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  Washington (UPI) Feb 8, 2018 Governors from U.S. coastal states are called to follow suit after California moved to block the flow of oil from offshore rigs, an advocacy group said. A public hearing is scheduled Thursday in California on a five-year drilling plan outlined by the U.S. Interior Department in January. It's the only public hearing scheduled in California and, on Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom moved ahead of the federal government by saying the state would forbid the development of any new offshore pipelines ... read more |
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Africa-focused Tullow Oil strikes optimistic toneWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 Investments will continue off the coast of Ghana and focus will sharpen on developing prospects in Kenya, Africa-focused Tullow Oil said Wednesday. ... more 
Norway sees PPI pulled higher by energy pricesWashington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 The government of Norway, one of the world's leading oil and gas producers, said its Producer Price Index was pulled higher by energy prices. ... more 
Libyan oil production hits post-Gadhafi highWashington (UPI) Feb 8, 2018 Total oil production from Libya in January was close to 1 million barrels per day on average for its highest level in more than five years, industry data show. ... more 
Jordan approves construction of Iraq oil pipeline: govtAmman (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 Jordan has given the green light for the construction of a pipeline that would bring oil from southern Iraq to its port of Aqaba, a government spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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U.S. oil and gas improvements spreading out from TexasWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 Growth in U.S. exploration and production activity is spreading outside the Permian shale to the rest of the country, monthly figures indicate. ... more 
Oklahoma's earthquakes strongly linked to wastewater injection depthBristol UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA, are strongly linked to the depth at which wastewater from the oil and gas industry are injected into the ground, according to a new study led by the University ... more 
Russia to boost Sudan military: BashirKhartoum (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday said that Khartoum and Moscow have agreed on a programme to boost Sudan's military capabilities. ... more 
Uproar continues over Trump's offshore drilling plansWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 Democratic senators from U.S. coastal states said they're still waiting for clarification on a five-year drilling plan given the ambiguity over Florida. ... more 
Oil prices search for momentum on competing trendsWashington (UPI) Feb 8, 2018 Crude oil prices moved moderately lower in early Thursday trading, though strong U.S. oil output was offset somewhat by good economic news. ... more |
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Outlook for one of Norway's biggest oil fields improvesWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 Most of the metrics, from the expected price of oil to break even to the resource range, have improved at one Norway's most promising fields, partners said. ... more  |
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Total commits further to LNG as a maritime fuelWashington (UPI) Feb 6, 2018 French supermajor Total said Tuesday it made a deeper commitment to liquefied natural gas by chartering a refueling vessel for Europe-to-Asia trade routes. ... more 
Canada moves to speed environmental reviews of energy projectsOttawa (AFP) Feb 9, 2018 Canada unveiled plans Thursday to speed up environmental reviews of mines, pipelines and dam projects, placing the approval process under a single agency. ... more 
Nothing guaranteeing oil at $70 per barrel, Total CEO saysWashington (UPI) Feb 6, 2018 The balance between oil supply and demand is delicate and there's nothing to guarantee the price of oil will stay near current highs, Total's CEO said Tuesday. ... more 
Shale drilling in British Columbia closer to realityWashington (UPI) Feb 6, 2018 A construction permit from the provincial government in British Columbia puts drilling in the emerging Montney shale closer to reality, Calima Energy said. ... more 
Axing fossil fuel subsidies scant help on climate: studyParis (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 Getting rid of massive subsidies for oil, gas and coal will not significantly curb carbon pollution or speed the transition to a greener global economy, researchers said Wednesday, challenging widely held assumptions. ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
"In my study, I wanted to show that calculating the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels tells just half of the story. What we really need to do is quantify the emissions of each product coming out of biorefineries," says Edgard Gnansounou, professor at EPFL and head of the school's Bioenergy and Energy Planning Research Group. To that end, Gnansounou has developed a sophisticated computer model ... more |
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological University researchers contend that converting tobacco fields to solar farms could profitably serve two purposes: Reduce preventable deaths and meet the growing need for solar energy to combat climate change.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 
The Irish government, despite what happens for Great Britain, is committed to the European Union's energy and renewable policies, the environment minister said.
"Ireland is now a world leader in integrating renewables onto the electricity grid," Irish Environment Minister Denis Naughten said in comments emailed Wednesday from a renewable energy conference in Dublin. "Whatever the final ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
The Turkish consortium that was to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant in a joint venture with the Russian atomic energy agency has pulled out of the ambitious project, reports said on Tuesday.
The Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon (CKK) consortium - made out of three major privately-owned Turkish industrial conglomerates - has left the project due to a failure to agree commercial terms, the state ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
USC scientists have unlocked a new, more efficient pathway for converting methane - a potent gas contributing to climate change - directly into basic chemicals for manufacturing plastics, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.
In research published on Dec. 4 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chemists at USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute say they have found a way to help t ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  Waymo and Uber announced an agreement Friday in the blockbuster federal lawsuit over allegedly stolen trade secrets from the former Google self-driving car project.
The surprise agreement ends a trial between the two Silicon Valley rivals competing in a race to develop autonomous cars, after four days of testimony before a federal judge in San Francisco.
A source familiar with the confid ... more |
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 Diwaniyah, Iraq Feb 9, 2018 
An Iraqi court has sentenced an Iraqi-US anti-corruption activist to six years in jail for defamation of state institutions, an NGO said on Friday.
Over the past two years Bassem Khashan had tracked down 350 cases of corruption by local officials in the southern province of Muthana and alerted authorities, said Majid Abu Kalal of the Dhar NGO.
Khashan provided what he said was proof and ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
France is planning a 37-billion-euro revamp of its nuclear arsenal over the next seven years, part of a sharp increase in defence spending aimed at allowing France to "hold its own" as a key power in Europe, the country's defence chief said Thursday.
The upgrades to France's land- and sea-based nuclear deterrent will be part of the nearly 300 billion euros ($370 billion) to be spent by 2025. ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
Chinese rap and hip hop seemed poised to break out after a wildly popular singing show brought mainstream legitimacy to a musical style that had struggled to find its voice in China.
But an abrupt official backlash against hip hop culture has tamed the swagger of artists who fear that Chinese rap's development, like a once-promising homegrown rock-and-roll movement, will be nipped in the bud ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2018  The African Union's chairman dismissed during a visit to Beijing on Thursday a French newspaper report alleging that China had spied on the continental body as "lies" intended to derail cooperation.
The report published by Le Monde in January claimed technicians at the AU's Chinese-built headquarters in the Ethiopian capital discovered last year that the contents of their computers had been ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
Malaysia Thursday quashed rumours swirling after a ship searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from tracking screens, saying it had simply made a refuelling stop in Australia and would resume the hunt.
The Seabed Constructor, hired in January for a fresh search for the missing plane, turned off its location transponder for three days without explanation early this month, sp ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson welcomed Chinese state councillor Yang Jiechi to Washington on Thursday as the world's two most powerful diplomats talked trade, drugs and North Korea.
Yang is in Washington for two days at a time when relations between the top powers are dominated by the North Korean nuclear stand-off and President Donald Trump's concerns about their trade imbalance.
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 Darwin, Australia (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  US commitment to the Asia-Pacific remains unwavering even though rivals falsely depict its influence as waning, the country's top general said Tuesday.
General Joe Dunford's remarks came weeks after the Pentagon unveiled a new national defence strategy labelling China as a "strategic competitor" that bullies its neighbours, and as America seeks to counter a narrative that President Donald T ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2018 
Weary of local officials dismissing the deadly smog that covers their city, citizens of Siberia's industrial hub Krasnoyarsk decided to take action and monitor air quality themselves.
But they quickly came up against those same authorities in the remote region 4,200 kilometres (2,600 miles) east of Moscow.
Krasnoyarsk boasts dozens of factories as well as one of the world's biggest alum ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
Eight people died and three were missing in southern China after a water leak inside a subway station construction site caused a major road to cave in, authorities said Thursday.
The sudden leak flooded the underground site and led to the multi-lane road's collapse in downtown Foshan, Guangdong province, on Wednesday night, the city government said in a statement.
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