Energy

Jan 07, 2011 at 11:10 | Brian Westenhaus

Big Oil is much smarter than people think.  By Big Oil this writer means the free world’s independent oil companies.  For those watching, Big Oil has been shifting the publicly…

Jan 07, 2011 at 11:02 | Charlotte Dudley

Widespread flooding in northern Australia has caused economic disruption and sent coal prices soaring, but reinsurers are likely to avoid heavy losses, according to industry participants. Dom del Re, a…

Jan 07, 2011 at 08:56 | Al Fin

Right now, the printing of trillions of dollars by the Federal Reserve is creating another financial bubble. It is supported only by deficit spending, borrowing, and money-printing. Nothing else is…

Jan 06, 2011 at 10:36 | Robert Rapier

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I wrote the following: BP’s Oil Rig Disaster May Bring an End to Support for New Offshore Exploration…

Jan 06, 2011 at 09:31 | Open Democracy

As we are forced to change the way we think about energy, the energy consumer is caught between need and the increasing risks involved in securing traditional energy sources. The…

Jan 06, 2011 at 09:23 | Al Fin

Four billion pounds of carpet enter waste streams in the U.S. each year, says CEO Ron Simonetti. Five pounds of oil go into a single pound of nylon, so annually…

Jan 05, 2011 at 08:41 | Gail Tverberg

Natural gas would like to be bridge fuel as we deal with oil shortages, but it keeps running into obstacles. A big obstacle is the fact that the price is…

Jan 05, 2011 at 08:32 | Al Fin

Oil is like any other commodity: if price go up, people will produce more of it to sell. Despite the bleatings of peak oil sheep, oil companies are responding to…

Jan 05, 2011 at 08:28 | David Gabel

Yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made public a new website, the NOAA Deepwater Horizon Library. The site contains a treasure trove of information relating to the oil…

Jan 01, 2011 at 20:44 | Al Fin

A gigantic natural gas field that could yield millions of barrels of oil was recently discovered on the maritime border between Israel, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, Cyprus, and Northern Cyprus.…

Dec 31, 2010 at 10:44 | Gail Tverberg

Bashing the oil industry seems to be popular. The most recent example is the New York Times’ editorial They haven’t learned. I don’t think any industry is perfect, but…

Dec 31, 2010 at 10:41 | Al Fin

For oil sands that are too deep for surface mining operations, some form of "in-situ" is needed to extract the oil. Most in-situ operations involve the injection of steam into…

Dec 31, 2010 at 10:36 | Brian Westenhaus

LS9, with a fresh $30 million in hand is planning to ready LS9?s lead products for commercial production and support additional development and growth programs. Raising money in 2010 was…

Dec 30, 2010 at 10:33 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I always thought that a great strategy for a new hedge fund would be to only buy positions from existing hedge funds that were blowing up. That fund would buy…

Dec 30, 2010 at 10:28 | Al Fin

Arguably the biggest story in the United States energy scene, and de facto for the rest of the world, has been the development of shale gas. Natural gas production in…

Dec 30, 2010 at 10:24 | ISN Security Watch

Iraq's new oil minister, Abdul Kareem Luaibi, said the country's oil output has reached 2.6 million barrels per day, the highest level for more than 20 years. Luaibi said developing…

Dec 29, 2010 at 06:41 | Gail Tverberg

Our problem now is that we have built a complex economy that depends on oil and other fuels. We can see that we will have less oil in the future.…

Dec 28, 2010 at 10:40 | Gail Tverberg

If we look at a graph of historical world oil production, we see a somewhat bumpy production pattern with two major price spikes (in 2009 $)–one peaking in 1981 and…

Dec 28, 2010 at 10:33 | Andy Soos

During the last few decades, increased concern over the environmental impact of the petroleum-based transportation infrastructure has led to renewed interest in an electric transportation infrastructure. Electric vehicles differ from…

Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57 | Al Fin

Oil, coal, gas, unconventional hydrocarbons -- you name it, Canada has it. In addition, Canada has rich mineral resources, including uranium. Canada even has a large hydropower resource to call…