BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 22 (UPI) -- The seizure of Syrian oil fields by the al-Nusra Front could accelerate the breakup of Syria amid a reshaping of the Middle East's geopolitical landscape.
SYDNEY, May 22 (UPI) -- A new report from Australia's government says that committed investment in the country's major resources and energy projects has peaked.
STRASBOURG, France, May 22 (UPI) -- Legislation in the European Union regarding oil and natural gas production safety is long overdue, Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Maintaining a flat level of natural gas production from U.S. shale deposits is an elusive prospect, an energy policy director told U.S. lawmakers.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Oil production from five Western U.S. states increased as much as 64 percent since 2010 in part because of new drilling methods, the Energy Department said.
LONDON, May 22 (UPI) -- A British business group said the shale natural gas sector could add more than 70,000 jobs to the economy and not just in industry-specific fields.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 22 (UPI) -- Companies behind a wave energy converter off the Scottish coast said a test program added 160 megawatts of electricity to the grid.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 22 (UPI) -- Malaysian energy company Petronas said it started work on a project that would facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from Canada's west coast.
REGINA, Saskatchewan, May 22 (UPI) -- Two rails cars that were included in a derailment in Saskatchewan lost their entire oil cargoes, a provincial official said.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama would veto a House measure that would fast-track the approval of the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, the White House said.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he'd review the prospects for export licenses for liquefied natural gas on a case-by-case basis.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 22 (UPI) -- Scotland has the economic resources available to endure as an independent country in part because of its energy sector, First Minister Alex Salmond said.
BRUSSELS, May 22 (UPI) -- The European Union will carefully weigh the risks of shale gas development this year but also needs to stem high energy prices, the EU's energy chief says.
SYDNEY, May 21 (UPI) -- If resource-rich developing countries can avoid the "resource curse," they could reduce their dependency on aid, said an Australian government official.
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. government said it was committed to helping Myanmar improve transparency in the management of its natural resources.
BUCHAREST, Romania, May 21 (UPI) -- Governments in central and southern Europe issued a joint declaration from Romania expressing support for the planned Nabucco natural gas pipeline.
LONDON, May 21 (UPI) -- The British government said it wants to know from the public whether EU membership helps or inhibits work on the environment and climate change.
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- A member of Congress who led an investigation into the BP oil spill in 2010 expressed outrage that a judge threw out a charge against a former BP executive.
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- The depletion of groundwater from one of the largest aquifers in the United States since 2001 was faster than during the entire 20th century, the USGS finds.
SYDNEY, May 21 (UPI) -- Australian energy company Santos said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its Fletcher Finucane project offshore Western Australia.
HOUSTON, May 21 (UPI) -- A 95-mile pipeline extension from western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle will carry as much as 75,000 barrels of oil per day, a pipeline company said.
CALGARY, Alberta, May 21 (UPI) -- Canadian company Talisman Energy said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its newly launched development offshore Vietnam.
TRIPOLI, Libya, May 21 (UPI) -- Militants stole as many as 20 military vehicles when they raided the Mellitah oil and natural gas complex in western Libya, a military leader said.
TEHRAN, May 21 (UPI) -- Iran will invest $16 billion in development of the offshore South Pars gas complex over the next 10 months, a natural gas company director said.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin talks to victims from the May 20 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, May 22, 2013. The EF-5 tornado cut a path of destruction approximately 17 miles by 1.3 miles wide and left 24 people dead. UPI/J.P. Wilson
