ENERGY-DAILY.Com brings you daily news on energy technology - it's manufacture, it's distribution and it's application 05-NOV-09 en-us Oslo (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Norwegian energy group Statoil said Wednesday it was selling some of its US offshore oil assets to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market.]]> Baghdad (UPI) Nov 4, 2009 - Baghdad's deal Tuesday with BP and the China National Petroleum Corp. to invest $15 billion in the giant Rumaila oil field to help rebuild Iraq's ramshackle oil industry gives energy-hungry China its first real grip on Middle Eastern oil.]]> Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Brazil's state-run oil group Petrobras said Thursday it has signed a contract permitting the first payment from a 10-billion-dollar loan from China to help it finance upcoming investments.]]> Sydney (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Monitoring the clean-up of a huge oil spill in pristine Australian waters could take as long as seven years, an official said Wednesday as environmentalists urged a wide-ranging inquiry into the disaster.]]> New York (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - The attorney general of New York state filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. on Wednesday alleging the US computer chip giant engaged in illegal practices to dominate the market.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 - In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability are simultaneously obtained in tokamaks, the leading magnetic confinement fusion device, operating at their performance limits.]]> Dalian, China (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 - China Industrial Waste Management has announced construction and regulatory progress related to the Build-Operate-Transfer ("BOT") municipal sludge treatment and disposal facility in Dalian, China (the "Project") that is being developed by the Company's subsidiary Dongtai Organic Waste Treatment Co. Ltd. ("Dongtai Organic").]]> Georgetown SC (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 - BioCentric Energy Holdings has confirmed a merger agreement with Renewed World Energies, an established closed loop photo-bioreactor manufacturer and ALGAE production facility based in Georgetown, South Carolina.]]> Chowgachi, Bangladesh (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Chunnu Biswas opened his tiny two-room tin-roofed post office in the morning as usual, but another long day stretched ahead without any letters for him to sort or deliver.]]> Seoul (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - The Seoul city government will help fund a tree-planting project in a Chinese desert to reduce the amount of harmful "yellow dust" blowing over South Korea, officials said Wednesday.]]> Boca Raton FL (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 - The $2.6 billion (manufacturers' dollars) U.S. solar industry has experienced strong growth over the past five years. Demand soared due to improved photovoltaic technologies and lower prices; sharp increases in competing energy costs, and the expansion of government and financial incentives.]]> Beijing (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - The World Bank Wednesday upgraded its 2009 growth forecast for China to 8.4 percent on the back of huge public spending but said stronger domestic demand was needed to ensure a sustainable recovery.]]> Paris (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Safety fears and threats of winter power cuts have taken some of the shine off France's world-beating nuclear industry, the country's main source of power and a key plank in its foreign trade strategy.]]>