Moscow (AFP) Oct 08, 2013 - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday demanded an apology from the Netherlands for briefly detaining a Russian diplomat in The Hague in an escalating spat between the two countries.
Alcanar, Spain (UPI) Oct 8, 2013 - Thousands of Spaniards, in a weekend demonstration, demanded the closure of an offshore gas storage site linked to hundreds of small earthquakes.
Beijing (UPI) Oct 7, 2013 - Beijing plans to build four natural gas power-generating stations by the end of next year to replace coal-fired plants, the municipal government said.
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 07, 2013 - A real-life hobbit village will soon be nestled in the lush forests of a Swedish island, a whimsical housing scheme billed as the first of its kind - but behind the fantasy gimmick lies a genuine interest for sustainable development.
Madrid (AFP) Oct 07, 2013 - Singapore state investment giant Temasek and Chinese oil group Sinopec aim to snap up a multi-billion-euro stake in Spain's Gas Natural, the Financial Times said Monday.
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Oct 4, 2013 - The Middle East is losing its long-held dominance of the global oil market as vast shale oil reserves open up in the United States and elsewhere, and non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries production grows to cushion the market against output cuts in the region.
Madrid (AFP) Oct 04, 2013 - Spain's government said Friday there is a limited risk of a big earthquake shaking the eastern coast after a string of small tremors linked to a vast offshore gas storage plant.
Victoria, British Columbia (UPI) Oct 4, 2013 - The government of British Columbia said it will launch a study to determine emissions in Kitimat, the hub of the province's proposed liquefied natural gas sector.
San Diego, CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - New research led by an electrical engineer at the University of California, San Diego is aimed at improving lithium-ion batteries through possible new electrode architectures with precise nano-scale
Daejeon, South Korea (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - For many decades, we have been relying on fossil resources to produce liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and many industrial and consumer chemicals for daily use. However, increasing strains on
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Oct 3, 2013 - Libya's interim government is struggling to crank up oil production again after weeks of shutdowns enforced by armed militias and protesting oil workers slashed output from 1.4 million barrels per day to below 200,000 bpd, virtually zero, in September.
Moscow (AFP) Oct 03, 2013 - Russian investigators said Thursday they had charged all 30 crew members of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship with piracy over a protest against Arctic oil exploration, an offence that carries the risk of a lengthy prison term.
Houston, TX (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - If we're to meet a goal set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuels Standard to use 36 billion gallons per year of biofuels-mostly ethanol-the nation must expand its infrastruc
Madrid (AFP) Oct 03, 2013 - Spain's government said Thursday that a wave of small earthquakes that have rattled the country's eastern coast could be caused by a large offshore gas storage plant.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - UCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels. The new p
London (AFP) Oct 03, 2013 - A US court has given BP a boost in its fight to limit how much it must pay in compensation for the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
