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Published 22 May 2013 | viewed 2,258 times
MIT physicist Ernest Moniz became the new energy secretary this week after sailing through the nomination process relatively unscathed. His appointment comes at a time…
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Published 21 May 2013 | viewed 1,203 times
Exxon Mobil hasn't asked federal regulatory authorities to restart the Pegasus oil pipeline, which burst open in a neighborhood in Mayflower, Ark. In March, a…
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Published 19 May 2013 | viewed 1,314 times
The U.S. Energy Department last week said it gave conditional authority for a facility in Texas to eventually export liquefied natural gas. New drilling technologies…
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Published 15 May 2013 | viewed 1,694 times
The United States needs to make some decisions on how to capitalize on its surging oil production. Crude oil exports, except under certain circumstances, were…
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Published 13 May 2013 | viewed 2,366 times
Libyan Oil Minister Abdel Bari Ali al-Arousi said his country was ready to recover from civil war and take its rightful place as the powerhouse…
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Published 10 May 2013 | viewed 2,623 times
The wealthiest man in Africa said he's secured billions of dollars in loans to help kick start the refinery business in Nigeria. OPEC-member Nigeria is…
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Published 09 May 2013 | viewed 2,545 times
The Iraqi and Libyan governments said they would help Egypt cope with its economic crisis by offering up crude oil exports. The Egyptian government of…
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Published 06 May 2013 | viewed 1,680 times
The Ukrainian government said it wants to allay European concerns over natural gas supplies by serving as a regional energy hub. Conclusions reached during a…
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Published 05 May 2013 | viewed 5,025 times
Growing security risks in the Middle East are giving oil companies the jitters. French supermajor Total said recently that it was spending more on security…
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Published 01 May 2013 | viewed 4,962 times
The latest assessment of the estimated oil reserves in the Bakken and Three Forks formation in the northern U.S. plains states was about twice as…
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Published 29 April 2013 | viewed 1,897 times
A U.S. circuit court of appeals last week told the oil industry it couldn't pursue a case on disclosure rules at the appellate level. President…
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Published 28 April 2013 | viewed 1,511 times
U.S. Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell went green with one of her first formal moves in the White House last week when she announced her…
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Published 24 April 2013 | viewed 1,848 times
A U.S. report on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi highlighted longstanding concerns about the threat level in Libya. The interim report from the House of…
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Published 22 April 2013 | viewed 2,133 times
A flurry of recent reports on the renewable energy sector suggest that, while global investments are down from 2011 records, most of the major economies…
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Published 21 April 2013 | viewed 2,520 times
British energy company BP announced that its mega Mad Dog project in the Gulf of Mexico wasn't necessarily as attractive as once thought. Oil companies…
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Published 17 April 2013 | viewed 1,957 times
Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said in an April 7 message that Syrian opponents of Bashar Assad should work to establish an Islamic state. Civil war,…
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Published 15 April 2013 | viewed 1,872 times
The apparent victory for Nicolos Maduro in the Venezuelan presidential election may give the United States a sense of hope for improved ties with the…
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Published 11 April 2013 | viewed 3,704 times
Crude oil from the semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq has reached the international market for the first time. Oil was ferried by truck across the…
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Published 10 April 2013 | viewed 2,245 times
Asian consumers are expected to help the Iranian oil sector recovery briefly this month. The U.S. State Department in March lauded Japan for its "significant…
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Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 2,548 times
Foreign companies have spent tens of billions of dollars in an effort to capitalize on the U.S. oil and natural gas boom. The Energy Department…
