Los Angeles (AFP) May 3, 2011 - BP has been fined $25 million and ordered to spend an estimated $60 million to improve pipeline safety in Alaska after a 2006 oil spill there, US authorities said Tuesday.
Monterey CA (SPX) May 03, 2011 - BioJet International and Abundant Biofuels have announced their merger. Abundant will become a wholly owned subsidiary of BioJet. Abundant and its affiliates (Abundant Habitats and Abundant Harvests
Sacramento CA (SPX) May 03, 2011 - Reaffirming California's strong commitment to the development and utilization of renewable energy sources, Governor Jerry Brown recently signed Senate Bill X1 2, which requires all California utilit
Beijing (UPI) May 3, 2011 - China is to boost its maritime patrol service by at least 10 percent in the face of increasing incursions into Chinese territorial waters.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) May 3, 2011 - Interior ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council on Tuesday denounced Iranian claims and said the Gulf did not exclusively belong to the Islamic state.
Moscow (UPI) May 3, 2011 - Russian energy giant Gazprom plans to speed up drilling at the Sakhalin-3 project to move natural gas quicker to Asia, a company official has said.
Bloomington IN (SPX) May 03, 2011 - The production of wind energy in the U.S. over the next 30-50 years will be largely unaffected by upward changes in global temperature, say a pair of Indiana University Bloomington scientists who an
Mexico City, Mexico (SPX) May 03, 2011 - The Consejo de Promocion Turistica de Mexico praised Mexico's domestic carrier, Interjet, and Airbus for joining the ranks of Air New Zealand and Continental Airlines in leading the way for the inte
Ames IO (SPX) May 02, 2011 - Iowa State University's Malika Jeffries-EL says she's studying doing structure-property studies so she can teach old polymers new tricks. Those tricks improve the properties of certain organic polym
Perth, Australia (UPI) May 2, 2011 - Chevron applied on Monday to increase production at its $45 billion Gorgon natural gas project off Western Australia by 5 million tons a year, The Australian newspaper reports.
Berkeley, CA (SPX) May 02, 2011 - As China's economy continues to soar, its energy use and greenhouse gas emissions will keep on soaring as well-or so goes the conventional wisdom. A new analysis by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley
Beijing (AFP) May 2, 2011 - China is stepping up its maritime surveillance by hiring more staff and increasing the number of inspection ships, state media said Monday, amid deep-sea territorial disputes with neighbouring nations.
Riyadh (AFP) May 2, 2011 - The Gulf Cooperation Council chief on Monday slammed as aggressive a statement by a top Iranian military official who has said the Persian Gulf belonged to the Islamic Republic.
Zingst, Germany (UPI) May 2, 2011 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday inaugurated Germany's first commercial offshore wind farm.
Bangalore, India (PTI) May 02, 2011 - The Indian Space Research Organisation has refused to make public the minutes of meetings of the Space Commission where the controversial Antrix-Devas deal was discussed. Replying to an RTI ap
Houston TX (SPX) May 02, 2011 - Without sufficient investments in upstream oil field activities utilizing new and advanced technologies, Mexico faces the prospect of becoming a net oil importer in 10 years, according to new resear
