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Niger, China launch oil pipline project crossing Benin

Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)

President Mahamadou Issoufou launched the project on Tuesday at the Agadem oil field in the southeast of the country, where the China National Petroleum Corpora...

Attack on Saudi Arabia came from Iran: US official

Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)

The official, who declined to be identified, said the United States was gathering evidence about the attack to present to the international community, notably E...

US will 'defend' international order being 'undermined by Iran': Pentagon chief

Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)

After briefing President Donald Trump in the White House, Esper singled out Iran as undermining international order, without directly pinning blame on Tehran fo...

Oil prices soar more than 10% after Saudi plant attacks

Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)

West Texas Intermediate jumped 10.68 percent to $60.71 and Brent climbed 11.77 percent to $67.31 in early Asia trading following the blasts at facilities run by...

Iraq denies links to drone attack on Saudi oil plants

Sep 15, 2019 (AFP)

The attacks early Saturday targeted two key oil installations, causing massive fires and taking out half of the kingdom's vast oil output. The operation was cla...

Venezuela 'ready' to defend itself after US invokes defence pact: FM

Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)

"We are ready to protect ourselves, we are ready to react," Arreaza told a news conference after meeting in Geneva with UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet. "We w...

'Demon oil' on the defensive over climate change

Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)

With the burning of "demon" fossil fuels blamed for playing havoc in the "age of man", many agreed that after decades of energy wars, future conflicts would be ...

Oil spill adds to list of Dorian-induced woes in Bahamas

Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)

After sowing mass destruction across the island, Hurricane Dorian delivered one final blow: an oil spill at the Norwegian Equinor facility. Dozens of residents ...

Energy 'transition' the buzzword, but a fossil future for the Gulf

Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)

But many executives and officials from oil-dependent Gulf states insist that while the change to renewables is essential, fossil fuels remain the future at leas...

Contest yields new technologies for finding natural gas leaks

Sep 10, 2019 (UPI)

Though a "challenge" by name, the effort yielded no winners. Most participants focused on very specific aspects of mobile gas detection, like how to pinpoint th...

S.Sudan rebel leader in Juba in bid to salvage peace deal

Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)

Machar landed in the capital in a Sudanese plane, preceded by two jets carrying a large delegation of around 60 people and security officers from Khartoum where...

Big Oil investments bet on failure to meet climate goals: report

Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)

Eighteen major investments totalling $50 billion would only become profitable if the world exceeds the Paris climate treaty targets for capping global warming, ...

Russia's Novatek announces launch of huge Arctic gas project

Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)

The privately owned company said that a "final investment decision" had been made on financing the $21 billion Arctic LNG 2 project with partners including Fran...

Jordan receives first Iraqi oil for 5 years

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

Energy Minister Hala Zawati said the shipments -- under a deal struck in February for deliveries by truck of 10,000 barrels of Iraqi crude per day -- would cove...

US won't waive sanctions to allow French-proposed Iran credit line

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

"We can't make it any more clear that we are committed to this campaign of maximum pressure and we are not looking to grant any exceptions or waivers," Brian Ho...

Iran says to stick to nuclear deal for $15 bn oil credit

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi expressed doubt, however, that such a plan could be agreed before a looming deadline set by Iran to further scale back it...

EU's climate tilt tripped up by post-Soviet energy treaty

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

The Energy Charter Treaty, struck in the 1990s, is meant to boost energy cooperation across borders. Initially it sought to protect investment in developing sta...

New fuel to get sea freight environmentally shipshape

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

The International Maritime Organization decided in 2016 that the sulphur levels in fuels for ships would have to fall to 0.5 percent in 2020, compared to 3.5 pe...

US rolls back regulations on industrial methane leaks

Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)

It is the latest in President Donald Trump's long battle against environmental protection rules, coming weeks after his administration made fundamental changes ...

Disaster feared if 'ticking time bomb' Yemen tanker explodes

Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)

The ship "Safer", used as a floating storage platform, is laden with some 1.1 million barrels of crude oil and has been stranded with no maintenance since early...