Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017 - In a new deal struck between the Defense Logistics Agency and Valero Marketing and Supply Co., Pentagon officials announced Friday the allocation of $157 million to the Texas-based company in search of various types of fuel.
Geneva (AFP) Oct 16, 2017 - The consortium controlled by commodities giant Glencore and Qatar's sovereign fund announced a 7.8 billion-euro deal Monday to sell a 14-percent stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft to Chinese conglomerate CEFC.
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 16, 2017 - Iraqi forces made rapid progress on Monday in their operation against Kurdish fighters in the disputed Kirkuk province, seizing a key military base, an airport and an oil field, commanders said.
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017 - Energy companies working in the British waters of the North Sea offered no indication Monday that storm system Ophelia was disrupting their work.
Styria, Austria (SPX) Oct 16, 2017 - Biofuels obtained from biomass are becoming increasingly important. Apart from biomethane, however, they cannot be produced efficiently, cheaply and sustainably since the current technological compl
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017 - The dramatic rise in production of electric vehicles, coupled with expected growth in the use of grid-connected battery systems for storing electricity from renewable sources, raises a crucial quest
Caracas (AFP) Oct 16, 2017 - President Nicolas Maduro claimed a landslide victory Sunday in closely watched regional elections in Venezuela on Sunday, based on official results that the opposition immediately rejected.
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 16, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have determined how electrocatalysts can convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide using water
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017 - We have come a long way from leaky sulfur-acid automobile batteries, but modern lithium batteries still have some down sides. Now a team of Penn State engineers have a different type of lithium sulf
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 16, 2017 - Kostiantyn Kravchyk works in the group of Maksym Kovalenko. This research group is based at both ETH Zurich and in Empa's Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics. The two researchers' ambitious
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017 - Geopolitical issues and concerns added a considerable risk premium to the price of oil on Monday as fighting erupted in the north of OPEC-member Iraq.
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017 - The Norwegian government said Monday it signed off on new plans for oil drilling and exploration work in the national waters of the North Sea.
Brussels (AFP) Oct 16, 2017 - The EU on Monday approved sending an expert mission to Baghdad to help Iraq with its civilian security strategy.
Chicago (AFP) Oct 16, 2017 - Rescuers continued searching the rocky waters of a southern US lake Monday for a worker missing since an explosion a day earlier on an oil and natural gas platform.
Washington (UPI) Oct 13, 2017 - More than 30 percent of the oil production in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico is offline because the shut-ins from Hurricane Nate, the government said.
Washington (UPI) Oct 13, 2017 - Lebanese ambitions to draw investors to its offshore reserve potential, notably for natural gas, brought in only two bids, the government reported.
