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  Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 The first-ever hydraulic fracturing effort in the United Kingdom is set for the third quarter following well completion in Lancashire, Cuadrilla Resources said. Cuadrilla said Tuesday it completed the first-ever horizontal shale natural gas well at its exploration site at Preston New Road in Lancashire. The British government estimates shale basins in the country may hold more than 1.3 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas, a level the government said could help an economy as natural gas ... read more |
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EPA says Obama-era fuel guidelines were politically chargedWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 While a trade group representing the U.S. auto industry said a review of fuel standards was the right move, critics said it would hurt the average consumer. ... more 
U.S. gas prices up, and expected to keep risingWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 Gas prices may continue to move higher in the United States as refineries start to shift to a summer-blend, which is more expensive to make, AAA reports. ... more 
Oil prices bounce back on signs of balanceWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 After posting steep declines in the previous session, crude oil prices moved higher in Tuesday trading on signs the U.S. market surplus has evaporated. ... more 
More than $1 billion on contracts awarded offshore NorwayWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 More than $1.5 billion in contracts for drilling services were awarded to companies for work in Norwegian waters, energy major Statoil said. ... more |
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Iraqi oil exports increased in MarchWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 Data show March exports from Iraq, one of OPEC's top producers, at an average of 3.4 million barrels of oil per day were slightly higher than the previous month. ... more 
U.S. strikes environmental bell with next offshore leaseWashington (UPI) Apr 2, 2018 Giving drillers the rights to reach nearly 50 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will come with a degree of responsibility, the U.S. government said. ... more 
Bahrain announces its largest oil discovery everWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 The government of Bahrain said it made the largest discovery of oil ever made since the exploration in the kingdom started in the 1930s. ... more 
Expect stability from oil-rich Kazakhstan, Fitch Ratings saysWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 The outlook for a pipeline company that controls about half of the oil flow in Kazakhstan remains stable and supportive of growth, Fitch Ratings said. ... more 
Dallas Fed sees energy sector optimism, with caveatsWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 A survey of oil and gas companies by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found uneven enthusiasm about U.S. policies, but revealed general optimism. ... more |
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Oil, gas markets close week mixed amid optimism on U.S. productionWashington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 After an up-and-then-down week, oil and gas markets closed slightly higher Thursday ahead of the Easter holiday weekend. ... more  |
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U.S. issues call for information on Arctic lease for drillersWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 The U.S. government published a call for information in the Federal Registry on Thursday regarding a proposed opening for drillers in Alaska's Arctic waters. ... more 
Canada taking less LNG as North American shale improvesWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 The change in the North American natural gas sector means Canadian imports of liquefied natural gas from top suppliers like Qatar are declining, data show. ... more 
U.S. efforts to pressure oil-rich Venezuela trickyWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 Data in a U.S. report suggests that as Venezuela depends on oil revenue, and it's a top oil exporter to the United States, pressure could cuts both ways. ... more 
Dutch to shut EU's largest gas field over quake riskThe Hague (AFP) March 29, 2018 The Dutch government plans to rapidly cut production at Europe's biggest gas field after a raft of damaging earthquakes, aiming to eventually the shut the taps by 2030, top officials announced on Thursday. ... more 
Alberta puts incentives offer behind effort to cut emissionsWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 More than $25 million in funding is available for large industrial polluters who come up with clever ways to cut emissions, an oil-rich Canadian province said. ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a new enzyme that will enable microbial production of a renewable alternative to petroleum-based toluene, a widely used octane booster in gasoline that has a global market of 29 million tons per year.
Results from a study led by Harry Beller ... more |
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 The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
Airborne Aerospace has been awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands to manufacture 48 substrate panels for the solar arrays of twelve new Galileo FOC satellites. The contract, carried out under a programme of the European Union, is the latest result of years of successful collaboration between the two Dutch companies to power the Galileo constellation.
To date, Airborne ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 
The Evolution of Wind Power is the result of a cooperation between The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and renewable energy software company Greenbyte. The interactive map reveals the cumulative installed capacity per country, continent and the world between 1981-2018. Let's take a closer look at the figures and see what has happened in the past twelve months.
China continues its incredi ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved Framatome's AURORA-B AOO methodology, which will allow plants to analyze a wide range of events required for licensing. Additionally, it will help operators maximize the value from the company's new ATRIUM 11 fuel assembly design. Approval of this tool is a major milestone in bringing the next-generation fuel technology to the market.
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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
What does Salt Lake City have in common with Tehran?
More than you might think, if you're a climate scientist.
University of Cincinnati geography professor Tomasz Stepinski created a new interactive map that allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public meteorological data recorded from 50,000 internati ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) March 27, 2018 
US federal investigators said Tuesday they were examining a fatal crash last week involving a Tesla electric automobile in California.
The California Highway Patrol reported that a 38-year-old man died Friday after his 2017 Tesla Model X collided with a highway barrier near the town of Mountain View, according to The San Jose Mercury News.
The vehicle caught fire before two other approac ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) April 2, 2018  A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.
The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga fighters after having fled Tal Afar, one of the last IS bastions to fall to Iraqi security forces last ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018 
China's foreign minister told his North Korean counterpart on Tuesday that Beijing appreciates Pyongyang's efforts to ease nuclear tensions ahead of planned summits between the isolated country's leader Kim Jong Un and the South Korean and US presidents.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho met China's chief diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing just a week after Kim made a surprise trip to the Ch ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018  China's culture watchdog has slapped fines on websites that posted parodies of "Communist classics and heroes", as the authorities further restrict what people can say - or even laugh at - online.
Major video sites iQiyi and Sina were handed undisclosed fines for "distorting or mocking" classic works, the culture ministry said, less than two weeks after new rules were issued to ban online ... more |
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 Mogadishu (AFP) April 1, 2018 
Heavily-armed Al-Shabaab militants attacked an African Union military camp outside Mogadishu on Sunday, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers, their army said.
Local sources said a massive blast was heard in the Bulomarer district, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of Mogadishu, and fighting broke out after dozens of heavily armed Shabaab militants stormed the base.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
NASA's aeronautical innovators are ready to take things supersonic, but with a quiet twist.
For the first time in decades, NASA aeronautics is moving forward with the construction of a piloted X-plane, designed from scratch to fly faster than sound with the latest in quiet supersonic technologies.
The new X-plane's mission: provide crucial data that could enable commercial supersonic ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 29, 2018 
An international organisation that Donald Trump demeans, undermines and then embraces when it suits his interests: probably sounds familiar within NATO, or the UN.
Now it's time to add the World Trade Organization to the list.
The early signs of the US president's intentions towards the Geneva-based trade body all pointed towards hostility.
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 Hanoi (AFP) April 1, 2018 
China and Vietnam vowed Sunday to keep the peace in the South China Sea, the resource-rich waterway that has long been a source of tension between Hanoi and its powerhouse communist neighbour.
China claims most of the disputed sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas reserves and is highly strategic for trade and defence.
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 Washington (AFP) April 3, 2018 
Donald Trump's environment chief came under mounting criticism Tuesday, including from within his own Republican Party, over renting a lobbyist's apartment and other damaging revelations, but he appeared to have the president's backing.
Amid speculation that Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, could be the latest of Trump's cabinet members to get the axe, congressional ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 
The best guess of expert astronomers and space junk-trackers is that China's decommissioned, out-of-control space station, Tiangong-1, will reenter Earth's atmosphere anywhere between late Friday night and Sunday.
In the words of the European Space Station: "This is highly variable."
What is clear, is that it's very hard to track pieces of space junk like Tiangong.
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