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Israel Secures Offshore Gas Field with Air Missiles
Israel is reported to have successfully tested an advanced surface-to-air missile to play a crucial role in securing the country's offshore gas fields and to extend its aerial defense.
Weir Group Opens $20m Manufacturing Plant in UAE
The Weir Group has launched the UAE’s first wellhead manufacturing facility, an investment worth $20m, to locally produce highly engineered equipment for upstream and downstream oil and gas operations.
South Africa Finds Power Stability Thanks to Renewables
An additional 43 IPP projects with a total capacity of 2.147 MW of which 2.021 MW are in commercial operation and 334 MW from the Department of Energy's Dedisa IPP project have been connected.
Shell-BG Merger Likely to Get Clearances
Shell's gigantic takeover of BG worth $83b (£55b), planned before the end 2015, is likely to secure clearances from the remaining Chinese and Australian regulators.
Activists Raise ‘No Planet B’ Banner at COP21
Climate Change Summit (COP21) has begun today in Paris with a superior goal to produce a legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
China Issued Sentences over 2013 Oil Pipeline Explosion
China has sentenced 14 officials at Sinopec, the China's state energy firm, and the local government for up to five years in jail in connection with the 2013 oil pipeline explosion.
Russia Halts Gas Supplies to Ukraine
Disputes between Moscow and Kiev reemerged last week amid Gazprom's disruption of gas supplies to Ukraine, Kiev's ban on Russian planes flyovers, and a recent explosion of power lines on Russian-annexed Crimea.
Dana Wins Legal Arbitration with Kurdistan over Gas Field Losses
In an international arbitration case between the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq and a consortium led by UAE-based Dana Gas, a London court has ruled the KRG to pay $1.98b in damages to the consortium.
