Washington (UPI) Dec 21, 2017 - Production plans and start-ups in Norway, Europe's largest oil producer, and a restart date for a North Sea pipeline network sent oil prices lower Thursday.
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 21, 2017 - Iraq on Thursday took the first step towards taking over the giant Majnoon oilfield following the pullout of Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - The Kremlin is working to figure out ways to maneuver around possible sanctions that could restrict Russia's business opportunities, a spokesman said.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - Expectations that crude oil inventories in the United States, the world's leading economy, continued to drop sent oil prices higher in Wednesday trading.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - While some U.S. political trends are diverging from public opinion, environmentalists said it was people power that led to New York divesting from fossil fuels.
Caracas (AFP) Dec 20, 2017 - A former Venezuelan police officer who spectacularly attacked his country's supreme court six months ago is claiming to be behind the theft this week of 26 rifles from a military armory.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - At long last, a senator said the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is open to responsible energy development, though advocates said the move is unconscionable.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - The board of directors at Russian gas giant Gazprom said Wednesday they approved of a new budget plan with $13.6 billion in capital investments.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - The closure of a Barents Sea oil field on safety concerns in part meant daily production rate for November was lower than expected, Norway's government said.
Washington (UPI) Dec 20, 2017 - The Egyptian energy sector will be transformed now that production started at the Zohr gas field, one of the biggest in the world, Italy's Eni said Wednesday.
Paris (AFP) Dec 19, 2017 - France's parliament on Tuesday passed into law a ban on producing oil and gas by 2040, a largely symbolic gesture as the country is 99 percent dependent on hydrocarbon imports.
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017 - A $2.7 billion decision to create a first-of-its-kind petrochemicals plant in Alberta is a shot in the arm for diversification efforts, the government said.
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017 - A decline in gasoline demand during the winter months means U.S. motorists should see gas prices inch lower, but only relatively speaking, market reports find.
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Dec 19, 2017 - Before scientists can effectively capture and deploy fusion energy, they must learn to predict major disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the walls of doughnut-shaped fusion devices
Durham NC (SPX) Dec 19, 2017 - Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy o
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017 - An assessment that China's economy was in a steady pattern of growth and repair assessments on a North Sea pipeline system sent oil prices higher on Tuesday.
