Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Sep 9, 2011 - The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers released a set of principles to govern the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing used to release vast reserves of natural gas.
Baghdad (UPI) Sep 9, 2011 - Iraq is moving toward harnessing its vast natural gas reserves to fuel its power stations and export the surplus, ending the wasteful process of flaring off 70 percent of the gas recovered from oil fields.
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 8, 2011 - Google on Thursday took the unprecedented step of talking about how much electricity it takes to power YouTube, Gmail, search and other services in the Internet cloud.
Beijing (UPI) Sep 8, 2011 - China has called for a thorough investigation into the spill at a Bohai Bay oilfield run by ConocoPhillips.
Richmond, Canada (SPX) Sep 08, 2011 - Corvus Energy's sophisticated 6.5 kWh lithium-polymer batteries passed the requirements of Lloyd's Register Type Approval certification tests. Lloyd's Register North America, Inc., a member of
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 7, 2011 - Guarani Indians in southern Brazil have called on Shell to withdraw from their ancestral land, where the oil giant produces ethanol from sugar cane, according to a native rights group.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 7, 2011 - China's cabinet on Wednesday ordered an investigation into a huge spill at an oilfield run by US giant ConocoPhillips that environmental groups say has badly polluted a north China waterway.
Manila (AFP) Sept 7, 2011 - The Philippines on Wednesday announced another military spending spree to defend its South China Sea territories, with a key goal of protecting its largest natural gas project against Chinese claims.
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Sep 7, 2011 - Italy's top oil company has signed a deal with Libya's rebel government to take the lead in a race by international oil companies to secure access to the country's oil and natural gas reserves and contracts worth billions of dollars.
Speyside, Scotland (UPI) Sep 7, 2011 - Grain waste produced by a Scotland whiskey distillery will be converted into energy under a $9.7 million project announced by beverage maker Diageo.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 - Huge energy projects to transport oil and gas across Myanmar to China are fuelling human rights abuses, including forced labour, violence, evictions and land confiscation, activists warned Tuesday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 - A group of US experts led by a former top environment official has visited Cuba to gather information on the communist country's Gulf of Mexico oil exploration plans, according to state media.
Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2011 - There is no connection between expanded hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the Mid-Atlantic States and the Aug. 23 Virginia earthquake, scientists say
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 5, 2011 - North Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Monday condemned a draft oil and gas law that was approved by the central government and called on parliament to reject it.
London (AFP) Sept 5, 2011 - Crude oil prices slid on Monday, hit by weak economic data in the United States and China, the world's two biggest consumers of energy, analysts said.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2011 - The US oil giant behind a huge spill off China said Monday it had halted production at the oilfield in line with a government order, as an influential official newspaper accused it of a cover-up.
