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The Energy Department will issue…
Chinese imports of African crude…
The next major conflict, if there is ever going to be one, will likely be very different from all past conventional wars we have seen so far, in that it…
Canada’s energy riches seem to be destined to just expand. According to the authoritative U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration, “Canada is one of the world's five largest energy…
Forty years ago, America and its allies were paralyzed by the Arab oil embargo, which followed the Yom Kippur War. It concentrated the international mind and decades of turbulence followed.
Spanish oil giant Repsol is preparing to invest another $4 billion in oil and gas projects in Venezuela between 2013 and 2022, hoping to increase net oil output in the…
Shale projects in Eastern Europe are being challenged by delaying tactics of industry majors. Media coverage of shale gas development is positive; but in Lithuania and Poland, global oil &…
What it must have been like, being one of those pioneers getting into the traditional oil industry back before all the biggest fields went into production. Well, we are back…
Oil prices will only rise moderately over the next 20 years according to estimates from the International Energy Agency. The IEA released the 2013 edition of its much-anticipated World…
Just as Russia is trying to convince Ukraine to join its Eurasian Custom's Union in the run-up to the Vilnius Eastern Partnership summit this month, leaders in Kiev are getting…
I spent the past week in the heart of the Athabasca oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. I was there as a guest of the Canadian government, which hosts annual…
The self-declared government of Cyrenaica, a district in eastern Libya, said it established its own oil company that's ready to put crude oil on the international market. Libya since Moammar…
A town in the Netherlands is making history by becoming the first to in Europe to definitively cut ties with fossil fuels companies in a move the industry hopes isn’t…
Optimistic, but unwarranted, energy supply forecasts permeate the media (courtesy of the oil and gas industry) even as the occasional dire scenario gets coverage. But, it is well to remember…
A report last week from Amnesty International said energy companies operating in the oil-rich Niger Delta region weren't entirely up front about what's causing the "hundreds" of spills reported every…
Sometimes geography just works. That’s certainly the case in North American natural gas markets today. To the north you have America—a new natural gas superpower. So…
Before we start with this weeks news please do take a moment to look at our latest presentation which analyzes various developments taking place within oil & gas…
On November 6 Shell announced it submitted revisions to its Plan of Exploration to the U.S. government, a regulatory hurdle it needed to clear in order to keep Arctic drilling…
Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lafayette municipalities in Colorado. As well as Oberlin, Ohio.All of those cities passed moratoriums or outright bans on hydraulic fracking this week, by popular…
It is hard not to feel some sympathy for Pakistan’s current energy deficit problems, which are both severe and increasing. The U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration notes in…
The race is on in North America to shield the regional economy from the instability in the Middle East and North Africa casting a shadow over international oil supplies. Russian…
Back in July, Elon Musk released to the public a set of conceptual designs that he and his teams at Tesla Motors and SpaceX drew up for a radical new…