Suspected U.S. drones targeted militant hideouts in southern Yemen, killing six people and injuring five others, security officials said Saturday.
President Barack Obama took on critics of his energy policies Thursday, saying in carefully coordinated speeches that they weren't paying attention to increased oil production at home and were misleading the public about the cause of rising gas prices.
In his weekly address Saturday, President Barack Obama encouraged congressional leaders to grant him executive branch reorganization powers.
The Senate on Saturday approved a compromise spending bill to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year -- a day after the bill won approval from the House of Representatives.
A compromise spending bill to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year won approval Friday from the House of Representatives, the first step toward averting a partial government shutdown at midnight.
Thick black smoke and darting flames enveloped the turbulent Syrian region of Homs Thursday after what the government and activists say was an attack on an oil pipeline.
TransCanada says it is willing to reroute the proposed Keystone oil sands pipeline within Nebraska in view of environmental concerns.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev pledged to cooperate on a gas pipeline project that will run between the two nations through North Korea, according to Seoul's presidential office.
CNN's Errol Barnett explains why the world's population will cross 7 billion, and what experts say needs to be done.
On the last day of October 2011, the U.N. says the world population will hit seven billion people -- an increase of one billion since 1999.
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia is close to sealing an energy supply agreement with China worth $1 trillion.
A blast early Tuesday morning destroyed a section of a gas pipeline in northern Sinai that carries gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan. It was the latest in a series of attacks on the pipeline in recent months.
Actress Daryl Hannah explains her stance against a proposed oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf.
As the decision deadline on the controversial proposal to build a giant oil pipeline between Alberta, Canada, and Texas draws closer, activists and the company behind the project are ratcheting up their war of words.
A separatist rebel group has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a gas pipeline that runs from Iran to Turkey.
An Oklahoma man has been arrested for allegedly placing an improvised explosive device under a gas pipeline, but law enforcement officials say they do not believe the man was connected to any type of terrorist group and was not a disgruntled worker.
One of the longest oil pipelines in Iran exploded Friday and burned for 10 hours before firefighters were able to extinguish it, Iranian media reported.
A pipeline that supplies gas from Egypt to Israel exploded Monday in the northern Sinai Peninsula near Bir el-Adb, an Egyptian security official said.
Europe's Nabucco natural gas pipeline hit a third major delay Friday as the start of operations was pushed back from 2014 to 2017.
A bomb planted under an oil pipeline exploded in northern Iraq preventing the flow of thousands of barrels of oil, an Oil Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
A gas pipeline explosion in rural Ohio rattles nerves. No injuries were reported. (No Audio)
A pipeline that sends natural gas to Jordan was set on fire in the Egyptian Sinai town of El Arish on Saturday, and the suspected act of sabotage has forced its temporary closing, officials said.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday released the first report on the natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in San Bruno, California, last year.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday issued seven recommendations, calling six of them urgent, as the result of its investigation into the fiery natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 37 homes in San Bruno, California, four months ago.
A crude oil pipeline between Russia and China is now in operation, with 15 million metric tons of crude expected to move from Russia to China a year until 2030, according to Chinese state media.
At least 28 people were killed and 52 injured after an oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico, the country's state-owned oil monopoly said.
At least 27 people were killed and 52 injured after an oil pipeline exploded Sunday morning in central Mexico, the state-run news agency said.
An armed militant group is claiming that it has attacked an oil pipeline in the Niger Delta region.
An oil pipeline fire in Myanmar has killed 14 people and injured more than 121 others, state-run television reported.
Family worries about a crude oil pipeline on their land. Congress may soon strengthen rules. CNN's Chris Welch reports.
An oil pipeline that on September 9 began leaking crude oil just southwest of Chicago, Illinois, was back up and running Friday morning, owner Enbridge Energy Partners LP announced.
The San Mateo, California, coroner's office Wednesday announced the identification of three family members killed in the September 9 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
A vintage segment of gas pipeline that exploded earlier this month was not on a list of the Pacific Gas & Electric's top 100 risky pipeline segments, the president of the company said Monday.
U.S. gasoline prices have decreased by less than a cent in the past two weeks, though some regions saw an increase due to an oil pipeline leak, according to a new nationwide survey.
Thursday night's devastating gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, raises a couple of critical questions: exactly how extensive and how safe are the nation's gas lines?
A Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman discusses the company's response to the San Pedro gas explosion.
Fires left at least eight people dead and hundreds homeless in three regions of central Russia, government officials said Friday.
For three decades, Mike and Sue Sibson expected the normal ups and downs that come with working a South Dakota farm and raising two kids. But when circumstances forced the Sibsons to let an oil pipeline bisect their property in 2009, it darkened their view of the American dream.
An oil pipeline exploded Tuesday in southeastern Turkey, killing two people and injuring at least one other in an incident police sources blamed on sabotage.
Chinese authorities ordered beefed-up safety measures at the nation's ports after a pipeline explosion spewed crude oil into the Yellow Sea, state media reported Friday.
The oil spill in northeastern China prompts authorities to tighten regulatory standards. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
A pair of oil pipeline blasts engulfed a Chinese port in flames for 15 hours before firefighters extinguished it. (No Audio)
At least three people were hurt and several others are missing following a natural gas pipeline blast in Lipscomb County.
A natural gas pipeline exploded Tuesday in the Texas Panhandle, killing two construction workers and injuring three others, an official said.
A 36-inch underground natural gas pipeline exploded into flames Monday in Johnson County, Texas, killing one and injuring at least five people before officials were able to shut the flow of gas, officials said.
The trans-Alaska oil pipeline restarted Friday after a shutdown that lasted more than three days, the operating company said.
China and Russia reach agreement on a gas supply deal, plus trade deals worth billions. CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports.
Facetime with Reinhard Mitschek, Managing Director, Nabucco Gas Pipeline Project
Officials from six countries gathered Monday in Turkey and signed a deal to build a U.S.-backed pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia's near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe.
Six countries agree to build a pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia's near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe.
A Nigerian militant group claimed Wednesday it sabotaged oil pipelines in the country's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, but the country's military denies the assertion.
Nigeria's main militant group said Friday it destroyed another oil pipeline owned and operated by a foreign company in the Niger Delta region.
A militant group operating in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria said Monday that it had destroyed several major oil pipelines in response to a military offensive.
Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region said they killed six government soldiers after the military attacked one of its camps on Thursday.
The prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement early Sunday morning to resume gas supplies to Europe by early next week.
CNN's Matthew Chance takes a look at how a simple price dispute between Russia and Ukraine came to this.
Russia resumed sending natural gas to Ukrainian pipelines Tuesday, a week after the gas flow was interrupted, but the gas was stopped at the Ukrainian border instead of being passed through to Europe.
Fortune: When GE met Googleupdated: Fri Sep 26 2008 14:57:00
When companies as savvy and as important as General Electric and Google join forces, it's worth a closer look. The companies say they will work together to drive two industries with big growth potential: geothermal energy and the upgrading of the nation's overburdened electricity grid.
One lesson from the blackout of 2003 is that the U.S. power grid is long overdue for a major overhaul. But five years later, the system hasn't gotten smarter.
Alaska lawmakers approved a state license Friday for TransCanada Corp. to pursue construction of a natural gas pipeline
A rebel group in Nigeria said it sabotaged two oil pipelines in southern Nigeria on Monday.
A Nigerian militant group issued a statement Wednesday saying it will destroy major oil pipelines "within the next 30 days" to disassociate itself from a government pipeline protection deal.
Doug Buchanan grins with relief when he sees the carcasses. He has just driven up a steep dirt road onto a vast, sunbaked mesa overlooking the Mojave Desert in western Nevada. There, a few feet from the trail, lie the corpses of two steers. A raven perches on one, the only object more than three feet above the ground on this pancake-flat plateau. Cattle, dead or alive, qualify as good news in Buchanan's line of work. If cattle are present, that means grazing is permitted, and that in turn means that this land is most likely not protected habitat for the desert tortoise.
Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens Tuesday unveiled a new energy plan he says will decrease the United States' dependency on foreign oil by more than one-third and help shift American energy production toward renewable natural resources like wind power.
Leaders in a volatile region of Nigeria have agreed to participate in government-backed talks intended to stop attacks on the country's oil industry, a government spokesman said Tuesday.
A rebel group that has been attacking oil pipelines in southern Nigeria claimed responsibility on Monday for another strike and said it killed 11 government soldiers in fighting that followed the sabotage.
CNN's Christian Purefoy reports on rebel activity in Nigeria that is contributing to higher gas prices .
Violence in oil-rich southern Nigeria is having a ripple effect thousands of miles away -- at gas stations in the United States.
An oil pipeline ruptured and exploded after a construction vehicle accident in Nigeria.
Mexico's ruling party has rejected calls for a cease-fire from a small rebel group blamed for last year's bomb attacks on gas and oil pipelines.
Iran plans to link its electrical grid with neighboring Iraq as part of another "extended area of cooperation" between the countries, the Iranian president announced during his historic visit to Iraq.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets an official send-off after a two-day visit.
A gas pipeline fire in eastern Saudi Arabia killed 40 workers, 34 of them foreign, and injured nine others, the state oil conglomerate Saudi Aramco said Tuesday.
A gas pipeline erupted into flames in eastern Saudi Arabia early Sunday, causing "a number of deaths and injuries," according to Saudi Aramco, the state oil conglomerate.
A shadowy leftist guerrilla group took credit for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six Mexican oil and gas pipelines Monday, rattling financial markets and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production.
If you wanted to choose the perfect location for capturing the ocean's energy, you couldn't do much better than the Oregon coast. Waves arrive there with immense power, having traveled across thousands of miles of open water with few barrier islands, reefs or other obstructions to slow them down.
Insurgents Monday targeted key oil sites in Iraq, firing mortar rounds into an oil distribution center in northern Iraq and bombing a pipeline in a southern suburb of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
Venezuela and Colombia on Saturday began construction of a gas pipeline linking the two countries, another step in Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's efforts to promote Latin American energy integration.
Between 150 and 200 people died on Friday in an oil pipeline explosion in the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos, Nigerian officials say.
As the sun rose Monday, Georgia and Armenia tapped into natural gas reserves a day after explosions struck pipelines in southern Russia that supply the two post-Soviet republics.
Gas has started flowing to Georgia after an explosion shut off supplies from Russia, which was accused by Georgian officials of deliberately triggering an energy crisis in its small ex-Soviet neighbor.
Georgia's president Sunday questioned the timing of explosions in Russia that cut off electricity and natural gas service to his country in the middle of one of the coldest winters on record in the Caucasus nation.
Visiting Indian oil minister made new proposals Monday to nudge forward plans to build a $4 billion gas pipeline to take Iranian gas to India through Pakistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in China to mark 55 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations and to seek a further boost in bilateral trade.
The leaders of India and Pakistan have held their first meeting together which they hailed afterwards as a "historic day."
The leaders of nuclear rivals India and Pakistan have held their first meeting -- a one-hour session that produced a joint statement calling for more bilateral talks, the pursuit of peace in Kashmir, and an idea for a gas pipeline between the two countries.
The biggest task facing the interim government of Iraq will be bringing security to the nation, according to one terrorism expert.
A Web site posted a statement Monday attributed to Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claiming responsibility for deadly weekend suicide attacks on two oil terminals in southern Iraq.
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Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Dec 18 1989 00:01:00
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