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U.S. task force to look at massive California natural gas leak

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - A new U.S. government task force will look into the country's biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, California, hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent greenhouse gas from storage wells, the Obama administration said on Friday.

Brazil's Temer: Poetry, quiet power, restrained calculator

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 1 (Reuters) - His manners and dress are so impeccable that the man who may soon be Brazil's next president is quietly known by political allies and enemies alike as "The Butler."

Canada's Alberta to fly oil via airships, it says on April Fools

TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - Canada's oil-producing province of Alberta, stymied by the U.S. decision to block the Keystone XL pipeline and by other market access problems, said on Friday it will use zeppelins to bring its products to markets around the world.

UPDATE 1-U.S. drillers cut oil and gas rigs for 15th straight week - Baker Hughes

(Adds natural gas rig count) April 1 (Reuters) - The number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in the United States fell for the 15th straight week to the lowest level since at least 1940, data showed on Friday, as the energy price rout takes its toll on shale producers' financing and their ability to drill new wells. Drillers cut 14 oil and gas rigs in the week to April 1, bringing the total rig count down to 450, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely follow

U.S. drillers cut oil and gas rigs for 15th straight week -Baker Hughes

April 1 (Reuters) - The number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in the United States fell for the 15th straight week to the lowest level since at least 1940, data showed on Friday, as the energy price rout takes its toll on shale producers' financing and their ability to drill new wells. Drillers cut 14 oil and gas rigs in the week to April 1, bringing the total rig count down to 450, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely followed report.

Tech giants back U.S. EPA in climate rule legal challenge

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Technology companies Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon on Friday declared support for the Obama administration in a lawsuit facing its central plan to combat climate change, saying the rule is needed to drive a transition to cleaner energy.

UPDATE 1-Brazil police arrest former Workers' Party leaders in graft probe

SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian police detained former leaders of the ruling Workers' Party over an allegedly fraudulent loan on Friday, the latest stage of a sweeping corruption investigation centered on state-run oil company with Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

UPDATE 1-Italy's Renzi under pressure over influence peddling scandal

* Renzi defends action, says focused on job creation (Adds Renzi quote)

UPDATE 1-Gazprom woos Austria's OMV in pursuit for Nord Stream expansion

ST PETERSBURG/VIENNA, April 1 (Reuters) - Russian oil major Gazprom on Friday signed cooperation deals with Austrian energy group OMV as it tries to secure more lobbying power for its project to expand the Europe-bound undersea gas pipeline, Nord Stream.

COLUMN-Shale gas hits U.S. railroads and diesel demand: Kemp

LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - Cheap natural gas has slashed coal traffic across the U.S.

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