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Six European countries join barter system for Iran trade

Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)

"As founding shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), France, Germany and the United Kingdom warmly welcome the decision taken by ...

Concordia researcher hopes to use big data to make pipelines safer

Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)

Unfortunately, integrity and health are ongoing and serious problems for North America's pipeline infrastructure. According to the US Department of Transportati...

Scientists stumble upon 'large' Turkmenistan gas plant leak

Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)

Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they outline how they discovered the leak and calculated that it had emitted around 140 kilotonnes of metha...

China slams 'selfish' US Middle East policies

Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)

While US President Donald Trump has decided to abruptly withdraw troops from northeast Syria and reimpose sweeping sanctions on Iran, Beijing -- the world's top...

Chemical herders could impact oil spill cleanup

Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)

Lakshmana Chandrala, Franz O'Meally and Joseph Katz will present their findings at 8:11 am on Nov. 26 as a part of the American Physical Society's Division of F...

Slash emissions now or face climate disaster, UN warns

Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)

The United Nations Environment Programme said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6 percent each year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C. ...

Enel in 14.4 bln euro decarbonisation push

Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)

"Decarbonisation of the global generation fleet will account for 50 percent of total planned investments, with 14.4 billion euros ($15.9 billion) devoted to the...

New study looks to biological enzymes as source of hydrogen fuel

Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)

The researchers report their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, hydrogen gas is produced using a very complex industria...

Tiny German oil firm strikes black gold on the Rhine

Nov 24, 2019 (AFP)

As Berlin battles to reach climate neutrality by 2050, minnow Rhein Petroleum sees a niche for its unusually pure crude during the transition phase, although it...

Oil from spill in Brazil washes up in Rio state

Nov 23, 2019 (AFP)

Some 300 grams -- a small quantity of oil -- were found far from the region's most famous beaches, in the sand in the town of Sao Joao da Barra, as the spill mo...

Britain's art world turns its back on oil cash

Nov 21, 2019 (AFP)

Members of the "BP or not BP?" protest group on Tuesday disrupted an event for the British Museum's new exhibition on Troy, which is sponsored by the British oi...

Lincoln Carrier Strike Group finishes scheduled transit into Persian Gulf

Nov 20, 2019 (UPI)

The trip marks the Lincoln's first voyage into the Persian Gulf since being deployed to the region, and comes ahead of the USS Truman and its air wing coming to...

Iraqi protesters shut roads to ports, oil fields

Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)

Correspondent in oil-rich Basra province saw protesters block access routes to the ports of Khor al-Zubair and Umm Qasr, as well as Rumailah oil field. Trucks w...

US aircraft carrier transits Strait of Hormuz

Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)

The group's move through the strategic waterway separating Iran and the United Arab Emirates towards the Gulf was scheduled, and unfolded without incident, the ...

Mongolia's new 'cleaner' fuel linked to deaths, illness

Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)

Within hours of arriving, she and her parents both became breathless and nauseous. They desperately called for help -- but by the time medics arrived Gerel, who...

Pollution from Athabasca oil sands affects weather processes

Nov 19, 2019 (SPX)

"The beauty of frozen precipitation such as snow is that it's like a snapshot of atmospheric processes. The snow absorbs the hard metal particles and embeds it ...

Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst

Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)

By 2050, the national government aims to get almost all of the Netherlands' energy requirements from sustainable sources, such as the sun or the wind. Because t...

Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel

Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)

One of the challenges of creating hydrogen, however, is that it takes energy--lots of energy. The IEA says that producing all of today's hydrogen just using ele...

Maduro says military personnel jailed for alleged plots

Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)

Maduro did not say how many members of the military had been arrested, and provided only a sketchy description of the alleged plots in the interview with privat...

Aramco IPO: Market debut of Saudi Arabia's cash cowl

Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)

The kingdom on Sunday put a value of up to $1.71 trillion on the company, short of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's initial target of $2 trilli...