DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A government oil company in the United Arab Emirates says it has opened the country's first solar-powered gas station in Dubai. The Dubai-owned Emirates National Oil Company said on Wednesday the service station on the city's main Sheikh Zayed Road thoroughfare is covered with solar panels that can generate up to 120 kilowatt hours. ENOC says that is about 30 per cent more energy than the station needs, so the excess power is directed back into the [Read more]

HAVANA - Refineries have gone dark. Gas rations have been slashed for hundreds of thousands of state workers. Construction materials are nearly impossible to find. But Cuba's hotels and restaurants are packed, major U.S. airlines are adding flights and government stores are full of frozen American chicken and U.S.-made candy. So far, Cuba is weathering the storm as Venezuela's economy craters and protesters fill its streets to denounce Cuba's greatest socialist ally. A [Read more]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A government oil company in the United Arab Emirates says it has opened the country's first solar-powered gas station in Dubai. The Dubai-owned Emirates National Oil Company said on Wednesday the service station on the city's main Sheikh Zayed Road thoroughfare is covered with solar panels that can generate up to 120 kilowatt hours. ENOC says that is about 30 per cent more energy than the station needs, so the excess power is directed back into the [Read more]

BISMARCK, N.D. - A 1,050-gallon oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota polluted a tributary of the Little Missouri River but was prevented from flowing into the larger waterway by its fast-moving current, a state Health Department official said Tuesday. An estimated 756 gallons of oil and 294 gallons of saltwater, a drilling byproduct, leaked from a pipeline in Bowman County operated by Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources. The spill was discovered Saturday about 5 miles [Read more]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An oil well leaking natural gas on Alaska's North Slope was successfully plugged by pumping saltwater into the well, according to private and government responders. The state Department on Environmental Conservation on Monday said the well operated by BP Exploration Alaska Inc., a subsidiary of BP, was "killed" at 3:35 a.m. The well is five miles from the airport at Deadhorse. Employees on Friday morning discovered uncontrolled natural gas flowing from the top [Read more]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska's picturesque Cook Inlet is home to endangered beluga whales and wild salmon — and a spider web of oil and natural gas pipelines on the sea floor, many of them placed there five decades ago. Cook Inlet's petroleum production is often overshadowed by Alaska's giant North Slope oil fields, but the inlet is in the spotlight as millions of cubic feet of natural gas spew from an underwater pipeline owned by the inlet's largest petroleum producer, Hilcorp Alaska LLC. [Read more]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The owner of a pipeline spewing natural gas in Alaska's Cook Inlet says dive crews have located the leak. The Hilcorp Alaska LLC pipeline has leaked hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of processed natural gas since mid-December. The leak was spotted from the air Feb. 7. The 8-inch (20-centimetre) diameter pipeline supplies gas for power to four production platforms. Hilcorp spokeswoman Lori Nelson in an announcement says divers discovered a 2-inch [Read more]