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The World Bank says Russia’s economy may not be headed for as bad a recession as previously forecasted, yet it stressed that global economic ambiguities leave the outlook uncertain.
The output of oil and gas from Britain’s North Sea energy sector, plus disappointing export numbers, are beginning to weaken manufacturing in the kingdom and threatening…
Kentucky has long been a coal state, and as such has consistently resisted efforts by the federal government to limit greenhouse gas emissions from its coal-fired…
Kazakhstan, once one of the largest repositories of nuclear weapons, is now qualified to become a “fuel bank” for low-enriched uranium for the United Nations’ International…
A pipeline company says it will comply with an order from the federal government that it must, under federal supervision, finish the job of cleaning up…
There used to be millions of greater sage grouse, chicken-like birds that roamed the American West. But environmentalist say that by 2010 there were only…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is setting aside $32 million to help promote new jobs and research in the nation’s solar energy industry in an effort to accelerate the…
Work at an oilfield run by both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia was suspended on May 11, ostensibly for maintenance, but the project remains closed to allow…
Iran says its Islamic Republic Cyber Police, known as FATA, has successfully prevented attempted cyber-attacks from the United States on its Oil Ministry. “The Cyber Attacks…
The Italian energy company Eni has discovered a gas and condensate deposit in the rich Bouri Field off the coast of Libya, the second such discovery…
Huge oil companies, among the largest businesses in the world, don’t excite hedge fund manager Jim Chanos because today they have to work harder and more…
The tiny Balkan state of Macedonia can now join neighboring Greece as a pawn in the tug-of-war between Moscow and the West on developing alternative routes…
Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Zanganeh, says that despite their general differences over Islam and specific quarrel over Yemen, his country and Saudi Arabia have more in common than may be…
The 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant has had a chilling effect on the global nuclear power industry, and has forced a rethink of nuclear power even in…
Israel is refusing to comply with an order by a Swiss court that it pay $1.1 billion that it has owed to Tehran since before Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution for…
Oil prices rose slightly last week on a variety of news, the most important being word that U.S. inventories have declined further, as well as stronger…
The Texas RRC is out with their latest Oil and Gas Production Data. Looks like oil production has leveled out with March production pretty much…
Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden says that whereas the Anglo-Dutch company is aware of the dangers that fossil fuels pose to the environment, it…
The three companies with official responsibility for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster have reached settlements with individuals, businesses and with one another for the worst…
While Royal Dutch Shell is determined to explore the Arctic for energy, rival BP is looking south, proceeding with its plan, expected to cost more…