Taiwan has fined a cooking oil supplier 50 million New Taiwan dollars (1.67 million U.S. dollars) over its sale of tainted lard, the public health watchdog said Wednesday.
U.S. oil companies on Thursday urged the federal government to lift export ban and start exporting oil as the nation has been seeing a rapid increase in domestic oil production in recent years.
Taiwan police on Thursday busted a ring of six people selling hundreds of tonnes of recycled waste oil used for cooking, in a latest food scandal to rock the island.
Guanghui Energy Co. Ltd has become the first private enterprise licensed to ship crude oil into China.
If Ukraine halts oil supplies, Slovakia still will have reserves for seven months, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday.
A consortium of energy companies announced on Monday they have discovered a new oil field off the coast of Western Australia in the biggest oil strike in Australia in 20 years.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) decided that it will carry forward an oil exploration plan in the West Bank despite Israel's rejections, a senior Palestinian government official said on Wednesday.
U.S. energy analysts have drawn a rosy picture for one of the country's largest shale areas, predicting more reserves of crude oil.
An explosion ripped through an oil refinery and triggered a fire in eastern Chinese city of Nanjing Monday noon, local firefighters said
The Kenyan government has granted a year extension to an Australian oil and gas firm Pancontinental to plan future explorations in the East African nation.
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2014, the world's largest oil trade show, concluded Thursday in the U.S. city of Houston with a record high attendance, including a heavy Chinese presence.
Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, is negotiation with the European Union for the group acknowledgment on the country's environmental standard in producing palm oil, Indonesian senior official said here on Monday.
China's food and drug watchdog Monday promised increased safety checks of cod-liver oil products following media exposure of the hazards of overconsumption.
South Korea planned to build large- sized oil storage facilities to become an oil hub in the Northeast Asian region amid growing demand for such facilities, the commerce ministry said Wednesday.
China has issued a plan to open up its largely monopolized oil and gas pipelines, in a bid to increase the facilities' efficiency, energy authority said on Monday.
China's top oil refiner Sinopec announced on Wednesday that it would bring in social and private capital to jointly market and sell its oil products, the first opening up of the largely monopolized area.
China started commercial use of aviation biofuel on Wednesday, in a bid to ease fuel pressure and cut carbon emissions.