Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2016 - Retail gasoline prices in the United States are on the rise ahead of the last major travel holiday season of the year, motor club AAA reported.
Houston (UPI) Aug 30, 2016 - In a deal that included $425 million in cash, Royal Dutch Shell said it sold off its entire stake in assets held in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Kampala, Uganda (UPI) Aug 30, 2016 - The Ugandan government said Tuesday it awarded petroleum production licenses to companies expected to invest billions of dollars in oil development.
Manila (UPI) Aug 29, 2016 - A multimillion dollar loan will help Kazakhstan, home to one of the world's largest oil fields, connect better with neighboring trade routes, a lender said.
Arlington TX (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - Chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington have published a new study that indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the widely held assumption that biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon neutral. Contrary to popular belief, the h
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - Statements about biofuels being carbon neutral should be taken with a grain of salt. This is according to researchers at the University of Michigan Energy Institute after completing a retrospective,
Columbia MO (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - More than 15 million Americans live within a one-mile radius of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations. UOGs combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release nat
Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - In a paper presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on data communication (SIGCOMM) conference in Florianopolis, Brazil, a team of computer science researchers a
Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) Aug 29, 2016 - As oil prices steady, state data show the number of rigs actively exploring for or producing oil and gas in North Dakota declined for the fourth straight week.
Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2016 - Crude oil prices moved sharply lower to start the trading day Monday as jitters carried over from last week's U.S. Federal Reserve statements on interest rates.
Beijing (UPI) Aug 29, 2016 - China's Sinopec, one of the largest companies of its kind, said weak global economic recovery was in part behind its 13 percent decline in operating profit.
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Aug 29, 2016 - The cost to develop the giant Johan Sverdrup oil field offshore Norway has improved so that it will be competitive at lower oil prices, the operator said.
Tehran (UPI) Aug 29, 2016 - Iran is one of the major oil producers whose economy has been least damaged by the decline in crude oil prices, the country's finance minister said.
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming - and quite likely our own eventual extinction - by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A team
Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2016 - Chemists at the University of Waterloo have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery that costs half the price of current lithium-ion batteries and could help enable communities to shift away from
