The Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline was bombed May 8 in the district of Shirqat in Iraq's Salah ad Din province, a source in the North Oil Company said, Alsumaria reported.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on April 23 declared a 90-day state of emergency in the country’s electricity sector, Xinhua reported.

EU foreign ministers are expected to lift embargo restrictions April 22 to allow crude oil to be purchased from the Syrian opposition and oil industry equipment to be sold to the rebel forces, EU diplomats said April 17, Reuters reported.

Two people were killed and eight were wounded when rebels shelled Kadugli, the capitol of Sudan's South Kordofan state, on April 12, Brecorder reported.

Sudanese President Omar al Bashir arrived in South Sudan on April 12 for his first visit since South Sudan became an independent country in 2011, Reuters reported.

Sudanese President Omar al Bashir on April 12 will visit South Sudan for the first time since that state's secession, following deals reached on oil and border security, al Bashir's spokesman said, Reuters reported April 9.

A storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may be leaking radioactive water into the ground, the plant's operator said April 7, RIA Novosti reported.

Sudan will begin shipping South Sudanese oil again by the end of May, AFP reported April 6, citing Sudan's official news agency SUNA.

Israel has told Turkey it is willing to build a natural gas pipeline with a capacity of 15 billion to 16 billion cubic meters through Turkish territory to export Israeli gas to world markets, Trend and the Sabah newspaper reported April 2.

Russia's LUKoil, China's China National Petroleum Corp. and Uzbekistan's Uzbekneftegaz will jointly develop natural gas condensate fields in Uzbekistan, an unnamed Uzbekneftegaz source said March 29, Trend.az reported March 31.