Interesting Energy Stories in the News Mar 21

US exempts Japan and EU nations from Iran oil sanctions
Obama to visit New Mexico oil fields
REFILE-UPDATE 1-China end-Feb commercial crude stocks down 3.8 pct m/m -Xinhua
RPT-Norway's DNO strikes oil in northern part of prize Iraqi field
Venezuela: U.S. plan to tap oil reserves unsustainable
US natural gas supplies shrank last week
United Arab Emirates building natural gas receiving terminal that bypasses Strait of Hormuz
Mining companies prepare brown coal bids
U.S. coal stocks down on China, natural gas
Nuclear deal still on, insists N. Korea
Pakistan seeks end to drone strikes, civil nuclear deal like Indo-US
Building the largest Concentrated Photovoltaic Solar Power plant in Latin America
South Korea to invest $1 bln into wind energy and solar power in 2012
UPDATE 1-US weekly gasoline demand up on warm weather -MasterCard