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  Washington (UPI) Oct 9, 2018 France's Total and Saudi Aramco inked an accord for the front-end engineering and design of a new petrochemical plant in an eastern province of Saudi Arabia. The agreement represents a $5 billion investment, and it is scheduled to start operating in 2024. Amin Nasser, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco, said during the signing event in Dhahran on Monday that the new plant "will deliver on multiple levels, from high-value fuels and petrochemical products never manufactured in the Kingdom before, ... read more |
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UN, AU ask S.Sudan's warring sides to deliver on peace dealJuba (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 The United Nations and African Union on Tuesday called on South Sudan's warring parties to take concrete steps to implement the latest peace deal signed last month. ... more 
Gas prices highest in four years for fall seasonWashington (UPI) Oct 9, 2018 Gasoline prices have on average gained 3 cents on the week, rising to $2.91 per gallon, despite moves to a cheaper winter blend - and the current levels, highest for a fall period in four years, are likely to remain "unseasonably expensive" through the end of the year, the AAA reported. ... more 
Russia minister considers joining OPEC unnecessary, unreasonableWashington (UPI) Oct 9, 2018 Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak considers unnecessary for the country to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, as the current relationship makes it possible to reach accords while avoiding "legal obligations". ... more 
Crude oil prices tick up as Hurricane Michael targets the Florida panhandleWashington (UPI) Oct 9, 2018 Oil prices were up in mid-day trading Tuesday as Hurricane Michael barrels toward the Florida panhandle. ... more |
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U.S. could issue waivers for Iran crude; oil prices dip MondayWashington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018 Oil prices were down Monday morning on reports that the United States could issue waivers for countries to continue importing Iranian crude. ... more 
Race to clean up oil spill after cargo ships collide off CorsicaMarseille (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 French and Italian civil and military teams were working to contain a spreading oil spill in the Mediterranean Monday after a container ship collision off the island of Corsica that prompted France to launch an investigation into "maritime pollution". ... more 
Iraqi Kurdistan struggles to rebuild tattered economySulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Sept 29, 2018 The oil-rich Iraqi region of Kurdistan is struggling to rebuild its economy, a year after an ill-fated independence referendum that Baghdad deemed illegal. ... more 
After huge gains, WTI crude oil slips more than $1.50Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2018 Oil prices lost ground Thursday morning after a rambunctious rally the day before. ... more 
Quantum mechanics work lets oil industry know promise of recovery experimentsNashville TN (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 With their current approach, energy companies can extract about 35 percent of the oil in each well. Every 1 percent above that, compounded across thousands of wells, can mean billions of dollars in ... more |
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 S. Arabia backs down from blocking UN climate report: sources
Crude oil stays steady with Iranian sanctions just a month awayWashington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 Crude oil prices stayed steady Friday after a volatile week that saw the highest prices in four years. ... more  |
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Researchers map susceptibility to man-made earthquakesStanford CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 Earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas had been on the rise due to injection of wastewater - a byproduct of oil and gas operations - before regulations started limiting injections. Now a new model devel ... more 
U.S. showdown with Saudis could push NOPEC to the goal lineWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 President Donald Trump's tough words for OPEC could have some real teeth if the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2018 gains momentum. ... more
Qatar, Russia defend OPEC, deny manipulation of oil pricesWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2018 Qatar's energy minister defended the oil market strategy of his country and other OPEC nations Tuesday. ... more 
Canada relaunches pipeline talks with indigenous tribesOttawa (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 Canada's resources minister said Wednesday Ottawa was relaunching consultations with indigenous groups on the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Pacific after a court ruled the tribes get a say in the multi-billion dollar project. ... more 
Saudi Arabia quietly plans to increase oil output by 500,000 barrels per dayWashington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 Saudi Arabia is poised to steadily increase production to compensate for the Iranian oil that will be subject to U.S. sanctions starting Nov. 5. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
The United States will raise the ethanol content level in gasoline that can be sold year round, President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday, delivering a win for farmers ahead of hotly contested midterm elections.
"We're going with E15 year-round," Trump told supporters at a rally in Iowa.
"Promises made, promises kept."
The decision came down squarely on the side of agriculture in a ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 
Experts predict that by 2050 we're going to have global broadband internet satellite networks, in-orbit manufacturing, space tourism, asteroid mining and lunar and Mars bases.
More than a gigawatt of solar energy will be needed to power these activities, or the equivalent of 3.125 million photovoltaic panels. However, because it is currently the most expensive component on a satellite, sci ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 
All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to ze ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 
The test piece machining workshop on the Le Creusot site, or CFE, has been using a latest-generation dimensional inspection tool since the spring.
A test piece is a sample of steel taken from the solid part of a forging or casting and machined to be used for the purposes of a given mechanical test. Before being sent to an in-house laboratory on the Le Creusot site - the Vulcain laboratory ... more |
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 Incheon, South Korea (AFP) Oct 8, 2018  Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster.
Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) - enough to lift oceans and unleash a crescendo of deadly storms, floods and droughts - and is on ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
A crash by one of Uber Technologies, Inc.'s self-driving cars earlier this year resulted in the first pedestrian death associated with self-driving technology. The incident highlighted the challenges technology companies are facing in developing software that can adequately detect and respond to hazards in the road and immediate surroundings.
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 Najaf, Iraq (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
In the covered alleyways of old Najaf in Iraq, poetry and philosophy books compete on laden shelves with economic treatises, the Koran and other theological tomes for students' attention.
Since leaving his native Bangladesh for the Shiite holy city three years ago, religious student Mohammed Ali Reda has regularly frequented secondhand bookstores.
There are many like him in Najaf.
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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
International inspectors will be allowed into North Korea's dismantled nuclear testing site, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday, after a meeting with Kim Jong Un in which he said "significant progress" was made towards denuclearisation.
Pompeo met with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Sunday to rekindle stalled denuclearisation talks following a landmark summit between Kim ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
The former Chinese head of Interpol, who went missing last month, was accused of accepting bribes on Monday, becoming the latest top official to fall in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption dragnet.
After days of concealing the fate of Meng Hongwei - who is also China's vice minister for public security - from the international community, the public security ministry said Monday he had a ... more |
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 
A rebel attack on an army post in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six people dead, civilian and military sources said Friday.
The Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is suspected of having carried out Thursday night's attack in the city of Beni, which sits near the DRC border with Uganda.
The raid is thought to have targeted General Marcel Mbangu but instead killed four othe ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
NASA Glenn researchers are going back to basics to probe deeper into the physics of high-altitude ice crystal icing.
Measuring the conditions that lead to a build-up of ice crystals inside an engine has been a challenge, according to researcher Peter Struk.
"You can't come in with probes to measure exact concentrations of water and ice particle sizes because you can't block the airfl ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
A leading Financial Times journalist has been given seven days to leave Hong Kong as a backlash mounted Monday against an unprecedented challenge to freedom of the press in the city.
Victor Mallet, the FT's Asia news editor and a British national, angered authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong by hosting a speech at the city's press club by Andy Chan, the leader of a tiny pro-independence poli ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 Beijing's international image took a self-inflicted bruising with a secretive investigation into the former Chinese head of Interpol, highlighting its ruthless tactics even as it seeks global goodwill in a trade spat with the United States, analysts said.
The election of Meng Hongwei as head of Interpol in 2016 was a triumph for President Xi Jinping's bid to burnish China's international pro ... more |
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 Marseille (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
The American captain of a massive cruise ship faces trial in Marseille on Monday accused of using fuel with sulphur levels above European limits, as the Mediterranean port city grapples with the polluting effect of its drive to increase boat tourism.
The Azura, capable of carrying more than 3,000 passengers, is one of the largest in the fleet operated by P&O Cruises, whose parent company Car ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Oct 10, 2018  The economic cost of climate-related disasters hit $2.25 trillion over the last two decades, an increase of more than 250 percent compared to the previous 20 years, the UN said Wednesday.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) noted that "climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events" such as floods and storms.
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