Veracruz, Mexico (AFP) Sept 02, 2014 - An oil spill has spread more than 50 kilometers (30 miles) along a river in the Mexican state of Veracruz despite assurances by the state oil monopoly that the leak has been repaired, local officials said Tuesday.
Aberdeen, United Kingdom (AFP) Sept 10, 2023 - With the provision of a swathe of new oil and gas exploration licences and a crisis in offshore wind energy, clouds are gathering over the UK's net zero promises.
London (AFP) Sept 23, 2015 - Oil prices edged higher Wednesday, in line with rising European equities, but gains were capped by gloomy Chinese manufacturing data, analysts said.
Washington (AFP) Sept 11, 2008 - Oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico has been largely shut off as Hurricane Ike looms, the US Department of Energy said Thursday, adding however that the storm was likely to spare most Gulf energy installations.
Paris (AFP) Sept 6, 2023 - Oil and gas sector emission reduction pledges have stalled and in some cases gone backwards, a report said on Thursday, warning that many corporate climate plans were not credible.
Guiyero, Ecuador (AFP) Sept 4, 2024 - A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where the Indigenous Waorani people are imploring authorities to stop drilling for the black gold that keeps spilling into their environment.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 5, 2023 - A Swedish oil company allegedly knew that Sudanese armed forces would use violence to secure areas in which it wanted to operate, prosecutors said Tuesday as two former executives faced war crimes charges.
New York (AFP) Sept 08, 2014 - Oil prices dropped Monday with the European benchmark contract slipping below $100 a barrel on concerns about fragile demand, heavy supply and a strengthening US dollar.
London (AFP) Sept 01, 2014 - Global oil prices slid on Monday in subdued deals before a public holiday in the United States and as dealers digested weak Chinese manufacturing data, analysts said.
London (AFP) Sept 5, 2016 - Oil rallied by up to five percent on Monday as top global producers Russia and Saudi Arabia vowed to stabilise the market after meeting at the G20 in China.
Oslo (AFP) Sept 8, 2017 - For climate reasons as much as economic prudence, Norway is trying to cut its dependence on oil, a godsend that has made the small Scandinavian country rich beyond its dreams - which is exactly what makes it hard to pass up.
Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2010 - US President Barack Obama on Monday asked Congress for more than 90 million dollars to reform oversight of the offshore oil and gas industry, following the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 10, 2009 - Oil producers' interests must be represented at a major UN climate change summit in December, the president of the OPEC crude producers' cartel urged at its output meeting on Wednesday.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 28, 2021 - OPEC said Tuesday it expects oil demand to rise between now and 2045, and remain the dominant source of energy despite warnings that it must fall to combat climate change.
Cucuta, Colombia (AFP) Sept 15, 2018 - The head of the Organization of American States on Friday said military intervention to overthrow Nicolas Maduro's Venezuelan government must not be ruled out for the country mired in economic and humanitarian crisis.
Oslo (AFP) Sept 7, 2016 - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, has placed US group Duke Energy and three subsidiaries on its blacklist for causing unacceptable environmental damage, Norway's central bank said Wednesday.
