Nairobi (AFP) Nov 25, 2008 - Kenya is preparing to counter a possible oil slick from a Saudi super-tanker seized by Somali pirates should efforts to free the vessel and its two million barrels of crude go awry, officials said Tuesday.
Abuja (AFP) Nov 25, 2008 - Nigeria on Tuesday set up a new security panel, the latest in a series of units tasked with stemming kidnappings and oil theft in the restive Niger Delta, the country's military chief said.
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 25, 2008 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the headquarters of Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobas on Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit aiming to increase energy and defense deals.
Madison WI (SPX) Nov 24, 2008 - One of the biggest threats to farmlands is the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic matter (SOM) from poor land-management practices. The presence of these materials is essential as they do everything from providing plants with proper nutrients to filtering harmful chemical compounds to the prevention of soil erosion.
Nicosia (AFP) Nov 24, 2008 - Cyprus on Monday accused Turkey of interfering in its oil exploration and protested that a Turkish warship had impeded a Norwegian-flagged exploration vessel off the island's coast earlier this month.
The Woodlands TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2008 - The National Algae Association is growing at an astronomical rate. We are the first national trade association for the algae industry in the United States. Algae is renewable, does not affect the food channel and eats C02. Due to the high cost of oil, commercializing the algae oil industry is now on a fast track.
Lake Mary FL (SPX) Nov 24, 2008 - New Generation Biofuels has announced that it has entered into a Test Burn Agreement with Progress Energy Florida to demonstrate its proprietary biofuel technology in utility boiler applications.
Madrid (AFP) Nov 24, 2008 - More than a quarter of Spain's Mediterranean coast is now under concrete after a construction boom to meet the demands of mass tourism, according to a study quoted by a Spanish newspaper Monday.
Brasilia (AFP) Nov 24, 2008 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was to arrive in Brazil on Tuesday on the latest leg of a Latin American tour seeking to assert Moscow's global power and wave a defiant message at Washington.
Havana (AFP) Nov 22, 2008 - Russia announced Saturday it is negotiating major investments in Cuba's oil and nickel industries, just days ahead of an official visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Nigeria, Abuja (SPX) Nov 21, 2008 - U.S. oil company Chevron has suspended a large portion of its contracts for oil exports out of Nigeria following an attack by armed militants on one of its major supply lines.
Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 - When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Western energy companies saw an opportunity to exploit one of the world's last important hydrocarbon frontiers -- the Caspian. Among the new nations ringing its shore were Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan; while the former devolved into a hermitic nation ruled by a cult of personality, Kazakhstan eagerly embraced Western capitalism and last year produced more than 1.4 million barrels of oil per day.
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 - Energy independence has been a rallying cry for years, but experts have long questioned the goal's feasibility and some now say it can frustrate efforts to solve climate change.
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 - Many Western observers see the Russian-Western Great Game over Caspian and Central Asian hydrocarbon resources essentially as a two-nation struggle, but the reality in the last few years is that other actors have entered the arena, playing nimble Velociraptors to Washington and Moscow's lumbering Tyrannosaurus Rex. The most notable newcomer is China, but other Asian nations have begun to dip their toes in the water, with South Korea earlier this year signing agreements with Uzbekistan for uranium. Now Malaysia's state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad, better known as Petronas, has entered the market, as part of an entourage accompanying Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi on his recent official visits to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2008 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should implement new rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in a timely manner that is consistent with the goals of achieving energy security and addressing climate change priorities.
Singapore (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 - Although political forecasting and economic prognostication have long made astrology look respectable, there is still a latter-day Nostradamus who has defied the odds. If Nostradamus were alive today, said the New York Post, he'd have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente -- the man who tracks the world's social, economic and business trends for corporate clients.
