ALGIERS, Algeria, March 23 (UPI) -- Algeria's energy industry, backbone of the country's economy, is in trouble as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika struggles to avert a popular uprising while locked in a power struggle with the military.
NEW DELHI, March 23 (UPI) -- India's private energy giant Tata Power has partnered with Australia's Sunengy Pty Limited for a $1 million pilot project to build a solar powered plant that will float on water, the companies announced.
BERLIN, March 23 (UPI) -- The Russian-led South Stream pipeline project has been given a significant boost when it was joined by Wintershall, the oil and gas arm of German chemicals giant BASF.
BRUSSELS, March 23 (UPI) -- The European Commission announced Wednesday it authorized $26.6 million in regional investment aid for a German company to build solar modules.
DOHA, Qatar, March 23 (UPI) -- With Shell declaring a new dawn for natural gas, the company announced Wednesday its first dedicated flow of offshore gas for its plant in Qatar.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, March 23 (UPI) -- Russian gas company Gazprom said it agreed to create a joint venture with a Slovenian company to give further impetus to the South Stream pipeline.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 23 (UPI) -- Pakistan is dedicated to tackling economic challenges and pursue broad efforts to increase its energy situation, a Pakistani energy company said.
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 23 (UPI) -- Diseases and climate change remain challenges to forest management despite a modest increase in the amount of forested areas, a U.N. agency said.
CAIRO, March 23 (UPI) -- The World Food Program expressed concerns about food supplies in Libya and for those trying to flee the conflict.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 23 (UPI) -- Concrete proposals on the sustainability of mackerel stock from the European Union are "imminent," the Scottish fisheries secretary announced.
WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- With black smoke rising from one of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors Wednesday, the U.S. EPA said the radiation threat to the United States was near zero.
WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- All governments should stop working with the Libyan National Oil Corp. so as to cut off finances to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Washington said.
MOSCOW, March 23 (UPI) -- Moscow is examining ways to increase the amount of oil and natural gas it exports to Japan to compensate for Japan's energy deficit, officials said.
LONDON, March 23 (UPI) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties' ambiguity in its responses to global oil price and supply movements is a risk to the stability of the crude oil market, a think tank said.
TOKYO, March 23 (UPI) -- As Japan took steps to check radiation contamination of food, experts said it is difficult to track radioactive materials once they escape.
