Energy

Oct 29, 2013 at 18:05 | Post Carbon

It is time to take a break from the gloom and doom in Washington and the Middle East and look for some better news about the future of energy. Every…

Oct 28, 2013 at 18:25 | Rory Johnston

The “carbon bubble” is a concept that has been gaining momentum over the past year. In brief, the theory claims that in order to avoid catastrophic climate change, the…

Oct 28, 2013 at 18:15 | John Daly

Its official – the U.S. government’s authoritative Energy Information Administration has confirmed that the world’s three leading shale gas producers are U.S., Canada and China, respectively. In a

Oct 28, 2013 at 18:12 | Stuart Burns

According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 5.2 million barrels last week, the fifth largest build of the year, with stocks at…

Oct 28, 2013 at 18:09 | Tom Dispatch

As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on -- and it’s now well over two years old -- it’s illuminated the Obama presidency like no other…

Oct 25, 2013 at 18:38 | Daniel J. Graeber

Six shale plays in the United States account for nearly all of the growth in domestic oil production in the country. That's the assessment from the Energy Department's inaugural drilling…

Oct 25, 2013 at 18:33 | John Daly

Few people realize that Ecuador is the smallest oil-producing member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Ecuador rejoined OPEC in 2007, after leaving the organization at the end…

Oct 25, 2013 at 18:26 | Charles Kennedy

While Tesla Motors has even the likes of General Motors unnerved with its success, GM is hoping its new Chevrolet Impala sedan that can operate on either gasoline or compressed…

Oct 25, 2013 at 18:20 | Igor Alexeev

“Shale perspectives” in Eastern Europe are challenged by delaying tactics of industry majors. Media coverage of shale gas development is positive but in Lithuania and Poland global oil & gas…

Oct 25, 2013 at 17:44 | Charles Kennedy

The cancer agency of the World Health Organization—the same organization that got Americans to quit smoking--says in a new, dramatic study that the air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing…

Oct 25, 2013 at 16:22 | Editorial Dept

Some of the world’s most savvy energy investors have converged in a strange place the last few months. A place I call “the secret coast”, because little is known about…

Oct 25, 2013 at 16:02 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: As Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) works towards oil and gas independence from the central Iraqi authorities in Baghdad, the next idea being floated is the creation of…

Oct 25, 2013 at 16:00 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: Investors should be on the alert over the increasing momentum of a militant insurgency that could threaten coal and gas investments in Mozambique.Analysis:  At a time…

Oct 24, 2013 at 17:34 | Metal Miner

The media has dubbed it “Coalgate” after the infamous Watergate scandal of the 1970s, and the alleged multi-million dollar scam, still to be proven in a court of law, epitomizes…

Oct 24, 2013 at 17:29 | Robert Rapier

America’s Wake Up CallForty years ago Americans were getting a wake up call on energy security. For the first time, the point was being driven home that America’s…

Oct 23, 2013 at 17:06 | Joao Peixe

A consortium led by Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell, France’s Total and PetroChina and its sister company Cnooc, won the bid for Brazil’s Libra deep-water oilfield in a landmark auction on…

Oct 23, 2013 at 17:03 | John Daly

Largely below the media radar, China has intensified its global search for energy supplies to secure its dynamic economy. Given the difficulties in increasing domestic output to underwrite the…

Oct 22, 2013 at 17:00 | Daniel J. Graeber

U.S. supermajor Chevron last week halted work on an exploration well in the Romanian town of Pungesti after protesters rallied in opposition of hydraulic fracturing.  The company had only secured…

Oct 22, 2013 at 16:49 | RFE/RL staff

A shiny new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is set to open in the Polish port of Swinoujscie next year. Three-thousand kilometers to the east, Chinese President Xi…

Oct 22, 2013 at 16:46 | Kurt Cobb

Energy independence sounds good, and that's why politicians and oil company executives love to say the words. It's so easy to say, but oh so hard to actually accomplish, which…