Energy / Energy-General

Feb 04, 2011 at 09:11 | Al Fin

North America contains a huge portion of global hydrocarbons, when unconventionals are taken into account. As the price of oil creeps ever higher over time, engineers and technologists are developing…

Jan 31, 2011 at 07:41 | SciDev SciDev

Six major emerging economies, the 'BRIMCS' countries (Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, China and South Africa), invest more in energy research and development (R&D) than a large group of developed countries,…

Jan 31, 2011 at 07:33 | Charlotte Dudley

Global policy and technology efforts aimed at reducing emissions are not doing enough to set the world on a safe carbon path, according to BP, which predicts global emissions in…

Jan 27, 2011 at 06:50 | Global Intelligence Report

A number of events during President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States will underscore that the energy dialogue between the United States and China continues to be a key…

Jan 24, 2011 at 08:04 | Ferdinand E. Banks

This short paper borrows from my forthcoming energy economics textbook (2011), and consists of a part of the lecture that I once desperately wanted to present at either the Stockholm…

Jan 20, 2011 at 15:12 | Al Fin

North Dakota's Bakken shale oil deposits were supposed to have only 4.3 billion barrels of proven reserves. But that number keeps rising -- as do the production numbers from Bakken…

Jan 20, 2011 at 15:09 | Editorial Dept

Chinese geologists have detected "super-thick" oil and gas-bearing stratums in the northern part of the South China Sea and identified 38 offshore oil and gas-bearing basins, a senior official said…

Jan 20, 2011 at 06:45 | Joe Weisenthal

Petro-dictatorships typically boom and bust with the price of oil, so you'd think that Venezuela would be riding high right now. But a new report from Morgan Stanley presents a…

Jan 19, 2011 at 13:23 | Gregory Feifer

What a difference a couple of years makes. In 2008, gun-wielding police commandos raided BP's Moscow offices in what many saw as an attempt to pressure the company to relinquish…

Jan 19, 2011 at 08:21 | Ed Dolan

Economists can't always conduct controlled experiments to test hypotheses about public policy, but sometimes experiments occur naturally. New York City electric rates provide an example. About 1.75 million New York…

Jan 17, 2011 at 08:59 | Gregory R. Copley

Energy has now become literally a component, an organ, of the human being in modern society. Energy dependence/capability — now a fundamental trait of modern human logic and survival…

Jan 13, 2011 at 13:32 | Llewellyn King

According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the "end of days."  On or about that same date, the price of oil in the United States…

Jan 13, 2011 at 07:49 | Andy Soos

The art of prediction is one that often fails and only the test of time will show who is right and who is wrong. Climate models use quantitative methods to…

Jan 11, 2011 at 10:10 | Andy Soos

Offshore drilling typically refers to the discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater. Most commonly, the term is used to describe oil extraction off the coasts…

Jan 10, 2011 at 10:32 | Global Intelligence Report

INCIDENT: Towards the end of last year, the European Commission presented its new energy strategy for the next decade, calling for investment of €1 trillion in the EU’s energy network,…

Jan 10, 2011 at 08:50 | RFE/RL staff

A U.S. presidential panel has concluded that energy firm BP and its partners made a series of "systemic" cost-cutting decisions that led to the oil spill that polluted the Gulf…

Jan 09, 2011 at 10:20 | Jess McCabe

Analysts and investors predict last year’s gloom for clean-tech stocks will continue in 2011, with few expectations that renewable energy share prices will recover – but energy efficiency is once…

Jan 06, 2011 at 10:36 | Robert Rapier

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I wrote the following: BP’s Oil Rig Disaster May Bring an End to Support for New Offshore Exploration…

Jan 06, 2011 at 09:31 | Open Democracy

As we are forced to change the way we think about energy, the energy consumer is caught between need and the increasing risks involved in securing traditional energy sources. The…

Jan 06, 2011 at 09:23 | Al Fin

Four billion pounds of carpet enter waste streams in the U.S. each year, says CEO Ron Simonetti. Five pounds of oil go into a single pound of nylon, so annually…