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Energy

Scientists Studying the Link between Fracking and Recent Earthquakes in Texas

May 22, 2012 at 17:54 | Climate Progress

Scientists from two Texas universities are looking into a pair of recent earthquakes near the Texas-Louisiana border for clues to whether they were related to underground injection of oil and…

No One Can Afford Another Round of Iran Sanctions

May 21, 2012 at 14:21 | Charles Kennedy

As Iran and the P5+1 prepare to meet in Baghdad on 23 May for the next round of nuclear talks, Europe should be seriously considering the implications of its planned…

Energy in the Time of Elections: Claims and Counterclaims

May 21, 2012 at 14:17 | Llewellyn King

Where there's oil and gas, there's milk and honey. That is the thrust of the American Petroleum Institute's report to the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic parties. It…

Why the Smart Grid is More Than Just Smart Meters

May 21, 2012 at 14:11 | Tyler Hamilton

Richard Ford doesn’t like the term smart grid. “It means different things to different people,” says the manager of grid solutions at Toronto Hydro. “The term has become overused. It…

China to Invest in Coal Gasification - with GEs help

May 18, 2012 at 18:57 | John Daly

First, the bad news for China’s economic miracle.According to a quarterly report issued last month by China’s China Electricity Council (CEC), some parts of China will experience severe…

What's Driving Oil and Gasoline Prices in the US?

May 18, 2012 at 18:50 | James Hamilton

Here I comment on some recent developments affecting oil and gasoline prices.There is no oil shortage in the central United States, and has not been for some time,…

Cyber Update: Pipelines, China and Lax Security Standards

May 18, 2012 at 18:30 | Charles Kennedy

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified China as the possible origin of an ongoing cyber attack targeting US gas pipeline companies, and specifically a group that managed to…

The Real Cost of Cheap Energy

May 18, 2012 at 18:26 | Climate Progress

Where does your energy come from? Although I live in Colorado now, I grew up in East Tennessee, where many people still assume their power is fairly clean, dominated by…

Climate Economics: Creatively Destroying the World

May 18, 2012 at 18:17 | Breakthrough Institute

In the 70 years that have passed since Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction," economists have struggled awkwardly with how to think about growth and innovation. Born of the…

Kiev Stands to Lose EU-Russia Natural Gas Game

May 17, 2012 at 17:49 | Daniel J. Graeber

European lawmakers this week said they had indications that Kiev was ready to take a closer look at updating its gas transit system. A substantial portion of the Russian…

How Falling Energy Costs will Shape the World

May 17, 2012 at 17:46 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

A major plank in my golden age scenario for the 2020's is the collapse of the cost of energy. This won't occur because of a single big discovery, but from…

How the Export of Coal and Natural Gas in the U.S. has Developed over time

May 17, 2012 at 17:37 | Gary Hunt

The beaten and bruised US coal industry got up off the floor from the body blows of US EPA’s regulations and got back in the race as an export champion…

India Decides to Invest in the Oil Potential of the Falklands

May 16, 2012 at 18:17 | John Daly

Britain and Argentina have been feuding over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands for 180 years, and 1982 fought a brief but vicious war over them.Much has changed…

Iran's Green Revolution may come from Energy

May 16, 2012 at 18:13 | Daniel J. Graeber

Against the backdrop of discussions about pending negotiations over its controversial nuclear program and the upcoming deadline of an European embargo on Iranian oil comes a quiet push…

What the EIA's Short Term Energy Outlook Tells us about the Global Economy

May 16, 2012 at 17:54 | Gary Hunt

The US Energy information Administration (EIA) released its updated Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) May 8, 2012.  The overview calls for falling crude oil prices, falling gasoline prices, falling electric…

How a Deeper Understanding of Fracking could Increase the Lifespan of Oil Wells

May 15, 2012 at 18:33 | Dave Summers

There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability of different technical approaches that…

Nuclear Plants in Germany Sit Idle as Coal use Grows by 13.5%

May 15, 2012 at 18:13 | Breakthrough Institute

Coal use will rise an estimated 13.5 percent in Germany this year, resulting in at least 14 million metric tons of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, even as the nation…

As Saudi Oil Giant Expands, Can it Meet Mounting Security Concerns?

May 14, 2012 at 22:49 | Charles Kennedy

Already the largest oil exporter in the world, state-owned Saudi Aramco plans to significantly expand refining capacity and for the first time ever to venture into oil trading, which could…

U.S., China Compete for Canadian Energy Assets

May 14, 2012 at 22:43 | John Daly

To hear Carlos Pascual, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy on international energy tell it, “The United States values Canada as its most important energy partner. There has never been…

Libya: A Real World Syriana

May 14, 2012 at 22:38 | Daniel J. Graeber

A curtain is slowly getting drawn back on the death of Shokri Ghanem, the former head of the Libyan oil industry found floating in the Danube River last month. Rumors…

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