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Proposed rules for offshore oil and gas operations in European waters will ensure the region has standards in place for safe operations, a commissioner said.
A key European Parliament committee has approved new rules for deepwater oil drilling that tighten environmental liability requirements on energy companies.
Russia and its Gazprom oil and gas monopoly need to recognize and play by the European Union's market rules, EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger says.
Any EU move to impose a ban on Iranian oil imports would cripple the struggling economies of Spain, Greece and Italy, an Iranian parliamentary leader says.
European regulators are split on whether stress tests for nuclear plants should cover terrorism and other man-made threats.
Some of Europe's nuclear power plants likely will fail safety tests prompted by the nuclear crisis in Japan, the European Union's energy chief said.
The EU energy commissioner expressed concern about methods Japanese technicians are using to prevent further disaster at a crippled nuclear power plant.
The European Union plans to carry out stress tests at the continent's nuclear reactors, amid concerns that some of them aren't protected from natural disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan.
The United Kingdom was the only regional economy to see energy usage decline during the first eight years of the 21st century, a report finds.
Moammar Gadhafi's regime has lost control over most of Libya's oil and gas fields, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Monday in Brussels.
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