Chicago (AFP) April 2, 2013 - Arkansas opened an investigation into an ExxonMobil pipeline that unleashed thousands of barrels of crude and forced the evacuation of 22 homes, the state's attorney general said Tuesday.
Calgary UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2013 - Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. Their technology open
Perth, Australia (UPI) Apr 2, 2013 - Exxon Mobil and BHP Billiton have submitted to Australia's federal environment department plans for a $10 billion floating liquefied natural gas production facility for their proposed Scarborough joint venture.
Haifa, Israel (UPI) Apr 2, 2013 - Israel's navy is scrambling to assemble a force of new warships worth some $760 million to protect the country's natural gas fields in the Mediterranean as the production from the first field discovered in 2009 went onstream last weekend.
Lagos (AFP) April 02, 2013 - Shell plans to temporarily shut a key oil pipeline in southern Nigeria later this month to repair damage caused by oil thieves, leading to a cut of around 150,000 barrels per day, the company said Tuesday.
Fallujah, Iraq (AFP) April 2, 2013 - Gunmen killed two Iraqi engineers, wounded a third and kidnapped another when they attacked a camp near a gas field run by a South Korean firm in Iraq's western desert, officials said on Tuesday.
Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 01, 2013 - In the United States, only species listed on state or federal noxious weed lists are regulated, and those lists are often biased toward species that affect agricultural crops. Conversely, invasive p
New York NY (SPX) Apr 01, 2013 - A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground. Researchers now say that
Middelstum, Netherlands (AFP) March 31, 2013 - Farmers living atop Europe's largest gas field in the isolated northern Netherlands are angry at increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by extraction.
Baghdad (UPI) Mar 29, 2013 - U.S. oil companies seem to be losing interest in Iraq, which a decade ago was seen as the big prize in the global energy business with the world's fifth largest oil reserves and low production costs.
Brussels (UPI) Mar 29, 2013 - The European Commission has officially launched what promises to be a contentious debate over greenhouse gas reduction and renewable energy targets for 2030.
New York (UPI) Mar 29, 2013 - Hess Corp. said it sold its interests in the giant Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli complex in the Caspian Sea.
Washington (UPI) Mar 29, 2013 - The International Monetary Fund, in a new report, calls for eliminating energy subsidies worldwide.
Columbus, OH (SPX) Mar 29, 2013 - A once-promising approach for using next-generation, ultra-intense lasers to help deliver commercially viable fusion energy has been brought into serious question by new experimental results and fir
Ankara (AFP) March 29, 2013 - Turkey is discussing the terms of an energy partnership with Iraqi Kurds, the country's prime minister said Friday in the first public confirmation of a project that could aggravate tensions in the powder keg region.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2013 - Cyprus is preparing for total financial collapse as the European Central Bank turns its back on the island after its parliament rejected a scheme to make Cypriot citizens pay a levy on savings depos
