Bullish sentiment is building in…
The European Union's push for…
In light of a recent spate of railway accidents involving dangerous cargoes, Canada is revising its laws regarding railways transporting hazardous material, including oil. The new regulations will require…
Statoil Chief Executive Officer Helge Lund said those advocating for a future without fossils fuels are pining for a future economic era that may never come. "We have to…
The world is awash in natural gas and, to a somewhat lesser extent, in oil. This is due to the controversial but hugely effective technology of hydraulic fracturing, known as…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) report, released last week, features Brazil as both a world leader in renewable energy and soon to be a major exporter of oil. The…
A vote by the U.S. Senate to change rules on filibusters is an indication of how the partisan divide in Washington may inhibit an energy future some lawmakers are trying…
In a development with enormous potential implications for the world’s energy needs, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have invented a process to make gasoline from water and carbon dioxide.
Leave it to the wizards at MIT for amazing innovation. MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses.
One of the most critical pieces of news for the E&P sector came this month. Not a new discovery. Or a high-impact drilling technique. In fact, this development…
Ukraine was set to sign a landmark trade association agreements with the European Union on 29 November, much to the dismay of Moscow, but the deal is now…
Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada Corp. (TRP) has delayed the start date for the planned Keystone XL pipeline for a second time this year to 2016, as approval from Washington…
It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a
Last week the second round of negotiations for an EU-US free trade agreement took place. Energy has not been making headlines in the context of these talks, but a TTIP (Transatlantic Trade…
An explosion at a refinery in Antwerp, Belgium operated by France’s Total SA on 19 November has killed two subcontractors. The explosion occurred in a steam…
The energy renaissance in the United States and Canada has left Mexico largely behind. While American and Canadian crude production has jumped over thirty percent in the last decade, Mexican…
More than 400 shale oil and gas wells will be drilled outside of the US in 2014, most of them in China and Russia, while Europe largely sits on the…
In its new World Energy Outlook (WEO), the IEA is cautious about the prospects of unconventional oil and gas outside the US. As regards shale gas, it notes that “uncertainty…
A deadly fire has broken out at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery, with one reported death so far, according to local news agencies. A fire broke out following…
There’s something very special about Australia’s Olympic Dam uranium mine.Olympic Dam is the largest uranium ore body in the world, with a towing 57-year reserve life. Production…
The latest IEA report on Crude supplies has got me thinking, a new accomplishment for the IEA who have been woefully behind the curve on most of the major…
The next major conflict, if there is ever going to be one, will likely be very different from all past conventional wars we have seen so far, in that it…