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BLM Onshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales Garnered Millions for Taxpayers in 2012
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior K...
Future of PNG deep sea mining uncertain
Dec 19, 2012 (UPI)
The future of deep-sea mineral mining off the coast of Papua New Guinea faces uncertainty. Canadian company Nautilus Minerals' Solwara 1 Project in the Bismarck...
BP says sells stake in China gas field to Kuwait
Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)
British oil giant BP said on Wednesday that it had agreed to sell its stake in China's Yacheng gas field to the state-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration...
Oil prices gain on US budget hopes, as coal set to dominate
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
Oil prices rallied on Tuesday as hopes grew of a US deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts in the United States -- the world's biggest co...
U.S. sued over offshore oil lease plan
Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)
An environmental group has sued to halt the U.S. administration's plan to auction offshore oil and gas drilling leases, the first since the 2010 Gulf oil spill....
Nanofibers clean sulfur from fuel
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
Sulfur compounds in petroleum fuels have met their nano-structured match. University of Illinois researchers developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub...
Coal use set to surpass oil in a decade: IEA
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
Coal is set to surpass oil as the world's top fuel within a decade, driven by growth in emerging market giants China and India, with even Europe finding it hard...
Australia unveils carbon capture plant
Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)
Australia's first carbon capture plant has entered the demonstration phase. The $208 million Callide Oxyfuel Project is one of only a few coal-fired low emissio...
How to get fossil fuels from ice cream and soap
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
Writing in PNAS, the researchers have shown that the emerging field of synthetic biology can be used to manipulate hydrocarbon chemicals, found in soaps and sha...
Iran oil revenues halved by sanctions: minister
Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)
Iran is losing half of its oil revenues because of international sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini sai...
China makes U.N. appeal for maritime claim
Dec 17, 2012 (UPI)
China has submitted to the United Nations what it calls geological evidence that would mean disputed islands in the East China Sea close are Chinese territory. ...
Incoming Japan PM pledges no compromise on islands
Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)
Japan's premier-in-waiting Shinzo Abe came out fighting Monday after his sweeping election victory, saying there can be no compromise on the sovereignty of isla...
Chevron to pay $155 million for Brazil oil spill
Dec 15, 2012 (AFP)
US oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay 310 million reales ($155 million) to Brazil for an oil spill last year that fouled beaches in Rio de Janeiro, officials s...
Chavez health raises succession worries
Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)
The next few weeks to the scheduled Jan. 10 presidential inauguration in Venezuela will determine how politics will affect ordinary lives in the oil-rich nation...
Algeria pushes $80 billion energy drive
Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)
Algeria's state energy company Sonatrach is pushing an $80 billion, five-year investment program to expand its oil and natural gas industry and is offering an i...
Encana sells stake in oil field to PetroChina subsidiary
Dec 13, 2012 (AFP)
Encana on Thursday sold a stake in its Duvernay oil field in Canada's Alberta province to Phoenix Duvernay Gas, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned PetroChina f...
Block on Keystone pipeline lifted in Texas
Dec 13, 2012 (AFP)
A Texas court has lifted a temporary restraining order on construction of a small portion of the controversial Keystone pipeline, operator TransCanada said Thur...
Ancient Red Dye Powers New Green Battery
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
Rose madder - a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles - has found a second life as the basis for a new "green" batte...
Trio Merger Corp. and SAE agree to merge
Dec 13, 2012 (UPI)
Trio Merger Corp. and SAExploration have agreed to merge as part of a strategy to expand SAE's seismic data acquisition business worldwide. SAE was set up in Pe...
Turkey, Iraq Kurds near explosive oil deal
Dec 13, 2012 (UPI)
Turkey and Iraq's independence-minded Kurds are reported to be close to a potentially explosive deal on major investment by Ankara in the burgeoning energy indu...
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