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New energy bill announced: green focus plus help for North Sea production.

Hollywood actor Kevin Costner has announced that he intends to implement a machine that he has been developing for 15 years in the massive oil clear up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.

Why the Gulf of Mexico is one of the few bright spots in the North American oilpatch.

Roundup of recent asset sales in the downstream industry.

E.ON's core natural gas unit - E.ON Ruhrgas - will join a consortium that is developing the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which will transport gas from the Caspian basin and the Middle East to Europe through Albania and Italy.

Technip completes construction of its new pipelay vessel; declares labour cuts at Pori yard.

Kidnapping remains a problem across the developing world with foreign nationals a particularly attractive target for criminals and militant groups.

Amongst the 17 agreements signed between Turkey and Russia this week, is the contract to develop the oil pipeline project running from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.

South America is investing heavily in LNG to secure energy supply and potentially earn export dollars sending LNG to the lucrative North American market.

Russia is offering the Ukraine a merger between the two state-owned monopolies, Gazprom and Naftogaz.

Chu Kong Pipe has secured orders worth a total of RMB834 million to supply pipes to the three major Chinese companies.

A round up of the main messages from the 2010 Green Collar Energy Forum.

Russia to allow duty free import of pipes from Ukraine.

Looking back at the first quarter of 2010, some encouraging signs of growth can be seen across the global energy industry, according to the latest data from EIC Monitor - the quarterly index that tracks newly announced projects across the global energy supply chain.

An agreement has been signed that permits Russia’s South Stream natural gas pipeline to cross Austrian territory.