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Energy

This Week in Energy: Modernizing Mexico’s Energy Sector

Dec 13, 2013 at 13:44 | James Stafford

Much ado about opening Mexico’s energy sector to Private investment, and a flurry of activity around Iran’s post-Geneva energy sectorThis week, the Mexican Senate granted its general approval…

Budget Deal Opens up Parts of Gulf of Mexico for Drilling

Dec 12, 2013 at 17:04 | Nick Cunningham

The emerging budget deal put together by Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray includes provisions that will open up vast new territories in the western Gulf of Mexico…

Canada’s Indigenous First Nations Threaten $600 Billion in Energy Deals

Dec 12, 2013 at 17:00 | John Daly

Canada’s aboriginal “First Nations” have unexpectedly emerged as a potential force threatening to derail the plans of Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plans to turn western Canada into an…

More Oil and Gas, More Industry Fatalities

Dec 12, 2013 at 16:55 | Joao Peixe

One oil and gas worker is killed on average every three days, according to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, which shows a spike in industry fatalities coinciding with…

Shell and GE Team Up for ‘Age of Gas’

Dec 12, 2013 at 16:52 | Joao Peixe

The maritime shipping industry is on the verge of busting into the age of natural gas, as Royal Dutch Shell Plc, General Electric Co. (GE) and Clean Energy Fuels Corp.…

Is a final Decision on Keystone XL Close at Hand?

Dec 11, 2013 at 17:06 | Geopolitical Monitor

After years of debate, a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline may be close at hand.The proposed expansion of the current Keystone pipeline is designed to increase…

Another Strong Datapoint For Coal

Dec 11, 2013 at 08:58 | Dave Forest

I wrote last week about India's incredible thermal coal imports.The roll keeps coming in this space.Indian ship broker Interocean reported late last week that imports came…

Ukraine’s Two New Energy Deals

Dec 10, 2013 at 17:14 | Scott Belinksi

If one was to believe the picture that most Western media outlets are painting, Ukraine has been lost to Russia. Though the country fought valiantly to sign an Association Agreement…

Chevron Resumes Fracking After Romania Protests

Dec 10, 2013 at 17:01 | Joao Peixe

Chevron is back to fracking in Romania after operations were blocked for the second time in two months, and equipment damaged by hundreds of protesters, while riot police stepped in…

Cheap Fossil Fuels: Good or Bad for the World’s Poor?

Dec 10, 2013 at 16:57 | Ed Dolan

How can we make life better for the world’s poor? Environmentalists often tell us that one way would be to slow climate change by cutting fossil fuel use. They warn…

Time Running Out for Midwest Coal

Dec 09, 2013 at 17:47 | Nick Cunningham

Abundant natural gas, cost declines for renewables, and tight regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are slowly killing coal-fired power plants in the U.S. This dynamic is playing out…

Creating Invisible Oil Repellent Barriers to Contain Spills

Dec 09, 2013 at 17:29 | Futurity

Researchers have designed an invisible “wall” that stops oily liquids from spreading and confines them to a certain area.The outer shell of a droplet of oil on a…

Russia Readies to Take Shale Oil Lead

Dec 06, 2013 at 19:07 | Daniel J. Graeber

President of Russian energy company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said he was eager to unlock the shale oil potential in the Samara region of western Russia. With forecasts warning the U.S.…

Chinese Coal Use to Hit 4.8 Billion Metric Tons Annually by 2020

Dec 06, 2013 at 19:00 | John Daly

As the rest of the world moves away from using coal as an energy source due to its high emission of greenhouse gas, in China the use of coal, the…

ConocoPhillips Completes Algeria Oil Unit Sale

Dec 06, 2013 at 18:45 | Joao Peixe

ConocoPhillips has completed the sale of its Algeria business unit ConocoPhillips Algeria Ltd. to Indonesian state-owned Pertamina for $1.75 billion, as it seeks to reshuffle its assets despite an…

The Most Important Energy Trend in 2014

Dec 06, 2013 at 15:46 | Dan Dicker

We’re getting to the end of the year and it’s nearing time for my ‘best stock’ selections for 2014, so you might think that the next column naming these stocks…

4 New Reasons To Bet On Coal… And 3 Ways To Do It

Dec 06, 2013 at 15:45 | Editorial Dept

Thermal coal takes the prize today—as the commodity with the biggest disconnect between the bullish market reality and the incredibly bearish sentiment amongst investors.Producing stocks have seen a…

Bosnian Federation: Oil Legislation Sets First Concessions in Motion

Dec 06, 2013 at 15:43 | Editorial Dept

Earlier this year we let you in on a little known secret about an up-and-coming oil venue in an unlikely corner of the world—Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paralytic “multi-ethnic” government…

This Week in Energy: Japan Burns with ‘Fire Ice’ Momentum

Dec 06, 2013 at 14:59 | James Stafford

Japan, desperate for new domestic energy sources, is where we now look for research and development that no one else has the patience for—like last week’s news of a Japanese…

Oil Majors Pushing Offshore, but Obstacles Remain

Dec 05, 2013 at 17:10 | Nick Cunningham

Major oil companies continue an aggressive push into deeper water as the memory of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout recedes. Spurred on by consistently high prices for crude oil, the…

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