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  Zeerijp, Netherlands (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean - but when they started making their own earthquakes it proved a step too far. The tiny village of Zeerijp in the northern Netherlands looks ordinary on the surface, yet closer inspection reveals cracks in homes, schools and historic buildings. A series of quakes caused by extractions at Europe's biggest gas field in Groningen province culminated in a 3.4-magnitude tremor in January, the biggest for six years. ... read more |
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Brent prices dip while U.S. crude oil supplies exceed analyst expectationsWashington (UPI) Sep 26, 2018 Brent crude oil prices fell slightly Wednesday but are still hovering near a four-year high while U.S. crude oil supplies had a surprise increase. ... more 
Macron wants Iran to sell oil, urges dialogueNew York (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 Tensions between the United States and the European Union over Iran soared into the open Tuesday after the Europeans announced plans for a legal framework to preserve business with Tehran and evade new US sanctions. ... more
Rising crude prices haven't brought pain to the pump, yetWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 So far, rising international crude oil prices haven't trickled down to U.S. gas pumps. ... more 
Trump comments to UN reinforce market concerns about Iran sanctionsWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 President Donald Trump doubled down on OPEC Tuesday in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, saying the oil cartel is ripping off the world. ... more |
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2 pilots killed in Sudan military jet crash: armyKhartoum (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 A Sudanese military jet has crashed near the city of Omdurman, killing the two pilots on board, the army said on Friday, in the latest accident to hit its ageing fleet. ... more 
Stanford study highlights a path and price to coax emissions back into oil reservoirsStanford CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 In February 2018, Donald Trump signed into law new tax credits that reward oil companies for capturing carbon dioxide and preventing it from entering the atmosphere - either by burying the gas under ... more 
How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive wasteHanover NH (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 September 18, 2018 - Radioactivity in fracking wastewater comes from the interaction between a chemical slurry and ancient shale during the hydraulic fracturing process, according to Dartmouth Colle ... more 
Trump blasts OPEC ahead of World Oil Outlook summitWashington (UPI) Sep 20, 2018 Crude oil prices moved in opposite directions Thursday morning as Brent was trending down and WTI trending up, both for different reasons. ... more 
China anti-graft agency probes head of energy administrationBeijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 The head of China's energy administration has been placed under investigation by the country's anti-corruption watchdog, the latest top official ensnared in the Communist Party's campaign against graft. ... more |
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Gas prices steady after onslaught from Hurricane FlorenceWashington (UPI) Sep 18, 2018 Hurricane Florence had little effect on gasoline prices because the storm didn't go near refineries or other energy infrastructure. The Carolinas and surrounding states also had an abundant supply of gasoline, analysts report, explaining the lack of a spike in prices. ... more  |
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Venezuela to bump China oil exports to one million barrels a dayCaracas (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 Venezuela is to increase its oil exports to China to one million barrels a day, President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday, just days after visiting the Asian powerhouse. ... more 
U.S. official: Increase LNG exports to Europe to counter RussiaWashington (UPI) Sep 17, 2018 The United States needs to increase its natural gas exports to Europe to counter Russia's increasing energy dominance in the region, a top Trump administration official warned. ... more 
China temporarily spares U.S. oil imports from tariffsWashington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 U.S. crude oil exports have been temporarily spared from Chinese tariffs, giving state-run oil refineries a short window to import as much as possible. ... more 
Permian shale producers hedging their bets against pipeline projectsWashington (UPI) Sep 14, 2018 New pipeline infrastructure can't get built fast enough in the Permian Basin, where oil is selling at a $15 discount and producers are locking in prices for the next two years. ... more 
Venezuela's Maduro pays tribute to Mao, makes deals with ChinaBeijing (AFP) Sept 14, 2018 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro paid tribute to Mao Zedong at the late Chinese leader's mausoleum on Friday before overseeing energy and gold mining deals as he seeks Beijing's help to bolster his crisis-hit country's economy. ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 
Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of Munster (WWU) have purified and visualized the 'Cyclic Electron Flow' (CEF) supercomplex, a critical part of the photosynthetic machinery in all plants, in a discovery that could help guide the development of next-generation solar biotechnologies.
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 Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 
A unique combination of imaging tools and atomic-level simulations has allowed a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to solve a longstanding debate about the properties of a promising material that can harvest energy from light.
The researchers used multimodal imaging to "see" nanoscale interactions within a thin film of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite, ... more |
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
Wind power is an important pillar in Germany's energy policy turnaround: According to the German government, the resource should cover 65 percent of German electricity needs by 2030, along with solar, hydropower and biomass. In a recent study, Dr. Christopher Jung and Dr. Dirk Schindler from the University of Freiburg show that it will be possible to cover 40 percent of the current electricity c ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 
Framatome will be upgrading the Instrumentation and Control (I and C) system on EDF's 900 MWe reactor fleet in France. Following on from the studies already underway since 2015, the first on-site operations will begin in 2019, coinciding with the fourth ten-yearly inspections of the 900 MWe series reactors.
These works are scheduled to be carried out on 32 reactors. It forms a part of the ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2018 
Heads of state and government on Monday kicked off "Climate Week," held every year on the margins of the UN General Assembly, by urging world leaders to act urgently to reduce global warming.
With Poland hosting the COP 24 climate summit in December, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa called on nations to unite behind limiting global warming to the less than two degrees Celsius enshrined in ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Sept 29, 2018 
After years watching Tesla's electric cars speed ahead while they have been on the defensive over an industry-wide diesel emissions scandal, German high-end manufacturers have finally unveiled their first challengers to the Californian upstart.
Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen's Audi and Porsche subsidiaries between them control some 80 percent of the worldwide premium car mar ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced to death on terror charges a prominent jihadist described as a deputy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after he was captured in Turkey.
Ismail Alwan Salman al-Ithawi was hunted down, caught and extradited after a joint operation involving Turkish, Iraqi and US intelligence agencies, according to the Iraqi authorities.
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 26, 2018  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani predicted Wednesday that the United States would eventually rejoin an international nuclear deal, saying talks this week at the United Nations showed his counterpart Donald Trump's isolation.
"The United States of America one day, sooner or later, will come back. This cannot be continued," Rouhani told a news conference.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 
Illuminated under a spotlight at London's British Museum, hand-drawn sketches of Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement are part of a new exhibition on dissent that offers a rare glimpse of the artworks produced during the pro-democracy rallies.
The months-long demonstrations, which kicked off on September 28 four years ago, brought parts of the city to a standstill as protest camps took over ar ... more |
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Sept 25, 2018 
Nigerian troops repelled another attempt by Boko Haram jihadists to overrun a military base in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian sources told AFP on Tuesday.
Dozens of jihadist fighters from an Islamic State-backed Boko Haram faction attacked the base on Sunday in the village of Kekeno, near the garrison town of Monguno, in Borno state.
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 
Boeing and Leonardo will provide four MH-39s to the Air Force under a $375.6 million contract, the first part of the $2.3 billion UH-1N Replacement Program.
The contract, awarded to Boeing as primary contractor on Monday by the Department of Defense, will see Leonardo assemble the new MH-39s in Philadelphia and Boeing integrate military-specific equipment at another facility south of Ph ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 
As doubts grow over China's vast "Belt and Road" trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it says will not saddle countries with debt they cannot repay.
EU member countries are expected to sign off on the new "Asia connectivity strategy" - which aims to improve transport, digital and energy links while promoting environmental and labour standards - ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 
US B-52 bombers have recently conducted transit operations in the South China Sea and East China Sea, the Pentagon said Wednesday, amid soaring tensions with Beijing over trade tariffs.
Late Tuesday the heavy bombers "participated in a regularly scheduled, combined operation in the East China Sea," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn said.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 25, 2018 
A new NASA-led study helps answer decades-old questions about the role of smoke and human-caused air pollution on clouds and rainfall. Looking specifically at deep convective clouds - tall clouds like thunderclouds, formed by warm air rising - the study shows that smoky air makes it harder for these clouds to grow. Pollution, on the other hand, energizes their growth, but only if the pollution i ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Sept 25, 2018 
Morocco's navy on Tuesday fired on a boat carrying migrants which refused to respond to its orders, leaving a Moroccan woman dead and three other people wounded, local officials said.
The patrol was "forced" to open fire on a speedboat driven by a Spaniard who "refused to obey" orders in waters off the Moroccan locality of M'diq-Fnideq, the authorities said in a statement.
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