STANLEY, Falkland Islands, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The Falkland Islands' quest for potentially vast quantities of hydrocarbons offshore has taken off with an exploratory drilling season after operators raised enough cash to lease a rig from Scotland.
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Four of the world's major developing countries, including China and India, have come up with a counter-draft listing their "non-negotiable" demands ahead of the U.N. climate summit that begins next week in Copenhagen, Denmark.
BALHAF, Yemen, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Energy giant GDF Suez announced its first shipment of liquefied natural gas from Yemen is on its way to a regasification terminal in the United Kingdom.
PARIS, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Officers from Russian energy giant Gazprom discussed developments in the Shtokman natural gas field with officers from French supermajor Total.
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Despite a reliance on carbon-based energy resources, China is leading the world in the development of wind and solar power, Swedish officials said.
MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- French energy giant EDF is planning to join the Russian-Italian South Stream pipeline project.
HOUSTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The exploitation of millions of barrels of oil from the Permian Basin in east Texas could begin by the end of the year, energy executives said.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged more than $13 billion over three years toward an environmental fund for developing countries.
NEW DELHI, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Indian energy executives are interested in providing funds to help Iran develop parts of the massive offshore Shah Deniz gas field, Tehran said.
MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Anglo-Russian energy venture TNK-BP signed a preliminary deal with banking giant BNP Paribas to sell emission reduction units from its Samotlor oil field.
TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The foreign and energy ministers from Iran and Russia agreed on a series of joint oil and gas projects during a bilateral economic summit in Tehran.
KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom has not responded to a request to revise the pricing mechanism for Ukraine's gas, officials at Ukrainian utility Naftogaz said.
LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Executives at supermajor Royal Dutch Shell are pulling back on their optimism for certain biofuels while others look to batteries as a way to cut emissions.
BONN, Germany, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The top U.N. climate official welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to attend the climate summit next month in Copenhagen, Denmark.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Mines Minister Obert Mpofu says security troops are being withdrawn from diamond fields they have occupied after the beleaguered government was threatened with expulsion from the global diamond market.
