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  Rapid City SD (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 The use of hydraulic fracking has been a topic of contention in the oil and gas industry. However, researchers believe fracking can also be used at depth in hard rocks that contain no oil or gas to improve geothermal energy production. The process could enhance the use of the earth's own heat as a source of clean energy. Liangping Li, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, has received an award from ... read more |
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Total, Adani to build LNG terminals, 1,500 service stations in IndiaWashington (UPI) Oct 17, 2018 Oil major Total has teamed up with the Indian conglomerate Adani to jointly develop liquefied natural gas terminals, as well as build 1,500 service stations in India. ... more 
'Bad news': CO2 emissions to rise in 2018, says IEA chiefParis (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 Energy sector carbon emissions will rise in 2018 after hitting record levels the year before, dimming prospects for meeting Paris climate treaty goals, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Wednesday. ... more 
Pemex raises $2 billion for investments, liquidity through early 2019Washington (UPI) Oct 17, 2018 Mexican state oil company Pemex will use $2 billion recently raised through an international bond sale to help meet its investment program and guarantee liquidity through early next year. ... more 
Surging crude supplies tank oil prices amid looming diplomatic crisis with Saudi ArabiaWashington (UPI) Oct 17, 2018 The United States added another 6.5 million barrels to its stockpiles last week, sending crude oil prices tumbling despite concerns about relations with Saudi Arabia. ... more |
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Some Gulf oil output still shut-in following Hurricane MichaelWashington (UPI) Oct 16, 2018 Three offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have reported grating damage while 7.7 percent of the area's oil production remained shut-in on Tuesday nearly a week after Hurricane Michael made landfall on the northern Florida coast. ... more 
Petrobras inks accord with China's CNPC for Comperj refinery, Marlim crudeWashington (UPI) Oct 16, 2018 Brazilian state oil company Petrobras signed an accord with China National Petroleum Corp. for a partnership where both companies will work toward evaluating and possibly completing a Rio refinery project, and which will also give CNPC a share of the Marlim crude oil production. ... more 
Chinese companies said to be planning a $2B refinery in IranWashington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2018 Chinese companies have offered to invest $2 billion to build a refinery in a northern region of Iran located in the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, according to an Iranian news agency report. ... more
Crude oil prices cool down after volatile morning with Saudi ArabiaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2018 Crude oil futures went for a wild ride in European trading Monday but settled down before U.S. markets opened, in part because U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia are talking again. ... more 
E.Guinea strongman hands out top military posts to familyMalabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled the small, oil-rich state with an iron fist since 1979, has appointed several members of his family to top military positions. ... more |
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 Mubadala Group delays stock offer for Cepsa due to market 'instability' 
Protests as fracking begins in UKPreston, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 Anti-fracking protesters took to the streets on Monday as work began on Britain's first horizontal shale-gas well after the High Court in London dismissed a last-minute request for an injunction. ... more  |
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Crude oil creeps up after losing $5 a barrel in Wall Street selloffWashington (UPI) Oct 12, 2018 Brent prices fell nearly $5 a barrel in two days as oil prices recoil from a Wall Street selloff. ... more 
Pemex: Shallow water discovery may add 180 million barrels in reservesWashington (UPI) Oct 10, 2018 Mexican state oil company Pemex has confirmed discoveries of light crude oil in the country's southeast basin that could add up to 180 million barrels to its proven, probable and possible reserves of barrels of oil equivalent. ... more 
Mexican legislators question top energy officials over corruption, reformWashington (UPI) Oct 12, 2018 Representatives of diverse political groups in the Mexican Congress questioned the top energy officials in Mexico over corruption linked to alleged Odebrecht bribing, organized fuel theft, declining investment, as well as about potential loss of sovereignity related to the energy reform. ... more
High energy prices threaten economic damage, but likely to continue: IEAWashington (UPI) Oct 12, 2018 Expensive energy, including the prices of oil, gas and coal at "multi-year" highs, pose a threat to economic growth worldwide, particularly to emerging market economies that are also seeing depreciations of their currencies, the International Energy Agency said Friday. ... more
One-third of Gulf oil output remains 'shut-in' two days after MichaelWashington (UPI) Oct 12, 2018 Some hydrocarbon producers that evacuated facilities and suspended extraction in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Michael had not yet fully restarted operations as of noon on Friday. ... more |
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 Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world's main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CTL, the conversion of coal to liquid fuels.
Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce ope ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Trina Solar has delivered 123MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to a PV power plant developed by DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine. Upon completion, the project will become the largest PV power facility locally and the largest single PV power station in Europe.
Located near Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine, the project has a planned capacity of 246MW a ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Global sustainable energy consultancy, K2 Management, has launched a report titled; Pre-Construction Projects: The battle to reduce uncertainty and improve business case bankability, at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Offshore WINDPOWER 2018 Conference, which kicked off in Washington, D.C.
The report identifies major project development trends in the fast-growing renewables sec ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 
Scientists from Russia, China, and the United States predicted and experimentally identified new uranium hydrides, predicting superconductivity for some of them. The results of their study were published in Science Advances.
The phenomenon of superconductivity was discovered in 1911 by a group of scientists led by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Superconductivity means complete dis ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Flash drought is a rapidly intensifying water deficit process accompanied by high temperatures in a short period of time. Recently, heat extremes have become more frequent in a warming climate, and substantially increased the occurrence of flash drought, which has severely threatened crop yields and water supply.
Dr. Linying WANG and Professor Xing YUAN, from the Institute of Atmospheric P ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 
Uber is eyeing a valuation above $100 billion for its much-anticipated share offering due in 2019, which would be the biggest-ever in the tech sector, sources familiar with the plan said Tuesday.
The sources told AFP the global ridesharing giant is considering speeding up its plans for an initial public offering (IPO) to the first half of 2019, rather than the second half of the year.
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 Damascus (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
A border crossing between Syria and Iraq is to re-open soon, Damascus and Baghdad's top diplomats said Monday, hours after other Syrian frontier posts reopened with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan.
"We are now looking at the interest of the Syrian and Iraqi people in opening up the Albu Kamal crossing... as soon as possible," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said at a press confer ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that world powers needed to reassure North Korea's Kim Jong Un that he had taken the right decision in committing to scrap his nuclear weapons programme.
Moon, who has met Kim three times this year, is on a seven-day tour of Europe where he is expected to update leaders in Paris, Rome and Brussels on the rapidly thawing relations between Seoul a ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 
China's propaganda chief has reportedly warned Hong Kong's senior media executives not to allow the city's newsrooms to "become a base for interfering with mainland politics" as Beijing ramps up pressure on challenges to its authority.
Concerns about press freedom in Hong Kong have intensified after the government denied a visa to a British journalist, who had chaired a talk by an independen ... more |
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 Niamey (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 
At least 30 "bandits" have been killed during a crackdown by the armies of Niger and Nigeria in their troubled frontier where kidnappings and cattle rustling are rife, Niger's interior minister said Tuesday.
Criminal gangs had been operating in a "sanctuary" of dense forest between the Maradi area of southern Niger and the Nigerian border, Bazoum Mohamed said.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a $100 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop, demonstrate and transition advanced propulsion technologies.
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, comes under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to cover phase one of the Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission-Capability program.
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 Hanoi (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 
The United States is alarmed by China's increasingly muscular military presence and "predatory economic practices" towards smaller countries in Asia, defence chief James Mattis has said on his way to the region.
Speaking as he flew out for a diplomatic tour that will take him to Vietnam and Singapore, the US Defense Secretary said Washington was not trying to hold back its Pacific rival. ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 
Tokyo lodged an official protest with Beijing Wednesday after Chinese ships cruised around disputed islands, days before a historic summit between the leaders of the Asian rivals.
Japan's top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga called the intrusion "extremely regrettable" but said Tokyo was nonetheless hoping to "take Japan-China relations to the next level".
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 Kirirom, Cambodia (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 
Sitting in a building made from used tyres, plastic bottles and old sneakers, Cambodian student Roeun Bunthon jots down notes during an English lesson at the "Rubbish School" where tuition is paid for with trash instead of cash.
In return, needy kids like Bunthon, a former street beggar, can take computer, mathematics and language classes - and learn the value of reducing waste in a notorio ... more |
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 Valletta (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 
Migrants rescued at sea by a merchant vessel are being taken to Malta after two days in limbo following Italy's refusal to accept them, the Maltese armed forces said Wednesday.
The Just Fitz III plucked 44 migrants from a rickety wooden boat late Monday after they ran into difficulty during the perilous crossing from North Africa.
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