Improving the sustainability of water treatment systems: Opportunities for innovation Energy Bulletin | RILES | In Brief There is growing recognition of the need for increased access to drinkable water across the world and for water treatment approaches that improve the quality of the delivered water and re-establish a balance between human and natural systems. In the current paradigm, however, larg...
EU's Iran trade sanctions send message on nukes San Fransisco Chronicle 0 0 0 | (07-27) 04:00 PDT Beirut -- | The European Union formally adopted harsh and unprecedented restrictions on trade with Iran on Monday in an effort to pressure Tehran to comply with international demands to curb its nuclear development program, ...
28 killed in hotel fire in Iraq's Kurdish region The Examiner Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people. | Half of those killed were foreigners, a reflection of the thousan...
AP News in Brief Star Tribune | BP works to fix valve leak on cap that could choke off oil leaking into Gulf of Mexico | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP engineers working to choke the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico found a leak on a line attached to the side of the new well cap ...
Upcoming World Energy Congress still likely to love oil Fresno Bee | - McClatchy Newspapers Share | thefresnobee_994:/2010/07/14/2006545/upcoming-world-energy-congress.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: | EDITORIAL: Obama missed opportunity to push for new U.S. en...
Free ride for oil may be over Asia Times | Jul 1, 2010 Free ride for oil may be over | By Stephen Leahy | BERLIN - Every day, governments give away an estimated US$2 billion of taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry. This largesse to a highly profitable sector b...
Banned oil trader applies for Swiss job Money Week | Steve Perkins, the Essex oil trader fined and banned for sending the price of crude to an 8-month high while drunk, is set to join a firm of commodity brokers based in Switzerland. | The Financial Services Authority fined the 34-year-old £72,000 o...
Commodities set to post worst quarter in a year The Times Of India MOSCOW | LONDON: Commodities are heading for their worst quarter in more than a year on investors’ concern that slower growth from China to the US will sap demand. | The S&P GSCI Total Return Index of 24 raw materials plunged 10% since the end of M...
Higher Oil Prices Help Exxon Top Forecasts The New York Times | The Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday that its nearly doubled to $7.56 billion as oil prices increased from last year. Add to Portfolio | Exxon Mobil Corp | Go to your Portfolio » | It’s Exxon’s highest quarterly profit since the $7.82 billion earned in the last three mo...
Questions Swirl About Damaged Japanese Tanker The New York Times | Shipping officials said Thursday that they were examining the hull of a Japanese oil tanker that was mysteriously damaged this week as it traversed a strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. The ship’s owner has said that it may have been attacked. | With the tanker docked in the United Arab Emirates, the owner a...
