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US doubles military aid to Philippines
May 04, 2012 (AFP)
The United States will this year double military aid to its ally the Philippines, which is engaged in a prolonged maritime stand-off with China, the foreign dep...
First 'microsubmarines' designed to help clean up oil spills
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
Machines could play an important role in cleaning up oil spills, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. It appears in the journal ACS N...
Venezuela spending spree clouds future
May 03, 2012 (UPI)
As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez clings to power while battling cancer, the country's future is further clouded by unbridled government spending that has no ...
Greenpeace activists held after they board Shell icebreaker
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
Swedish police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea Thursday in a bid to block plans by Anglo Dutch giant She...
China sends more ships to disputed shoal: Philippines
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
The Philippine military on Thursday accused China of sending more ships to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, describing the move as an insult that would ...
Sudans on brink of all-out war over oil
May 03, 2012 (UPI)
Sudan and the infant state of South Sudan, which became independent a scant 10 months ago after a decades-long civil conflict with the north, are once more on t...
India to cut back on Iran oil purchases: report
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
India's two biggest importers of crude oil from Iran will cut shipments from the Islamic republic by at least 15 percent this financial year due to US pressure,...
UN gives Sudan, South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions. With...
Shell icebreaker heading for Arctic: Greenpeace
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
A Finnish icebreaker contracted to Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has left Helsinki for the Arctic despite Greenpeace's attempts to block its departure, the enviro...
Report: Poles to bid for Czech pipelines
May 02, 2012 (UPI)
Poland has joined a group of potential bidders interested in buying the Czech Republic's natural gas transit operator, a Prague report indicated this week. The ...
Philippines asks US for radars, patrol boats and aircraft
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
The Philippines said Wednesday it has asked the United States to supply its armed forces with patrol boats and aircraft as well as radar systems amid an escalat...
S. African official mulls support for shale gas exploration
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
Controversial exploration of South Africa's Karoo region for shale gas might be worth the trouble if the work is subjected to strict controls, a national enviro...
Japan buys stake in Australia LNG
May 02, 2012 (UPI)
Australia's Woodside Petroleum will sell a 14.7 percent stake in its $30 billion Browse liquefied natural gas project to Japanese companies Mitsui and Mitsubish...
Taiwan sets up airborne unit for Spratlys
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan's defence ministry said Wednesday that it has formed a special airborne unit capable of scrambling to the contested Spratly islands in just hours, as ten...
Superconducting strip could become an ultra-low-voltage sensor
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers studying a superconducting strip observed an intermittent motion of magnetic flux which carries vortices inside the regularly spaced weak conducting...
April oil exports highest since 1989: Iraq
May 01, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's crude exports in April were the highest monthly figure in more than 20 years, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Tuesday. Overall Iraqi oil expor...
China posed for more investment in shale?
May 01, 2012 (UPI)
China invested $222 million in its shale gas sector last year, a government official said. Yet China's investment in shale gas exploration and development is "v...
Greenpeace occupies Arctic-bound Shell icebreaker in Finland
May 01, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty Greenpeace activists chained themselves to an icebreaker in Helsinki's harbour on Tuesday in a bid to block Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell's plans to drill ...
BP profits slide on lower oil output
May 01, 2012 (AFP)
BP net profits sank 18 percent in the first quarter on lower oil output triggered by the sale of assets to meet costs of the Gulf of Mexico spill disaster, the ...
Student-devised process would prep shale gas for sale
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
A team of Rice University students accepted a challenge to turn shale gas produced in China into a range of useful, profitable and environmentally friendly prod...
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