Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2015 - U.S. regulations are not strong enough to ensure the safe transportation of crude oil by rail, the minority leader of the Senate Energy Committee said.
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2015 - The U.S. federal government introduced new rules Friday on hydraulic fracturing, measures industry backers said would impose a barrier to growth.
Kassel, Germany (UPI) Mar 20, 2015 - Though low oil prices are expected to drag on revenues, German energy company Wintershall said it plans to ramp up output by 40 percent by 2018.
Durham, UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2015 - Scientists have produced a new map of the Moon's most unusual volcano showing that its explosive eruption spread debris over an area much greater than previously thought. A team of astronomers
Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 19, 2015 - Researchers from General Atomics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a major breakthrough in understanding how potentially damaging heat bursts i
Baghdad (AFP) March 19, 2015 - Baghdad is sending a payment of $412 million to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, a sign that a budget deal between the two sides is still on track, the finance minister said Thursday.
Denver (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Revenue growth for Colorado for the next fiscal year will be lower by $43.7 million in part because of the slowdown in the oil industry, a state budget report said.
Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - There's no way to offer a single solution that would allay concerns about the safety of crude oil transit by rail, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said.
New York (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Both U.S. and global crude oil prices took a beating Thursday as OPEC signaled no sign of a slowdown while supplies build up in the United States.
Denver (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Industry data show the number of rigs deployed in shale-rich U.S. states is a poor indicator of industry health, though government records suggest otherwise.
Moscow (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Russia's economy is expected to contract by about 3 percent, though Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Thursday there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Athens, Ga. (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Most genetic manipulation efforts have been trained on cash crops and flowers, but trees are big business too, and designing them to work better for what the market demands is important work.
Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Norwegian energy company Statoil said Thursday its productivity for full-year 2014 was strong, though financial results are highly impacted by low oil prices.
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 19, 2015 - One of life's strongest bonds has been discovered by a science team researching biofuels with the help of supercomputers. Their find could boost efforts to develop catalysts for biofuel production f
Zug, Switzerland (UPI) Mar 19, 2015 - Rig builder Transocean said in its latest fleet status update report that it plans to dismantle four of its offshore drilling rigs.
Reading, England (UPI) Mar 18, 2015 - BG Group said Wednesday it started production from the Knarr field in the North Sea, a prospect with an estimated 80 million barrels of oil equivalent.
