An asthma research has sparked a discussion about whether or not using gas in the kitchen is safe.

In the United States, proposals have been made for stricter regulation of kitchen stoves in light of new research that ties natural gas cooking to roughly 12% of childhood asthma cases. With an effect on health similar to second hand smoke, the study's authors concluded that their data reveal...

Companies in the oil and gas industry are taking Los Angeles to court over the city's ban on oil and gas drilling.

Legal action has been taken against the City of Los Angeles by an oil business with operations in the Wilmington area as a result of the City's statute prohibiting the construction of new wells and phasing out drilling altogether. Warren Resources, the company that runs the 10-acre oil-extrac...

Russia now ranks among India's most important crude oil suppliers to the Hardeep Puri

The Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, made the statement on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed their countries' bilateral ties and energy cooperation over the phone.

Puri, speaking at a press conferen...

Germany proposes a one-year moratorium on energy price increases.

The administration has already stated that the cost of gas and electricity would be capped next year. According to Bild, energy companies may now be prohibited from boosting rates, with previously announced increases due to be reversed.

The German government plans to prevent energy prov...

Quarterly Profit for Exxon Hits All-Time High, Almost Equals Apple's

On Friday, Exxon Mobil Corp. reported a quarterly profit that nearly matched that of tech giant Apple, shattering analysts' forecasts thanks to rising energy prices.

With rising natural gas and oil prices, the company's net profit for the third quarter of 2018 was $19.66 billion...

A further demonstration of energy cooperation is France's gas exports to Germany

European nations must rely on one another to survive through the approaching winter since Russian gas supplies have been cut off. It has been decided that France will supply Germany with natural gas in exchange for Germany providing France with power. FRANCE 24 analyzes the pros and cons of this ...

Reports allege that 50 meters of underwater pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany were destroyed.

An explosion last month likely wiped out at least 50 meters (164 ft) of an underwater pipeline transporting Russian gas to Germany. According to sources, the large tear in the Nord Stream 1 pipe was captured on camera by a Norwegian robotics company and reported by the Swedish tabloid Expressen.<...

In France, workers at refineries and gasoline depots voted to keep their strikes going.

Despite a government order for some of them to return to work to get fuel supplies flowing, striking French oil refinery employees voted on Wednesday to maintain blockades now in their third week.

A strike for higher wages has shut down six of France's seven fuel refineries, causing...

Taking control of the Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project is one of Putin's latest directives

A new operator for the Exxon Mobil Corp.-led Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East was established by a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Putin's action, which affects Exxon's largest investment in Russia, is similar to the method he ...

German man receives a life sentence for the murder of a gas station employee in the COVID mask conflict

In a fight about COVID face masks, a German man killed a teenage gas station employee and was sentenced to life in prison.

Between Frankfurt and the Franco-German border, in the western town of Idar-Oberstein, a shooting took place in September of last year.

The clerk, 20, all...

German farmer seeking to get VW to stop selling gasoline and diesel vehicles

Environmentalists celebrated a minor legal victory on Friday after a German court announced it will continue hearing a farmer's lawsuit attempting to compel Volkswagen to stop selling cars with internal combustion engines.

Climate change, according to Ulf Allhoff-Cramer, is affectin...

Germany's gas pipeline is kept off by Russia's Gazprom

The energy crisis in Europe has grown worse after the major German pipeline carrying natural gas was temporarily shut down by Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Just hours before it was scheduled to resume delivery, the business announced that urgent maintenance work was required to fix impo...

During a crisis of energy Dutch market determines gas prices for all of Europeans

According to the survey Everyone is hoping on the TTF, the top benchmark on the continent, as gas prices across Europe continue to raise all-time highs.

According to the Title Transfer Facility they states that, a Dutch-based online market where shippers and buyers for exchange of gas s...

The chancellor of Germany claims to be moving quickly to discover alternatives to Russian gas.

As pressure increases on his government to find solutions to address an impending crisis, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said he is working as quickly as he can to free Germany from its dependence on Russian gas and pursue other energy suppliers.

On the first day of a three-day...

Export Restrictions On U.S. Chips & Gas Turbines

On Friday, the United States passed new regulations that place restrictions on the export of technologies that are essential to the creation of advanced semiconductors and gas turbine engines. The United States of America asserts that the use of these technologies is critical to the maintenance o...

According to a gas company looking at the Beetaloo Basin, Australia should give up its ambition of keeping global warming to 1.5C

Tamboran Resources claims the target may obstruct "climate enhancing" gas developments. Tamboran Resources received $7.5 million to investigate the Beetaloo Basin.

The federal government is being urged by a gas corporation with interests in the Beetaloo Basin to revise its cli...

Europe must commit fully to diversifying its oil and gas sources

Energy-related decisions made in the past by Berlin and Brussels were terrible decisions that made Europe more reliant on Russian gas. Through this dependence, the Kremlin has been able to persuade certain countries—and occasionally the European Union (EU) as a whole—to support develo...

Environmental groups battle the Bay du Nord oil project in court and before the Norwegian public

In May, several protesters gathered in front of the Equinor offices in Newfoundland and Labrador to voice their opposition to the Bay du Nord oil project's approval.

Even after the federal government approved the Bay du Nord offshore oil project in Newfoundland months ago, environme...

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US oil producers reject requests to unlock the taps to control war-related price increases

Seattle | America's biggest oil and gas producers are limiting their output despite pleas from the Biden administration to increase production and record profits from rising fuel costs brought on by Russia's conflict in Ukraine.

As strong crude and natural gas prices fill the in...