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AxiosChina refuses to stop exporting oil to North KoreaAxiosChina refused U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's demands to cut off North Korea's oil supply in an attempt to discourage Kim Jong-un from pursuing nuclear weapons, Bloomberg reports.
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Press HeraldFight to halt oil, gas exploration plan in Atlantic goes bipartisanPress HeraldEnvironmental groups have worked for years to stop oil and gas development, focusing on the threat it poses to coastal marine life. Lawmakers and business leaders, h
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CNBCCar bomb kills one, wounds 10 in disputed Iraqi oil cityReutersKIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed one person and injured ten in Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil city where local Kurdish authorities plan to hold a referendum on independence despite oppositi
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ReutersNigeria launches infrastructure program to tackle insurgency in oil deltaReutersPresident Muhammadu Buhari will meet representatives of militant groups and community leaders from the Niger Delta in Abuja next week in a bid to end the attacks, Oil Mi
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ReutersNigeria says security first goal in oil roadmap: oil ministerReutersThe government is launching a $10 billion infrastructure program in the restive region that produces most of Nigeria's oil, and President Muhammadu Buhari will meet representati
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ReutersIslamic State loses control of last oil wells in Iraq: oil ministryReutersThe reality is that it is extremely difficult to extract and smuggle oil while our forces are advancing towards Mosul...," oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said. Islamic
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Libyan oil port takeover gives edge to eastern commanderReutersAfter initially condemning the attack on the ports and calling on Haftar's forces to withdraw, the United States and European powers joined other countries on Thursday to "welcome the
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Daily MailEastern Libyan commander's forces seize two key oil portsReutersThe attacks on Libya's major oil ports by Haftar, who opposes the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), pushes the North African state towards a broader battle ove
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Libyan forces loyal to eastern commander attack oil ports: witnessReutersA port engineer confirmed that Haftar's forces had entered the oil ports of Ras Lanuf and El Sider, Libya's largest, and said one of the storage tanks at Es Sider had been set
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ReutersOil fires cast black cloud over Iraqi town retaken from Islamic StateReutersWhen Iraq's military torched hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991 ahead of advancing U.S.-led forces, most fires burned for around two months but some wells were not ca
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