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  Washington (UPI) Jun 13, 2018 A geophysical survey company said Wednesday it was supporting data collection to help Woodside Petroleum develop its Scarborough field offshore Australia. Ocean Energy said it was awarded a contract by Woodside to provide data on the deepwater field off the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia. The company said it would use autonomous underwater vehicles to scan areas in support of Woodside's field development plans. "We have worked closely with Woodside in developing a robust solution ... read more |
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High gas prices will shorten, not cancel, U.S. summer road tripsWashington (UPI) Jun 13, 2018 Even though gas prices are eating up close to 10 percent of U.S. incomes, motor club AAA said Wednesday travel plans may be scaled back, but not cancelled. ... more 
Yergin: Permian oil production growth beats the whole worldWashington (UPI) Jun 13, 2018 Output from the Permian shale oil basin in the southern United States will account for 60 percent of world total production growth by 2023, analysis finds. ... more 
Nobody speaks for OPEC alone, Iran's oil minister saysWashington (UPI) Jun 13, 2018 No single country speaks as the unified voice of OPEC as decisions must be made collectively, the Iranian oil minister said, according to state media. ... more 
Oil prices inch lower, though supply-side fears lingerWashington (UPI) Jun 13, 2018 Crude oil prices moved slightly lower in early Wednesday trading amid expectations of higher U.S. oil inventories, though supply-side issues were apparent. ... more |
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Economic recovery for OPEC-member Angola shakyWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Economic recovery for Angola, an OPEC member coping with declining production, is progressing but it's still uncertain over the long term, the International Monetary Fund found. ... more 
APICORP: Venezuela is the biggest risk for OPECWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 The biggest risks to the OPEC-led effort to stabilize the oil market are outside the Middle East and North African region, an Arab investment bank found. ... more 
High gas prices influencing consumer habitsWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Consumer demand for gasoline might be on the decline as retail gasoline prices in the United States remain stubbornly high, sector analysis finds. ... more 
Economic data overshadows Trump-Kim meeting for oilWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2018 Uncertainty about global oil demand and an increase in U.S. fuel prices overshadowed U.S-North Korean talks to push oil prices slightly lower early Tuesday. ... more 
Total extends gas agreement in AlgeriaWashington (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. ... more |
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 Iraq accuses other oil producers of exceeding quotas
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  |
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Higher-for-longer oil prices could hurt the global economy Washington (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 
Iran envisions currency arrangements with ChinaWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 Facing U.S. pressures on its banking channels, Iran's economic minister said agreements were made with China to use their national currencies for trade. ... more 
U.S. sees LNG as a security option for SeoulWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 Through its emerging role in the global energy space, U.S. liquefied natural gas supports security for South Korea, a State Department spokesman said. ... more 
More oil found in Norwegian waters of the North SeaWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 A Norwegian government regulator said Friday it confirmed an oil discovery was made in untested waters in the central part of the North Sea. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 
Scientists have developed a way to sustainably 3D print large objects using cellulose, a feat previously complicated by a variety of scaling issues and environmental concerns.
Because cellulose is one of the most abundant commercially available compounds, material scientists have been trying to find ways to use it in additive manufacturing. But previous methods yielded too many toxic by ... 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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 Johannesburg (AFP) June 13, 2018 
The South African government said Wednesday that the national state of disaster it declared in March over a drought that ravaged parts of the country had lapsed after significant rainfall.
The three-year drought hit Cape Town particularly hard, threatening to leave residents of the country's second largest city without drinking water.
The government said it had conducted assessments whic ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 11, 2018 
An update to Tesla's Autopilot software coming in August will enable "full self-driving features" for the automaker's electric cars, chief executive Elon Musk says.
Musk's comments come amid a race by automakers and tech firms to roll out fully autonomous vehicles, but also rising concerns about the safety of robotic systems.
The Tesla founder made the disclosure in a Twitter conversatio ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) June 13, 2018  Every Friday since Mosul was prised from the Islamic State group's clutches last July, women gather in the Iraqi city's Al-Minassa Square, desperate to learn the fate of husbands and sons.
Dressed in black, with children in tow and brandishing photos, some fear their men have fallen victim to a cruel double jeopardy.
They had been imprisoned by or forced to work for IS, only for Iraqi fo ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) June 13, 2018  US President Donald Trump arrived home Wednesday, insisting his historic summit with Kim Jong Un had ended North Korea's nuclear threat and the world could sleep safer.
"There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," Trump tweeted as Air Force One returned from Singapore.
North Korean state TV, for its part, hailed Kim for "opening a new chapter" in relations with the US. Officia ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 13, 2018 
As housing prices spiral in Hong Kong, young professionals are living in ever-shrinking spaces, with box-like "nano-flats" and co-shares touted as fashionable solutions.
Blocks of sleek miniature apartments packed with mod cons are springing up around the densely packed city, pitched as an attractive and more affordable lifestyle choice, but still at an eye-watering cost.
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) June 13, 2018 
Ethiopia's new prime minister Abiy Ahmed has announced a flurry of reforms to reshape the nation but implementing them will be harder, analysts say.
Last week alone, Abiy shook up the security services, ended a nationwide state of emergency and announced plans to liberalise the economy and resolve a two-decade-old conflict with Eritrea.
Yet those moves represent dramatic shifts in the po ... more |
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 Sofia (AFP) June 11, 2018 
A Bulgarian military helicopter crashed during a training exercise on Monday evening near the southern city of Plovdiv, killing two of the three men onboard, the defence ministry said.
The Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter burst into flames after coming down from a height of 50 metres at around 8:30 pm (1730 GMT) not far from the Krumovo military airbase and Plovdiv's civilian airport.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 06, 2018  For homeowners, the brown marmorated stink bug can be a smelly nuisance. For orchard growers, the invasive insects are a very expensive problem.
Researchers are hopeful they're close to a natural remedy: the samurai wasp, Trissolcus halyomorphae.
Thanks to the work of Hillary Peterson, a Penn State doctoral student, researchers in Pennsylvania are beginning to test the wasp's pot ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) June 12, 2018  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on Tuesday questioned as a police witness in a probe of alleged corruption over the state purchase of three German submarines, his office said.
Netanyahu is the subject of several corruption investigations, but he is not under suspicion in the submarine affair, known as Case 3000.
"The prime minister gave his testimony in Case 3000. He has gi ... more |
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 Strasbourg, France (AFP) June 12, 2018  The European Parliament has told its lawmakers and staff to set an example for EU citizens by no longer drinking water from plastic bottles by next year.
The European Parliament bureau headed by Antonio Tajani and 14 vice presidents adopted a measure late Monday to phase out the plastic bottles and build a network of drinking fountains.
"Happy to announce that the EP bureau has decided t ... more |
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 Dhaka (AFP) June 12, 2018  Landslides triggered by monsoon rains killed at least 12 people Tuesday in Bangladesh near camps housing one million Rohingya refugees, officials said.
Aid agencies have been warning of the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe over the coming months as heavy rains lash an area home to the world's largest refugee camp.
Most of Tuesday's victims were buried under mud when surrounding h ... more |
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