Energy Resources

NEW DELHI, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- India is planning to set standards for alternative fuels being used in the city gas distribution scheme and automobiles.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- India has set up a group of ministers to examine the issue of retail pricing of petroleum products.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- India's Reliance Industries Ltd. says it re-entered its Kaveri asset and was successful in one of two wells drilled in the block.

JAKARTA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Japan plans to raise its investment in Indonesian oil and gas fields.

ROME, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Italy's ENI has started gas production in three new fields located in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- PetroChina is planning a third east-west pipeline to bring gas from Russia.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Christmas tree at New York City's Rockefeller Plaza will be lit up with the help of solar panels.

ESPOO, Finland, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Finland-based Nokia Siemens Networks aims to positively impact the environment.

Iran to launch oil, gas tenders; Azeri firm stops gas shipments to Georgia; Gazprom to implement Nord Stream on schedule

BRUSSELS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Russia is having a far greater influence on the European Union than it should, considering its political, economic and military inferiority. Yet the former Soviet federation is taking advantage of its energy exports and the EU's lack of unity to influence its member states in their foreign policy, a recent report states.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Nigeria will invest $75 billion over the next five years to improve the oil and gas sectors with the help of foreign investors, the country's Ministry of Petroleum announced.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government granted petroleum exploration licenses to a joint-venture project of Heritage Oil & Gas Ltd.

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Calgary, Alberta-based Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. said it has secured $800 million in new funding to finance oil sands projects.

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- China plans to improve energy conservation policies and pollution control.

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Florida Energy Commission Monday voted to advise the state Legislature to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050.