$542M CONTRACT LET FOR 350MW OF SOLAR THERMAL UNITS IN MOROCCO. Sener (Spain) already finished 160Mw unit to startup this year. KfW, World Bank, Africa Development Bank, Europe Investment Bank in on finance .... US comp to invest $250M in Ukraine bioenergy sector despite sharp decrease in "green tariff" early this year. US govt agencies ready to loan up to $250M at low rate. 20 biomass plants planned. Ag waste pellets. Potential 500Mw. Projected construction start by end of year .... Statoil drilled expensive dry hole in Norwegian Sea .... Exxon new oil discovery deepwater offshore Guyana .... Bakken data shows production plateaud at ~1.12Mb/d since Sept .... GA official denied permit for $1.12B, 360-mile gasoline/distillate pipeline. Not critical enough to condemn property, issue easements .... BNSF abandoned plans to buy 5K oil tanker cars .... ~19M bls oil shipped to Canada from US this year through early May. Gulf coast tanks would have run out of capacity if not .... US net natgas imports down 9% in '14. 1.17TCF .... TX, OK storms, floods shutting down some oil/gas ops. Drilling wastewater spill in Houston .... Vestas order for 33Mw in Austria. 4Q15 delivery start, online in 2Q16. Medium/low wind capability .... Duke, Austin Energy finished 200Mw wind farm in TX. 200Mw more in construction, online in '16 .... Enel finished 18Mw solar plant in Chile .... Sunlight-to-fuel project opened in Cal .... Westar to buy 200Mw wind power in Kansas .... Kyocera to partner with 3 comps for 92Mw solar PV park in Japan .... United PV Huaxia to develop 1Gw solar in China .... DOE IG found missing nuke-contaminated lube oil at Ohio facility .... Japan cleared 1st nuke reactors for restart .... Poachers killed 1/2 of Mozambique elephants in last 5 yrs: report. (Sorry for the sad end note. Onward and upward, pards.)