While other EU countries are increasingly investing in renewables, Turkey is planning three new nuclear power stations. The country's aim is to turn from being a net importer to a net exporter of energy. ...

Three Qatari state-backed entities, including the Gulf Arab nation’s acquisitive sovereign wealth fund, are to establish a new overseas fund which will look to invest in energy infrastructure, a statement said on Monday. ...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey had already significantly reduced its oil imports from Iran, which is under the choke of Western sanctions, and further cutbacks would depend on his country's energy needs. ...

A joint U.S.-Israeli group has discovered ‘significant signs’ pointing to another natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Haifa. ...

It is not just the protagonists that have been affected by the Gulf War and the more recent, Arab Spring. Jordan had to endure a series of mishaps that ushered a crisis of major proportions. Jordan is in a difficult situation as it struggles to recover from a severe energy crisis. The Kingdom, historically considered energy-poor, imports 97% of its energy needs. ...

A Turkish state-run oil firm struck a deal with Exxon Mobil Corp. and Iraq's semiautonomous Kurds to develop projects in northern Iraq, Turkey's leader said Tuesday, an agreement fraught with political risks for the energy-rich region. ...

After failing to halt Iran’s nuclear advances with harsh economic sanctions, a group of U.S. lawmakers and analysts is proposing a more drastic remedy: cutting off Iran entirely from world oil markets. ...

The U.S. Treasury Department said Iran was resorting to "convoluted schemes" to evade sanctions on its energy sector, an official said. ...

In Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zor, a network of tribes and smugglers has exploited the chaos of war to create an illicit oil trade that makes European hopes of buying crude from President Bashar al-Assad's opponents a distant prospect. ...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s discussions in China shifted from the purely economic to the Middle East on Thursday, as he told China’s President Xi Jinping that a nuclear Iran would threaten the free flow of oil through the Hormuz Straits. ...