The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration prohibited Enbridge Energy Partners LP from restarting a shut-down crude oil pipeline in Wisconsin until it submits a restart plan for the US Department of Transportation agency’s approval.

Strengthening of a partnership between TNK-BP and a major Russian petrochemical group involves a project contested by breakaway partner BP PLC.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP will participate with Comstock Resources Inc., Frisco, Tex., in future Eagle Ford shale development in South Texas.

Imagine a machine that makes layered, substantial patches of engineered tissue -- tissue that could be used as grafts for burn victims or vascular patches. Sounds like science fiction? According to engineers, it's a growing possibility. Scientists have invented a new device that may allow for the uniform, large-scale engineering of tissue.

Diamond Light Source is being used to improve low cost methods for carbon capture. Scientists are using the UK's national synchrotron to investigate the efficiency of calcium oxide based materials as carbon dioxide sorbents. Their results provide an explanation for one of the key mechanisms involved. This new knowledge will inform efforts to improve the efficiency of this economically viable method of carbon capture and storage.

Crude oil prices declined July 30 with front-month crude down 0.3% in New York after four sessions of modest gains, but natural gas shot up 6.6% on forecasts for high temperatures.

The Alaska Pipeline Project (APP), a joint effort between affiliates of TransCanada Corp. and ExxonMobil Corp., will hold a nonbinding open season to solicit interest in shipping on the potential natural gas pipeline system to move Alaska North Slope gas to market.

US refiners’ ability to meet federal requirements for renewable fuels will be strained for the rest of 2012. But that’s nothing compared with what they face in 2013, according to a recently updated analysis of grains and ethanol by Dallas consulting firm Muse Stancil & Co.

The Well Life Cycle Practices Forum (WLCPF), set up in the UK after the Macondo tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has published four new sets of guidelines for offshore operational safety.