Iran leader Khamenei backs gasoline price hike that led to deadly unrest
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, on Sunday threw his support behind a decision to hike gasoline prices, a move that sparked nationwide unrest in which he said "some lost their lives." Khamenei blamed "hooligans" for damaging property and said "all the centers of the ...
Japan rushes to establish LNG bunkering hub as environmental rules push global fleet to natural gas
A U.N.-led call for action to tighten sulfur oxide emissions may also be a trigger accelerating a shift to natural gas as fuel for the global shipping fleet, and Japan is wasting no time trying to establish a refueling hub in Asia. Some 80,000 vessels ...
60% of spent nuclear fuel in Japan to be stored in metal casks in the future, research shows
Over 60 percent of the some 15,200 tons of spent nuclear fuel in Japan could be stored in metal casks in the future, as the cooling pools that currently hold them are filling up, Kyodo News research showed Wednesday. The survey of utility companies' plans ...
Egyptian students produce fuel from used tires, seek investors
Egyptian students have built a machine they say can produce fuel from worn-out vehicle tires, after big rises in energy prices as part of recent economic reforms. The device heats the tires until they reach evaporation point. The vapor then enters a condenser. The product is ...
China's CNPC suspends fuel sales to North Korea as risks mount, sources say
China National Petroleum Corp. has suspended sales of fuel to North Korea over concerns the state-owned oil company won't get paid, as pressure mounts on Pyongyang to rein in its nuclear and missile programs, three sources told Reuters. It's unclear how long the suspension will ...
Japanese airlines to cut fuel surcharges as oil prices slump
The nation's airlines are set to remove fuel surcharges with oil trading around a 12-year low, ending a decade of high jet kerosene costs that had added as much as ¥66,000 to the price of a round-trip ticket to the U.S. or Europe. The current ...
Mazda plans gas fuel efficiency boost to 50 km per liter by 2020 or later
Mazda Motor Corp. aims to enhance the average fuel efficiency of its cars to 45 to 50 km per liter in 2020 or later as part of its efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to Chairman Seita Kanai. Kanai said in an interview with ...
Africa tightens Ebola travel curbs as affected countries face food shortages
African countries tightened travel curbs on Thursday in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak, ignoring World Health Organization warnings that such measures could heighten shortages of food and basic supplies in affected areas. In the West Point slum in Liberia's capital Monrovia, the scene ...
Risky fuel removal about to start
The decades-long decommissioning of Fukushima No. 1 is about to take what Tepco says is "an important step" as it starts cleaning out the reactor 4 spent fuel pool.
Japan, the world's biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, plans to form an international consumer group to study ways of reducing import costs. The government-affiliated Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, is proposing joint research with organizations in Asia and Europe on issues in LNG markets, ...
