The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore reported two separate incidents of ship collisions near the island of Singapore on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, both resulting in some spillage of bunker fuel from container ships.
A man was given a suspended death sentence and two others life in jail for producing and selling poisonous food, a court in east China ruled on Tuesday. The Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province also sentenced seven other defendants involved in the case to between five and 15 years, as well as fining them between 500,000 and two million yuan (82,000 to 327,000 U.S. dollars) each. In March 2001, Zhu Chuanfeng and his two brothers Zhu Chuanqing and Zhu Chuanbo, invested in building an oil plant to process and sell animal oil.
Behind all the drama in Washington that has grabbed U.S. headlines in 2013, there was one major story that was most under reported: the oil boom.
Global miner BHP Billiton said Wednesday that its U.S. shale oil business would be one of its major cash flow generators by 2020, contributing almost 3 billion U.S. dollars a year to the company by the end of the decade.
A long-running spat between Changqing oil field and Yulin government in northwest China's Shanxi Province has moved a step closer to being resolved after 21 of the oil and gas producer's 22 bank accounts were unfrozen. A Yulin government official confirmed the decision to Xinhua earlier this week.
Sri Lanka is keen to get oil from Iran once again and is studying a recent deal signed between six world powers with the Iranian government, a senior government official told the local media on Monday.
PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) announced on Thursday that it had acquired a 25 percent interest in the Technical Service Contract (TSC) for the West Qurna-1 oil field in Iraq.
In a coup for Australia's leading securities exchange, the Chinese oil and gas recovery specialist, Sino Australia Oil & Gas Ltd announced Friday its intention to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December following the successful completion of its initial public offering (IPO).
China may raise the price of refined oil on Thursday, which would mark the seventh such increase within a year, industry analysts predicted.
First the latest on the oil pipeline blasts in the port city of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province.
Shares of Sinopec, China's top refiner listed in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, opened to tumble on Monday following Friday's deadly oil pipeline blasts in east China's Shandong Province.
The death toll from Friday's oil pipeline blasts in east China's Shandong Province rose to 52 as of 1 p.m. Sunday after four bodies were found at the scene, rescuers said.
At least 22 people were killed after a leaking pipeline caught fire and exploded on Friday morning in the coastal city of Qingdao, in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation ( Sinopec Corp), the Asia's largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, to expedite its process to build an oil refinery in Cambodia by 2018, a spokesman said.
Myanmar's local firms are seeking joint operation with foreign counterparts in oil and gas exploration and production on mutually beneficial basis for the development of the energy sector.
Inspired by prickly pears, Chinese scientists have developed a new technique for removing oil from water, which could have applications in oil spill clean-up work.