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Obama Calls on Energy Companies to Disclose the Ingredients of Fracking Fluid

Jan 25, 2012 at 18:03 | Daniel J. Graeber

President Obama during the State of the Union address Tuesday night said his administration would require energy companies working in shale gas plays in his country to disclose the ingredients…

Rossi’s Ex-Partners to Release an Improved Version of LENR for Testing

Jan 25, 2012 at 17:57 | Brian Westenhaus

The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the…

Oil Majors Move Back to the Gulf of Mexico

Jan 25, 2012 at 17:42 | Energy Digital

Over a year since America's worst oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, big oil finally gets back to business... with a vengeance. For the first time since BP's Deepwater…

Peace Pipeline May Finally Have its Day

Jan 24, 2012 at 17:51 | Daniel J. Graeber

Indian and Pakistani officials this week are debating issues related to a natural gas pipeline planned from Turkmenistan. Pakistan's energy minister left Monday for India to hold talks on the…

Can Iran Survive Now That Europe Has Also Agreed to Boycott it's Oil?

Jan 24, 2012 at 17:46 | Juan Cole

The European Union threatened Iran on Monday with cutting off petroleum imports into the 27 EU member states, and announced sanctions on Iranian banks and some port and other…

A New Direction for China's Massive Shale Gas Reserves

Jan 24, 2012 at 17:29 | Keith Schaefer

It's estimated that China holds more natural gas – locked in its huge shale reserve – than the U.S. And while the country hasn't yet begun commercial production, a new…

Is Nigeria to become Africa's next failed nation-state?

Jan 24, 2012 at 17:20 | John Daly

By any yardstick, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, should be black Africa’s glittering success story. A member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, producing 2.5 million barrels per…

How the Smart Grid will Evolve in 2012

Jan 24, 2012 at 17:17 | Daily Energy Report

Aging grid infrastructure, rising energy costs and demand, and new and pending government legislation are some of the factors motivating consumers and utilities alike to seek more energy efficient, sustainable…

Is the Carbon Bubble About to Pop?

Jan 24, 2012 at 16:33 | James Burgess

Internet, housing, banking, we have come across quite a few bubbles in the past decade, but now we are faced with the unfolding of possibly the biggest bubble of them…

Something's Fishy in Tripoli

Jan 23, 2012 at 18:14 | Daniel J. Graeber

Way back in early 2011, members of the U.N. Security Council had no problem getting a resolution through that authorized military force in Libya ostensibly to protect civilians from attacks…

How to Become Rich: Buy Low and Sell High

Jan 23, 2012 at 17:49 | James Hamilton

It's a strategy that works for individuals, and can work for the entire nation as well. If you can figure out a way to find resources whose value in their…

Wild Swings Characterize Obama Energy Policy

Jan 23, 2012 at 09:33 | Llewellyn King

When it comes to energy policy, President Obama has an unfailing capacity to undermine his own declared intentions. If he were driving a car  the way he's driving energy policy,…

Why Does Gas Production Remain so High Whilst the Price is so Low?

Jan 23, 2012 at 09:28 | Post Carbon

Natural gas prices have declined to below $3.00/mcf, levels not seen for years, yet the EIA posted the highest gas production ever in October, 2011. U.S. gas production is growing…

China's Energy Firms Invade the Great White North

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:56 | John Daly

Canada is the largest source of U.S. oil imports. According to the U.S. Energy Administration, in 2011 U.S. total crude oil imports averaged 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd),…

The Cold (War) Reality of European Gas

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:54 | Daniel J. Graeber

After sparring with Secretary Clinton over a missile defense shield, Russian officials last year claimed their 2008 war with Georgia blocked NATO ambitions to move east. The saber rattling by…

Croatia’s INA Oil Company, Caught Between al Assad and a Hard Place

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:40 | John Daly

As international pressure tightens against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, the Croatian national oil joint stock company Industrija Nafte (Oil Industry, or INA) is coming under increasing…

Crude Oil Analysis for the Week of January 23, 2012

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:36 | FX Empire

Despite the shift in the fundamentals the week before, March Crude Oil failed to follow-through to the downside and the market finished the week with an inside range. This pattern…

Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of January 23, 2012

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:33 | FX Empire

March Natural Gas gapped lower on the weekly chart. This is a rare occurrence that often indicates exhaustion in markets that have experienced prolonged moves down in terms of price…

Environmental Politics: Keystone XL Rejected Until After the Election

Jan 21, 2012 at 10:44 | Gary Hunt

The decision by President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline designed to bring Canadian oil to US Gulf Coast refineries was a surprise to no one.   Officially, the State…

Waste Management to Convert Entire Fleet to Run on Compressed Natural Gas

Jan 21, 2012 at 10:22 | Tyler Hamilton

Natural gas is inexpensive, seemingly plentiful and much cleaner-burning when used as an alternative to diesel fuel in transportation fleets, so it makes sense that Waste Management is converting its…

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