Charles is a writer for Oilprice.com
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Australian oil firm AWE has sold down its interests in the Bass basin offshore northern Tasmania for $74 million in cash to the Indian Prize…
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A new report compiled in consultation with the White House and a pool of clean-energy experts suggests that clean-coal technology is too embryonic to use…
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UK-based BG Group is preparing to launch oil and gas exploration on Honduras's Atlantic coast with an initial investment of at least $20 million, marking…
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Smitha Rao and JC Chiao, two researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, have designed a unique concept to charge mobile electronic devices that…
A senior US administration official has claimed that under the interim nuclear agreement made last year with Iran, Tehran will be able to access about…
A joint venture between Shell and Russia’s Gazprom Neft has begun drilling in a Siberian shale formation that is believed to hold one of the…