by the current heatwave.
The condition of the water has been deemed "potentially harmful to health", so the swimming has been replaced by a six-kilometre (3.7mile) run.
"In order to protect all athletes, there will be a 6km run instead of ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 26, 2018 
Japanese office workers hoping to nod off on the job may need to sleep with one eye open thanks to a new system that can detect snoozers and blast them with cold air.
Air conditioning manufacturer Daikin and electronics giant NEC said Thursday they have begun trialling the system, which monitors the movement of the employee's eyelids with a camera attached to a computer.
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