WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Iraq's oil sector ends 2007 on a relative upbeat note, with production at levels not seen since before the war. But the year had more downs than ups, and sustaining success through next year is far from guaranteed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A challenge has emerged from Uzbekistan to Transneft's "take it or leave it" policy, with potentially enormous implications for Gazprom's decade-and-a-half monopoly.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- An Indian trade body report says the country's energy sector requires $120 billion to $150 billion over the next five years.
MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The last few months of 2007 were good for Russia, which has been fighting this year to affirm its leadership in the hydrocarbons market. And it may have spelled the end for the Nabucco pipeline, which Europe has wanted as a way to bypass reliance on Moscow.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- There is one Iraq, but there is also two: the northern, potentially oil-rich region controlled by Iraq's Kurds, and the rest of Iraq. That, says the Kurdish liaison to United Nations efforts in Iraqi Kurdistan, is how the international community should view it.
BAIJI, Iraq, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The police chief of the Iraqi oil hub Baiji will be dismissed following Tuesday's suicide attack, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- State-run Indian Oil Corp. says it is planning to venture out alone in domestic oil and gas exploration and production activities.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- India's Power Ministry said the power capacity addition target for this fiscal year is likely to fall short by 4,300 megawatts.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The operator of the project to pump Russian gas to Germany has officially applied to Stockholm to lay pipeline beneath its Baltic Sea waters.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's teachers and healthcare workers, like the oil unions earlier this year, are demanding the government take action on improving working conditions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's majority Kurdish and potentially oil-rich area in the north has survived a summer of Cholera, but the region's health minister warns of more outbreaks.
KINGSTON, N.Y., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Kingston, N.Y.-based Solar Energy Consortium would get $1.5 million in congressionally approved funding for solar power.
DALLAS, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Dallas-based Chief Oil and Gas says Pennsylvania's Lycoming County may be sitting atop huge natural gas reserves, the Williamsport (Pa.) Sun Gazette reports.
LONDON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and Norway's StatoilHydro have scrapped plans to build a green power plant that would have captured and stored carbon dioxide.
A soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a flag at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
