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Can AI Derail the Energy Transition?

Can AI Derail the Energy Transition?

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Shell, Gazprom Neft Eye Siberia’s Bazhenov as Next Bakken

Jan 16, 2014 at 17:22 | Charles Kennedy

A joint venture between Shell and Russia’s Gazprom Neft has begun drilling in a Siberian shale formation that is believed to hold one of the world’s largest shale oil…

California Water Crisis May Head off Potential Oil Boom

Jan 16, 2014 at 17:19 | Nick Cunningham

Drilling for oil in California dates back to the late 19th Century, allowing it to become the country’s top producer by the beginning of the 20th. One hundred years later,…

Study: Natural Gas Plants Release 40% Less CO2

Jan 16, 2014 at 17:15 | Charles Kennedy

A new study confirms previous findings that power plants fueled by natural gas release some 40% less carbon dioxide than coal-fired plants.  According to the new study conducted…

Protesters Fill TransCanada Lobby over Keystone XL

Jan 16, 2014 at 17:11 | Joao Peixe

Protesters stormed the offices of TransCanada Corporation on Monday, in another phase of activism against the company’s Keystone XL pipeline plans, breaching the TransCanada lobby and ending in the…

Norway’s Oil Fund Makes Every Norwegian a Kroner Millionaire

Jan 15, 2014 at 17:06 | John Daly

While oil and graft frequently go hand in hand, such is not the case in Norway, where on 6 January the country’s Government Pension Fund – Global, more commonly referred…

Market Disruptor: Nuclear Restarts Spells Trouble for LNG

Jan 15, 2014 at 17:03 | Nick Cunningham

There are two major factors that have emerged in the last five years that have sparked a surge in LNG investments. First is the shale gas “revolution” in the United…

Reports of Coal’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Jan 15, 2014 at 16:46 | Matt Smith

I have pilfered from him before, and I will no doubt pilfer again. For Mark Twain is an excellent source of inspiration. Apparently, he said something along the lines…

DOT-111 Safety Major Issue in Crude-By-Rail Debate

Jan 14, 2014 at 17:14 | Rory Johnston

Experts from the Canadian rail industry, regulators, and representatives from all levels of government met in Ottawa on Monday to discuss the increasing number of tank car derailments and subsequent…

It’s all in the Pipeline

Jan 14, 2014 at 17:08 | Claude Salhani

Producing oil or extracting natural gas from the ground is only part of the problem; the other part is getting the product to market in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Total Prepares for $50m Investment in British Shale

Jan 14, 2014 at 17:04 | Joao Peixe

French oil giant Total is planning to spend $50 million on shale gas exploration in Britain’s East Midlands with the acquisition of a 40% stake in two licenses.

Don't Count U.K. out of Global Energy Race Yet

Jan 13, 2014 at 16:58 | Daniel J. Graeber

Chevron Corp. said its decision Monday to go ahead with the development of the Alder natural gas field in the British sector of the North Sea builds on an already…

Lifting the Oil Export Ban: Where the Refiners Stand

Jan 13, 2014 at 16:39 | Charles Kennedy

As the debate over whether to lift the US ban on crude oil exports intensifies, producers will clearly benefit, but the situation for refiners is more complicated, but most are…

The Fracking Revolution: Promise and Perils

Jan 13, 2014 at 16:36 | ISN Security Watch

Despite significant media attention and market interest, hydraulic fracturing could fail to live up to its hype. As Giacomo Luciani argues, the geology and engineering of fracking tightly link its…

It's not too Early to Review Drilling Efficiency

Jan 10, 2014 at 17:35 | Daniel J. Graeber

The U.S. oil industry's lobbying group said it wanted greater access to energy reserves for the benefit of the American people. For the industry itself, rigs are more efficient in…

EPA Issues New Rule to Require Chemical Disclosures for Offshore Fracking

Jan 10, 2014 at 17:30 | Nick Cunningham

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California to disclose the chemicals…

China’s Bold $10 Billion Investment in Nigerian Hydrocarbons

Jan 10, 2014 at 17:21 | John Daly

Developers in the pursuit of commercially available oil found it in Nigeria in 1956, with the country’s first oil field beginning production in 1958. The last 56 years have seen…

API Predicts Massive Oil Industry Spending Spree

Jan 10, 2014 at 17:12 | Charles Kennedy

Energy companies will spend close to $1 trillion on oil and gas infrastructure and storage over the next decade, to support more than 900,000 US jobs as the US becomes…

Natural Gas Prices will Soar by 2015

Jan 10, 2014 at 17:09 | Sumit Roy

Phil Flynn is senior energy analyst and a futures account executive at Chicago-based The Price Futures Group. He is one of the world's leading energy market analysts and a daily…

Two Bullish Missed Targets in Coal ... and One Place that will Benefit

Jan 10, 2014 at 16:45 | Editorial Dept

The opportunity in Asian coal continues to grow brighter. Evidenced by two important pieces of data this week from major consuming nation India.Coal India—the nation’s largest coal miner—reported…

Latin America Energy Advisory

Jan 10, 2014 at 16:28 | Southern Pulse

MEXICOWe will be closely following developments in Mexico’s energy industry, post-reform, with our partners at Southern Pulse. Energy reforms have opened up oil sector development to outsiders…

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