Vice President Al Gore said today that the White House should release a modest amount of oil from government stockpiles to try to stabilize oil prices, a move that Gov. George W. Bush immediately

An advisory panel on Monday endorsed a plan by Chugoku Electric Power Co. to build a new nuclear reactor in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.The Electric Power Development Coordination Council's green light

Pakistan plans fresh incentives to boost investment in the upstream oil and gas sector as it seeks to avoid being left behind in the global energy investment race, governemnt and industry officials

Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company, is planning to survey the world's biggest tiger reserve after company geologists pinpointed it as one of the richest potential sources of oil and gas on earth,

China has decided to speed up the use of natural gas in the coming years. The proportion of natural gas in the energy consumption is expected to increase to about 4 percent in 2005 from 2 percent at

The State Government is bent upon bank-rupting the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPEB) to pave the way for the privatised Maheshwar power project and giving an escrow guarantee to it which the

Hisashi Ouchi, one of three JCO Co. workers exposed to massive amounts of radiation in the Japan's worst nuclear accident in September, died of multiple organ failure Tuesday night, doctors said. He

When a country experiences a major nuclear accident, a change of nuclear energy policy inevitably follows because of the impact on the region concerned. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant

Japanese government officials tried to ease concerns among residents living near nuclear facilities in Ibaraki Prefecture, following the death Tuesday of JCO Co. employee Hisashi Ouchi. "The

Norwegian energy authorities said yesterday they had approved a 300 million crown plan to build 26 windmills in northern Norway, giving the green light to start construction of the