Bonn, Germany (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 - Bioplastics are often promoted as an environmentally and climate-friendly alternative to conventional petroleum-based plastics. However, a recent study from the University of Bonn suggests that shif
Washington (UPI) Dec 11, 2018 - U.S. fuel prices fell to their lowest level this year with an average as of Monday of $2.42 per gallon, or four cents below a week earlier, with potential for more reductions still ahead.
Washington (UPI) Dec 10, 2018 - Crude oil prices fell early Monday as China-related tensions weighed on the market, while the impact of the OPEC plus production cut announced last week was offset by concern about U.S. rising output.
Washington (UPI) Dec 10, 2018 - Mexico's new government, led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will work to revert a disaster found in Mexican refineries, upgrade six plants and build a new one, the new Pemex director Octavio Romero, and Lopez Obrador, said Sunday.
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Dec 10, 2018 - Thieves who broke into a pipeline near Rio de Janeiro to steal oil caused a four-kilometer (2.5-mile) spill of crude in waterways that is damaging mangroves and wildlife, the company and a Brazilian biologist said Monday.
Washington (UPI) Dec 10, 2018 - Italian state oil company Eni said Monday it has discovered between 170 million to 200 million barrels of light crude oil in a field offshore Angola named Afoxe, which will be jointly developed along with its previous Kalimba finding.
Caracas (AFP) Dec 10, 2018 - Two Russian long-range strategic bombers landed in Venezuela Monday for what the government said were air force exercises aimed at strengthening the defense of the leftist-ruled South American country.
Riyadh (AFP) Dec 9, 2018 - Arab countries are in talks with the United States for a new security agreement to protect the Middle East from external aggression, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday.
La Baraque, Mauritius (AFP) Dec 9, 2018 - Far out into the Indian Ocean where it is forced to be self-reliant, the island nation of Mauritius is weaning itself off fossil fuels by turning to its main cash-crop sugar cane, for electricity.
Brasilia (AFP) Dec 8, 2018 - Brazil's environmental regulator on Friday denied French oil giant Total a license to drill for crude in five blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river.
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018 - An OPEC meeting where announcements of production cuts had long been expected had so far Friday failed to yield to an accord to cut output.
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018 - Crude oil prices rose early Friday on optimism that OPEC and non-OPEC nations could announce production cuts, and also to reflect a draw on United States inventories reported Thursday, analysts said.
Portsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 - Composite materials made from agricultural waste could be used to produce sustainable, lightweight and low-cost applications in the automotive and marine industries. A team of researchers, led
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 - the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin portion of Texas and New Mexico's Permian Basin province contain an estimat
Upton NY (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 - Scientists mapping out the quantum characteristics of superconductors - materials that conduct electricity with no energy loss - have entered a new regime. Using newly connected tools named OASIS at
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 - The chemical element that makes up most of today's batteries, lithium, may soon be challenged by its polar opposite on the Periodic Table: fluoride. Yes, the same stuff in toothpaste. The two
