Shanghai (AFP) Dec 28, 2008 - China is expected to produce a total of 189 million tonnes of crude oil in 2008, an increase of 1.6 percent over last year, state media reported Sunday.
Denver (UPI) Dec 28, 2008 - The recent drop in oil prices is not likely to derail the push to develop shale oil deposits in the western United States, an oil executive says.
Washington Dec 26, 2008 - The winter brings with it the annual sights and sounds of the holiday season -- Christmas trees, parents searching for the must have gift for their children, and Kiev and Moscow squabbling over Ukraine's natural gas arrears to Russia. In one of Europe's most enduring energy sagas, according to Russian natural gas state monopoly Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov, Ukraine has announced that it will pay Moscow $800 million of its outstanding natural gas debt, leaving the remainder for sometime in 2009.
New York (UPI) Dec 26, 2008 - Winter's bitter cold can stall wind turbine blades, congeal biodiesel and render solar panels useless, say U.S. power developers.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2008 - China has started filling tanks at its largest oil reserve, taking advantage of tumbling world crude prices, state media reported Thursday.
Miami (UPI) Dec 24, 2008 - Brazil earned nearly $40 million from the first round of bidding for oil and gas exploration rights, with state-run Petrobras picking up 27 lots, a lackluster opening round of bids sum attributed to concerns about the global economic slowdown and falling oil prices.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 24, 2008 - Nigeria has named a new minister to tackle the problems of militancy and violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Brussels (AFP) Dec 24, 2008 - Electrabel, the Belgian subsidiary of French energy group GDF-Suez, will challenge a 250-million-euro windfall tax the government plans to impose on nuclear power generators, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 23, 2008 - Iraq has signed contracts worth an estimated $80 million to repair fragile oil export infrastructure in the south and ready it for expansion.
Washington (UPI) Dec 23, 2008 - While the former Soviet republics ringing the Caspian -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan -- have been the object of intense struggle between Moscow and Washington since the collapse of communism in 1991 in their new energy Great Game, other new former Soviet nations further east because of their geographical isolation have been largely marginalized in the contest.
Madrid (AFP) Dec 23, 2008 - Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa said on Tuesday it had received an order for 347 units from China's renewable energy group Longyuan Electric Power.
Washington (UPI) Dec 22, 2008 - Up to $200 million for pilot and demonstration-scale biorefineries is available to develop cost-efficient advanced biofuels, the U.S. Energy Department says.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 22, 2008 - Purdue University researchers found a mechanism that naturally shuts down cellulose production in plants, and learning how to keep that switch turned on may be key to enhancing biomass production for plant-based biofuels.
London (UPI) Dec 22, 2008 - Those who live by the price of oil shall suffer by the price of oil. As this grim year for the global economy draws to a close, the reversals of fortune for the oil-exporting states have been dramatic and almost as bruising for their customers.
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2008 - The reverberations of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's rash military thrust into South Ossetia over the summer continue to resonate throughout the Caucasus, NATO and Caspian energy exports. Now Saakashvili is advising his populace that the country's energy network is prepared for possible winter sabotage by unnamed miscreants. Many Georgians doubtless will see the dark hand of the Kremlin behind their president's assertions.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 19, 2008 - China said Friday it will cut fuel surcharges on domestic flights by up to 75 percent from December 25, in its latest move to adjust fuel costs in line with world oil price corrections.
