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  Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 French supermajor Total stated Monday it could capture value from its assets in India with an LNG divestment and product sales agreement with Shell. Total on Monday signed a binding letter of intent to sell its 26 percent stake in the Hazira regasification terminal in India to Royal Dutch Shell. At the same time, the French supermajor signed a five-year agreement with Shell to sell it a half million tons of LNG per year from its global portfolio starting in 2019. "This deal enables Total ... read more |
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Oil prices flat on light trading and OPEC waitingWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 Oil prices were flat ahead of the start of U.S. trading on Monday as investors waited for word on output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. ... more 
Norwegian energy companies spar over board seatsWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 Norwegian energy company DNO lashed out Monday at regional counterpart Faroe Petroleum for brushing off a request for more board representation. ... more 
North Sea oil and gas appraisal results better than expectedWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 The results of an appraisal well in the North Sea drilled by a subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum were better than expected, a Norwegian regulator stated. ... more 
Johan Sverdrup reserve estimate revised higherWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 While submitting development plans to the government, Norwegian energy major Equinor said the oil potential from Johan Sverdrup was bigger than expected. ... more |
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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 
Russian-German joint venture hits oil production milestoneWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 Drawing from a dozen oil and natural gas fields in Russia, a joint venture with German energy company Wintershall stated production passed 70 million barrels. ... more 
Australia's Santos says oil production hit 4-year highWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 Following its move to acquire Quadrant Energy, Australia's Santos said oil production hit a four-year high while production costs dropped 13 percent. ... more |
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Trade concerns resurface to push oil prices lowerWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 The price of oil was lower Thursday after volleys of fire in the U.S.-Chinese trade dispute, one day after a major spike caused by a drain on U.S. oil supplies. ... more  |
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Norway urges caution in 2019 oil and gas investment forecastWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 Norwegian economists said Thursday they were urging a degree of caution in a forecast showing an increase in oil and gas investments next year. ... more
British producer Premier Oil reaches milestone in outputWashington (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 
U.S. punishes Russia for oil transfers to North Korean shipsWashington (UPI) Aug 22, 2018 The U.S. Treasury Department hit Russia with sanctions for transferring oil to North Korea, but stressed that sanctions aren't the only tool for diplomacy. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 
New model explains interactions between small copper clusters used as low-cost catalysts in the production of hydrogen by breaking down water molecules
Copper nanoparticles dispersed in water or in the form of coatings have a range of promising applications, including lubrication, ink jet printing, as luminescent probes, exploiting their antimicrobial and antifungal activity, and in fuel c ... 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.
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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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 Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 
South Africa confirmed on Monday it had scrapped plans to build a series of nuclear power stations, burying one of former president Jacob Zuma's most controversial policies.
Zuma's nuclear expansion plan was a key battleground for control over South Africa's finances, with his opponents accusing him of seeking a deal that could have bankrupted the country to enrich his allies.
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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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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2018  Toyota will pump about $500 million into ride-share firm Uber as part of a deal to work together on mass-producing self-driving vehicles, the Japanese car giant said on Tuesday.
The deal, which reportedly values Uber at about $72 billion, aims at "advancing and bringing to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale", Toyota said in a statement.
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 
Iraq's parliament will meet next week for its first session since May elections to choose a speaker and begin the process of forming a government, the outgoing president said Monday.
The inaugural session of the 329-seat chamber would be chaired by its oldest member, President Fuad Massum said in a decree calling for the sitting to take place on September 3.
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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 27, 2018 
A Hong Kong pro-democracy group led by high-profile activist Joshua Wong said Monday two of its members had been detained and questioned in mainland China.
The pair were released within hours but were warned not to publicise their experiences, the Demosisto party said in a statement.
Hong Kong has rights unseen on the mainland but concerns are growing that those liberties are under serio ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 
The US military has successfully tested a new generation of flying decoy that tricks an enemy's air defenses into thinking it is a US or allied aircraft, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Known by its acronym MALD-X, the Miniature Air Launch Decoy confuses enemy air defenses by duplicating friendly aircraft flight profiles and radar signatures, according to manufacturers Raytheon, who in 2016 won ... 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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