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  Washington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 Without new operations, the global market for liquefied natural gas could slip into a deficit by the middle of the next decade, Royal Dutch Shell said. The Dutch supermajor said total demand for the super-cooled form of gas has swelled in recent years. Since 2000, the number of supplier nations has doubled, while those importing it quadrupled. Trade tripled since the start of the century. Liquefied natural gas offers more maneuverability when compared with piped gas because it can avoid ... read more |
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BP may do better than expectedWashington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 Steady momentum for the oil and natural gas sector recovery could mean earnings improve for British supermajor BP, RBC Capital Markets said Monday. ... more 
Global fossil fuel emissions of hydrocarbons are underestimatedYork, UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Global levels of ethane and propane in the atmosphere have been underestimated by more than 50%, new research involving scientists at the University of York has revealed. These hydrocarbons are part ... more 
Norwegian oil and gas sector expects investment surgeWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Total investments in oil and gas extraction and transport for this year should be 11 percent higher than initially expected, Norway's government said Friday. ... more 
Iran blames Yemen war on British, US arms exportsTehran (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Iran on Monday rejected Western claims that it was arming Huthi rebels in Yemen, saying the conflict was instead the result of British and US arm supplies to Saudi Arabia. ... more |
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Democrats call for renewed offshore safety programWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 The U.S. federal government should continue rigorous inspection of offshore oil and gas development, more than a dozen Democratic senators said. ... more 
Oil-eating microbes are challenged in the ArcticAarhus, Denmark (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 New economic developments in the Arctic, such as trans-Arctic shipping and oil exploitation, will bring along unprecedented risks of marine oil spills. The world is therefore calling for a thorough ... more 
IS kills two policeman in attack on Iraq oilfieldKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 The Islamic State group on Saturday killed two policemen guarding a northern Iraqi oil field, in a first attack on energy facilities since jihadists were driven from the region's towns, a security source said. ... more 
Crude oil prices searching for direction early FridayWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Crude oil prices turned somewhat lower in early trading Friday after a report of easing supply-side strains became a bit more nuanced. ... more 
Rusal chief steps down ahead of Norilsk scrambleHong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 Russian aluminium giant Rusal said on Friday the firm's founder Oleg Deripaska would step down from his business empire as it prepares for a multi-billion-dollar "shoot-out" for ownership of the country's biggest miner. ... more |
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 Tensions flare in east Mediterranean gas scramble 
A few ifs in U.S. shale oil production estimatesWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 While most of the growth in U.S. oil production comes from shale reserves, a federal report said some of its estimates were based on known uncertainties. ... more  |
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Apache Corp. looks beyond U.S., but bets heavy on shaleWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 From the Permian shale basin in Texas, to emerging potential in Egypt, U.S. energy company Apache Corp. said it expects to see an active 2018. ... more 
U.S. says planned sales of strategic oil reserves can't hurtWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 Even with planned sales from its strategic reserves, the United States can still meet its obligations to cover an import shortage, the government said. ... more 
Oil and gas services company TechnipFMC wounded, but optimisticWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 Oil and gas services company TechnipFMC faced lingering markets pressures in the fourth quarter as revenues fell, but expressed optimism about the year ahead. ... more 
OPEC balancing act depends on over-performanceWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 Compliance with the OPEC-led effort to balance the market with production cuts was supported by "several over-performing countries," a committee said. ... more 
Oil prices move higher after Libyan oil field evacuatedWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 A mixed report on total U.S. petroleum inventories and word of labor-related issues in OPEC-member Libya helped lift oil prices early Thursday. ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
The transition towards sustainable biobased chemical production is important for green growth, but productivity and yield of engineered cells frequently decrease in large industry-scale fermentation. This barrier to commercialization of more bioprocesses is largely ascribed to the physical inefficacies of large cubic-meter steel tanks.
Bioengineers have long debated whether it was realisti ... more |
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 Almeria, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night - because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) which can include thermal energy storage.
The promise of solar fuels is that we could have zero carbon fuels like hydrogen without the climate-damaging carbon em ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 15, 2018 
Put to the test with high winds and strong seas, Norway's Statoil said a floating wind farm in Scottish waters shows promise for deepwater installations.
During its first three months in service, the company's Hywind Scotland floating wind farm, the first of its kind, was put to the test and performed better than expected. Hurricane Ophelia in October pummeled the wind farm with 80 mile ... more |
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 Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
Scientists of the Department of Energy's Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program (LWRS) and partners from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have conducted the first weld tests to repair highly irradiated materials at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The welding system, designed and installed in a hot cell at ORNL's Radiochemical Engineering Development Center, safely encl ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
The vestiges of lakes long extinct dot the landscape of the American desert west. These fossilized landforms provide clues of how dynamic climate has been over the past few million years.
Identification of ancient lake shoreline features began with early explorers of the continent. The first detailed studies were conducted by pioneering American geologists such as G.K. Gilbert and I.C. Rus ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Feb 23, 2018  German high-end carmaker BMW on Friday recalled thousands of diesel cars for a software update, after reports it had admitted to authorities they released more harmful emissions on the road than in the lab.
BMW "noticed during internal testing that correctly programmed software was wrongly used in a few models that were not compatible," the group said in a statement.
The Munich-based com ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 
Farida Abbas Khalaf, one of thousands of Yazidi women abducted, raped and brutalised by Islamic State group fighters, says the jihadists' departure has not made it safe to return to Iraq.
"Everything is still the same. The same people who joined (IS) are still in those neighbourhoods. How can we return and trust them again?" Khalaf said in an interview with AFP this week.
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 Tehran (AFP) Feb 26, 2018  Iran's supreme leader has signalled a decisive shift in favour of relations with China and Russia, indicating that patience is running out with efforts to improve ties with the West.
One of the most popular slogans during the 1979 revolution was "Neither East nor West", a defiant vow that Iran would no longer favour either of the world's major forces at the time - American-style capitalism ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 
Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged "intact" from the blaze.
The report is the first official account of Saturday's fire at the more than 1,300-year-old Jokhang Temple, after authorities suppressed social media accounts of the incident, leadin ... more |
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 Djibouti (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 
President Ismael Omar Guelleh's ruling party claimed a resounding victory in Friday's parliamentary elections in Djibouti, taking nearly 90 percent of seats after the opposition largely boycotted the poll.
Mohamed Abdallah Mahyoub, a senior member of Guelleh's UMP party and campaign spokesman, told AFP late Sunday the party had won 58 out of 65 parliamentary seats, an increase of three since ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Feb 23, 2018  Canada said Thursday it was allowing Boeing to submit a bid to replace the country's aging F-18 fleet, after an earlier trade dispute between the American manufacturer and Ottawa.
The announcement came a month after the US International Trade Commission rejected a complaint filed by Boeing against its Canadian rival Bombardier, demanding nearly 300 percent anti-dumping duties on the C Series ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2018  Donald Trump papered over superpower rivalries with China on Friday, saying relations had never been better but trade was a major problem.
"I don't think we've ever had a better relationship with China than we do right now," Trump said, using trademark hyperbole.
"Other than the fact that they've been killing us on trade for the last long period of time. Killing us."
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 
EU President Donald Tusk warned Poland on Friday against "anti-semitic excesses" and other behaviour that risked ruining Warsaw's global standing.
Tusk, a former Polish premier, said he had told Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels that negative opinions about Warsaw were turning into a "tsunami".
"I told Mr Morowiecki that the situation i ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 
Environmental activists presented the Thai junta with an hourglass filled with dust on Thursday as part of a plea to tackle the hazardous levels of air pollution that have hung over the capital in recent weeks.
Bangkok, one of the world's top tourist destinations, has been shrouded in smog for nearly a month, with authorities reporting unhealthy concentrations of harmful microscopic particle ... more |
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 Georgetown, Guyana (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 
Antigua and Barbuda, a hurricane-ravaged Caribbean tourist destination, will go to the polls next month more than a year earlier than scheduled, the prime minister said on Saturday.
The two-island nation's parliamentary elections were scheduled for June 2019, but will now be held on March 21, Gaston Browne said.
Voters will select the 17 members of Antigua and Barbuda's House of Represen ... more |
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