Russia has announced the discovery…
Companies are exaggerating their use…
The Biden administration has finalized…
In a development with enormous potential implications for the world’s energy needs, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have invented a process to make gasoline from water and carbon dioxide.
Texas’ Permian Basin remains the biggest oil producer in the US, and though its production has grown more modestly than other new plays this may be about to change with…
Leave it to the wizards at MIT for amazing innovation. MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses.
One of the most critical pieces of news for the E&P sector came this month. Not a new discovery. Or a high-impact drilling technique. In fact, this development…
Ukraine was set to sign a landmark trade association agreements with the European Union on 29 November, much to the dismay of Moscow, but the deal is now…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts the Bakken formation will hit a milestone in December when it surpasses 1 million barrels per day of oil production. Since 2010, oil production…
Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada Corp. (TRP) has delayed the start date for the planned Keystone XL pipeline for a second time this year to 2016, as approval from Washington…
It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a
Some retail service stations in the United States have already posted prices below the elusive $3 mark this year and prices could dip even further before the New Year. U.S.…
Last week the second round of negotiations for an EU-US free trade agreement took place. Energy has not been making headlines in the context of these talks, but a TTIP (Transatlantic Trade…
Texas’ Freeport LNG terminal was given the conditional green light in May, but a new bid to ship more liquefied natural gas from the terminal has fallen short of expectations…
An explosion at a refinery in Antwerp, Belgium operated by France’s Total SA on 19 November has killed two subcontractors. The explosion occurred in a steam…
The energy renaissance in the United States and Canada has left Mexico largely behind. While American and Canadian crude production has jumped over thirty percent in the last decade, Mexican…
A Russian court granted bail Monday to two of the 30 people arrested when activists with Greenpeace tried to climb the Arctic-class ice-resistant Prirazlomnaya oil rig deployed in the Pechora…
More than 400 shale oil and gas wells will be drilled outside of the US in 2014, most of them in China and Russia, while Europe largely sits on the…
Nearly everyone believes that oil prices will trend higher and higher, allowing increasing amounts of oil to be extracted. This belief is based on the observation that the cost of…
On November 14 the Tennessee Valley Authority announced plans to shut down eight coal generating units with a combined power generating capacity of over 3,000 megawatts The decision will…
China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has agreed to purchase $2.6 billion in Peruvian gas assets from Brazil’s debt-strapped state-run oil company Petrobras as China works fast to increase its Latin…
The Bakken crude oil formation spread out over North Dakota and Montana should give up more than 1 million barrels of oil per day next month. North Dakota is already…
In its new World Energy Outlook (WEO), the IEA is cautious about the prospects of unconventional oil and gas outside the US. As regards shale gas, it notes that “uncertainty…