PARIS, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- French energy company GDF Suez said Monday it signed a partnership agreement to study marine current turbine technology in France.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Motor group AAA said Monday the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States was $3.39, extending a downward trend.
MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Eight participants in a Greenpeace action against an artic drilling rig have joined 20 other activists and two photographers in jail, a Russian court said.
TEHRAN, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A national energy company in Iran said Monday it signed a deal with Iraqis to train them in field operations for oil and natural gas fields.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The second phase of BP's civil trial in the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began Monday and the company must be held accountable, environmentalists said.
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Monday the latest appraisal well from the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea showed less oil than anticipated.
MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Russian energy company Rosneft and U.S. counterpart Exxon Mobil announced they've awarded engineering contracts for a Far East liquefied natural gas plant.
BEIJING, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Chinese government said manufacturers of solar power products will get tax breaks in an effort to push the low-carbon energy sector forward.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The federal government needs to consider the threat Colorado residents coping with flood damage face from oil and natural gas operations, two lawmakers said.
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Some Nebraska opponents of the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline said a state law gives the governor too much influence over the project.
LIVERPOOL, England, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The city of Liverpool, England, says it will buy the historic Cunard Building on its waterfront to serve passengers for popular River Mersey tourist cruises.
TRIPOLI, Libya, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Libya's seemingly endless security crisis has crippled its all-important energy sector, slashing production from 1.4 million barrels per day to as little as 250,000 bpd, and driven off urgently needed foreign investment to develop Libya's battered oil sector.
HOUSTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Consultancy group Wood Mackenzie said greater oil and gas production in North America will not decrease its dependence on foreign markets.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Splitting hairs over the latest assessment of climate change in a report released Friday in Sweden does little to address the perils, an advocacy group said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Some U.S. senators said the Defense Department needs to back off plans to conduct an environmental review on possible missile-silo eliminations.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- An energy conference in Dubai will showcase investment potentials in Iraq's oil sector, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- An advocacy group said it was frustrated by the level of influence the private oil and natural gas industry has on U.S. policymakers.
WOOLLOOMOOLOO, Australia, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- An apparent onshore natural gas field in Papua New Guinea could possibly give up approximately 400 billion cubic feet of reserves, Horizon Oil announced.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The president of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the United States is making "real progress" on cutting pollution but more work can be done.
MOSCOW, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Greenpeace said it would appeal a ruling filed in a Russian court that put nearly two dozen of its arctic oil protesters behind bars.
STAVANGER, Norway, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Norwegian energy company Statoil said it was holding off on resuming operations in the Norwegian Sea for about a year to reinforce a drilling platform.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Delivery of petroleum and petroleum products on U.S. railways increased 8 percent for the week ending Sept. 21, a trade group said.
SALEKHARD, Russia, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The Arctic holds huge economic potential but Russia also wants to cooperate with others to preserve its fragile environment, President Vladimir Putin says.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush (C) points to the crowd as he stands on the first tee box at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 3, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey
