Energy Resources

HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The northern German port city of Hamburg is gradually turning into one of Europe's "greenest" cities.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proposed a new type of natural-gas electric power plant that could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions.

TEHRAN, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. intelligence review said Tehran could use oil as a diplomatic weapon by closing down the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media boasts.

LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- More than 850 companies in the United Kingdom signed a measure joining Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling for a new climate-change deal.

ROME, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and Italy's Eni signed a memorandum of understanding in Rome supporting a French decision to join the South Stream pipeline.

MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Oil flow through a section of the Druzhba pipeline in western Russia resumed Friday following the closure from an oil spill, pipeline monopoly Transneft said.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Commitments by French energy giant GDF Suez to ease its grip on the national gas sector prompted the European Commission to close its monopoly investigation.

STAVANGER, Norway, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Well adjustments and pipeline construction associated with the Asgard field in the Norwegian Sea will bring versatility to gas production there, Statoil said.

JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Officials from BP said they discovered another leak from a pipeline in Alaska as crews struggle to clean up a separate oil-contaminated site.

HOUSTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Production activity in the Eagle Ford gas shale play in Texas has increased to the level that pipeline extensions are necessary, executives said.

NEW DELHI, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- New Delhi plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent on a voluntary basis in the interest of self-preservation, officials announced.

BHOPAL, India, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- As activists and survivors demonstrated for justice on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India gas disaster, experts say the toxic effects continue to take a toll.

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Argentina is building wind-power capacity to electrify villages steeped in poverty and underdevelopment as part of a project funded by the World Bank.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- France's Total and Japan's Nippon Oil are seen as front-runners to secure development rights to some of the 10 Iraqi oil fields up for auction in Baghdad next week that the government hopes will triple oil production and restore the crisis-torn country's fortunes.

UMM QASR, Iraq, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Around 100 British naval trainers arrived at southern Iraqi oil ports to help train the Iraqi military to defend their oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf.