ENERGY

Japan's nuclear watchdog says radioactive water from the damaged nuclear plant is probably contaminating sea water. Operator remains unsure.

Scientists have been testing an alternate to the atomic clocks we are used to. Optical lattice clocks are said to be three times as accurate as atomic clocks.

Legislator said exports of liquid natural gas from the United States to India will help create jobs in the U.S.

OPEC's latest monthly forecast shows growing demand for oil but shrinking demand for its own product.

Energy experts say Gazprom will have a hard time making a big dent in the global LNG market.

Chinese environment minister bluntly admitted that his department is one of the world’s worst, blaming a complex bureaucracy for its woes.

Lack of a stable supply of electricity is the biggest hurdle in the way of the country's economic development.

Claims for compensation by allegedly impacted businesses have risen 18 percent in the past month and a half.

An eastbound freight train with 72 carloads of crude oil, five locomotives and no engineer derailed and exploded in Quebec Saturday.

The two Asian giants’ decision to hike gas prices, for the first time in three years, will encourage production to meet surging demand.

Crude oil prices reached a 14-month high, on the back of concerns about protests in Egypt.

Chesapeake Energy's year-to-date asset sales have now reached about $3.6 billion.

Hydrogen fuel-cell cars are back in flavor as the auto industry explores cheaper, greener and more efficient fuel alternatives.

The price of oil touched $102 a barrel on Wednesday, the highest since May 2012, as Egypt's political crisis raged on.

The deal will advance Rosneft's goal of becoming the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia.

Natural gas companies welcomed the hike as a spur to greater investment in the sector.

Lukoil says it expects the West Qurna-2 field to start producing oil by 2014.

Scenes of smog-choked cities -- a China staple -- could soon be replicated in Indian cities.

Christine Lagarde says that green energy innovation can spur job growth in roles that have not yet been invented.

SapuraKencana gets a $2.7B joint venture with Norwegian offshore deepwater driller Seadrill.

Renewable energy will increase by 20 percent over the next five years overtaking gas

Existing carbon capture methods eat up money and energy -- but cheaper, more efficient methods are on the horizon.

Two Indian, state-run oil companies have jointly agreed to buy another Indian company's stake in Mozambique's Rovuma gas field.

Sinopec, the world’s third-largest oil company, will expand into Angola, Africa’s second largest oil producing country.

In its first-ever private fund investment, USAID has committed $100 million for India's clean energy sector.

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto announced planned changes in energy giant Pemex -- but not everybody is on board with them.

The sentence-reduction deal between prosecutors and Jeffrey Skilling includes the return of $41 million to Enron victims.

Chevron’s Polish subsidiary says it is merely exploring for shale gas near a Polish village.

Russia's state-owned crude oil giant Rosneft will raise its exports to China to 600,000 barrels per day.