Energy News

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official.

BEIJING (AFP) - China said on Thursday that it was "firmly" opposed to provisions in a new US clean energy bill that will make it easier to impose trade penalties on nations that reject limits to globe-warming pollution.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India should end controls on prices of petrol and diesel and allow entry for private and foreign firms in the energy sector, a finance ministry survey said on Thursday.

SAO PAULO - Sao Paulo state officials have launched what they say is Latin America's first passenger bus with an electric engine powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Indian government Wednesday announced a rise in petrol and diesel fuel prices, saying its hand had been forced by the increase in global crude oil prices.

BAGHDAD - Iraq's government on Wednesday approved a BP-led consortium's offer to develop a giant oil field in the south, moving forward with the only deal struck during a much-hyped but ultimately disappointing international oil auction.

ODESSA, Texas - Ten people have been arrested in the theft of about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate from oil companies and producers in West Texas.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Foreign energy companies snubbed Iraq on Tuesday by rejecting all but one deal to develop the country's oil and gas sector, in what had been the first such opportunity in nearly four decades.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - British energy giant BP and China's CNPC International Ltd were unveiled Tuesday as the first foreign firms in decades to win contracts to invest and develop in Iraq's war-battered energy sector.

DOHA (AFP) - Qatari Oil Minister Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah warned on Tuesday that the global economic downturn will continue to hit the Gulf state's vital energy exports.