San Francisco (AFP) Sept 15, 2011 - The United States and Australia called Thursday for unimpeded freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and urged restraint from Beijing and its neighbors in solving their territorial disputes.
Beijing (UPI) Sep 15, 2011 - China warned India and other countries about oil exploration projects in the disputed South China Sea and its islands, claiming its indisputable sovereignty over the area.
Baghdad (UPI) Sep 15, 2011 - Iraq has prequalified at least 46 foreign companies to bid in a fourth auction for oil and natural gas contracts with the focus on accelerating development of the country's gas reserves.
Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2011 - A key US government report spreads the blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, citing a bad cement job, poor management by BP and its subcontractors and risky shortcuts. The findings by the agency that regulates offshore drilling are largely in line with other investigations into the 2010 disaster, but offer the most detailed analysis to date.
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 14, 2011 - The science of light and liquids has been intimately entwined since Leon Foucault discovered the speed of light in 1862, when he observed that light travels more slowly in water than in air. This ph
London, UK (SPX) Sep 14, 2011 - An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy reviews the history and current state of ethanol production of sugarcane in Brazil and presents a strategy for improving future eco
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 14, 2011 - A University of Arizona engineering professor may have a solution to a U.S. infrastructure problem that's growing deadlier each year. The national Gas Technology Institute (GTI) recently publi
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Sep 14, 2011 - Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs, it turns out, suppresses melatonin 5 times more than exposure to the light of High Pressure Sodium bulbs that give off an orange-yellow light. Just as ther
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Sep 14, 2011 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unprecedented threat to send the Turkish navy into the eastern Mediterranean to challenge Israel is primarily aimed at torpedoing efforts by the Jewish state and Greek Cypriots to develop rich offshore natural gas fields.
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Sep 14, 2011 - Using barley as the raw material for ethanol production results in an additional product - dried grains for animal feed. But the presence of a fungal pathogen sometimes found in barley can result in
Wyndmoor, PA (SPX) Sep 14, 2011 - A commercial enzyme could reduce overall costs linked with producing ethanol from grain, and also reduce associated emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agricult
New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - US oil group Chevron said Tuesday it had shut down a pipeline off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico to investigate a potential leak.
Mexico City (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - A Bangladeshi has become the third to die from a group of workers who fled a Mexican oil rig ahead of a Caribbean tropical storm and were rescued by the navy, according to the oil firm.
United Nations (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - Global investment in clean energy rose to a record $243 billion dollars last year with the vast majority concentrated in the world's top 20 economies, the United Nations said Wednesday.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - The National Transitional Council has agreed to uphold agreements with China made before the fall of Moamer Kadhafi, Beijing said Tuesday, a day after recognising the NTC as Libya's government.
Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - The oil market is cooling as the global economy slows down, the IEA said on Tuesday but said a price paradox is at work despite a revival of Libyan production.
