Energy

Sep 16, 2011 at 08:40 | Post Carbon

The release of the International Energy Agency's Oil Market Report for September is a good time to review the status of our ongoing crisis, for the report updates the IEA's…

Sep 15, 2011 at 08:08 | John Daly

Since 1991, the great Western success story in unlocking the energy riches of the former USSR has been Azerbaijan. Western energy companies have had no greater friend in the post-Soviet…

Sep 15, 2011 at 08:07 | Energy Digital

The European Union (EU) is seeking alternative suppliers of natural gas from the East and is moving forward with talks on constructing a pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to the…

Sep 15, 2011 at 07:57 | Ed Dolan

Just when it seemed nothing could do it, persistently high U.S. unemployment has produced bipartisan agreement in Washington—agreement to roll back environmental protection in an attempt to save jobs and…

Sep 14, 2011 at 19:18 | Joao Peixe

On 11 September Iraqi Kurdistan halted oil exports. According to Iraqi Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi, speaking to reporters at a conference in the Jordanian capital Amman, "The government of the…

Sep 14, 2011 at 07:45 | John Daly

Many investors, battered by more than two and one half years of global recession, have turned from traditional investment havens to “thinking outside the box” and investigating overseas markets. Some…

Sep 14, 2011 at 07:30 | Gail Tverberg

What would humans have to do to really live sustainability with the world’s ecosystems? I got a shock when I read about the pattern of species extinctions which is taking…

Sep 14, 2011 at 07:25 | Brian Westenhaus

Think alginate, that you may have met quite intimately if you’ve had dental impressions made – the gooey, but not sticky substance that was in the tray which formed to…

Sep 14, 2011 at 07:18 | Al Fin

The images below are taken from a report released last week by Wood MacKenzie, looking at the impact of relaxing just a few of President Obama's anti-energy policies (h/t…

Sep 13, 2011 at 08:09 | John Daly

It’s marginal, economically backward states that fragment, like Yugoslavia and Sudan, right?Usually – but an extraordinary situation is developing in energy-rich Western Australia, where Canberra’s policies have begun fuelling…

Sep 13, 2011 at 07:54 | Kurt Cobb

The following is an attempt to weave together many strands of thought from my writings on energy into a compact briefing for energy policymakers. If you are an energy policymaker…

Sep 13, 2011 at 07:37 | Professor Chris Rhodes

The UK company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have joined-forces with the US-based National Ignition Facility (NIF) to help provide energy using Inertial Confinement Fusion, in which a pellet…

Sep 12, 2011 at 18:20 | Charles Kennedy

Russian state owned natural gas firm Gazprom in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has opened a multi-billion dollar undersea natural gas pipeline from Sakhalin island to Russia’s…

Sep 12, 2011 at 07:50 | Post Carbon

If there is a way to get through the loss of fossil fuels, it lies in developing new and more efficient ways to generate renewable energy and more efficient ways…

Sep 12, 2011 at 07:39 | Brian Westenhaus

For many the idea that operating a motor vehicle can be much cheaper is a non-starting idea.  Their real world experience won’t support the facts because their situation is most…

Sep 12, 2011 at 07:34 | FX Empire

For the first time in seven weeks, natural gas futures failed to make a lower-low on the weekly charts. The inside week that was produced may be a sign of…

Sep 11, 2011 at 09:34 | FX Empire

November Crude Oil finished the week slightly better after ping-ponging between a pair of Gann angles at $87.39 and $86.61. Volatility was also high, helping to form an outside move…

Sep 09, 2011 at 07:43 | John Daly

As America prepares to commemorate the tragic events of 11 September 2001, when a series of four coordinated terrorist suicide attacks against targets in New York and Washington D.C killed…

Sep 09, 2011 at 07:32 | Gail Tverberg

Will plug-in cars be a success? If by success, we mean “sell lots of vehicles” the answer is probably “no” unless the price comes down a lot–say 50% from today’s…

Sep 09, 2011 at 07:29 | Post Carbon

During recent weeks, evidence has piled up that U.S. and European economies, far from recovering, are swirling back into recession. Failure of American politicians to address the federal debt crisis,…