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  Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 French energy company Total said Monday it signed a contract that extends its partnership in a natural gas field in Algeria for the next quarter century. Total joined Spanish energy company Repsol, the Algerian agency for hydrocarbon resources and state-owned exploration and production company Sonatrach in signing a 25-year extension to tap into the Tin Fouyé Tabankort natural gas and condensate field. "The partners will carry out the drilling and development investments required to dev ... read more |
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Iraq accuses other oil producers of exceeding quotasBaghdad (AFP) June 11, 2018 Iraq on Monday accused other oil-producing countries of extracting more barrels of crude than agreed by OPEC and its partners, ahead of a meeting of the cartel next week. ... more 
G7 hangover drags the price of oil lowerWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 Crude oil prices turned lower in early Monday trading amid broad-based economic concerns over the fallout from weekend meetings of the G7 in Canada. ... more 
Higher-for-longer oil prices could hurt the global economyWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 The relatively high price for crude oil is having only a relatively minor impact on demand, though global economic growth could slow, a Platts analyst said. ... more 
Ireland leads call for economic break from oilWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 A European economy that's self-sufficient in energy and low-carbon could be shielded against the shock of higher crude oil prices, an Irish minister said. ... more |
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Oil prices slip on G7 trade concerns Washington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Concerns about broad-based trade issues overshadowed potential supply-side deficits to push the price for crude oil lower early in the Friday session. ... more 
Pope urges oil majors to combat global warming and aid poorVatican City (AFP) June 9, 2018 Pope Francis asked Saturday that major oil and gas companies respect the 2015 Paris climate agreement to help protect the poor from global warming. ... more 
Gazprom gets more permits for Nord Stream 2Washington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Russian energy company Gazprom said it received the necessary permit to advance construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline through Swedish waters. ... more 
Banned weapons stoke deadly violence in NigeriaKano, Nigeria (AFP) June 9, 2018 A flood of illegal small arms has swamped Nigeria, bringing with it a surge of violence that has left hundreds dead. ... more 
Canadian producer Suncor offers climate assurancesWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Canadian oil production from a facility in Alberta has the same greenhouse gas intensity as U.S. oil, the head of producer Suncor said. ... more |
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Putin offers pledges of economic stabilityWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 Riding improvements in the price of oil from recession to recovery, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the economy is on stable ground. ... more  |
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Oil Search finds new gas in Papua New GuineaWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 A new gas discovery was made in Papua New Guinea and data assessments are now geared toward commercial developments, a key regional player said. ... more
OPEC data offers glimpse at GDP impact of production cutsWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 Angola, Libya and Iran led the pack among OPEC members when comparing GDP figures from before and after the group's production agreement, data show. ... more
A lack of oil pushes key benchmarks higherWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 Concerns about the lack of supply from Iran and Venezuela re-emerged early Thursday to push the price of crude oil sharply higher. ... more 
Equinor upbeat on oil and the economyWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 Crude oil demand and production remain strong, Norwegian energy major Equinor said, adding geopolitical risk won't derail the global economy. ... more 
Nigeria's military urged not to add to oil pollutionWarri, Nigeria (AFP) June 7, 2018 Like many communities in southern Nigeria, the people of Okpare rely on the waters of the creeks that surround them for fishing and farming to survive. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Someday, the gasoline you buy might trace its heritage to carbon dioxide pulled straight out of the sky rather than from oil pumped out of the ground. By removing emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turning it into fresh fuels, engineers at a Canadian firm have demonstrated a scalable and cost-effective way to make deep cuts in the carbon footprint of transportation with minimal disru ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Will you ever be able to charge your mobile device, car and even clothing with flexible solar cells? Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and Universite de Montreal are studying whether the now-experimental technology could someday be mass-produced and commercialized, and some of the issues that have to be resolved, including the environmental impact.
For the electronic cells to be v ... more |
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 Tallinn (AFP) June 1, 2018 
A state-owned Estonian wind farm launched a cryptocurrency mine on Friday, hoping to cash-in on Mother Nature's unlimited supplies of power on a windswept Baltic Sea island, a company official said.
Mining virtual currencies, like bitcoin, ethereum or ripple, requires powerful computers that are voracious users of electricity, making it uneconomical to mine without a cheap source of energy l ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Milk in parts of Ukraine has radioactivity levels up to five times over the country's official safe limit, new research shows.
Scientists from the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter and the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology sampled cow's milk from private farms and homes in the Rivne region, about 200km from the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plan ... more |
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 Bouake, Ivory Coast (AFP) June 6, 2018 
"All that comes out of the tap right now is cockroaches," said Honorine Babalou, a 20-year-old textile worker.
In Bouake, Ivory Coast's second city, the regular water supply trickled to a halt three months ago - a shortage that officials blame on a drought inflicted by global warming.
Like many other Bouake residents, Babalou balanced on her head a giant basin of fresh water drawn from ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they're so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decis ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) June 8, 2018  Nationalist Moqtada Sadr, whose bloc won the largest share of seats in Iraq's May legislative elections, has strengthened his parliamentary position by forming an alliance with two other lists.
The former militia leader reached a coalition agreement on Thursday with Shiite Ammar al-Hakim's Al-Hikma list and the secular outgoing vice-president Iyad Allawi, whose list was comprised largely of ... more |
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 Pyongyang, North Korea (AFP) June 12, 2018  North Korea's state media lauded Singapore Tuesday as they highlighted Kim Jong Un's visit to some of its top tourist attractions.
A few hours ahead of his historic summit with Donald Trump - the first encounter between a leader of the isolated, nuclear-armed North and a sitting US president - Kim took a break from preparations for a waterfront stroll.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 11, 2018  Hong Kong's leading independence activist was jailed for six years Monday for his involvement in some of the city's worst protest violence for decades.
Edward Leung was convicted in May of rioting during the 2016 running battles with police, when demonstrators hurled bricks torn up from pavements and set rubbish alight in the commercial district of Mong Kok.
Handing down his jail term, J ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 9, 2018 
An American commando was killed Friday in an attack in southern Somalia that also wounded four US military personnel along with a Somali soldier, officials said.
The attack occurred in Jubaland, where a large force comprising about 800 Somali, Kenyan and US troops were working to clear a large area of Al-Qaeda-aligned Al-Shabaab fighters.
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 
The Pentagon announced a modification to a Lockheed Martin contract for materials and support for production of the F-35 Lightning II.
The contract, from Naval Air Systems Command and announced on Friday, is valued at more than $735.7 million and enables Lockheed Martin to provide "long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort," for F-35 programs within the U.S. Air Force, Nav ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) June 11, 2018 
Malaysia's newly-elected prime minister called Monday for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be "renegotiated," and urged protection for small countries in international trade.
Malaysia, along with 10 other countries, pushed ahead with the TPP in March despite Donald Trump having yanked the United States out of the huge multilateral trade deal.
But Mahathir Mohamad told a gathering in Toky ... more |
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 Qingdao, China (AFP) June 10, 2018  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said he was ready to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump as soon as Washington was ready, adding Vienna could be a possible venue for such a summit.
"As soon as the American side is ready this meeting would take place depending on my working schedule of course," Putin told reporters in the Chinese city of Qingdao.
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 Tokyo (AFP) June 5, 2018  At a recycling plant outside Tokyo, workers in face masks pick through an unending torrent of plastic rubbish, fuelled by a national obsession with pristine packaging - and famously strict rules that ensure much of it is reclaimed and reused.
Some 10 tonnes of recyclable plastics are brought in every day to be processed at the Ichikawa Kankyo Engineering centre, where workers hover over con ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where it is not expected. With funding from the European Research Council, ViEWS: a political Violence Early-Warning System at Uppsala University, is developing a system that is rigorous, data-based, and publicly available to researchers and the international ... more |
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