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  Sheffield UK (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 Britain's emissions dropped by six per cent in 2016 by switching from coal to natural gas a new study from the University of Sheffield has revealed. The collaborative study by Dr Grant Wilson from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Energy 2050 at the University of Sheffield and Dr Iain Staffell from the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, highlights the scale and speed of emissions reduction in Britain as a result of fuel switching from coal to natura ... read more |
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China fuel demand boosts Sinopec profit, record dividend plannedShanghai (AFP) March 26, 2018 China's Sinopec, the world's largest oil refiner, said its annual profit for 2017 grew 10 percent due to strength in its key fuels and chemical operations, and announced a record dividend payout. ... more 
Oil prices search for clear direction after last week's big rallyWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 Oil prices were stuck in a tug-of-war of competing narratives early Monday, with U.S. trade and production, alongside Middle East risk, influencing markets. ... more 
More oil and gas uncovered offshore NorwayWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 A Norwegian regulator confirmed two separate oil and gas discoveries on Monday, the largest of which could contain at least 35 million barrels of oil. ... more 
Dutch oil trader Vitol sees long-term impact from renewablesWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 After coming off a "challenging year," Dutch oil trader Vitol said Monday it expected the renewable power sector to have the biggest long-term impact. ... more |
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Alberta pegs growth to pipeline expansionWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 Pipelines that could take Alberta's oil out of Canadian territory could add 2 percent to economic growth in six years, the provincial finance minister said. ... more 
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 
U.S. balances LNG for China against new tariffsWashington (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. ... more
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 |
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 PetroChina triples its net profit, hands out big dividend 
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  |
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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 
U.S. energy policy is containing Russia, energy secretary saysWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 Moving U.S. energy supplies into Eastern Europe is one of the more powerful ways to contain Russian influence, the U.S. energy secretary said. ... more 
US air strike in Libya kills two jihadist 'leaders': governmentTripoli (AFP) March 24, 2018 A US air strike hit a house in southern Libya on Saturday where jihadist "leaders" were meeting, killing two of them, the spokesman of the Libyan prime minister said. ... 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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 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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 Seoul (AFP) March 26, 2018 
A Chinese officer saluted Monday as the remains of 20 former comrades were arrayed in a South Korean military facility ahead of their return home, decades after they died in the Korean War.
The brown-stained bones - including some near-complete skulls - were laid out on tables at the temporary ossuary in Incheon before being placed in identical boxes pending their repatriation Wednesday. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 26, 2018 
From murals made famous by Instagram to painting battles, Hong Kong's once largely underground street art scene has exploded in recent years, and is now blossoming across the city's walls and alleyways.
The commercial high end of the art world is at the fore in March, with gallerists, collectors and celebrities descending on Hong Kong for the annual Art Basel fair.
But English mural arti ... 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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 New York (AFP) March 26, 2018  China and the United States have begun behind-the-scenes negotiations to improve American access to the Chinese domestic market, the Wall Street Journal said Sunday.
News of the talks follow days rife with tension, raising the specter of a trade war between the world's top economies.
The daily paper said the discussions - led by China's economic "czar" Liu He, US Treasury Secretary Stev ... more |
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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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 Basra, Iraq (AFP) March 26, 2018 
As a child, Adnan Khalaf used to marvel at the Iraqi city of Basra's "shanasheel", finely crafted bay windows complete with intricate wooden latticework and ornate stained glass.
Today, the Iraqi retiree can only watch as the hallmarks of his hometown - "the city of shanasheel" - crumble out of neglect.
Authorities in Basra, the capital of Iraq's richest oil province, are struggling to ... more |
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