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  Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 A U.S. offshore regulator published its final environmental impact statement on a planned oil development in the Beaufort Sea offshore Alaska. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management published its assessment of a development and production plan submitted by Hilcorp Alaska to develop its Liberty prospect in the shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea. The Liberty prospect is located 5.5 miles offshore and 8 miles away from the Endicott oil field, operated by British supermajor BP. Hilcorp e ... read more |
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Gas prices could jump ahead of Labor DayWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 One week ahead of the last major summer holiday in the United States, motor club AAA said vacation demand could cause a brief jump in gas prices. ... more 
Easing trade tensions, weaker dollar supporting the price of oilWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 Some easing in multilateral trade tensions, pending strikes in the North Sea and a weaker U.S. dollar added up for a spike in crude oil prices on Friday. ... more 
Norway signs off on new North Sea developmentWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 The Norwegian government announced Friday it signed off on a new Equinor project that boosts North Sea recoverable reserves by 62 million barrels. ... more 
Lane threatens Hawaii's energy securityWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 The U.S. federal government warned Friday that energy security for Hawaii is under threat as Hurricane Lane approaches the main islands. ... more |
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British producer Premier Oil reaches milestone in output Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 Plateau production from its flagship Catcher basin in the North Sea helped drive net income in the first half of the year higher, Premier Oil stated. ... more 
U.S. piped gas displacing Mexican LNG importsWashington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 Cross-border natural gas pipelines from the United States to Mexico could be displacing Mexican imports of liquefied natural gas, a government report found. ... more 
First oil well in 40 years scheduled for offshore GambiaWashington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 FAR Ltd., a company focused on West Africa, said it plans to drill into a basin off the coast of Gambia that could hold hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. ... more 
Australia's Santos a major gas player with acquisitionWashington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 Australian energy company Santos announced Wednesday it completed a $2.15 billion acquisition of natural gas operator Quadrant Energy. ... more
Scotland sees North Sea revenue boostWashington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 The Scottish government said Wednesday its share of the revenue generated from the North Sea soared, but sees risk from the British exit from the EU. ... more |
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Venezuela denies Colombia's claims of armed forces incursionCaracas (AFP) Aug 22, 2018 Venezuela hit back at Colombia on Wednesday branding as fake news claims from its neighbor that helicopters and troops had violated its sovereignty in an illegal incursion. ... more  |
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Supply pressures add up to rally in crude oil prices Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 Crude oil prices were in rally mode before the start of U.S. trading after signs of another drain on domestic oil and gasoline inventories. ... more 
Energy services group Wood upbeat despite first half lossWashington (UPI) Aug 21, 2018 Even though it turned in a loss for the first half of the year, Aberdeen-based energy services company Wood said it was riding a wave of market recovery ... more
Relief at the gas pump finally comingWashington (UPI) Aug 21, 2018 U.S. consumer demand for gasoline is slowing down and that should start bringing relief to travelers ahead of the next major holiday, analysts said. ... more 
Crude oil prices jump on signs of declining inventoriesWashington (UPI) Aug 21, 2018 Expiring futures contracts and forecasts of a drain on commercial crude oil inventories in the world's leading economy sent oil prices higher early Tuesday. ... more 
Alaska still has a long oil life aheadWashington (UPI) Aug 21, 2018 A market research report from consultant group IHS Markit found crude oil production from the late-stage Alaska North Slope could increase by 40 percent. ... more |
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 Nottingham UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 
Researchers have found that seawater can replace freshwater to produce the sustainable fuel Bioethanol, reducing the need to drain precious resources.
The study - 'The establishment of a marine focused biorefinery for bioethanol production using seawater and a novel marine yeast strain' - has been published in Scientific Reports and was carried out by researchers at the University of Notti ... more |
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 Hingham, MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
Russelectric, a leading manufacturer of automatic transfer switches and power control systems and solutions, announces its new Russelectric Distributed Energy Controller (RDEC). RDEC is a fully integrated controller for complex, mission critical distributed energy systems, ranging from back-up generation and demand management to fully functional microgrids.
At the core of each RDEC is the ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 
Wind energy pricing remains attractive, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). At an average of around 2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), prices offered by newly built wind projects in the United States are being driven lower by technology advancements and cost reductions.
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 Paris (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 
Over the last weeks, a heat wave has broken temperature records notably in Scandinavia and the British Isles. As a consequence, conventional and nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Europe have been forced to reduce electricity generation because of an increase in cooling water temperatures.
Nuclear power plants in France, Finland, Sweden and Germany have also been affected by this situation, wh ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 
Widespread rain fell across drought-affected parts of eastern Australia over the weekend, bringing relief to farmers struggling to cope with the driest conditions in more than half a century.
Graziers have had to hand-feed sheep and cattle, sell down stock - and in some cases even shoot them to end their suffering - as they run out of hay and grain in the severe conditions affecting Queens ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Aug 21, 2018 
Uber on Tuesday named a news chief financial officer as the smartphone-summoned ride service remained on the road to a stock market debut next year.
Nelson Chai came on board from Chicago-based insurance firm Warranty Group, where he was chief executive, according to Uber.
"I'm incredibly excited to bring on someone as experienced and thoughtful as Nelson," Uber chief executive Dara Khos ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  A UN team of investigators has begun work in Iraq aimed at collecting evidence on the massacres of the Yazidi minority and other atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, according to a letter released Thursday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in the letter sent August 17 that the investigators led by British human rights lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan wo ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 
US President Donald Trump on Friday pulled the plug on his top diplomat's upcoming trip to North Korea - and took a swipe at China over stalled efforts to disarm Kim Jong Un's regime.
"I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Trump sa ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  An anaesthetist gassed his wife and daughter to death using a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide, a Hong Kong court has heard.
Prosecutors told the High Court that Khaw Kim-sun left the inflatable ball in the boot of a car where the gas leaked out and killed them, according to reports from court Wednesday.
His wife and 16-year-old daughter were found on a roadside in a locked yellow M ... more |
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 Douala (AFP) Aug 26, 2018 
At least two police officers have died in fresh violence in western Cameroon where English-speaking separatists have declared an independent state, the military said Sunday.
The men were killed by armed pro-independence fighters near the town of Wum in Northwest Region, an army spokesman said.
The separatist camp spoke of nine police dead.
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Engineers from NASA's Glenn Research Center, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and Boeing have successfully used shape memory alloys (SMA) to move a full-sized wing section of an F/A-18 Hornet.
The 300-pound wing section was removed from an F/A-18 at NASA Armstrong in Edwards, California, enabling the team to prove a full wing section could be folded using a newly developed nickel-ti ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
U.S. President Trump is admired for fulfilling campaign promises, but some of those actions are harming his own ambitions on energy, a trade group said.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to "use every tool under American and international law to end these (trade) abuses." Nearly two years into his term, he's made good on that pledge by targeting North American, European and Chinese ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018  The United States on Thursday accused China of destabilizing cross-Strait relations following the announcement this week that El Salvador would end diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.
"The United States will continue to oppose China's destabilization of the cross-Strait relationship and political interference in the Western Hemisphere," the White House said in a statement.
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 Austin TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 
Air pollution shortens human lives by more than a year, according to a new study from a team of leading environmental engineers and public health researchers. Better air quality could lead to a significant extension of lifespans around the world.
This is the first time that data on air pollution and lifespan has been studied together in order to examine the global variations in how they af ... more |
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 Kochi, India (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 
Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India's national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation.
More than 1.3 million people have now packed into temporary camps even though the floods, which have left at least 420 dead and missing, are fast receding.
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