OPEC Sees Oil Demand Decline Again Demand for crude oil from OPEC countries is expected to decline again next year, as independent producers, especially the United States, increase their supplies. Times are gradually changing for OPEC, the Organizati...
US Oil Surge Could Impact Mideast Geopolitics The IEA report describes a 'supply shock' from the United States rippling through world oil markets. The key to it is the resurgence of shale development in the United States, John Mitchell, an oil market...
Syrian Rebels Eye EU Oil Trade In his backyard north of the city of Idlib, Ahmed Abu Taleb and his friend use handpumps to transfer a barrel of crude oil into a tank. A fire burns in a pit dug below the tank. Then drip by drip, through a simple syste...
Technology Report - Could Waste Plastic Reduce Our Need for Oil? 科技报道 - 塑料制油技术是否可以减少美国的石油需求 From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技...
Oil Giants Eye Arctic Reserves Last winter in the Arctic, the Russian tanker Renda carved its way to the remote Alaskan port of Nome. Not long ago this voyage - made in December and January - would have been impossible. The warming climate means thin...
ISTANBUL Growing tensions between Baghdad and the semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdish government over control of the country's energy reserves is threatening to pull neighboring Turkey into the deepening dispute. This past weekend, Iraq warned Ankara that s...
ENVIRONMENT REPORT – July 26, 2002: Galapagos Oil Spill By George Grow (Photo -noaa.gov) This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists say that as many as fifteen-thousand marine ig...
HEALTH REPORT - September 11, 2002: McDonald’s Changes its Oil By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. McDonald’s says its fast-food eating places in the United States wi...
Rights Group Rebukes Angola for Alleged Missing Oil Revenues Leah Krakinowski A leading human-rights group says the Angolan government cannot account for more than $4 billion in missing oil revenue ,...
An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made...
