Energy

Apr 02, 2012 at 17:04 | Barry Stevens

Natural gas production, from hydrocarbon rich shale formations, known as “shale gas,” is one of the most rapidly expanding trends in onshore oil and gas exploration and production today. A…

Apr 02, 2012 at 16:52 | Gary Hunt

In both the EU and the US carbon policy correctness has run its course having been discredited by scandal, the persistence of scientific method, and public pressure to recognize market…

Apr 01, 2012 at 11:33 | Post Carbon

With global warming driving down the demand for natural gas as a home heating fuel and natural gas drillers producing record amounts, an oversupply situation has developed quickly. Stocks of…

Apr 01, 2012 at 11:29 | Charles Kennedy

Few developments will have a greater impact on regional dynamics in the Western Balkans than the race to build Russia’s South Stream Pipeline as the Western Nabucco Pipeline falls flat.

Mar 29, 2012 at 18:58 | John Daly

Siberia has traditionally conjured up images of fearsome cold and death, first as a place of exile under the Russian Tsars and later under the murderous regime of Lenin’s Bolsheviks.

Mar 29, 2012 at 18:56 | Daniel J. Graeber

The Environmental Protection Agency this week proposed measures that it said would cut emissions for new power plants. Critics are lining up to say this marks the end of…

Mar 29, 2012 at 18:52 | Dave Summers

Gasoline prices remain high, and Reuters recently noted that there are enough countries with civil unrest, technical problems and bad weather that there are around a million barrels a day…

Mar 29, 2012 at 18:23 | Stuart Burns

It may be small by global standards, but Britain’s oil and gas industry has far greater significance than its size suggests. Apart from providing a global oil price benchmark —…

Mar 29, 2012 at 18:21 | John Daly

Turkey has adopted a new strategy in its bid to solve its Kurdish “issue.” Ankara’s outreach initiative has enormous energy implications, as Turkey currently imports 90 percent of its…

Mar 28, 2012 at 18:37 | Charles Kennedy

Ongoing border and oil disputes and the halting of oil production by South Sudan has led to renewed clashes between Khartoum and Juba, the specter of another war and the…

Mar 28, 2012 at 18:32 | Daniel J. Graeber

Libyan crude oil production has witnessed a notable uptick since major combat operations ended last year. In mid-2011, at the height of the international conflict, it looked as if the…

Mar 28, 2012 at 18:26 | Gail Tverberg

US natural gas prices are at record lows–about where they were in 1976, and at the low points in the 1990s, in today’s dollars (Figure 1).

Mar 28, 2012 at 18:14 | Brian Westenhaus

It didn’t take long for the oil industry to go to Plan B to get the massive new supplies of Bakken Formation oil in North Dakota and the Canadian…

Mar 27, 2012 at 18:04 | Charles Kennedy

Kenya has announced its first oil discovery and is already discussing plans for the drilling of four exploratory wells this year in a development that portends a new future for…

Mar 27, 2012 at 18:00 | The Oil Drum

The Deepwater Horizon incident demonstrated that most of the oil left is deep offshore or in other locations difficult to reach. Moreover, to obtain the oil remaining in currently producing…

Mar 26, 2012 at 17:28 | Charles Kennedy

The acute energy crisis that has consumed Gaza is a symptom of realities that have forced Hamas to recalculate its alliances after hedging its bets that a post-Mubarak Egypt would…

Mar 26, 2012 at 17:25 | Kurt Cobb

If you have the power and the desire to bring down oil prices, the best way to proceed is to start bringing them down. The easiest and fastest method would…

Mar 26, 2012 at 17:20 | Daniel J. Graeber

One year after the 9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, Japan may still face a nuclear energy crisis. The country was already forced to take on more fossil fuels to offset…

Mar 25, 2012 at 10:38 | John Daly

Sometimes it’s the obscure items about news reports that catch one’s eye. On 17 March a senior official of the Cameroon’s state-run National Hydrocarbons Corporation (SNH) told China’s Xinhua…

Mar 25, 2012 at 10:31 | Brian Westenhaus

When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now its hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more…