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Lonneshia Shafaye Appling, 26, of Athens, Georgia, was arrested for shoplifting five packets of cheese, eight cans of beer, two packets of chicken wings, five packages of bacon and vegetable oil.

China has turned to the World Trade Organization to help block U.S. tariffs on 22 types of Chinese products, including solar panels, pipes for oil wells, coated paper and steel wheel hubs. The Chinese appeal to the WTO takes aim at the U.S. Commerce Department, which has recently imposed stiff duties on Chinese products. The department has cited Chinese subsidies, especially those funneled thro...

The EU has initiated a legal complaint in the World Trade Organisation against Argentina’s import restrictions, a move which escalates tension with the country in the month after it seized oil assets held by Spanish group Repsol.

Oil minister S Jaipal Reddy on Thursday ruled out an immediate rollback of the increase in petrol price and said the government would watch international oil prices and the rupee’s movements against the dollar for “a few days” before taking any decision to moderate the hike.

ANELO, Argentina – In a desert-like stretch of scrub grass and red-colored buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of what might be one of the biggest recent discoveries in the Americas: enough gas and oil to make a country known for beef and tangos an important energy player. Read full article >>

Diesel leaked after a section of an oil pipeline broke Friday morning in Zibo, a city in east China's Shandong province, local authorities said.

Jeff Rubin suggests that the industrialized countries will have difficulty managing expensive oil and the implied economic hardship that will ensue

LAHORE - SALMAN ABDUHU - The fertilizer manufacturers in Pakistan have urged the government to take advantage of their offer to buy locally manufactured urea instead of buying the same from international market by spending huge foreign exchange. Government should immediately stop importing urea in the country, which is already available for the current season and rather spend foreign exchange ...

Ontario’s Ring of Fire area has the potential to rival Alberta’s oil sands, Premier’s letter to Prime Minister says

The survey suggests slightly more Canadians disagree than agree with Tom Mulcair’s assertion that oil exports hurt the economy in other parts of the country

Alaska has massive hydro, wind, geothermal and other renewable resources, but the state's rural villages are chained to diesel and suffer oppressive energy costs they say threaten their existence. Lawmakers, energy experts and Native leaders said Thursday it's a dire problem with elusive solutions.

The government of Barrancabermeja municipality, in Colombia's Santander department, will build a 140bn-peso (US$76mn) wastewater treatment plant in collaboration with state oil company Ecopetrol. I...

WASHINGTON -- Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama had appointed to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sat down in the Oval Office to brief him. After listening to their findings about the BP accident and the safety of deepwater drilling, the president abruptly changed the subject. "Where are you coming out on the offs...

You might think that the declining price of gasoline means that we don't have to pay attention to all that talk about oil speculation driving up the price of oil. Right? Wrong.

Oil minister Jaipal Reddy today defended third price increase in a year and the first in almost seven months, saying oil companies had exhausted all options.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- An African Union official says Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume talks over issues that brought the two nations to the brink of war: sharing oil wealth and establishing their border....

A new poll suggests Canadians are roughly split over the NDP leader's contention that the Alberta oil sands have given the country a case of Dutch Disease

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The captain and the navigator of a ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef last year in what authorities have called the country's worst maritime environmental disaster were each sentenced Friday to seven months in jail. About 400 tons of fuel oil spilled on Astrolabe Reef near Tauranga and at least 2,000 sea birds died in the Oct. 5 grounding of...

The argument that good news for the oil sands is bad news for the rest of the Canada is not supported by evidence

The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007. [More]...

Sensex on Friday closed almost flat at 16,217.82 due to profit-booking in FMCG, oil and banking stocks after recent gains even as rupee continued its recovery.

Farmers in Kansas are hitting the jackpot.

Oil minister Jaipal Reddy today said that he didn't discuss fuel hike during his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and is not going to meet Sonia Gandhi on the issue, according to reports.

Captain of ship and his navigation officer sentenced to seven months in prison for causing environmental disaster.

The Shawinigan Cataractes got goals from six different players as they coasted to a 6-1 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings in the tiebreaker game Thursday night at the Mastercard Memorial Cup.

Alberta’s new office would promote a series of issues: cross-border pipelines, a Canadian energy strategy, negotiations on a new equalization formula and a joint environmental monitoring program in the oil sands.

The cost of a gallon of gasoline is dropping, especially on the East Coast, because of growing oil supplies and a decline in global crude oil prices.

Oil and gas exploration firm Circle Oil has extended a $30 million financing arrangement for three years.

Progress has slowed during talks in Baghdad between six world powers and Iran over the country's nuclear development program. On Thursday, Iran's lead negotiator, Saeed Jalili, met with Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign affairs chief, but Iran rejected the offer. Iranian media stated that Ashton did not have anything new to offer in her proposals. The package was criticized by Ir...

“It's typically said that winter will test everything. But before winter comes we must complete the testing of hundreds of energy companies in order to have a stable heating season…”

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says SA is looking to Nigeria for oil, suggesting Pretoria cut crude imports from Iran to avoid looming sanctions.

Washington cautiously hopeful of progress towards an agreed framework for addressing concerns that Tehran wants to build an atom bomb; global oil markets watching Baghdad negotiations closely.

MPs demanded an investigation into petrol prices, saying they were ‘always quick to rise’ when the cost of a barrel of oil went up, yet ‘it feels like you need a court order to get them down’.

The deal ends years of opposition that might have left BP unable to use $4 billion worth of new processing units being installed at Whiting that will allow it to run Canadian tar sands crude as early as next year.

An anonymous reader writes "First we had a superhydrophobic spray that meant no dirt or sweat could stick to your clothes. Then a hydrophobic nanocoating was created for circuit boards to make them water resistant. Now MIT has gone a step further and solved one of the ongoing problems of using condiments: they've figured out how to make a food-safe superhydrophobic coating for food packaging. I...

COMMODITIES from oil to coffee were hit by a wave of selling as Europe's turmoil eclipsed fundamentals that normally push up prices.

(Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp defended its board of directors in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday as investors push for governance changes at the U.S. oil and gas company.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and military leaders implored conservative Republicans on Wednesday to approve a long-spurned high seas treaty, saying it would create jobs, open a new path to oil, gas and other resources and bolster national security....

ISLAMABAD  -Payments for oil import bill is the key factor that has put pressure on our fragile economy, adds to the electricity generation cost, hitting hard the ordinary consumers as well as raising the cost of production.In a statement issued here on Wednesday, President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Yassar Sakhi Butt said that government should give immediate ...

ISLAMABAD  -Payments for oil import bill is the key factor that has put pressure on our fragile economy, adds to the electricity generation cost, hitting hard the ordinary consumers as well as raising the cost of production.In a statement issued here on Wednesday, President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Yassar Sakhi Butt said that government should give immediate ...

ISLAMABAD  -Payments for oil import bill is the key factor that has put pressure on our fragile economy, adds to the electricity generation cost, hitting hard the ordinary consumers as well as raising the cost of production.In a statement issued here on Wednesday, President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Yassar Sakhi Butt said that government should give immediate ...

El último informe Oil & Gas Intelligence Series de BNamericas, "América Latina abre sus puertas a las petroleras chinas", pone de relieve las iniciativas de promoción del gobierno asiático para estas ...

Crude-oil futures slumped to a fresh 2012 low, briefly falling beneath $90 a barrel Wednesday, as the latest U.S. weekly oil data showed stockpiles remaining at 22-year highs amid sluggish demand.

Stocks are in a tailspin today, shaken by headlines suggesting that Greece could exit the euro zone. Materials and energy stocks are leading the market lower, and Nymex crude oil futures are trading near $90 a barrel. Investors are fleeing to safer assets in droves; Treasury yields are falling as investors rush into the notes. [...]

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Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production has trumped Royal Dutch Shell with a £1.22bn agreed takeover of Cove Energy, in the latest twist in the bidding war for the Mozambique-focused oil and gas explorer.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC, according to campaign reports....

A record number of applications are submitted by companies wishing to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea.

Pavement deflection under vehicle tires makes for a continuous uphill drive that increases fuel consumption, new research shows. A new study by civil engineers at MIT shows that using stiffer pavements on the nation’s roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3 percent — a savings that could add up to 273 million barrels of crude oil per year, or $15.6 billion at today’s oil pri...

May 22 (Reuters) - Venari Resources, an early-stage oil and gas exploration company, has secured up to $1.13 billion from private equity and other investment firms to fund its growth plans in the...

A bill is in the US Congress demanding the suspension of Argentina from the G20, but its future is uncertain

The US Senate has unanimously approved a package of new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector just days ahead of a meeting in Baghdad between major world powers and Tehran.

After shutting down its last reactor, Japan is now even more heavily dependent on imported oil, gas, and coal.

THREE men were killed today when a battery they were taking apart exploded at an abandoned oil well in El Dorado, Arkansas.

A three-man oil crew was killed in an explosion in El Dorado, Arkansas, while dismantling an abandoned containment vessel.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government said on Monday it would protect a strip of peatland in Aceh province at the centre of an international storm over palm oil development, in a case that had become a test of the country's commitment to halt deforestation.

The operation to plug the gas leak on the Elgin Platform in the North Sea has been a success, oil firm Total says.

London (ots/PRNewswire) - Während Öl- und Gasunternehmen neue internationale Märkte in einem rechtlichen Umfeld betreten, das von Macondo geprägt ist, kommt es mehr denn je darauf an dafür zu sorgen, dass Verträge sorgfältig ausgearbeitet, frei von Risiken und vorteilhaft sind. …

The U.S. has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq's navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation's oil exports.

Brazil’s national oil company can barely move under the weight of grandiose expectations placed on its shoulders

As G8 leaders voice commitment to pressuring Tehran, Iranian economy minister warns of consequences of EU oil embargo set to take effect July 1, says Iran can withstand sanctions, but other economies will suffer.

Leaders of the world's major economic powers agreed at Camp David Saturday to boost their emphasis on economic growth and job creation.

Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies struggled to agree on next steps to calm the euro zone debt crisis, with consensus at a weekend summit coming more easily on ways to cushion the world from an Iranian oil embargo.

“There have been increasing disruptions in the supply of oil to the global market over the past several months, which pose a substantial risk to global economic growth.  In response, major producers have increased their output while drawing prudently on excess capacity.  Looking ahead to the likelihood of further disruptions in oil sales and the expected increased demand over the coming month...

The Cambiar Opportunity Fund has made big bets on oil outfits like Halliburton, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell. They haven't generated much energy as yet.

FOUR YEARS AGO, an investigation by this newspaper found that members of the powerful governing board that controls publicly owned Dulles International and Reagan National airports, apparently mistaking themselves for oil sheiks or Hollywood moguls, had splurged on lavish meals and first-class trips to sumptuous destinations — sometimes with spouses — ostensibly to drum up business at industry ...

Earlier this week, Ian Urbina reported in the New York Times that hundreds of oil and gas workers have been killed over the past decade in highway crashes. A CDC analysis found that one-third of the 648 oil field workers who died on the job between 2003 and 2008 were killed in these crashes. Workers falling asleep at the wheels of trucks after working long shifts are a major factor in this high...

Crews tapping oil deposit in Canada, but getting it to Gulf refineries may depend on Keystone project VIDEO: Environmentalists Voice Concern

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some parents swear by fish oil as a treatment for the "tics" caused by Tourette's disorder, but so far the research evidence is slim.

A section of the M8 Dublin to Cork motorway is to be closed for a number of hours today because of an oil spill.

David Cameron will hold talks with Barack Obama and other world leaders about tapping into emergency oil reserves in an effort to drive down petrol prices.

Declining prices for crude oil have brought relief at the gas pump for much of the nation, but not for drivers on the West Coast.

More and more allegations are pouring out about John Travolta's sexual antics. Another masseur, who isn't interested in a lawsuit, told the National Enquirer that he had consensual sex with the actor, but the latest claim is even MORE shocking. The tabloid is reporting that Danny Zuko tried to oil up Kenickie's Grease Lightning with [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector on Thursday, saying they needed more time to study revisions, a surprise move that drew anger from Senate Democrats who had expected unanimous approval ahead of Iran talks on May 23.

At least two suspected armed robbers are killed in an explosion in a minibus in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt, police say.

Sara Conyers, 33, was drip-fed egg and soya oil at a fertility clinic in Nottingham to try and stop her own body destroying embryos.

Oxfam America is suing the US Securities and Exchange Commission to try to get the SEC to force oil, gas and mining companies to disclose how much they pay to foreign governments.

The former England manager has explained that he spoke with the oil tycoon about becoming the Nerazzurri's next permanent boss but the pair failed to reach an agreement.

Stockpiles of Malaysia's most important export, palm oil, have fallen to their lowest level in a year because of subdued demand.

How a West Texas oil town became an unlikely champion of human rights.

The head of U.S. diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, said today that as part of its obligations to the international community, India must suspend its imports of Iranian oil. Clinton acknowledged the Indian stance on various issues of global importance, but added that one of its pending duties is to limit the purchases of oil from Iran ...

India says it will cut imports of Iranian oil by 11% in the current financial year as it continues to face pressure from the US.

The State Department must give a rigorous environmental review to the new proposal for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Return to drachma nears amid political impasse in Athens and open discussion in Brussels of possible end of single currencyFinancial markets are hastily making preparations for a Greek exit from the euro after a day of political and economic turmoil ended with Europe's policy elite admitting for the first time that it may prove impossible to keep the single currency intact.With attempts in Athe...

It’s not often that an iPhone app elicits disgust, but this is no ordinary iPhone app. The video above promotes a new app supposedly from She…

Recently, I signed a lease with a major oil company allowing it to begin “cranial fracking”—deep drilling to tap the vast reserves of natural gas found in the human head. These reserves are not distributed uniformly in all individuals. In my case, however, a gas-rich . . . (Subscription required.)

There is a risk of oil spilling from the 50m fishing trawler that ran aground off Clifton, the city's disaster risk management centre said on Sunday.

Chef Sue Riedl explains that paying attention to the temperature of the oil is key in making these fries

Azeri capital Baku's 2020 summer Olympics bid is growing stronger by the day thanks to a billion-dollar investment in sport infrastructure fuelled by the country's large oil and natural reserves and the race's unexpected twists and turns, officials say.

Britain and other European Union members fear that a ban on insurers covering Iranian oil ships could have harmful economic effects.

The passengers and crew of a helicopter that ditched in the North Sea escaped with "bumps and grazes" yesterday, but the incident has heightened concerns over the safety of oil industry flights.

PARIS (Reuters) - Punk music pioneer Iggy Pop - famous for onstage mayhem like smearing his sinewy torso with olive oil and diving headfirst into crowds - is mellowing in old age with a solo album of crooning classic covers, half of them in French. But at 65 years old it's all part of pushing new boundaries, and making sure he's not categorized as nothing but a punk icon. "I don't want to get i...

THE IRISH Offshore Operators’ Association has expressed concern at an Oireachtas committee’s recommendation that large oil or gas finds could be taxed at 80 per cent of profits.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Down the road from the Oklahoma State Capitol, where a towering oil derrick on the grounds is a tangible reminder of the industry’s clout in the state, Mitt Romney took the podium at the state GOP headquarters Wednesday afternoon intent on hammering President Obama on his handling of the economy and domestic energy production. Read full article >>

A SUNSET-coloured oil painting by Mark Rothko has helped to establish more records during another blockbuster sale that achieved the highest auction total for contemporary art.

China's first deep-water drilling rig started operation in the South China Sea on Wednesday, marking "a substantial step" by the country's oil industry, a newspaper reported.

The World Bank delivered an extraordinarily blunt warning to South Sudan's leadership over two months ago: their government's decision to halt oil production threatens to cripple the country's struggling economy, imperil its poorest citizens, and potentially bring about a total collapse of the state this summer. South Sudan decided in January to suspend its production of oil, which accounts ...

As petroleum production gets trickier, digital innovation becomes more crucial. The world isn't running out of oil and natural gas. It is running out of easy oil and gas. And as energy companies drill deeper and hunt in more remote regions and difficult deposits, they're banking on information technology to boost production.

Unlike gold, oil and precious metals, domain names don’t have a unit price associated with them. And yet, domain names are commodities that can be traded freely, can be sold and bought. When it comes down to tagging a price to a domain name, my evaluation method as a buyer and as the seller follows [...]

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I'm going to be writing up a lengthier Retro Game Review for Car Wars next week of those of you not familiar with this '80s classic. This is a game from Steve Jackson Games in Austin, Texas, and it's easily one of my favorite games of all time. The premise is simple -- in the future when gasoline and other resources are scarce, it's every man for himself on the open highway as drivers duel agai...

Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones writes about a trove of new photographs documenting the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which released nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico two years ago. In the midst of the disaster, BP and its contractors did everything they could to keep people from seeing [...]

After a big drop, the price of oil is near its bottom. But many stocks in the sector have further to fall.

Warning: Dennis "Oil Can'' Boyd's latest expletive-laden rant may soon be coming to a news media outlet near you.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Chevron Corp went to federal court in Miami on Friday seeking to force an Ecuadorean bank to release records of alleged bribes the company says were paid to an independent expert in a multi-billion dollar environmental lawsuit against the oil company.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Greenpeace activists have boarded an icebreaker off Sweden's southeast coast, staging the second such action this week to protest oil and gas exploration in the Arctic Ocean....

OIL and gas producer Eureka Energy has rejected a $107 million takeover offer from Aurora Oil & Gas.

Money should be used to help children's development through books and hobbies, rather than used to oil their way up the social ladder.

Electronic Freedom Fighters and knee-jerk reactionaries: prepare your big drums because here comes the cause of the week. We learned about Gatekeeper, Apple's app signing solution that ensures "rogue" apps can't infect your computer, a few months ago when the company announced the coming of a new OS, Mountain Lion. Developers recently received a note reminding them to begin implementing Gatekee...

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LAHORE - Recovery in country’s hydrocarbon production along with elevated oil prices were the key factors that helped the listed E&P companies to post a phenomenal earning growth in 9MFY12, experts said. According to them, during the period under review, the sector depicted an earning growth of 36 per cent to Rs113 billion as against Rs83 billion in the same period last year. In ...

China, the largest purchaser of oil from South Sudan, has agreed to loan the fledgling country $8-billion.

So it turned out that this was the week that both the Romney campaign and the Obama campaign decided that foreign policy was an important thing to talk about during election season.  Speaking personally, this is great!! I seem to have moved up in the Rolodex of those covering the campaign.  Expect lots of juicy quotes in the months to come, and readers are warmly encouraged to proffer useful m...

This time, the World Shakespeare Festival has become the center of attention after a group of British actors launched a protest against the partnership between the oil company and the Royal Shakespeare Co.

Economists in Egypt say the oil cut-off will benefit country, but US analyst Citigroup disagrees.

Oil industry computers taken off-line

US oil prices have slipped as downbeat Chinese data casts doubt on the strength of global energy demand.

A virus was detected inside the control systems of Kharg Island — which handles the vast majority of Iran's crude oil exports — but the terminal remained operational, a source at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said. The virus, which is likely to draw comparisons with the Stuxnet computer worm which reportedly affected Iranian nuclear facilities in 2009-10, struck late on Sunday. It hit...

Sudanese warplanes bombed a market and an oil field in South Sudan, killing at least two people hours after Sudanese ground forces reportedly crossed into South Sudan with tanks and artillery, elevating the risk of all-out war between the two old enemies.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is investigating a suspected cyber attack on its main oil export terminal and on the Oil Ministry itself, Iranian industry sources said on Monday.

Tate Modern's underground oil tanks are to become the world's first permanent museum galleries dedicated to live art.

Oil from the fruit was shown in tests to combat free radicals – dangerous molecules said to have a hand in everything from ageing to heart disease and cancer.

When one of your big oil suppliers splits into rival states, that's a problem for any country. When you're China, it's a foreign policy migraine.

THE find by a British-backed company could contain up to a billion barrels of ‘dark gold’

America's soaring pump prices seem to defy the laws of supply and demand, except for one fact: It's increasingly not just about us.

Two years ago, 11 men lost their lives as a backlash of gas exploded into the night from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In the ensuing months, roughly 5 million barrels of oil and more than 6 billion cubic feet of natural gas spewed into the ocean from the Macondo [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators' $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a "milestone" victory in their toughening stance on market malfeasance which is being closely watched by traders.

Bottlenose dolphins off Louisiana’s coast are severely ill, while deep-sea corals show signs of tissue damage—just two findings in a slew of studies two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Robert Chafe tells an uplifting story of a shipwreck, a rescue, and open-hearted enlightenment set against the backdrop of the civil-rights struggle

EYELESS shrimp and other mutant discoveries raising concerns over the BP oil spill.

Taxpayers in the remainder of the UK should pay the £30 billion cost of decommissioning Scottish oil rigs decades after independence, the SNP energy minister has told MPs.

Donald Boesch argues that the lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should be enshrined in legislation before they fade from memory.

Taking omega-3 fatty acids does not reduce the risk of further cardiovascular problems in people with heart disease, a new analysis has found, and it's still unclear whether they help those with healthy hearts.

Scientists found no evidence that the capsules had any effect on stopping progression of the disease.

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Total prévoit d'investir plus de 300 millions de dollars (230 millions d'euros) dans l'exploration pétrolière en Ouganda, où la production de brut doit débuter avant la fin de l'année. Le groupe français a signé en février avec le chinois China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) et le...

Fish oil supplements of so-called omega-3 fatty acids, found in oily fish like tuna and salmon, may not do much to ward off heart attacks and strokes in people who already have heart disease, according to an international analysis.

Boom.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp said on Monday it has struck three deals that will raise a total of $2.6 billion, a cash infusion needed by the U.S. oil and gas company facing a funding...

Shit stirrer Lana Del Rey left Chateau Marmont the other night with Axl Rose and some think that maybe she's using her signature collagen noodle lips to blow raspberries on his pasty fupa. DJ Ashba of Guns 'n Roses shook his head no to that possibility, but this makes sense since Lana Del Taco has a song called "Axl Rose Husband" and probably has a replica of ...

The owners of a ship which ran aground off New Zealand spilling hundreds of tonnes of fuel oil are being charged with discharging harmful substances.

Brent crude was steady above $125 a barrel today after sharp gains in the previous session, supported by fresh signs of a sustained recovery in top oil consumer the United States and the prospect of tighter crude supplies from the North Sea.

Finance Minister blames increasing gas prices on Iranian oil sanctions, says he and PM examining options to avert price increase.

NEW ORLEANS -- The hurricane and the oil spill hit five years apart. At various times the team had neither a permanent home nor an owner. The best players wanted to leave, the league was locked out and the country was in recession.

Das Team der deutschen Sprinthoffnungen Marcel Kittel und John Degenkolb hat am Freitag den seit Monaten erwarteten neuen Hauptsponsor präsentiert.

THERE will be a fabulous array of sleek models on display at this weekend's round of the World Touring Car Championship

Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident

<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/kenyaol_35824980_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>Addis Abeba/Nairobi (dpa) - Erstmals ist in Kenia Öl gefunden worden. Das britische Energieunternehmen Tullow Oil ist im Norden des Landes in der Region Turkana auf Öl gestoßen, sagte der kenianische...

La compagnie pétrolière anglo-irlandaise Tullow Oil a découvert du brut dans la région reculée du Turkana, dans le nord-ouest du Kenya, mais des études supplémentair...lire la suitehistoires liées13:43 Israel romp avec le conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU13:55 Belgacom veut développer le « cloud computing »14:03 La Syrie neutralise des « terroristes » en Turquie14:11 Deux soldats britanniq...

ARE you game? Qantas will take to the sky on Friday the 13th relying on the power of cooking oil, in Australia's first biofuel flight.

Egypt starts supplying fuel to the Gaza Strip today to help ease the territory's worst fuel crisis in years.

RAY Thomas delivers the Sydney Autumn carnival late mail and dispenses the good oil in his live blog from 11am.

Schon interessant, wie Autoren, die sich ja offenbar als Wissenschaftler bezeichnen, bei (ihnen unliebsamen) politischen Themen die einfachsten Dinge nicht mehr beherrschen, z.B. eine klare Terminologie. Newt Gingrich ist momentan eben nicht Präsidentschaftskandidat, sondern er ist Kandidat für den Posten des Präsidentschaftskandidaten... aber Hauptsache, man hat die eigenen Vorurteile mal wied...

So kommt's einem jedenfalls im amerikanischen Wahllkampf vor. Wobei die Wissenschaft hier weniger jene Prater-Figur ist, die abgewatscht wird, sondern eher die Klatsche, mit der gehauen wird. Worum geht's? Am Dienstag hatte Newt Gingrich (kann man den eigentlich noch als Präsidentschaftskandidaten bezeichnen, obwohl er faktisch aus dem Rennen ist - was außer ihm schon jeder zu wissen scheint?) ...

Bring out the tanning oil and shades! While many young adults are gearing up for some heavy partying during Spring Break this year, stars like Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens have...

It's been nearly two years since the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But is the worst over for BP, the company that leased the Deepwater Horizon rig?

Here are a few noteworthy selections from the more than 1,200 booths, 30 overseas pavilions and hundreds of deliciously mingled aromas from the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco

The Shell oil drilling ship targeted by "Spartacus" star Lucy Lawless and fellow Greenpeace activists set forth Tuesday on its mission to the Arctic.

Cognitive performance improves when a compound in the herb’s oil – 1, 8-cineole – is absorbed into blood, according to the University of Northumbria.

If your favorite NFL team needs a situational runner or third-down back, there were plenty on display Sunday at the combine. Impressive skill players with the versatility to carry the ball or catch it anywhere on the field were found all over Lucas Oil Stadium. The top three quarterback prospects chose not to throw the ball, which led to much disappointment. Here's a look at the top running bac...

Lucy Lawless is learning the hard way ... bathrooms are off limits when you've illegally boarded an oil tanker and refuse to leave in the hopes of preventing Arctic drilling. Fortunately, the "Xena" actress has found another way to relieve herself…

We’re here at Lucas Oil Stadium where the NFL Scouting Combine fully gets underway this morning. The combine’s first group of players features the punters and kickers, offensive linemen and tight ends. Read full article >>

Roustabouts, weatherpeople and Air Force pilots  As if to underscore Apple (AAPL) CFO Peter Oppenheimer's claim that "nearly all" Fortune 500 companies "approve and support" iPhones on their networks, three major purchase orders came to light this week: Halliburton announced that over the next year the oil services company will be "transitioning" from Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry plat...

Houston-based oil and gas services titan to phase out 4,500 BlackBerrys over next two years for field use

Die Energieversorgung der Welt steht vor dem Umbruch: Die Erdölförderung stagniert schon seit 2005. Und sie wird bald abstürzen. mehr...

MINISTER FOR the Environment Phil Hogan has rejected a call by Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and others for a public inquiry into a Dublin-based exploration company’s foreshore licence application to survey and drill for oil and gas in Dublin Bay.

Erst im Dezember beteiligte sich der chinesische Konzern Three Gorges an Portugals Stromriesen EDP. Nun kaufen sich Chinas State Grid Corp. und die Oman Oil Company bei dem bislang staatlichen Energieversorger REN ein.

You're just in time for the Lucas Oil Stadium neighborhood tour, where we find out how many things can be within 12 blocks of a Super Bowl.

Eating fried food is not bad for the heart, as long as you use olive or sunflower oil to make it, experts suspect.

Racing stalwart set to benefit from great uncle's wild-west poker bet.

Interactive graphic shows how salvage crews are preparing to start pumping off 2,400 tonnes of diesel and lubricating oil, a process that is expected to take at least two weeks.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced deep concern over continuing tensions along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the current crisis over oil, saying that the situation represented a worrying deterioration in the relationship between the two countries.

AUSTRALIA might be enjoying a resources boom but its oil and gas sector has been given a negative credit outlook for 2012 by ratings agency Fitch. 

Kelly Clarkson will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl on February 5th at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Indiana Though Clarkon's appearance has not been formally announced a person close to the event has confirmed the booking with the Associated PressClarkson will join a slate of musical...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Thieves carried out a well-organized, pre-dawn heist at Greece's biggest state art museum on Monday, taking two oil paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, police said....

An already frail economy will come under more pressure when the EU ban comes into effect.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a daily newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil....

As legislators discuss major new legislation for moving the United States away from its dependence on fossil fuels, Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, reflects on lessons that can be learned from previous shifts in energy use. Yergin recently released a new edition of his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.

The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realised that something was wrong. The oil temperature in the plane’s turbocharger, they noticed, had risen into the “cautionary” range. An hour later, it was worse, and it just kept rising as the minutes wore on. While the crew desperately ran through its “engine overheat” checklist trying to figure out the problem, ...

Bloomberg’s Marc Roca and Ehren Goosens this morning wrote that oil giant BP PLC (BP) is looking to get out of solar energy technology after 40 years in the industry. Roca and Goossens write the business has become unprofitable after a 48% plunge in solar panel prices this year, citing an internal BP memo. BP’s [...]

A couple thousand years after a small amount of oil burned miraculously for eight days and gave the world Hanukkah, latkes nearly burned down my childhood home. I was six, my sister was five, and our mother was attempting to fry a pan of the potato pancakes when the burner caught fire and the smoke alarm wailed, announcing our imminent doom.My sister and I were bundled up and marched through wa...

La compañía petrolera española Repsol y la rusa Alliance Oil han firmado un acuerdo para desarrollar de forma conjunta actividades de exploración y de producción de hidrocarburos en Rusia, el mayor productor de gas y crudo del mundo.

Chief of his own faction Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said that any military coup would further deteriorate the situation in country. Talking to media in Karachi, Nawaz said that if army took over now, the situation would further deteriorate. The oil prices rose up due to the IPPs of Pakistan Peoples’ Party, Nawaz blamed. Former prime minister said that President Zardari...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. offshore oil and gas drillers need to take a more systematic approach to safety in all aspects of their operations to prevent another catastrophe like last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a scientific panel said on Wednesday. [More]

Targeted cyber-attacks on the oil industry could have fatal consequences, warns Shell.

A typical serving of fried latkes can pack about 25 grams of fat and 750 calories about half as many calories as most should have all day.

In “Extra Virginity,” Tom Mueller reveals the brazen fraud in the olive oil industry and teaches readers how to sniff out the good stuff.

La chanteuse sera sur la scène du Luc Oil Stadium le 5 février prochain lors de la mi-temps du Super Bowl.

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times in the capital-intensive and highrisk petroleum exploration and production sector nationally, or so it would appear.

JUBA (Reuters) - Ugandan motorbike taxis weave through rutted streets. A Kuwaiti telecoms firm prepares to lay fiber-optic cable. Chinese and European delegations file down the oil ministry's scruffy...

The 2012 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship schedule was released Tuesday.

SOCCER ANGLES:The oil money pumped into Chelsea and now Manchester City can have a toxic side affect, writesMICHAEL WALKER

Not since the days of George W Bush's "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests" initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline The 1700-mile-long pipeline designed to funnel tar sands oil from Canada into refineries along the Gulf Coast was sold...

SADIQABAD - The civil defence officer has sealed six oil agencies allegedly for selling adulterated Iranian oil in district Rahim Yar Khan. Following a number of complaints against adulterated fuel, Civil Defence District Officer Shabbir Ahmad Qazi conducted raids on illegal oil agencies.

After a brief respite, fuel costs will start rising again next year as demand from the fast-growing economies of Asia triggers a boom in oil markets.

Sedo claimed the pole position on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart with Sadara.com. The buyer appears to be the Saudi Arabian Oil Company who filed for a trademark on the term "Sadara" in March . Five ccTLDs and three non .com gTLDs joined a dozen .coms on the leader board.

Life paintings and reproductions are key to the tradition of oil painting. Track its history in China at an on-going exhibition. Zhang Zixuan reports.

Get seriously worried about the Internets. Surround yourself with social media gurus who don't know anything about foreign policy but have a gazillion Twitter followers. Try convincing the world that U.S. technology companies are your new ambassadors, out on a noble mission to spread freedom and democracy around the globe (things not to mention: oil, Iraq, Dick Cheney). Send their CEOs to Siber...