John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A deteriorating and dangerous diplomatic showdown continues over Ukraine as the United States and European Union rhetorically push back against Vladimir Putin’s power grab in the Crimea. In an emergency Security Council meeting, Ukraine’s embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk made an impassioned plea for his country’s sovereign right “to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan has undergone satellite topography mapping in the search for energy. Canada’s WesternZagros Resources has overseen the completion of satellite topography mapping of an energy block in Kurdistan. The target was the Garmian block, which encompasses 1,780 square kilometers. and also includes Russia’s Gazprom. WesternZagros, which […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has awarded a $1 billion energy contract to Ukraine. Officials said the Iranian Energy Ministry has approved the selection of Ukraine’s Inter Neft Gas Prom Pars Co. for the development of three crude oil fields. They said Inter Neft would be partnered with Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Co. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — China and Turkey have signed a natural gas storage agreement. Turkey’s state-owned Botas has contracted China’s Tianchen Engineering to build a gas depository under Turkey’s Lake Tuz in Central Anatolia. Under the agreement, reported at $559 million, Tianchen would build a facility by 2019 that could store one billion cubic […]