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08 Oct 05 : 41 | Thousands march against Garcia, corruption in Peru
(Reuters) Reuters - Thousands of protesters denounced Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Tuesday, a day after his energy minister quit in a widening scandal over steering oil concessions to favored bidders. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News 3 hours ago |
07 Oct 12 : 21 | Nigerian conflict a warning for Big Oil in Iraq
(AP) AP - Recurrent violence in oil-rich parts of Nigeria may provide a sobering lesson for oil companies hoping to work in Iraq a place that is much more dangerous despite the fact that attacks are at their lowest level in more than four years. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News 20 hours ago |
08 Oct 02 : 22 | Balts hope Georgia conflict boosts energy case
(Reuters) Reuters - Ulo Kikas, harbor captain at the port of Muuga, stands at the top of the multi-storey harbor building near Estonia's capital and points down to a network of vacant railway tracks for oil product wagons. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News 6 hours ago |
07 Oct 15 : 15 | Household winter heat costs to rise 15 percent
(Reuters) Reuters - Average household heating fuel costs this winter will be 15 percent higher than last year, with heating oil and natural gas users taking the biggest hit due to more expensive crude oil and colder weather than last winter, the government's top energy forecasting agency said Tuesday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News 17 hours ago |
07 Oct 14 : 49 | Household winter heat costs to rise 15 percent
(Reuters) Reuters - Average household heating fuel costs this winter will be 15 percent higher than last year, with heating oil and natural gas users taking the biggest hit due to more expensive crude oil and colder weather than last winter, the government's top energy forecasting agency said Tuesday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News 18 hours ago |
07 Oct 14 : 39 | Energy Department warns of higher heating costs
(AP) AP - Although global oil prices have plummeted, the cost of heating your home this winter will be a lot more expensive, especially for households that depend on fuel oil, the Energy Department predicted Tuesday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News 18 hours ago |
30 Sept 07 : 18 | Oil lower after US bailout plan rejection
(AFP) AFP - World oil prices fell slightly in Asia on Tuesday following a nearly 10 percent drop in New York after US legislators dramatically rejected a plan to bail out the ailing financial sector. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
27 Sept 21 : 06 | Oil flowing from offshore spigot still years away
(AP) AP - The welcome sign is going out to oil and gas companies off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
26 Sept 16 : 59 | Russia, Venezuela sign oil and gas deals
(AP) AP - Russia and Venezuelan officials on Friday signed agreements meant to bolster cooperation in the oil and gas industry, playing up energy ties between two nations trying to decrease U.S. influence around the world. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
24 Sept 18 : 35 | Chavez hails oil cooperation with China, blasts US
(AP) AP - China and Venezuela hailed rising oil exports and growing energy cooperation during a visit to Beijing by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that lent him a new platform from which to criticize Washington. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
24 Sept 12 : 21 | Jordan gets first subsidised Iraqi oil under new deal
(AFP) AFP - Jordan received 11,000 barrels of Iraqi oil by road on Wednesday, the first delivery under a new agreement which revises the subsidy the kingdom receives in the light of spiralling world prices, Energy Minister Khaldun Qteishat said. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
21 Sept 12 : 58 | Nigerian armed group declares ceasefire in 'oil war'
(AFP) AFP - The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria, MEND, declared a ceasefire on Sunday following a week of attacks on oil industry targets after launching an "oil war". Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
20 Sept 09 : 53 | Nigerian militants step up 'oil war' claiming sixth attack
(AFP) AFP - Nigeria's main armed militant group Saturday said it had destroyed a major pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in the sixth such attack in the past week as it vowed to paralyse the key oil sector. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
18 Sept 16 : 06 | Iraq seeks British help in oil industry: PM
(AFP) AFP - Iraq asked Britain on Thursday for technical support in its oil industry, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office said. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
17 Sept 09 : 47 | Nigerian oil rebels hit new Shell facility
(AFP) AFP - A Nigerian militant group said Wednesday it acted with a new ally to stage an attack which destroyed a Royal Dutch Shell oil flow station in the African nation's main producing region. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
16 Sept 16 : 33 | House to try again opens debate on oil drilling
(AP) AP - The House has restarted a summerlong debate on expanding oil drilling in Atlantic and Pacific waters that would end a longtime moratorium. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
16 Sept 08 : 27 | Nigerian militants launch new attacks on oil sector
(Reuters) Reuters - Nigerian militants attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline and Chevron-operated oilfield in the Niger Delta as heavy fighting with security forces entered a fourth day, militants and a security source said on Tuesday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
15 Sept 07 : 59 | Nigerian militants attack Shell oil flow station
(Reuters) Reuters - Nigerian militants attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil flow station on Monday in a third day of heavy fighting with security forces in the Niger Delta region, the military said. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
14 Sept 17 : 43 | Militant group in Niger Delta declares war on oil industry
(AFP) AFP - The most prominent militant group in oil-rich southern Nigeria on Sunday said it had declared an "oil war" and threatened all international industry vessels that approach the region. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
11 Sept 16 : 07 | Iraq ends talks with French oil company
(AP) AP - France's Total said Thursday that Iraq has ended negotiations to develop an oil field in southern Iraq, one of six reported cancellations of no-bid contracts with Western oil companies. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
11 Sept 03 : 27 | Sex, drugs and oil: corruption scandal rocks US gov't agency
(AFP) AFP - US Department of the Interior employees who handled billions of dollars in oil contracts improperly engaged in sex with energy company employees, a new report has said. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
10 Sept 10 : 00 | With oil prices falling, O.P.E.C. weighs cuts
(The Christian Science... The Christian Science Monitor - On Tuesday, oil prices dipped below $100 a barrel for the first time since April as expectations grew that ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would not officially cut production. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
09 Sept 18 : 48 | OPEC to keep oil flowing as prices fall
(AFP) AFP - Oil producer group OPEC, which pumps 40 percent of world crude, is to keep its production unchanged at a meeting here Tuesday, the group's president said, despite sinking prices and slowing economic growth. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
09 Sept 01 : 00 | Congress warms to new oil drilling
(AP) AP - Senate Democrats promised a series of votes next week on offshore oil drilling as Republicans agreed Monday to let the Senate proceed on a defense bill that had been bottled up because of partisan disputes over the country's energy priorities. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
08 Sept 03 : 20 | OPEC ministers tackle falling oil prices
(AFP) AFP - OPEC ministers headed for Vienna on Monday to wrestle with the issue of falling oil prices, with analysts expecting them to agree to trim output to help keep crude above 100 dollars a barrel. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
03 Oct 06 : 23 | Some facts adrift in vice presidential debate
(AP) AP - Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
10 Sept 05 : 34 | OPEC agrees to surprise output cut, oil price rises
(Reuters) Reuters - After hours of wrangling, OPEC on Wednesday agreed to revise its complex output targets and said the move would effectively cut supplies by half a million barrels per day (bpd). Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
01 Oct 22 : 04 | Financial crisis could dent nuclear plant growth
(AP) AP - Growth in the construction of new nuclear plants worldwide is at risk because of the global financial crisis, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Wednesday, adding that short-term projects like oil drilling are more likely to go ahead. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
29 Sept 10 : 48 | Key US House seat race in Missouri heats up
(AP) AP - She accuses her opponent of being too close to Big Oil and says he stood by for eight years while the economy crumbled. Her opponent says she's an "extreme liberal" who has more support in California than Missouri. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
28 Sept 03 : 50 | Senate sends big spending bill to Bush to sign
(AP) AP - Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a sprawling spending bill Saturday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
27 Sept 20 : 27 | Senate sends big spending bill to Bush to sign
(AP) AP - Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a sprawling spending bill Saturday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
27 Sept 05 : 34 | Fact checking the presidential debates
(AP) AP - Some facts got lost when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain confronted each other over the financial crisis, Iraq, the oil industry and more in the first presidential debate of the 2008 general election. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
26 Sept 12 : 13 | Cambodia eyes nuclear plant for electricity
(AP) AP - Impoverished Cambodia hopes to build a nuclear power plant to meet its future energy needs and help offset its dependence on imported oil, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Friday during the first meeting of his new Cabinet. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
24 Sept 23 : 27 | House funding bill includes auto loans
(Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday funded a $25 billion loan package for troubled automakers as part of a mammoth spending bill to keep the government running through March 2009, but the legislation did not extend a ban on offshore oil drilling. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
24 Sept 00 : 19 | Democrats to let offshore drilling ban expire
(AP) AP - Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in an month-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
23 Sept 16 : 46 | Shell, Iraq seal $4 billion gas deal
(AFP) AFP - Royal Dutch Shell has formally signed a gas joint venture with an Iraqi state-owned company estimated to be worth four billion dollars, a top government oil official said on Tuesday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
22 Sept 07 : 59 | India's Reliance vows to boost national energy security
(AFP) AFP - Indian fuel giant Reliance said it would boost domestic oil and gas output by 40 percent over the next 18 months, calling the move a "quantum leap" toward national energy self-sufficiency. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
19 Sept 11 : 43 | In Montana, coal's future enters governor's race
(AP) AP - Republican Roy Brown has promised a more aggressive energy policy for Montana if elected governor with expanded coal mining, a new power plant and fewer barriers to oil and gas exploration. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
16 Sept 19 : 30 | House takes up offshore drilling
(AP) AP - The House moved toward a vote Tuesday to end the longtime ban on oil drilling in Atlantic and Pacific waters. Republicans called it a Democratic ruse that would leave most untapped offshore oil out of bounds. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
15 Sept 06 : 36 | Vietnam launches locally made ethanol-blended gasoline
(AFP) AFP - Vietnam on Monday launched a locally made ethanol-blended gasoline with the view to "ensure national energy security and reduce the economy's dependence on oil products", said oil giant PetroVietnam. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
10 Sept 13 : 35 | Jordan Jan-Aug inflation at record 14.9%
(AFP) AFP - Jordan's inflation reached 14.9 percent in the eight months through August, mainly due to hikes in oil prices, the kingdom's statistics department said on Wednesday. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
07 Sept 12 : 58 | Iran wants OPEC output cut to target quotas
(AFP) AFP - Iran said on Sunday that OPEC members should cut output to the agreed target quotas in the face of falling oil prices, two days before the cartel meets in Vienna, state-run IRNA news agency reported. Source : Yahoo! News: Energy News |
