Energy

Dec 19, 2011 at 19:30 | Professor Chris Rhodes

The ownership of the largest deposits of oil, notably in the former U.S.S.R., e.g. Siberia and Kazakhstan and the Caspian region generally, in addition to the fields in the Middle…

Dec 19, 2011 at 19:24 | FX Empire

The sell-off continued in February Natural Gas last week with the futures market reaching a new low for the year. Like the previous nearby contracts, the February contract is walking…

Dec 19, 2011 at 15:21 | FX Empire

February Crude Oil confirmed its weekly closing price top at $103.28 with its sell-off through the last minor bottom at $95.16 and a key 50 percent level at $95.15. In…

Dec 19, 2011 at 07:56 | John Daly

The last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking”) industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone was worth an estimated $76…

Dec 19, 2011 at 07:44 | Mark J. Perry

"The abundance of shale gas resources may spark a U.S. manufacturing renaissance with economic benefits that include cost savings, greater investments to expand U.S. manufacturing facilities and increased levels of…

Dec 19, 2011 at 07:30 | Metal Miner

State-controlled Coal India Limited (CIL) announced that it has lowered its production target for the fiscal year to 440 million metric tons, down from the 452 million tons initially outlined…

Dec 19, 2011 at 07:28 | Environmental Finance

Some of Europe’s biggest energy and manufacturing companies have called for a strengthening of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), in the wake of the release of the European Commission’s…

Dec 15, 2011 at 19:53 | Gail Tverberg

The results of OPEC’s latest meeting to set oil production quotas were on Thursday last week. Instead of production targets for individual countries, a group production ceiling of 30 million…

Dec 15, 2011 at 17:49 | The Oil Drum

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” Aldous HuxleyIn 2009,…

Dec 15, 2011 at 12:49 | John Daly

There’s cynicism, and then there’s Congress. In the latest example of dysfunctional Congressional gridlock, the Democratic-led Senate is certain to reject a House of Representatives-passed Republican bill, House Resolution 3630,…

Dec 13, 2011 at 17:35 | John Daly

Over the past few weeks Iran, already beleaguered by a raft of existing U.N. and national sanctions, has seen the U.S. and the European Community adding further economic punishments. Last…

Dec 13, 2011 at 17:33 | James Burgess

E=mc² is probably Einsteins most famous equation and basically states that all matter is made up of pure energy. The energy levels within atoms are not small either. Theoretically simple…

Dec 13, 2011 at 17:25 | Barry Stevens

It has been common knowledge for quite sometime now that natural gas is a suitable clean alternative to all fossil fuels. Natural gas can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and its…

Dec 12, 2011 at 20:24 | John Daly

Under Russian Prime Minister/former President soon to apparently be President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s energy monopolies, among them state natural gas behemoth Gazprom and pipeline monopoly Transneft have had a powerful…

Dec 12, 2011 at 20:19 | Andy Soos

There are many predictions, many demands and many possibilities for future energy use and sources. ExxonMobil has just released their prediction of how energy demands will be served in the…

Dec 12, 2011 at 20:14 | Innovation Policy Blog

Robert Solow, Nobel laureate and father of neoclassical economic growth theory, says that policymakers’ current economic solutions are nothing more than “drivel” and that spurring innovation – especially energy…

Dec 12, 2011 at 08:09 | FX Empire

Forecasts of warmer temperatures in the U.S. pressured January Natural Gas futures last week. These unseasonal temperatures are expected to continue to keep buyers on the sidelines this week. With…

Dec 11, 2011 at 11:16 | FX Empire

January Crude Oil futures had a strong surge on Friday, but still managed to close lower for the week. Renewed buying helped prices rise for the first time after three…

Dec 08, 2011 at 17:22 | Mark J. Perry

The "Economic Miracle State" of North Dakota pumped another record amount of oil during the month of October, producing more than 15 million total barrels in a single month for…

Dec 08, 2011 at 17:11 | Al Fin

The following images are taken from a recent report, North American Energy Inventory (PDF) from Institute for Energy Research. I encourage you to read the entire report, and download…