The high-risk, high-cost venture could usher in an oil-and-gas bonanza for Shell if it succeeds -- or stall U.S. Arctic development by decades if it fails.
Brazil’s most important company has been hit by a string of deaths from site accidents.
Analysts say the deals are part of a wider move by Egypt to increase its oil and gas supplies.
Since June 1, forward prices for Brent January 2017 delivery have fallen by $6.5 per barrel to around $63.40.
Iranian officials say the country's oil exports could reach 2.3 million barrels a day should the West remove sanctions.
"Still nothing is clear. ... Some differences remain and we are trying and working hard," Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters.
Japan has found itself increasingly reliant on imported fossil fuels since it shuttered its nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster.
Officials say they are enforcing laws more strictly, but some companies and local governments still try to flout the law. Over 8,000 people were arrested last year.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision will require the EPA to review and reanalyze landmark standards and consider the cost regulations will impose on power producers.
Drivers paid an average of $2.85 a gallon, 86 cents below the average price paid at this time last year.
The companies named in the order were Premier Oil Plc, Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd, Rockhopper Exploration Plc, Noble Energy Inc and Edison International Spa.
The San Francisco solar company filed for its initial public offering amid falling solar costs and rising U.S. demand.
The planned investment doubles what Gates already has spent on early-stage energy companies, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
The deadly heat wave in Pakistan that has killed more than 800 people arrives as global warming is making extreme heat events more frequent and severe.
Gasoline from Canadian oil sands crude emits up to 18 percent to 21 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than equivalents from conventional U.S. crude.
Oil and gas companies say new rules to limit fracking pollution on federal and tribal lands are redundant and unnecessarily burdensome.
Solar, wind and other "clean power" technologies will draw $8 trillion in investment by 2040, nearly double the amount for fossil fuels, BNEF forecasts.
House Republicans are pushing bills this week to defang the Obama administration's hallmark environmental regulations.
Williams' board determined the proposal "significantly undervalues" the company.
Russia will not own Greece's section of the pipeline, but it will assist in financing the $2.3 billion project.
The Orkim Harmony was hijacked by pirates in an area that Malaysian officials warn has become a "hotspot" for piracy.
Crude oil powers the state when prices are high, but the boom-and-bust nature of the oil business makes it risky to hinge an economy on.
The Orkim Harmony was hijacked earlier in June with about 50,000 barrels of gasoline onboard.
Plunging costs and growing climate-change concerns will propel countries and companies to install 55,000 megawatts in solar projects this year.
Solar and wind energy costs plunged in recent years, and the new investments will drive improvements and lower costs in clean-energy technologies.
The Kori No. 1 reactor became operational in 1978 and was recently approved to run until 2017, but environmentalists have warned of safety concerns.
The bacteria-powered battery is about the size of a matchbook and its design was based on origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.
The International Energy Agency raised its forecast for global oil demand growth, citing low oil prices, economic recovery and a relatively cold winter.
Several thousand barrels of crude oil have spilled into a river in southwest Colombia after insurgents bombed a pipeline, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday, describing the damage as an "environmental tragedy."
Russia added the most oil and gas reserves during the past year while the U.S. overtook it as the top energy producer, oil company BP said on Wednesday in its benchmark annual review of world energy.