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Natural Gas As A Trucking Fuel Fails To Deliver

Aug 21, 2014 at 18:44 | Stuart Burns

Much has been made of the potential for natural gas as a fuel for the trucking and rail industries.The dramatic fall in natural gas prices in recent years…

How cheap is “cheap” oil?

Aug 21, 2014 at 18:35 | Roger Andrews

Everyone seems to agree that the world is running out of cheap oil. But how cheap is cheap? Until we know it’s hard…

A Flagship U.S. Coal Project Gets Quashed

Aug 21, 2014 at 09:42 | Dave Forest

Producers in the coal space are desperately looking for answers these days.Miners are trying to find ways to maintain profitability. In the face of falling prices for most…

Dropping Oil Prices Threaten Moscow’s Budget

Aug 20, 2014 at 18:14 | Andy Tully

Oil and gas are at the heart of the Russian economy and are largely responsible for keeping Moscow’s government budget in balance. But the recent decline in the price of…

Ten Facts About Coal You Probably Didn’t Know

Aug 20, 2014 at 18:04 | Matt Smith

While I’ve been digging into a bunch of different commodities recently, there have been a number of interesting bits and bobs relating to coal that I’ve been squirreling away. Hence,…

Five Regions Where Big Oil Is Foolishly Chasing Profits

Aug 19, 2014 at 17:29 | Nick Cunningham

Big Oil has been very successful at developing sophisticated technology to access oil in some pretty remote areas. Consider the technological skill necessary to drill several miles below…

Oil Companies Turning Away From The Middle East

Aug 19, 2014 at 17:25 | Claude Salhani

The violence and cutthroat politics of the Middle East, combined with declining oil and gas production levels, has triggered a subtle but significant shift away from what has long been…

Is Foam About To Transform The Oil Recovery Business?

Aug 19, 2014 at 17:20 | Futurity

The best way to get oil out of the ground may be to pump in foam.Scientists pumped foam into an experimental rig that mimicked the flow paths deep…

Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic Disaster

Aug 18, 2014 at 17:44 | Robert Bensh

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector…

How The Worsening Ukraine-Russia Crisis Will Affect Energy Markets

Aug 18, 2014 at 17:24 | Nick Cunningham

The confrontation between Ukraine and Russia has entered a potentially dangerous new phase that could increase the likelihood of a dispute over energy supplies.On Aug. 15, Ukrainian authorities…

Energy For All – But Make Sure To Read The Fine Print

Aug 18, 2014 at 17:12 | Breakthrough Institute

Why We Need to Be Careful with How We Generalize Energy NeedsDoña Maria (pictured above) moved from being one of the…

Why Appalachian Coal Can’t Compete With Colombia

Aug 15, 2014 at 17:43 | Nick Cunningham

Deep in U.S. coal country, people are suffering economically not just from the White House’s determination to reduce America’s dependence on coal, but also because of competition from an unlikely…

Marcellus Shale Continues to Prove Analysts Wrong

Aug 15, 2014 at 17:33 | Chris Pedersen

The impact of the Marcellus shale formation on domestic natural gas supply is difficult to overstate. The speed and volume in developing this formation is astonishing. In 2007, Marcellus supplied…

Fracking Fluids More Toxic Than Previously Thought

Aug 15, 2014 at 17:26 | Andy Tully

A new study of the fluids used in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows that several of them may not be as safe as the energy industry…

This Week in Energy: The Fracking Media Circus

Aug 15, 2014 at 13:37 | James Stafford

A new study from Stanford University scientists finds no direct evidence of water contamination from hydraulic fracturing in Wyoming, but points out concerns that some fracking is being undertaken…

Why Oil Prices That “Should” Be Going Higher Are Going Lower

Aug 14, 2014 at 19:42 | Dan Dicker

The world has changed.  Even two years ago, with a war going on by proxy between Russia and Ukraine, we'd have seen a ten dollar rally in the price of…

Playing The Coming Mexican Oil Boom

Aug 14, 2014 at 19:36 | Martin Tillier

For more than seventy years the oil reserves of Mexico have been the exclusive property of the state run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. That changed at the end…

Tanzania Seeks to Develop Natural Gas and LNG

Aug 14, 2014 at 19:31 | Editorial Dept

The U.S. hosted an unprecedented summit of 50 heads of African states in Washington, D.C. in early August. The event was meant to highlight the enormous investment opportunity that the…

More Bad News for The Crude Oil Market

Aug 14, 2014 at 19:22 | Jim Hyerczyk

Last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) weekly petroleum status report delivered more bad news to the crude oil market, but the EiA’s long-term outlook most likely set the…

Rosneft Feels Bite of Sanctions, Requests Kremlin’s Help

Aug 14, 2014 at 17:32 | Andy Tully

A Russian financial journal reports that Russian oil giant Rosneft, despite earlier indifference to Western sanctions, is now expecting to feel their pinch and has asked Moscow for more than…

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