LONDON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Gulf Keystone Petroleum, after a long court battle, said it was "delighted" with commercial production from its Shaikan projects in the Kurdish north of Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Supporters and opponents of the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada made dueling claims about the project's potential benefits on a key anniversary.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Delivery of petroleum and petroleum products on U.S. rail systems had a weekly increase of more than 14 percent last week, a trade group said.
PARIS, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Two European energy companies announced they signed contracts to secure natural gas from the Shah Deniz field off Azerbaijan for 25 years.
HOUSTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Two companies agreed to expand their Eagle Ford Joint Venture crude oil pipeline in Texas to 470,000 barrels per day, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Energy Department said it handed out approximately $30 million in awards to companies working on cybersecurity strategies for the energy sector.
MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Greenpeace protest vessel the Arctic Sunrise and 30 of its demonstrators are in Russian custody for action against an arctic drilling rig, an activist said.
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Lithuania's goal of wringing a fair deal on energy from Russia and other non-European Union suppliers was on the agenda for meetings this week in Vilnius.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Iraq, on paper one of the world's oil giants, is struggling to boost its energy production amid a deteriorating security crisis that could seriously curtail Baghdad's drive to exploit its vast oil and gas reserves.
SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. energy company Chevron said "the game is up" regarding a rain forest pollution case in Ecuador after an international tribunal ruled in its favor.
HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The Russian focus on Asian economies suggests energy trade between Moscow and Beijing will quadruple by 2025, Wood Mackenzie said Thursday.
MILAN, Italy, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Italian energy company Eni said Thursday it would serve as the operator at a frontier reserve basin in the Republic of the Congo.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The increase in the amount of oil reaching refineries on the eastern U.S. coast is likely coming from rail deliveries, the U.S. Energy Department said.
TEHRAN, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Iran's oil fields should be attractive not only to national oil companies but to foreign investors as well, the oil minister said.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said the revenue generated from oil would help stimulate the economy of an independent Scotland.
QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Energy company Enbridge says the inauguration of its Lac-Alfred wind farm in Quebec means more than 30 percent of its provincial energy comes from wind.
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Canada needs to respond to increasing oil and natural gas production in the United States with diversity, the natural resources minister said.
MOSCOW, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Russian energy company Gazprom said it was eager to expand on energy developments under way in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan.
HOUSTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- An explosion at a Black Elk Energy rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012 highlights training concerns for offshore platform operations, a safety official said.
ALGIERS, Algeria, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The first detailed report of what happened when 32 jihadists stormed the In Amenas gas complex in Algeria in January concludes that there were inadequate security measures in place and that Algeria's army was not prepared for an attack by such a large terrorist force.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The Canadian government is working "aggressively" to enhance its role as a leading oil and natural gas exporter, the minister of natural resources said.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The New Zealand government said Wednesday it launched the process for onshore and offshore oil and natural gas exploration permits for 2014.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) speaks to the press after Congress failed to agree to a continuing resolution to fund the government, causing the first government shutdown in 17 years, in Washington, D.C. on October 1, 2013. Boehner was joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (L), House Majority Whip Kevin MCCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). UPI/Kevin Dietsch
