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Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Oct 31, 2025 - President Donald Trump said Friday he is not considering strikes on Venezuela, which fears that a major US military buildup in the region is aimed at regime change in Caracas.| Oil and Gas Daily
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Oct 23, 2025 - A group of Brazilian NGOs said Thursday they had filed a lawsuit to halt exploratory drilling by state oil giant Petrobras off the coast of the Amazon region.| Oil and Gas Daily
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Oct 20, 2025 - Petrobras said Monday it had received a license to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, enraging environmentalists who said the move would undermine Brazil's hosting of UN climate talks next month.| Oil and Gas Daily
Lagos (AFP) Oct 21, 2025 - Growing up in southern Nigeria during the 1970s, Bubaraye Dakolo would easily catch 20 kilograms of fish within minutes. These days, a fisherman casts nets all night, only to bring back just about three kilograms.| Oil and Gas Daily
Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2025 China said on Thursday that its purchases of Russian oil were "legitimate" and decried "unilateral bullying" by the United States, as President Donald Trump pushes countries to stop buying fuel from Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised him New Delhi would stop buying Russian oil, adding that he will get China to follo| Oil and Gas News
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2025 The Trump administration has vowed to open up public land to usher in an age of American energy dominance but in the Western United States there is little frontier left. More than 81% of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in the Western United States are already open for oil and gas production leasing, according to a report by The Wilderness Society, a nonprofit| Oil and Gas News
Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2025 President Donald Trump's second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables - yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry continues to advance. Now Republicans are moving to shut them down with a two-pronged strategy: pushing for a federal shield law and urging the Supreme Court to intervene. "The issue for t| Oil and Gas News
London (AFP) Oct 14, 2025 China, the European Union and several other members of the International Maritime Organization reaffirmed their support on Tuesday for ambitious plans to cut shipping emissions, despite US threats. Initially approved in April, the London-based IMO are set to vote on Friday on formally adopting the Net Zero Framework (NZF), the first global carbon-pricing system. However, Washington's thr| Oil and Gas News
London (AFP) Oct 14, 2025 An ambitious plan by the UN's shipping agency to cut maritime emissions could be scuttled at the last minute after the United States threatened to impose sanctions on those supporting it. Already approved in April, members of the London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO) are set to formally adopt the Net Zero Framework (NZF) on Friday as part of talks opening Tuesday. The fr| Oil and Gas News
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 11, 2025 Iraq on Saturday criticised US sanctions on a company, individuals and armed groups Washington has said have ties with Iran-backed militias, calling the move "deeply regrettable". The US government on Thursday announced sanctions on the Al-Muhandis company, a firm with links to the Hashed al-Shaabi or the Popular Mobilisation Force (PMF), armed groups trained by Iran during the war against t| Oil and Gas News
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 Palladium is one of the keys to jump-starting a hydrogen-based energy economy. The silvery metal is a natural gatekeeper against every gas except hydrogen, which it readily lets through. For its exceptional selectivity, palladium is considered one of the most effective materials at filtering gas mixtures to produce pure hydrogen. Today, palladium-based membranes are used at commercial scal| Oil and Gas News
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 A new review led by Professor Fatwa F. Abdi of the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) proposes a transformative approach to solar-driven water electrolysis, positioning it as a versatile platform for sustainable chemical manufacturing rather than solely a hydrogen production method. Published in Nature Reviews Clean Technology, the paper argues that| Oil and Gas News
Caracas (AFP) Oct 10, 2025 Venezuela on Thursday asked the UN Security Council to hold emergency talks over what it said were "mounting threats" from the United States, which has sent warships to the Caribbean to fight drug trafficking. At UN headquarters in New York, diplomats told AFP the talks would take place on Friday at 3:00 pm (1900 GMT). The foreign ministry said in a statement that US strikes in internati| Oil and Gas News
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 8, 2025 US oil giant ExxonMobil has returned to Iraq after a two-year absence, reaching an initial agreement on Wednesday that could pave the way for developing a giant oil field. Iraqi Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani's office announced the oil ministry had signed the heads of agreement (HoA) on the project in the country's south. Sudani, who attended the signing ceremony, said the agreement "repr| Oil and Gas News
Doha (AFP) Oct 3, 2025 - US President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week vowing to defend Qatar against attacks, following Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas leaders in Doha.| Oil and Gas Daily
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 30, 2025 Fossil fuel developers should be excluded from financial investments labelled sustainable, NGOs and associations urged on Tuesday, as part of any reform of the European Union's green finance transparency rules. More than 120 signatories including organisations such as Reclaim Finance, financial institutions as well as legal experts urged Brussels in an open letter to offer "sufficient safegu| Oil and Gas News
Caracas (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday branded US Secretary of State Marco Rubio the lord of death and war over his tough rhetoric on Latin American cartels and vowed to defend against Washington's aggression.| Oil and Gas Daily
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 16, 2025 - South Africa's top court on Tuesday heard arguments in a landmark case pitting environmentalists and coastal communities against energy giant Shell's oil and gas exploration off the Indian Ocean coast.| Oil and Gas Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 - China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has reported that its offshore heavy oil thermal recovery technology system and supporting equipment have reached large-scale deployment, with cumulat| Oil and Gas Daily
Beijing (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 - China said Tuesday it had rejected a protest lodged by Japan over the development of gas fields in disputed waters of the East China Sea. Tokyo's foreign ministry said late Monday it had con| Oil and Gas Daily
Oslo (AFP) Aug 21, 2025 - Greta Thunberg and more than 100 more climate activists blocked Oslo's main avenue and a bank branch on Thursday to demand Norway shutter its oil industry, police and organisers said. The ac| Oil and Gas Daily
Oslo (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 - The Norwegian state and environmental groups face off in court again Thursday over three oil fields ruled illegal last year due to insufficient environmental impact studies.| Oil and Gas Daily
Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 14, 2025 - /> A South African court has refused environmental authorisation for planned offshore drilling by French energy giant TotalEnergies near the foot of Africa, in a ruling seen by AFP Thursday. T| Oil and Gas Daily
Frankfurt, Germany Aug 13, 2025 - Germany's conservative-led government has launched a drive to rapidly build more gas-fired power plants, fuelling fears about climate policy backsliding and sparking unease even within its own ranks.| Oil and Gas Daily
Geneva (AFP) Aug 8, 2025 - Environmental NGOs are raising concerns about the growing presence of petrochemical industry lobbyists at talks to forge a global treaty to combat plastic pollution.| Oil and Gas Daily
Maputo (AFP) Aug 9, 2025 - Jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique have multiplied their attacks in the past weeks, causing mass displacements ahead of the possible resumption of construction on TotalEnergies' huge natural gas project in the region.| Oil and Gas Daily
Darvaza, Turkmenistan (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - People go to the Gateway to Hell gas crater in the middle of the Turkmenistan desert expecting an angry cauldron but are now coming away unimpressed.| Oil and Gas Daily
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 - A Ukrainian drone attack killed a mother and her toddler in a Russian border region on Wednesday, Russian officials said, as Kyiv launched a major overnight barrage that set an oil refinery ablaze and targeted a nuclear facility.| Oil and Gas Daily
