The United States is set…
Cool paint coatings can effectively…
Morgan Stanley's Martijn Rats thinks…
Despite the fact that new, stricter regulations on the transport of hazardous materials by rail, introduced following the derailment and explosion of a train carrying crude oil through Quebec in…
Two energy ideas to touch upon today, now that the debt ceiling debacle is (at least for now) over: Refiners and the back of the crude curve.Refiners have…
Shale gas in western Canada is at the epicenter of the energy world this week. Excitement from energy investors over northern shale comes after Malaysian petro-major Petronas last week…
This week, it’s all about liquefied natural gas (LNG), as Asian markets eye a potential reduction in prices once US exports pick up momentum, Central Europe sends a desperate plea…
It seems to many that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is putting off a final decision on whether or not it will slash the 2014 biofuels mandate in order to…
As the US heads toward debt default and continues with government shutdown, the underlying reason for the predicament is generally not clear to the American people or the world. The…
Republished with permission from Tom DispatchFor years, energy analysts had been anticipating an imminent decline in global oil supplies. Suddenly, they’re singing a new song: Fossil fuels…
Anthony Badalamenti, a 62-year old former Halliburton manager, pleaded guilty yesterday to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. He’s charged with one misdemeanor count, and…
Last month the world witnessed a paradigm shift: China surpassed the United States as the world’s largest consumer of foreign oil, importing 6.3 million barrels per day compared to the…
Petro-dollars, the word used to describe the billions of dollars earned from the sale of oil and natural gas, have helped change the shape and future of many counties in…
Let’s end at the beginning: retail gasoline prices are going to continue to head lower, and this post simply presents the case as to why, through some simple visuals.
Now that the supergiant Kashagan oilfield in Kazakhstan is operational, the rumor is that two US trading powerhouses are competing for the $1 billion in crude share of the country’s…
Two years ago, Saudi Arabia started mulling the prospects of shale natural gas as it faced the possibility of running short on energy supplies. The largest oil exporter in the…
The energy-poor states of the eastern Mediterranean – Israel, Lebanon and Turkey, have long been at odds have to how to divvy up their portions of the offshore eastern Mediterranean.
Oil giant ExxonMobil—long criticized for its policies on gay and lesbian workers—has turned a new policy leaf in the liberal direction by extending employee benefits to married , same-sex couples.…
Lack of plant capacity means valuable waste is being shipped overseas.When you hear the phrase ‘renewable energy’, what technologies come to mind? Wind and solar power, certainly; perhaps…
Oil companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.”That said, there remain a few nations…
France’s GDF Suez (GSZ) has signed a 15-year agreement to build and operate the first-ever floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Uruguay, with operations scheduled to begin in…
If a person reads US newspapers, it is easy to get the impression that all of the world’s oil problems are over. But this is not really the case.
One thing I’ve noticed in the resource business: big never goes out of style.If there’s a large in-ground resource, someone will always be eying a way to exploit…