Ankara, Turkey (UPI) Nov 5, 2012 - Energy companies cooperating with Greek Cypriot offshore drilling plans will be banned from participating in new oil and gas projects in Turkey, Ankara says.
Warsaw (AFP) Nov 04, 2012 - Poland has set it sights on building its first nuclear power station and developing shale gas, but experts believe it may soon have to choose one or the other as investing in both could prove too costly.
Damascus (AFP) Nov 4, 2012 - Rebels seized a major oilfield and shot down a warplane in eastern Syria Sunday, a watchdog said, notching up new battlefield successes even as the opposition met in Qatar under US pressure for a makeover.
New York (AFP) Nov 2, 2012 - New York commuters fought for car fuel at gas station forecourts Friday while mayor Michael Bloomberg faced pressure to call off his city's famed marathon as it struggles to recover from superstorm Sandy.
Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Nov 2, 2012 - The Falklands' bid to enter the big league of oil producers in the South Atlantic is drawing hedge funds to what promises to be a multibillion-dollar enterprise.
Trenton, N.J. (UPI) Nov 2, 2012 - New Jersey residents are grappling with gasoline shortages in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Nov 01, 2012 - It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can pressure-cook algae for as little as a minute and trans
Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Nov 1, 2012 - Iraq's independence-minded Kurds have started exporting oil independently of Baghdad, fueling a political battle that will undermine the central government's strategy of boosting oil production and possibly threaten the cohesion of the state.
Paris (AFP) Nov 01, 2012 - French oil company Maurel et Prom, which operates mainly in Gabon, said on Thursday that it had received approaches for some of its activities but that no agreement was in sight.
Washington (UPI) Nov 1, 2012 - For 58 million Americans who tuned into the first presidential debate, the candidates pictured two unlikely villains - Big Bird and Big Oil. While Big Bird has since been used in amusing campaign ads, disparaging the oil and natural gas industry is more worrisome considering energy is a fundamental part of the U.S. economy.
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 01, 2012 - City leaders aspiring to transform their cities into models of sustainability must look beyond city limits and include in their calculation the global flow of goods and materials into their realm, a
Urbana IL (SPX) Nov 01, 2012 - Along with the growing interest in biomass energy crops as renewable alternatives to fossil fuels comes a growing list of questions from corn and soybean farmers about what it will cost them to swit
Empa Switzerland (SPX) Nov 01, 2012 - Hydrogen production by solar water splitting in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) has long been considered the holy grail of sustainable energy research. Iron oxide is a promising electrode material.
Washington (AFP) Nov 1, 2012 - US military cargo planes flew dozens of heavy trucks and a team of specialists to New York on Thursday to help with efforts to restore power in the wake of superstorm Sandy, officials said.
London (AFP) Oct 31, 2012 - British energy producer BG Group said on Wednesday it will sell interests in its Queensland Curtis liquefied natural gas project in Australia to China's CNOOC for US$1.93 billion (1.48 billion euros).
Basra, Iraq (UPI) Oct 31, 2012 - Iraq and southern neighbor Kuwait, at daggers drawn since the days of the Ottoman Empire, are again in dispute, this time over plans to build rival megaports in the northern Persian Gulf.
