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Why Reserves have no Impact on Energy Abundance

Apr 30, 2013 at 17:30 | Kurt Cobb

Okay, I'm going to give you the shortest course ever in energy abundance: Energy abundance depends entirely on the RATE of energy flow. Let me say it again: Energy abundance…

Tullow Hits 19-Month Low over Ethiopia Delay

Apr 30, 2013 at 17:04 | Charles Kennedy

UK-based Tullow Oil Plc (TLW) has seen its stock plunge to a new low as it is forced to delay drilling a new well that would represent the first crude…

Survey Shows Fracking Communities Suffer from Stress Due to Fear of Exploitation

Apr 30, 2013 at 16:49 | Futurity

In a new survey, 76 percent of people living near fracking sites in Pennsylvania reported stress, which they attributed to lack of trust and feeling taken advantage of.Survey…

New Wyoming Lithium Deposit could Meet all U.S. Demand

Apr 29, 2013 at 17:25 | John Daly

The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric cars.According to a…

World’s Highest Oil & Gas Salaries Forces Australia’s LNG Industry Offshore

Apr 29, 2013 at 17:21 | Energy Digital

As Australia builds up its liquefied natural gas plants, energy workers are reaping the benefits with the highest salaries in the world—but not for long. As the country's resource boom…

A Unique Service that Helps Energy Companies Get Massive Media Exposure

Apr 29, 2013 at 11:20 | James Stafford

Oilprice.com has spent months putting together a unique promotional and sponsorship service for energy companies that is unlike any other marketing package available in the marketplace.Having worked with…

The Two Faces of Sally Jewell

Apr 26, 2013 at 16:36 | Daniel J. Graeber

U.S. Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell went green with one of her first formal moves in the White House last week when she announced her department would be the first…

Barclays Carbon Trader Resigns Amid Market Woes

Apr 26, 2013 at 16:10 | Charles Kennedy

Media reports are emerging that the head of carbon trading for Barclays bank has resigned in the aftermath of the EU’s rejection of a backloading scheme that would have revived…

Time for Investors to Turn their Attention to the Gulf of Mexico

Apr 26, 2013 at 13:34 | Dan Dicker

The Gulf of Mexico is heating up again and the excitement is returning for deep water drilling.  After three years of declining production from the Gulf, we are now poised…

Syria: The Next New Frontier, Unexplored and Geopolitically Meteoric

Apr 26, 2013 at 13:32 | Editorial Dept

In 2011, shortly before conflict broke out in Syria, the government was preparing to begin bidding for its first offshore exploration blocks in the Levant Basin region.  That, of course,…

Gulf of Mexico is Back, and Subsalt is all the Rage

Apr 26, 2013 at 13:27 | Editorial Dept

In late March, the US Department of Interior released the results of its Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale 227. It was a great auction, with a LOT of interest—52…

Energy Optimists Belief in Abundant Oil is Harming Clean Energy Chances

Apr 25, 2013 at 16:58 | Kurt Cobb

Each morning when I release my cat from the basement where he sleeps, he rushes to the upstairs bathroom to drink water from a bowl placed there for him. He…

Energy Efficiency May Help Pay for Mortgages

Apr 24, 2013 at 15:59 | Charles Kennedy

Here’s some new impetus for those sitting on the fence over household energy efficiency: the risk of mortgage default is one-third lower for people with energy efficient homes, according to…

Shell vs. Kiobel: Green Light for Multinational Human Rights Abuses

Apr 22, 2013 at 16:22 | Charles Kennedy

In Kiobel vs. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Nigerian nationals do not have the right to sue the oil company for alleged rights abuses overseas,…

BP’s Predictions for Energy Production in the Future

Apr 22, 2013 at 16:08 | Dave Summers

So I suspect I should apologize. Here I am talking about the future projections for energy production that have been made by companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell,…

Why the Rush to Return to the Gulf of Mexico?

Apr 19, 2013 at 18:57 | Daniel J. Graeber

British energy company BP announced that its mega Mad Dog project in the Gulf of Mexico wasn't necessarily as attractive as once thought. Oil companies like BP are looking to…

FMC Technologies Takes Subsea Market by Storm

Apr 19, 2013 at 18:38 | Charles Kennedy

Shares in FMC Technologies (FTI) hit a 52-week high on 10 April, closing at $55.27 as it secured new contracts for subsea equipment and services with Norway’s Statoil (STO), Brazil’s…

Energy Conservation: The Only Way to Avoid Economic and Ecological Ruin

Apr 19, 2013 at 18:22 | Post Carbon

Energy conservation is our best strategy for pre-adapting to an inevitably energy-constrained future. And it may be our only real option for averting economic, social, and ecological ruin. The world…

GE Oil & Gas: Ambitious Diversity that Pays Off

Apr 19, 2013 at 15:20 | Editorial Dept

Ambitious acquisitions and a diversity that should have any investor hot and bothered: This is General Electric, and what we’re really eyeing here is the company’s oil and gas segment,…

A Global Carbon Market? We’re Not Confident

Apr 19, 2013 at 15:10 | Editorial Dept

If you had asked me yesterday, I would have said we are on the verge of a global carbon market that was shaping up to look quite attractive. Ask me…

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