WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department announced it has listed Lebanese militant group Abdullah Azzam Brigades as a foreign terrorist organization.
ERBIL, Iraq, May 25 (UPI) -- Gulf Keystone Petroleum announced it started work on its Sheik Adi-2 exploration well in the semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
BERLIN, May 25 (UPI) -- The Shah Deniz 2 natural gas field in the Azeri waters of the Caspian Sea is key to the development of a major European gas transit network, BP said.
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. government called on an oil-spill response company to conduct a live drill in the Gulf of Mexico to test its capabilities, the interior secretary said.
OTTAWA, May 25 (UPI) -- Canadian regulators announced they approved of plans offered by pipeline company TransCanada to expand an eastern natural gas system.
PARIS, May 25 (UPI) -- Carbon dioxide emissions tied to the burning of fossil fuels reached a record level of 31.6 gigatons last year, the International Energy Agency reports.
STAVANGER, Norway, May 25 (UPI) -- Norwegian energy company Statoil and its partners confirmed more than 700 million barrels of light crude oil exist in a block off the Brazilian coast.
MOSCOW, May 25 (UPI) -- Russian energy company Gazprom said its infrastructure has proven capable of supplying the maximum amount of natural gas through the Nord Stream pipeline.
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- A natural gas pipeline from Iran could be considered if Tehran meets the expectations of the international community, a U.S. official suggested.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 25 (UPI) -- Authorities in New Zealand announced two officers of the wrecked cargo vessel Rena, which leaked oil in October, were sentenced to seven months in prison.
LONDON, May 25 (UPI) -- The British government unveiled a draft energy bill this week critics say will raise prices and favors new gas-fired power plants over renewable sources.
ERBIL, Iraq, May 24 (UPI) -- Plans for Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave to build an oil pipeline to Turkey points to a major political and economic realignment in the Middle East that will impact heavily on Iraq.
BISMARCK, N.D., May 24 (UPI) -- An official in North Dakota said it's important to move crude oil out of the Great Lakes region and into refineries along the southern U.S. coast.
LONDON, May 24 (UPI) -- More than 200 applications were submitted to the British government for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, a record level according to the government.
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Louisiana legislators were praised by a consortium of environmental groups for outlining a 50-year plan to protect the coastal ecosystem.
HOUSTON, May 24 (UPI) -- The natural gas industry is to blame for concerns of hydraulic fracturing because of misconceptions of the dangers, an executive said from Houston.
LINCOLN, Neb., May 24 (UPI) -- A law giving the governor of Nebraska the authority to approve oil pipelines passing through the state is illegal, three landowners say in a lawsuit.
DAMASCUS, Syria, May 24 (UPI) -- The Syrian government has lost about $4 billion since September because of sanctions placed on oil exports, the country's petroleum minister said.
BISMARCK, N.D., May 24 (UPI) -- A trade group representing the oil industry said energy production in North Dakota is providing a major economic stimulus in the state.
VIENNA, May 24 (UPI) -- The United Nations said workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan showed few visible effects of radiation exposure.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 24 (UPI) -- Officials at BP said the spill of an estimated 4,200 gallons of crude oil and associated water was contained at a site at the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska.
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites 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
