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The Rapidly Expanding Natural Gas Market

Jun 08, 2011 at 07:59 | Stuart Burns

Anyone of a betting nature may take a look at the forward swaps market on natural gas and think the small premium asked for forward-dated gas prices do not reflect…

Investors Salivating Over Mongolian Energy Resources

Jun 07, 2011 at 08:11 | John Daly

Sometime in the next 12 months, an energy IPO offering in distant Mongolia already has foreign investors salivating. The darling of the international energy community is coal company Erdenes-Tavan Tolgoi…

Natural Gas Futures Close to a 10 Month High

Jun 07, 2011 at 08:08 | Forex Pros

Natural gas futures fluctuated between small gains and losses on Tuesday, but remained close to a ten-month high as warmer-than-normal temperatures across much of the U.S. next week boosted demand…

Shells Floating LNG Project – A Game Changer for the Energy Industry

Jun 07, 2011 at 07:58 | The Oil Drum

Shell recently announced that their Prelude floating LNG project off northwest Western Australia has passed another milestone, with the $US12.6 billion ($11.8bn) project receiving final investment approval. Prelude…

The Oil Beneath California

Jun 07, 2011 at 07:41 | Dave Summers

The development of oil in Texas produced, in its time, the four richest men in the world (H.L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Roy Cullen and Clint Murchison) and the single richest…

Nazi-era Technology Embraced by Republicans in U.S. Congress in the Name of National Energy Security

Jun 06, 2011 at 07:58 | John Daly

Twentieth-century American military history has two iconic dates - 7 December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor and 6 June 1944, D-Day, when the liberation of Europe began. The subsequent…

Bosporus Bypass Canal - An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Jun 06, 2011 at 07:53 | John Daly

The implosion of the USSR suddenly opened up the former Soviet Union’s energy assets to western investment. Of these, the most important was the Caspian basin, whose 143,244 square miles…

Afghanistan’s Developing Oil Industry Causing Envious Glares from Neighbors

Jun 06, 2011 at 07:51 | IWPR

Afghanistan is developing a modest oil industry, with some wells already on stream and others expected to start producing later this year. Some experts worry that neighbouring states will grow…

Offshore Oil Dispute in South China Sea Has Enormous Global Implications

Jun 03, 2011 at 07:48 | John Daly

The world’s unceasing quest for new oil deposits has combined with offshore technology to impel many countries to investigate their offshore resources in their “exclusive economic zone,”  (EEZ) defined by…

Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes?

Jun 03, 2011 at 07:46 | Professor Chris Rhodes

Hydraulic Fracturing, known as "frac'ing" in the industry, has made another unwelcome appearance in the media, in which the process is termed "fracking", where it is reported that the…

Germany and UK’s Recent Green Energy Decisions Political not Practical

Jun 03, 2011 at 07:33 | Dave Summers

I don’t expect that there will be many tsunamis in Germany over the next century, nor, apart from the occasional man-made earthquakes that can come from potash mining, do I…

How Much of the Price of Oil is Due to Dollar Weakness?

Jun 03, 2011 at 07:30 | Allen Gilmer

Our markets seem very sensitive to the price of oil... to the extent that I read articles about how high oil prices are keeping the economy down. That begs the…

Correcting Obama's Anti-Energy Agenda: The American Energy Act

Jun 02, 2011 at 08:18 | MasterResource

The Obama Administration has been implementing an anti-energy agenda since coming to Washington. From day one, Obama and his “dream ‘green’ team” have worked to increase the cost of traditional…

Why Recession always Follows Oil Price Increases

Jun 02, 2011 at 08:06 | The Oil Drum

Over the past 50 years, when oil prices moved up sharply, causing inflation, or remained high with annual average price around $100, recession has followed in many OECD countries (see…

An End to Growth: The Environment’s Impact on our Economic Decline

Jun 01, 2011 at 08:22 | Post Carbon

Accidents and natural disasters have long histories; therefore it may seem peculiar at first to think that these could now suddenly become significant factors in choking off economic growth. However,…

Biden Confident National Investment will Spark Clean Energy Breakthrough

Jun 01, 2011 at 08:16 | Breakthrough Institute

Last week, Vice President Joe Biden vowed that the country will lead the global clean energy revolution by harnessing its citizens' entrepreneurial spirit and innovative capacity. Speaking at the National…

Crude Oil Futures Hit Three Week High

May 31, 2011 at 09:41 | Forex Pros

Crude oil futures extended gains on Tuesday, rallying to a fresh three-week high as a combination of a broadly weaker U.S. dollar, renewed worries over unrest in the Middle East…

Green Panic and Growing Anti Shale Gas Propaganda

May 31, 2011 at 08:50 | MasterResource

Remember all this? America is running out of natural gas. Prices will soar, making imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and T. Boone Pickens’ wind farm plan practical, affordable and inevitable.…

Market Fundamentals and the Problem With Oil Prices

May 31, 2011 at 08:44 | The Oil Drum

It has been a tumultuous month when it comes to oil and fuel markets. As of the writing of my Oil and Fuel column in the May issue of Logistics…

It’s Getting Hot and Crowded on This Rock

May 31, 2011 at 08:38 | Tyler Hamilton

The United Nations, which tracks world population growth, has upped its estimates. We know that we’ll pass the seven billion mark sometime this October, but the U.N. is now saying…

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