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Turkish gas drill in Cyprus hikes tensions

Apr 27, 2012 (UPI)

Turkey has begun drilling for natural gas in northern Cyprus ratcheting up growing tension across the east Mediterranean over control of offshore gas fields tha...

Iran's Oil Ministry under cyberattack

Apr 26, 2012 (UPI)

Iran's Oil Ministry, already battling stringent economic sanctions aimed at throttling the country's oil exports, is having to fight on another front: cyberatta...

China vows to defend rights in maritime row: Xinhua

Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)

China's military on Thursday vowed to defend the country's territory amid a stand-off with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, the official Xinhua ...

Hackers hit Philippines websites amid China dispute

Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)

Philippine government websites are under heavy attack from hackers, apparently from China, amid a tense territorial dispute between the two countries in the Sou...

Philippines seeks US defence boost amid China row

Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines said Thursday it would seek more US military help during top-level talks next week, as it ignored a warning from China not to "internationalise"...

S. Sudan leader to cut short China visit

Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan's president will cut short his visit to China amid violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing unveil...

Saudi output pledge likely to ease prices

Apr 25, 2012 (UPI)

Saudi assurances the kingdom can and will increase crude oil output to dampen prices is exactly what the market needs, a London think tank said. The Center for ...

Egypt's gas cut may spur energy conflicts

Apr 25, 2012 (UPI)

Egypt's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Israel threatens the countries' historic 1979 peace treaty and could crank up simmering tensions over disput...

NCEAS researchers offer new ecological model for deep-water oil spills

Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)

On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blowout, a national panel of researchers is providing new insight into what happened in the disa...

US, Philippines in war games as China warns of force

Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)

US and Filipino Marines armed with assault rifles and smoke grenades stormed a South China Sea island Wednesday in war games south of a real-life standoff betwe...

Ex-BP engineer arrested for destroying Gulf leak evidence

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

US authorities made their first arrest Tuesday in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, charging an ex-BP engineer with destroying evidence tied to the country's...

China's CNOOC says on track for growth targets

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

China's biggest offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd said Tuesday its first quarter revenue rose 3.7 percent year-on-year and it was on track to achieve its ...

Philippines sees gas in China-claimed reef

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines said Tuesday it was hoping to help secure its energy future by developing a natural gas field in an area of the South China Sea also claimed by ...

China hosts S. Sudan president as oil dispute rages

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan's leader kicks off a visit to Beijing on Tuesday with the hosts keen to defuse a raging dispute between the fledgling nation and neighbouring Sudan ...

Scientists propose a solution to a critical barrier to producing fusion

Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)

Physicists have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding...

South Sudan leader says Khartoum has 'declared war'

Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said Tuesday that Khartoum had "declared war" on his country, as violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan intensi...

Can sound science guide dispersant use during subsea oil spills?

Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)

Two years ago this week, oil began streaming from the seafloor into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform. All told, the ...

Oil spilled in Russian Arctic

Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)

An oil spill in the Russian Arctic affected an area of up to 8,000 square meters after workers tried to open an old well, causing oil to gush uncontrollably for...

Philippines to raise China dispute with US

Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)

The Philippines said Monday it would officially take its concerns over an increasingly tense territorial dispute with China to the United States, its key milita...

Over 1,000 S. Sudanese killed at Heglig: commander

Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)

More than 1,000 South Sudanese troops died during the battle for Sudan's main oilfield of Heglig, the Sudanese armed forces commander said on Monday. "The numbe...