Energy

Mar 08, 2013 at 16:19 | Editorial Dept

New York gets its moratorium on fracking; if you can spell “shale” you can get a job in the skilled-labor starved industry; the death of Hugo Chavez isn’t likely to…

Mar 08, 2013 at 11:30 | Dan Dicker

There’s no doubt that the energy sector has been a virtual minefield this year. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting fresh highs, you would think just about any energy…

Mar 08, 2013 at 11:27 | James Stafford

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology—from LNG seaborne tankers and LNG trains to floating LNG facilities have quickly gone from concept to commercialization, opening up new possibilities in new frontiers and…

Mar 08, 2013 at 11:17 | Editorial Dept

Two major shale gas opportunities emerge as Algeria seeks to maintain its exporter status by tapping into its unconventional resources and as India prepares to unveil a new shale gas…

Mar 08, 2013 at 11:01 | Editorial Dept

Bottom line: The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will not usher in any changes in energy policy, as acting president Nicolas Maduro—who has effectively been leading the administration for…

Mar 08, 2013 at 10:57 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: Mongolia is revising its mining regulations and preparing to submit a final draft to parliament in an attempt to attract more foreign investment in the sector. While the…

Mar 07, 2013 at 17:20 | Charles Kennedy

While most would think that the risks junior oil and gas companies are taking in exploring new frontiers as far away as the remote reaches of Africa are related to…

Mar 07, 2013 at 17:18 | Daniel J. Graeber

The energy industry's lobby group said the White House has an opportunity to right the environmental ship with its choice of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. American…

Mar 07, 2013 at 17:08 | Stuart Burns

In a recent Commodities Note, Reuters detailed how the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) is changing the way it records and reports China’s crude and refined oil products consumption as…

Mar 07, 2013 at 16:59 | Dave Cohen

Back in 2006-2007 when I was writing about peak oil, I would never have believed that U.S. crude oil production would reach 7 million barrels-per-day in the last month of…

Mar 07, 2013 at 16:44 | Futurity

New analysis of the natural gas production potential of the Barnett shale foresees slowly declining production through the year 2030 and beyond.This forecast has broad implications for the…

Mar 06, 2013 at 13:40 | Robert Rapier

If not for the US government’s latest demonstration of incompetence that played out at the end of last week (a.k.a. sequestration), the top news story might have been a report…

Mar 06, 2013 at 13:35 | Editorial Dept

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Mar 06, 2013 at 13:26 | Futurity

Even as the demand for electricity grows, new guidelines could help improve power grid reliability and reduce electricity cost, researchers say. President Obama, in this year’s State of the Union…

Mar 05, 2013 at 15:37 | Claude Salhani

The discovery a few years ago of an important deposit of oil and gas reserves in the waters just off the Lebanese, Israeli and Cypriot coasts has raised the interest…

Mar 05, 2013 at 15:32 | Charles Kennedy

Seeking to balance out its portfolio and focus more solidly on US unconventional plays, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is divesting billions of dollars of its stakes in the Australia Pacific LNG…

Mar 05, 2013 at 15:31 | James Hamilton

With domestic oil production soaring, and petroleum and coal sector profits rising at a rapid clip, now seems the right time to cut back on tax expenditures related to oil…

Mar 05, 2013 at 15:25 | Post Carbon

When peak oil first came to widespread public attention some 10 or 15 years ago, there was some debate about whether peak oil was the solution to climate change caused…

Mar 04, 2013 at 16:58 | Charles Kennedy

Next week Iran and Pakistan will begin work on a $7.5 billion gas pipeline that the US has been fighting tooth and nail to stop in all manner of proxy…

Mar 04, 2013 at 16:53 | MINING.com

For the first time in almost 40 years, the U.S. has lost its top net oil importer position to China according to preliminary figures published by the U.S. Energy…