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  Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 A component of the bipartisan U.S. spending bill that called for the sale of strategic oil reserves was a consideration met with criticism on Friday. A section of the spending bill signed by U.S. President Donald Trump early Friday morning called for the sale of barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve such that it won't exceed $350 million in the current fiscal year. Hundred of million barrels of SPR sales are envisioned over the next decade under the measure passed by both houses of Congr ... read more |
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Russia lowers key rate while striking upbeat toneWashington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 Volatility in food and crude oil prices could drive inflation in either direction for Russia, though its Central Bank said Friday it was lowering its key rate. ... more 
Industry talks up Florida oil and gas potentialWashington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 Industry supporters in Florida kicked back against opposition to offshore drilling, saying the state has emerging opportunities to capitalize on U.S. momentum. ... more 
Oil prices slump, even after sigh of relief on passage of U.S. budget billWashington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 Crude oil prices continued their losses in early Friday trading amid broad-based volatility and mounting concerns of supply-side pressures. ... more 
Iraq banks on private sector for post-IS reconstructionBaghdad (AFP) Feb 10, 2018 Months after declaring victory over jihadists, war-battered Iraq hopes to attract billions of dollars from private investors as well as donors to fund its reconstruction. ... 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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 U.S. mulling over impact of oil-related sanctions on Venezuela 
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
Governors called to follow California in limiting offshore drillingWashington (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. ... more 
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 |
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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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 Golden CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) created an environmentally stable, high-efficiency perovskite solar cell, bringing the emerging technology a step closer to commercial deployment.
Over the past decade, perovskites have rapidly evolved into a promising technology, now with the ability to convert about 23 percent of sunlight into elec ... more |
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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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 Dabafayed, Ethiopia (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 
Down a sandy track past a desiccated animal carcass lies a cluster of half-built huts that Ethiopia's government and aid agencies hope will blunt the worsening toll of repeated droughts.
The soon-to-be village of Dabafayed is intended as a new, permanent home for once-nomadic herders made destitute by the country's back-to-back droughts.
The lifestyle change is drastic but necessary, off ... 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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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2018 
Engineers at Russia's top nuclear research facility have been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers, Russian news agencies reported Friday.
Several employees at the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making "an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, including for so-called mining," a spokeswoman for t ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Feb 10, 2018 
Detained book publisher Gui Minhai has surfaced nearly three weeks after disappearing into police custody in China, confessing wrongdoing and accusing his adopted country Sweden of manipulating him like a "chess piece".
It was unclear whether the Chinese-born Gui's statement was made under duress, but video of his confession shows him flanked by two police officers and a close friend said th ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  The Cameroonian army on Friday denied its troops were responsible for alleged atrocities against separatists in English-speaking regions after unverified footage apparently involving soldiers was posted online.
"These accusations of atrocities are dreamt up. We are victims of disinformation and fake news," army spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck told AFP, just days after the appearance of the ... 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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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 13, 2018  A British warship will sail from Australia through the disputed South China Sea next month to assert freedom of navigation rights, a senior official said Tuesday in a move likely to irk Beijing.
China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turning reefs and islets into islands and installing military facilities such as runways and equipment on them.
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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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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 11, 2018  A deadly Hong Kong bus crash that killed 19 and left scores more injured was under investigation Sunday, with the city's leader calling for a wide-ranging inquiry as questions surfaced over the industry's long hours and low pay.
Most victims of the accident on Saturday evening, which saw a double decker flip over and smash into a lamppost, were men aged in their 50s and 60s, according to loc ... more |
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