PARIS, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The shuttering of France's oldest nuclear power plant and the assistance given to its workers will be overseen by a veteran transportation official, Paris says.
SYDNEY, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Investment costs in Australia's resource sector must be cut to maintain a good pipeline of projects, a government official said.
ERBIL, Iraq, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Turkey and Iraq's Kurds are reported to be close to an explosive deal on investment in the energy industry of the semiautonomous Kurdish enclave.
PARIS, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Oil inventories among the 34 members of the OECD declined in October, ending gains that endured for seven straight months, the IEA reports from France.
SISSONVILLE, W.Va., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Inspectors with the National Transportation Safety Board said they were in West Virginia to examine details surrounding a pipeline explosion.
LONDON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The British government announced Thursday it was imposing new risk controls that means hydraulic fracturing of shale gas can get under way in the country.
MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Russian energy company Gazprom said it met with Bulgarian executives to discuss implementation of the South Stream gas pipeline.
STAVANGER, Norway, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Norwegian energy company Statiol said it was employing new seismic technology that would help it get another 30 million barrels of oil from offshore fields.
LONDON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- British energy company Energi Oil announced it signed an agreement with a South Korean counterpart to explore the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Energy Department said it expected commercial operations for offshore wind power generation to begin near six states in less than five years.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- An energy company in Texas announced plans to sell its stake in the region's Permian basin to help fund its shift toward Marcellus and other shale deposits.
MAPUTO, Mozambique, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Eni Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni said he discussed liquefied natural gas exports with Mozambique President Armando Guebuza following a major gas find.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Hess Corp. announced that it found more than 200 feet of net oil pay during operations at a well in deep water off the coast of Ghana.
BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- BHP Billiton said it would sell its interest in the Browse natural gas project offshore Western Australia to Chinese oil producer Petrochina for $1.63 billion.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The largest single-unit solar power plant nears completion in Abu Dhabi while Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil exporter, is mulling exporting solar power.
VIENNA, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Nigerian oil production has experienced a general decline for much of the year because of flooding, oil theft and sabotage, said OPEC.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A study from the University of British Columbia suggests a major oil spill tied to the planned Northern Gateway pipeline could erase economic gains.
IRVINE, Texas, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- With North American oil and gas developments changing the energy landscape, Exxon Mobil said it expected shale to play a major role in global production.
HOUSTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A landowner lawsuit in Texas regarding the U.S. leg of the Keystone XL pipeline does nothing to affect the scheduled start, a TransCanada spokesman said.
VIENNA, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Uncertainties in supply and demand forecasts from major world economies are clouding planning, the OPEC president said Wednesday from Vienna.
MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft announced Wednesday it signed the agreement to purchase the Russian side of the TNK-BP consortium.
BEIJING, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- An official with China's renewable energy industry said the country may have as much as 40 gigawatts of installed solar power by 2015.
HOUSTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Oil interest in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico is in the early stages of a major long-term growth period, an investment analyst said.
CAIRO, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Supermajor Shell said it was considering a potential liquefied natural gas terminal in Egypt to transform the country into a net importer.
Masoud Esmailpour Jouybari of Iran and Reece Humphrey of the United States compete in an international wrestling match at Vanderbilt Hall inside of Grand Central Terminal New York City on May 15, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
