BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Energy officials in Baku Friday denied allegations that Georgia has stopped importing energy supplies from Russia through Azerbaijan.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A year that has seen record-high oil prices has left nations considering alternatives that seemed too expensive or environmentally unfriendly as recently as a year ago, when oil was still $60 a barrel. Wind and wave power, bio-fuels and solar energy are now attracting increased attention, as is nuclear power.
The economic realities of soaring energy prices, combined with the development of improved reactor designs have given the nuclear power industry a new lease on life, and one petro-state is looking beyond its hydrocarbon riches to cash in -- Kazakhstan.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- In a possible geopolitical shift, Azerbaijan in the wake of the Georgian conflict said it would offer more oil to Iran and Russia, officials said.
NEW DELHI, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- India is still interested in the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline as Iran and Pakistan said they would join forces to finance the project, officials said.
MOSCOW, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Moscow said Thursday its production levels indicate it should play an influential role in the price of oil on the world market, officials noted.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The launch date for the construction of the Nabucco pipeline faces a potential six-month delay due to a lack of funding, Hungarian officials said Thursday.
MOSCOW, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom will increase the price of gas exported to Armenia by 40 percent beginning in April 2009, officials said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Many in the West see Central Asia as an exotic land awash in oil. The truth is that of the five Central Asian republics, only Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan have significant petroleum and natural gas reserves. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are less fortunate than their Western neighbors, but all five nations are increasingly concerned about the equitable sharing of an even more scarce regional resource -- water.
MOSCOW, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- When asked why he did not go to the current U.N. General Assembly session this week in New York, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told journalists at Beijing airport Tuesday it was far more important to be in the Chinese capital.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Azerbaijani officials Wednesday said there are no plans to alter the route of the proposed Nabucco pipeline through Armenian territory.
ANKARA, Turkey, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Talks between Azerbaijan and Turkey over price mechanisms and gas supplies through the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline have stalled, officials said Wednesday.
BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The Serbian government said there are no obstacles remaining for the acquisition of the state-owned oil firm Naftna Industrija Srbije by Russia's Gazprom.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Iran and Pakistan on the sidelines of the U.N. meeting in New York agreed to create a joint company to create revenue for a gas pipeline project.
MOSCOW, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Europe no longer can contest alternative energy routes and push for the Nabucco pipeline without using Russian or Iranian gas, a French official said Wednesday.
The silhouetted moon covers the sun during an annular eclipse over the skies of Monument Valley National Park, Arizona on May 20, 2012. The eclipse was seen by millions of viewers from China and Japan to the Western USA as the earth's rotation positioned the Far East and USA under the moon's shadow. The two hour long even reached maximum coverage, or annularity, for approximately four minutes as the sun was blocked by the moon at 6:34 PM local time. .UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell
