Beijing (AFP) Dec 10, 2010 - China's Sinopec said Friday it will buy the Argentine arm of US Occidental Petroleum Corporation for 2.45 billion dollars, as the country's quest for energy increasingly takes it to South America.
Providence, R.I. (UPI) Dec 10, 2010 - A proposed 1,000-megawatt offshore wind farm near Rhode Island would be the largest in the United States, developers said.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Dec 10, 2010 - A jailed insurgent leader warned that fighting in the Niger Delta, center of the largest oil industry in sub-Saharan Africa, will soon escalate.
Paris (AFP) Dec 10, 2010 - Oil demand and prices are showing a year-end spurt, pushed by global growth and a surprising pick-up in advanced economies, but these pressures should ease in the medium term, the IEA said on Friday.
London (AFP) Dec 10, 2010 - Oil prices rose on Friday following strong Chinese import data and on the eve of a meeting of OPEC to set the cartel's crude output levels, traders said.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 10, 2010 - Russia vowed Friday to keep Finland fully informed about the environmental impact from the controversial Nord Stream natural gas pipeline to Europe it is currently building under the Baltic Sea.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Dec 09, 2010 - Germany is a country of towns and cities. Almost 90 percent of the population lives and works in urban conurbations - from Aachen to Gorlitz, from Flensburg to Friedrichshafen. The need for energy i
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 9, 2010 - Iraq is concentrating its drive to quadruple its oil output on its six super fields, which analysts say have the potential to produce in excess of 10.5 million barrels a day by 2017.
Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 09, 2010 - As Brevard County, FL, home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, prepares for the end of the space shuttle program, the Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Institute is fostering the growth of hig
Rosslyn VA (SPX) Dec 09, 2010 - The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) announced the release of a report by Energetics Incorporated on the Advanced Batteries Cafe, hosted in cooperation with the National Institut
Cancun, Mexico (AFP) Dec 8, 2010 - Dubai-based company Rubenius plans to invest four billion dollars in a massive alternative energy storage site in northwest Mexico, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2010 - Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday during a two-day visit to Japan the Asian economic giant is the best suited partner for the development of his country's huge lithium reserves.
The Hague (AFP) Dec 8, 2010 - A protest by Greenpeace halted work Wednesday on a coal-fired power station in the Netherlands which the environmental group said would increase the country's carbon-dioxide emissions by a quarter.
Ottawa (AFP) Dec 7, 2010 - Canada is not ready to respond to a major oil spill from a tanker in its waters, its environment commissioner warned on Tuesday.
Cancun, Mexico (UPI) Dec 7, 2010 - The low carbon growth successes of some of China's largest and fastest-growing cities can serve as a model for other cities worldwide to reduce greenhouse gases, says a new report.
Brussels (UPI) Dec 7, 2010 - The European Commission wants to pressure Germany into accepting a harmonization of Europe's renewable energy trade.
