Buenos Aires (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 - A major group of indigenous people living in Argentine Patagonia are taking some of the world's biggest oil and gas multinationals to court for environmental contamination, Greenpeace said on Monday.
Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2018 - Qatar Petroleum bought from Italy's Eni a 35 percent interest in three offshore fields in Mexico's Campeche bay area 1, estimated to yield over 100,000 barrels of oil by 2021.
Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2018 - Crude prices were slightly higher early Monday as they recovered only a small part of Friday's losses, as bearishness remained in part on concern about the market being potentially oversupplied.
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 - A future powered by carbon-free fuel depends on our ability to harness and store energy from renewable but intermittent sources, such as solar and wind. Now, a new catalyst developed at University o
Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 - Wind power is on track to supply almost a fifth of the world's demand for electricity by 2050, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. While wind turbines are generally thought of as a sustaina
Warsaw (AFP) Dec 17, 2018 - Dutch storage battery start-up Lithium Werks is in advanced talks with Poland for a billion euro plant like the one it is building in China, its founder told AFP on Monday.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 - A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, can generate hydrogen fuel from water just as efficiently as platinum, currently the best - but
Genova, Italy (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 - Sustainable energy sources, which are pollution free and environmentally friendly, are one of the key challenges of world's future society. The interdisciplinary team of roboticists and biologists a
Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 - The development of future technologies that are not based on mineral oil and can be used for producing chemicals and plastics is one of the major tasks in modern materials science and a key challeng
Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2018 - Crude oil prices were nearly flat early Friday amid expectations of supply reductions following recent cuts, and a report indicating Chinese economic growth may have slowed.
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 - What if, instead of turning up the thermostat, you could warm up with high-tech, flexible patches sewn into your clothes - while significantly reducing your electric bill and carbon footprint?
Lemont IL (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 - In the journal Science, Argonne chemists have identified a new catalyst that maximizes the effectiveness of platinum. Platinum is a precious metal more rare than silver or gold. Renowned in th
Caracas (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 - Two Russian bombers flew back to Moscow from Caracas early Friday after taking part in joint military exercises with Venezuela that sparked a row with Washington and regional neighbors.
Riyadh (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 - A murdered Saudi journalist. A scrapped Iran nuclear deal. The two events alone have undone years of diplomacy in the Middle East, testing old alliances and shaking up the regional balance of power, analysts say.
Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2018 - Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria's oil minister, said the West African country's oil production may rise 60 percent by 2020, as the offshore Egina project comes online and as the country invests to recover output, in parallel to efforts to fight alleged bribing corruption involving two oil multinationals.
Katowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 - Videos produced by environmental groups to be shown to thousands of participants in a major UN climate summit were banned by organisers for mentioning fossil fuels, in a move campaigners say amounts to censorship.
