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  Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 A safety regulator in Norway said Wednesday there were a number of emergency issues uncovered during an audit of a Transocean rig. The Petroleum Safety Authority issued an order to Transocean following an audit that ended in early February at the company's Spitsbergen mobile drilling unit. "The audit identified a number of breaches of the regulations in the emergency preparedness and logistics discipline area," the PSA said in a statement. "A number of these non-conformities related to c ... read more |
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HRW: Political fractures an economic risk for oil-rich LibyaWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Oil-rich Libya is risking economic opportunities with its fractured political landscape, Human Rights Watch said in calling for improvements. ... more 
Tighter markets, Iranian risk premium drives oil prices higherWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Questions about what the U.S. president will do with oil-related sanctions on Iran and a drop in U.S. crude oil inventories sent oil prices higher on Wednesday. ... more 
Industry optimistic about Gulf of Mexico drilling auctionWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 The nature of an auction for oil and gas drillers interested in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico could open new doors for the offshore sector, a trade group said. ... more
U.S. expresses clear opposition to Russian gas pipelineWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Building the second leg of the Russian gas pipeline running through the Baltic Sea would threaten European energy security, the U.S. government said. ... more |
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U.S. impact of Venezuelan sanctions mutedWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 New U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan individuals and digital currency transactions are a largely symbolic move from the White House, a risk consultant group said. ... more 
Statoil takes control over North Sea fieldsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 After announcing it would remove "oil" from its name, Norwegian energy major Statoil said it's now operating a legacy oil and gas asset in the North Sea. ... more 
Bill Barrett, Fifth Creek form pure Colorado shale playerWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 HighPoint Resources Corp. started trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange, a company that represents a pure Colorado shale player, an executive said. ... more 
Gas prices in the U.S. officially hurtWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 With gas prices about 10 percent higher than they were at this point last year, the situation may be near the point of U.S. economic strain, analysis found. ... more 
Risk factor drives oil prices sharply higherWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 With Iran on the radar, a risk premium was apparent in the price of oil early Tuesday as the main benchmarks jumped more than 1 percent. ... more |
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 India confirms deaths of 39 workers abducted in Iraq 
China energy firm CEFC says chairman will quit European rolePrague (AFP) March 20, 2018 Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming, chairman of CEFC China Energy, will quit the firm's European operation CEFC Europe, according to the regional headquarters in the Czech capital Prague. ... more  |
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Arrests made in Trans Mountain protestsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 Founding members of environmental group Greenpeace said they were arrested while protesting the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. ... more 
TransCanada latest to say FERC tax proposal won't matterWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Canadian pipeline company TransCanada became the latest in a line of energy transit corporations to say it won't be impacted by changes in U.S. tax policy. ... more 
Total next to take slice of Emirati pieWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 French supermajor Total said it's followed in the footsteps of its Italian counterpart, Eni, by making long-term commitments in Abu Dhabi. ... more 
OECD: Poland behind the energy curveWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Poland, which relies heavily on Russia as an energy supplier, lacks connections with the rest of Europe and is behind the curve on renewables, the OECD said. ... more 
Living sensor can potentially prevent environmental disasters from fuel spillsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 The Colonial Pipeline, which carries fuel from Texas to New York, ruptured last fall, dumping a quarter-million gallons of gas in rural Alabama. By the time the leak was detected during routine insp ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated a new approach to making self-assembled biomaterials that relies on protein modifications and temperature. The hybrid approach allows researchers to control self-assembly more precisely, which may prove useful for a variety of biomedical applications from drug delivery to wound healing.
The research appears online on March 19 in N ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Saft has installed two Li-ion energy storage systems to boost the operational efficiency of the existing solar PV plant at EXKAL's Marcilla manufacturing facility in Navarra, Northern Spain.
The Saft Intensium Mini E systems provide peak shaving to reduce peak demand charges from the site's electricity supplier as well as increasing self-consumption of solar power. The result is that EXKAL ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2018 
In a report on energy efficiency trends, British energy company BP said onshore wind could become the most economical source of electricity within 30 years.
A technology outlook for 2018 by the British supermajor finds coal is currently the largest source of global energy generation. There's enough on hand, the report read, to keep the grid satiated for more than a century based on curr ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 16, 2018 
Framatome has performed a comprehensive modernization of the instrumentation and control (I&C) technology of the Borssele Dutch nuclear power plant, operated by EPZ (Elektriciteits-Productiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland). The project started in 2014 and included the installation of a new reactor control and limitation system to monitor the operation of the plant and interfere in case of any deviat ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2018 
The extreme wet and dry periods Mongolia has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are rare but not unprecedented and future droughts may be no worse, according to an international research team that includes a University of Arizona scientist.
The research team developed a climate record stretching 2,060 years into Mongolia's past by using the natural archive of weather con ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Prosecutors in Germany have raided high-end carmaker BMW in a fraud probe relating to more than 11,000 vehicles they suspect were rigged to appear less polluting in regulators' tests.
"On suspicion of fraud in around 11,400 cases, prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified workers or managers at BMW and raided BMW headquarters in Munich and another site in Austria," the au ... more |
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 Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Direct international flights resumed Tuesday from Sulaimaniyah airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, a week after Baghdad lifted an almost six-month-long blockade on the region's foreign air links.
A cargo plane carrying electronic devices touched down from the United Arab Emirates, an AFP correspondent said.
It was followed by a Royal Jordanian plane, with 39 passengers on board, which took off ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for production and support of the Trident II D5, a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $522.3 million under the terms of a fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which is a modification to a previous award by the U.S. Na ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2018 
China Wednesday announced a series of changes aimed at strengthening its global influence, including the creation of a centralised news service to better communicate the ruling Communist Party's message at home and abroad.
The changes are part of a larger overhaul of government functions that will also see an increased role for the United Front Work Department, a shadowy organisation that ha ... more |
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 Accra (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Ghana and the United States are working to forge closer ties between their armed forces but both countries denied that involved setting up military bases in the West African nation.
News reports in Ghana on Tuesday cited leaked documents from a recent cabinet meeting that formed the basis of a request to parliament to approve an agreement between the two governments.
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018  Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $8.5 million under the terms of a modified contract to a previous issued order on a basic order agreement.
The agreement gives the Navy the authority to exercised additional mission ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2018  Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called on the United States Tuesday to not act "emotionally" and to avoid a trade war, as President Donald Trump considers new punitive measures against Beijing.
After announcing tariffs on global steel and aluminium imports, Trump is now mulling new actions against China over its "theft" of US intellectual property.
Washington has long accused Beijing of forci ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2018 
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia would cut its military spending, a day after he won a presidential election with a landslide.
"We have plans to decrease our defence spending both this year and next. But this will not lead to any decline in the country's defence capacity," he said during a meeting with other candidates.
"We will not allow for any sort of arms race," h ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have figured out a way to keep certain proteins active outside of the cell. The researchers used this technology to create mats that can soak up and trap chemical pollution.
Despite years of effort to stabilize proteins outside of ... more |
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 New York (AFP) March 21, 2018 
Comic book superheroes are coming to the rescue of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
There's Batman, and Wonder Woman, of course, and also a Puerto Rican-inspired female hero named La Borinquena. Their mission is to help reconstruct the US island territory wrecked by Hurricane Maria six months ago.
The 200-page book - entitled "Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico" - will ... more |
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