Scientists have made a major…
The global energy crunch is…
The World Energy Council (WEC) has this week ranked Canada as number six in green energy credentials and environmental performance, nine places ahead of the United States. At the same…
As bidders registered for the first oil rights auction in Brazil’s pre-salt last Wednesday, the reaction was overwhelmingly pessimistic. Headlines focused on lack of oil majors such as ExxonMobil and…
General Electric has unveiled what is being lauded as breakthrough energy storage technology in the form of the new Durathon Battery to power an underground vehicle that transports mining materials.…
Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said last week it was time to add more diversity to an energy sector that relies almost exclusively on the United States. New drilling…
Within three years, Tesla Motors is planning to roll out a virtually driverless car that takes over 90% of driving—a time frame that blows other driverless car makers out of…
Modern armies run on fuel, as Hitler discovered to his cost.Belatedly discovering energy as a strategic need, on 6 September NATO opened its Energy Security Center of Excellence…
Since my last column pointing out the vast value I saw in back month crude futures, I wanted to try to translate that opportunity into stock ideas. I invited subscribers…
Bottom Line: Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking on the country’s biggest company, Koc Holding, with criminal legal action that might end up being Erdogan’s final undoing.…
Bottom Line: Big changes are in store for Norway’s state-run oil giant, Statoil: After winning parliamentary elections last week, Norway’s new Conservative-led government may move to divest 16% of its…
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC), the country's largest business organization, added its voice this week to the growing national consensus over the need to build new oil and gas…
Hawaii, that favored vacation land that has to import nearly all of its power and energy needs, is about to get a $30 million infusion for its prized clean energy…
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969. The lecture, available…
Grass brought to South America in the bedding of slave ships 500 years ago could be the answer to reducing greenhouse gas emissions on agricultural land, new research shows.
The Chinese government announced it would invest more than $13 billion on oil and gas exploration this year. The World Bank said last weekend the Chinese economy should continue growing…
Food produced but not eaten every year costs producers $750 billion annually, damages natural resources and adds 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases to our atmosphere, according to a new…
The Lower Tertiary is considered by many to be the final frontier of oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, where, until recently, production was forecast to decline. The post-dinosaur…
With gas from the Caspian Sea set to move from the Southern Caucasus to Europe through Turkey by 2019, the EU-candidate country is destined to evolve into a more robust…
The other day I was musing over how materials throughout history have improved our lives. Take the ordinary candle, which is made of beeswax. It helped us overcome our fear…
Few members of OPEC posted gains in the series of market reports published last week. The International Energy Agency said OPEC crude oil production for August was down, though gains…
Turkey’s booming economy is the envy of its Middle Eastern and European neighbors. No less an authority than the World Bank noted, “Turkey is one of the largest middle-income…