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No breakthrough as Japan, China discuss gas field
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 9, 2009 - Japan and China made no visible progress in talks Friday on their renewed row over gas fields in the East China Sea.
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Analysis: African oil faces challenges
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 08, 2009 - African oil producers like Angola are hoping to attract even more foreign investment in 2009, while foreign oil companies operating in Nigeria continue to experience the ill effects of violence at the hands of armed militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Analysis: Central Asian energy in 2009
Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2009 - As Eastern Europeans shiver because of Ukraine's obdurate refusal to pay world market prices for Russian natural gas, much less pay off its debts, the era of cheap gas is also over in eastern Central Asia.
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Iran, Iraq still feud over oil fields
Baghdad (UPI) Jan 8, 2009 - Iraq and Iran are still feuding over an abandoned oil field along their poorly defined border weeks after Iranian troops briefly occupied one of the wells, unmasking the centuries-old Persian ambition of dominating its historical Arab -- and energy-rich -- adversary.
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Nantucket Sound wind farm setback
Boston (UPI) Jan 8, 2009 - A plan to build the United States' largest offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, Mass., has suffered another setback after nine years of environmental and political arguments.
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New technique ‘banks’ wind farm energy
Milwaukee (UPI) Jan 8, 2009 - A high-tech way of banking extra energy from high winds can improve wind power's ups and downs and make it more efficient, U.S. university researchers said.
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Analysis: Caspian energy in 2009
Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2009 - While making predictions, especially about energy issues, is a murky business at best, the general outline of the themes surrounding the ongoing development of Caspian energy assets is already broadly emerging.
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Analysis: Chevron Nigeria resumes oil flow
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 07, 2009 - Chevron has lifted its extended force majeure on oil exports from Nigeria caused by attacks by militants on its installations in the Niger Delta.
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Analysis: Venezuela facing a troubled 2009
Miami (UPI) Jan 7, 2009 - Lower oil prices could make for a tough road ahead for Latin America's petroleum-rich countries like Venezuela and those in the region -- as well as in the United States -- that depend on Caracas for discount oil.
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Australia’s Santos, Apache in 1.3 billion gas deal with Citic
Sydney (AFP) Jan 7, 2009 - Australian energy company Santos Wednesday said it and joint venture partner Apache had signed a contract worth an estimated 1.3 billion US dollars to supply natural gas to a Citic Pacific project.
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Bush administration scraps updated fuel efficiency rules
Washington (AFP) Jan 7, 2009 - The outgoing Bush administration said Wednesday it was scrapping efforts to implement better automobile fuel efficiency rules, leaving the update until after the presidential transition.
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China replaces Saudi in Caribbean oil deal
Kingston, Jamaica (UPI) Jan 7, 2009 - China has taken over from Saudi Arabia the lease of a giant crude oil storage facility in the Caribbean that gives Beijing unprecedented access to fuel and oil markets in the Americas, including the United States and Canada, officials said.
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Gulf Stream study could aid oil, gas work
New Orleans (UPI) Jan 7, 2009 - A study of a warm Gulf Stream current in the Gulf of Mexico could aid oil and gas offshore drilling activities in the gulf, a U.S. government agency says.
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Indian teachers burn books to keep warm: report
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 7, 2009 - A group of teachers in eastern India used books meant for poor children to light a bonfire to keep them warm, a report said Tuesday.
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Khartoum tightens grip on key oil zone
Khartoum, Sudan (UPI) Jan 7, 2009 - The Sudanese government's appointment of an administrator of the disputed oil-rich Abyei region looks likely to intensify differences between the Arab-dominated regime in Khartoum and the rebellious tribal south.
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Mercosur eludes Chavez as Paraguay demurs
Asuncion, Paraguay (UPI) Jan 7, 2009 - Venezuela's hopes of an early inclusion into the Mercosur trading bloc suffered a new blow as Paraguayan Vice President Federico Franco ruled out ratification of the pact while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez harbored designs on the landlocked state.