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Oil prices fall back as 'hopeful' Tehran responds to Trump
Feb 17, 2026 (AFP)
Oil prices had earlier risen after Trump ramped up threats towards Iran, a large crude producer, but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said "a new window ...
US forces board ship in Indian Ocean that fled Caribbean blockade: Pentagon
Feb 15, 2026 (AFP)
The Panamanian-flagged Veronica III "tried to defy President Trump's quarantine -- hoping to slip away. We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, cl...
US lawmaker moves to shield oil companies from climate cases
Feb 12, 2026 (AFP)
Republican Representative Harriet Hageman announced the effort during a hearing on Wednesday, following a letter last year from a group of attorneys general fro...
Chinese captain pleads not guilty to criminal damage of pipeline
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
Finnish police believe the vessel's six-tonne anchor struck the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia in October 2023, leading to damage and the ...
Fire at Iraq oil refinery kills one, injures 6
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
The fire erupted at an upgrading unit in the Baiji refinery, once the country's largest oil refinery, in Salaheddin province. The Iraqi government's security me...
Trump says he welcomes Chinese investment in Venezuelan oil
Feb 01, 2026 (AFP)
Venezuela sits on the world's largest proven oil reserves and reformed laws this week to open the sector up to private and foreign investment. China had been th...
US to conduct multi-day military exercise in Middle East
Jan 27, 2026 (AFP)
The announcement came a day after the US military said the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group had arrived in the Middle East, dramatically boosting American f...
Vladimir Padrino: Venezuela's military power broker
Jan 27, 2026 (AFP)
Named by his father after Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Padrino was a high school pupil when a friend asked him to tag along to a Military Academy entra...
US firm owned by Trump donor buys German oil storage giant
Jan 23, 2026 (AFP)
The news comes as Germany-US ties deteriorate under Trump, who has hit Europe with tariffs, repeatedly questioned whether the continent is on the right track, a...
French navy boards tanker 'from Russia' in Mediterranean
Jan 22, 2026 (AFP)
"This morning, the French Navy boarded an oil tanker coming from Russia, subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag," he said on X ...
TotalEnergies told to act to 'ease eco-anxiety'
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
The argument was made during a hearing in a landmark case brought by Hugues Falys, a farmer and union leader from Belgium's western Hainaut province. He blames ...
Russia says US has not released crew from detained tanker
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
The United States took over the Russian-flagged Marinera earlier this month, alleging it was part of a shadow fleet of tankers carrying oil to countries such as...
Oil prices drop 3% after Trump comments on Iran
Jan 15, 2026 (AFP)
West Texas Intermediate dropped 3.0 percent to $60.16 per barrel while Brent crude was down 2.93 percent to $64.57, after Trump said he had been told the killin...
Polymer nanoparticles drive platinum free solar hydrogen
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
The researchers describe how these polymer nanoparticles, when dispersed in water, absorb light and interact with their surroundings to drive hydrogen evolution...
Japan protests China gas drilling in East China Sea
Jan 08, 2026 (AFP)
It comes as the two countries are enmeshed in a row over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's suggestion in November that Tokyo could intervene militarily in any att...
UK says 'provided support' to US in tanker seizure
Jan 07, 2026 (AFP)
The vessel had thwarted an earlier attempt to board it last month near Venezuela, where a US raid on Saturday toppled the country's authoritarian president, Nic...
Oil extends losses as Trump flags Venezuela shipments, stocks wobble
Jan 07, 2026 (AFP)
Crude has seen wild swings since the US president ordered the toppling Saturday of Nicolas Maduro, his counterpart in Caracas, and said Washington would run the...
Brazil oil drilling near Amazon halted over 'fluid leak'
Jan 06, 2026 (AFP)
Despite strong opposition from environmental activists, Petrobas last year was granted a license to explore for oil in the Equatorial Margin, about 500 kilomete...
China: the indispensable partner of Maduro's Venezuela
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
Delta and beach bar sand bodies offer new framework for buried shoreline reservoirs
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
These interacting processes create stacked and laterally variable sand bodies that differ from those predicted by traditional single-process models. The authors...
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