The European Union and the US Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday a set of new energy-saving standards that would save almost as much energy as is consumed by Ireland in one year.

EU welcomes int'l move to improve energy efficiency BRUSSELS, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission on Monday welcomed the call by the Group of Eight industrialized countries plus China, India and South Korea for energy efficiency amid rising oil prices.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and members of the EU delegation led by the EU energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, took part in the ceremony of commissioning a new gas compressor station in Turkmenistan's largest gas field - Dowletabat, Turkmen TV reported on 26 May.

By Smith, Pamela Ann Arab and Turkish pipelines THE EU's RAPIDLY growing dependence on imported natural gas is fuelling a spate of huge new pipeline projects in the Arab world and Turkey, not least because the EU wants to reduce its massive dependence on uncertain Russian exports.

MOSCOW - Western Europe is watching warily as Russia and Ukraine are locked in a natural gas dispute that has reduced the supply to Ukraine by at least half since the beginning of the week.