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  Washington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 Even while hitting China with new tariffs, the U.S. commerce secretary said it would be "logical" for the second-largest economy to import more U.S. gas. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential order that imposed new tariffs on imported Chinese products as a means to protect against what he said was "economic aggression" by Beijing. The tariffs, which could be worth about $60 billion, are the result of a Section 301 trade investigation launched last summer. The inquiry f ... read more |
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Geopolitical risk drives oil prices higherWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 Geopolitical risk emerged Friday to drive oil prices higher for another day as the U.S. president named a hawkish John Bolton as his national security advisor. ... more 
PetroChina triples its net profit, hands out big dividendShanghai (AFP) March 26, 2018 China's biggest oil producer PetroChina tripled its profit in 2017, rebounding on firmer crude prices, the company said, but its shares fell Friday as markets tumbled amid US-China trade tensions. ... more 
Norway's Statoil highlights green agendaWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 The winners in the global energy sector will be the companies that embrace both low-carbon and low-cost opportunities, Norwegian major Statoil said. ... more 
Venezuela defends currency targeted by U.S. sanctionsWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 The state-owned oil company in Venezuela said Friday it welcomed a move by the president to support a currency targeted by U.S. sanctions. ... more |
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Mobile 'dual-comb' device significantly improves methane leak detectionWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source worldwide, is critically important for both environmental and economic reas ... more 
Laser-based system offers continuous monitoring of leaks from oil and gas operationsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Researchers have conducted the first field tests for a new laser-based system that can pinpoint the location of very small methane leaks over an area of several square miles. The new technology coul ... more 
Metal-organic frameworks cut energy consumption of petrochemicalsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 In the chemical and the petrochemical industries, separating molecules in an energy-efficient way is one of the most important challenges. Overall, the separation processes account for around 40% of ... more 
Crude oil prices retreat in sell-off actionWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 Crude oil prices retraced steps Thursday after two consecutive days of gains as traders cashed in with a focus on the Bank of England's static rate decision. ... more 
Chrysaor picks up second North Sea oil and gas acquisitionWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 The fourth-largest oil and gas producer in the United Kingdom, Chrysaor, said it built up its North Sea portfolio with new acquisitions. ... more |
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IEA: Fossil fuels clearly dominate energy landscapeWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 Though renewable forms of energy outpaced all others, fossil fuels accounted for more than 70 percent of the global demand growth last year, the IEA said. ... more  |
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Gulf of Mexico oil and gas auction draws modest interestWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 The largest auction for drilling off the U.S. coast brought in only modest interest as sector players remain cautious about market recovery, analysts said. ... more 
Radar shows large areas of Texas oil acreage heaving and sinking at large ratesWink TX (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 Two giant sinkholes near Wink, Texas, may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to a new study that found alarming rates of new ground movement extending far beyond the infamous sinkholes. ... more 
Norway has concerns about Transocean rigWashington (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. ... more 
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 |
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 Millbrook, NY (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 
A return to firewood is bad for forests and the climate. So reports William Schlesinger, President Emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in an Insights article published in the journal Science.
In the race to meet clean energy standards, biomass energy is often touted as carbon neutral. To satisfy European Union (EU) demand, forests in the United States are turned into wood ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 
The technology group Wartsila has announced that it has delivered the world's largest solar hybrid power plant. Wartsila will provide a reliable and sustainable supply of round-the-clock energy which is essential in operating the off-grid gold mine and demonstrate the enormous potential of integrating renewables as the baseload electricity.
Wartsila was selected by the global renewable ene ... 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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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.
The CMU robot has demonstrated it can measure radiation levels more accurately from inside the pipe than is possible with external ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 
The number of electric vehicles registered by Norwegian drivers has increased by more than 40 percent from the previous year, the government said.
Statistics Norway, the government's record-keeping agency, reported there were 142,490 total electric cars registered in the country at the beginning of the year, up more than 40 percent from one year ago. Passenger vehicles made up 97 percen ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 24, 2018 
Aliyah Khalaf Saleh had already lost a husband, a son and a nephew to the terror that engulfed northern Iraq in 2014.
But when a group of military cadets fled to her community near Tikrit to escape killers from the Islamic State group, she risked all to save them.
In June 2014, the jihadists slaughtered hundreds of mainly Shiite Muslim recruits from the nearby Speicher military base.
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 Jerusalem (AFP) March 21, 2018  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel will prevent enemies from obtaining nuclear weapons after its military admitted it carried out a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor.
"The Israeli government, the (Israeli military), and the Mossad (intelligence agency) have prevented Syria from developing nuclear capability, and they deserve every credit for t ... 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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 N'Djamena (AFP) March 24, 2018 
A Chadian soldier and 20 Boko Haram members were killed in a clash in the restive Lake Chad region near Nigeria, a Chadian military officer told AFP Saturday.
The incident occurred on Friday on an islet named Tchoukou Hadje, the officer said, adding that five soldiers were wounded.
"Twenty Boko Haram members were killed and a large amount of weapons was recovered," he said. "The Chadian ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2018 
Bell Boeing JPO was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the V-22 Osprey aircraft.
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $102.8 million under the terms of a modified contract that definitize delivery order.
The agreement between the Navy and Bell Boeing JPO enables the company to provide repair of various par ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 23, 2018  The United States launched Friday a challenge at the World Trade Organization against China over intellectual property breaches, a statement said.
"The United States is taking action at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to address China's unfair technology practices that run counter to WTO rules," the statement from the US Trade Representative's office said.
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 Washington (AFP) March 22, 2018 
President Donald Trump's increasingly tough measures on trade, including Thursday's latest crackdown on China, demonstrate the rising influence of Peter Navarro, a Harvard-trained economist who has long railed against the threat from Beijing.
Trump announced tariffs on as much as $60 billion in Chinese imports to retaliate against the alleged theft of American intellectual property.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A new class of low-cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution. The material, described in Frontiers in Chemistry, is synthesized inexpensively from solid wastes and a naturally abundant polymer - and can cut down pollutants in air and wastewater with more success than activated carbon, the curre ... 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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