London (UPI) Jul 14, 2013 - More rural communities across the United Kingdom could gain from developing their own sources of renewable energy, the British energy minister said Monday.
Sanaa, Yemen (UPI) Jul 14, 2013 - The Yemeni Oil Ministry said restive tribesmen in Marib province attacked an oil pipeline, cutting exports to a Red Sea terminal.
Geneva, Switzerland (UPI) Jul 14, 2013 - Oil services company Weatherford International said most of its rigs are positioned in the Middle East after selling off some of its assets to Russia's Rosneft.
Havana (UPI) Jul 14, 2013 - Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the conclusion of a regional visit his government would help Cuba's state oil company develop offshore reserves.
Edinburgh, Scotland (UPI) Jul 14, 2013 - The Scottish government said it was investing more than $3.5 million to cut the cost of offshore wind energy development by at least 10 percent.
Denver (UPI) Jul 14, 2013 - Whiting Petroleum Corp. said its acquisition of Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. creates the largest producer in the Bakken and Three Forks region of North Dakota.
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 12, 2013 - In Bolivia, in the largest continuous salt desert in the world, researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia have found a bacterium that stores large amounts of PHB, a prized polymer. Th
Washington (UPI) Jul 12, 2013 - The nation's energy sector is at risk from climate change, says a new report from the Department of Energy.
London, Greater London (AFP) July 12, 2013 - Six female Greenpeace activists who scaled the Shard skyscraper in London, western Europe's tallest building, in a protest over Arctic oil drilling, have been released on bail, police said Friday.
Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2013 - Fears of depleting the Earth's supply of oil are unwarranted, according to new research, which concludes that the demand for oil - as opposed to the supply - will reach its own peak and then decline
Baghdad (UPI) Jul 12, 2013 - Iraq's troubled government is drawing up a new energy strategy that envisions investment of $620 billion in the next 17 years to triple production to 9 million barrels per day by 2020.
Manhattan KS (SPX) Jul 12, 2013 - Wind power development does not ruffle the feathers of greater prairie chicken populations, according to the results of a seven-year study from a Kansas State University ecologist and his team.
London (UPI) Jul 11, 2013 - African Petroleum Corp. said Friday it would acquire new data that would help verify promising reserve prospects off the coast of Sierra Leone.
Washington (AFP) July 11, 2013 - Large earthquakes around the world have been found to trigger tremors at US sites where wastewater from gas drilling operations is injected into the ground, a US study said Thursday.
San Ramon, Calif. (UPI) Jul 11, 2013 - Chevron said its net U.S. production so far during second quarter 2014 was higher than first quarter in part because of increases from the Permian shale basin.
Virginia Beach, Va. (UPI) Jul 11, 2013 - Dominion Virginia Power said it's conducting tests off the coast of Virginia to determine the strength of the sea bed for wind turbine installations.
