The European Parliament approved rules…
Senator Brown urges President Biden…
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…
Forty years ago, America and its allies were paralyzed by the Arab oil embargo, which followed the Yom Kippur War. It concentrated the international mind and decades of turbulence followed.
Spanish oil giant Repsol is preparing to invest another $4 billion in oil and gas projects in Venezuela between 2013 and 2022, hoping to increase net oil output in the…
What it must have been like, being one of those pioneers getting into the traditional oil industry back before all the biggest fields went into production. Well, we are back…
A town in the Netherlands is making history by becoming the first to in Europe to definitively cut ties with fossil fuels companies in a move the industry hopes isn’t…
Optimistic, but unwarranted, energy supply forecasts permeate the media (courtesy of the oil and gas industry) even as the occasional dire scenario gets coverage. But, it is well to remember…
On November 6 Shell announced it submitted revisions to its Plan of Exploration to the U.S. government, a regulatory hurdle it needed to clear in order to keep Arctic drilling…
The race is on in North America to shield the regional economy from the instability in the Middle East and North Africa casting a shadow over international oil supplies. Russian…
Back in July, Elon Musk released to the public a set of conceptual designs that he and his teams at Tesla Motors and SpaceX drew up for a radical new…
A few years ago, I had an ah-ha moment when it comes to what we as humans would need to do to live in a sustainable manner. It is very…
Oklahoma is a leading U.S. energy producer with an economy increasingly concentrated on the oil and gas industry. Economist and Dean of the University of Central Oklahoma’s College of Business…
A new mobile-phone charging gizmo cut loose on the market makes it possible to charge mobile phones and other devices by harnessing the power of fire. Unlike some…
Facing instability in Africa and bribery accusations against its drilling subsidiary Saipem, Italian oil giant Eni is now reporting an adjusted net profit of 1.2 billion euros for the…