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The EU Allows Members to Ban Russian LNG as Imports Climb

The EU Allows Members to Ban Russian LNG as Imports Climb

The European Parliament approved rules…

Magnesium Battery Breakthrough Could Challenge Lithium-Ion Dominance

Magnesium Battery Breakthrough Could Challenge Lithium-Ion Dominance

Tohoku University researchers have developed…

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Korean Crude Oil Imports from the North Sea to Fall by Half due to Tax Change

Korean Crude Oil Imports from the North Sea to Fall by Half due to Tax Change

Jun 12, 2013 at 16:32 | Joao Peixe

Over the past few years South Korea has enjoyed a good trade agreement with European Oil Producers working in the North Sea, but that is all about to change as…

Ship’s Cook Found Alive in Sunken Tug Boat off the Nigerian Coast

Ship’s Cook Found Alive in Sunken Tug Boat off the Nigerian Coast

Jun 12, 2013 at 16:31 | Charles Kennedy

Two weeks ago I wrote a brief article about the tug boat that sank off the Nigerian coast on 26th May. The twelve crew members were reported missing, 10…

Petronas to Invest $20 Billion in Canadian LNG Project to Supply Asia

Petronas to Invest $20 Billion in Canadian LNG Project to Supply Asia

Jun 11, 2013 at 16:23 | Charles Kennedy

Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned oil and gas company, is moving quite steadily into the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, with the latest news being that it plans to invest $20…

Qatar to Give Egypt Five Shipments of LNG

Qatar to Give Egypt Five Shipments of LNG

Jun 11, 2013 at 16:19 | Joao Peixe

The Egyptian Petroleum Minister has stated that Qatar will grant his country five shipments of natural gas to help them through the summer, when temperatures soar and electricity consumption rises…

Mercedes SLS Electric Drive Laps Nürburgring in Under 8 Minutes

Mercedes SLS Electric Drive Laps Nürburgring in Under 8 Minutes

Jun 11, 2013 at 16:18 | Joao Peixe

Daimler has released a press release to announce that its Mercedes SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive has set a world record by completing the Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack in Germany…

Powering the World with its Own Waste

Powering the World with its Own Waste

Jun 11, 2013 at 16:15 | James Burgess

As the world continues to develop, energy demand continues to increase, yet we are finding it more difficult and more expensive to develop new sources of energy. One source of…

UK Reviews North Sea Oil Rigs to Determine How to Increase Production

UK Reviews North Sea Oil Rigs to Determine How to Increase Production

Jun 11, 2013 at 16:14 | Charles Kennedy

Ed Davey, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, has announced that the UK’s oil rigs in the North Sea face challenges if they are to continue producing…

Sudan Shuts Oil Pipelines and Accuses South Sudan of Helping Rebels

Sudan Shuts Oil Pipelines and Accuses South Sudan of Helping Rebels

Jun 10, 2013 at 16:33 | Joao Peixe

Sudan and South Sudan are at each other throats again, threatening the tentative peace that has lasted for several months, after Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir ordered a stoppage of all…

New Technology Charges Electric Buses in 15 Seconds

New Technology Charges Electric Buses in 15 Seconds

Jun 10, 2013 at 16:32 | Charles Kennedy

ABB Group, a global leader in power and automation technologies, has developed a new high-capacity, flash charging device that will allow cable-less electric busses and trams to travel around busy…

Brazil to Triple Funding for Renewable Energy and Biofuel Research

Brazil to Triple Funding for Renewable Energy and Biofuel Research

Jun 10, 2013 at 16:31 | Joao Peixe

Brazil has one of the largest, fastest growing economies in the world, and also some of the largest offshore oil reserves in the word. However, rather than relying on that…

US to Have First Ever Commercial Small Modular Reactor by 2022

US to Have First Ever Commercial Small Modular Reactor by 2022

Jun 10, 2013 at 16:30 | Charles Kennedy

A team of engineers have begun digging and drilling holes at a site near to the banks of the Clinch River in eastern Tennessee, as they prepare for the development…

Gasoline Prices Fall Around the US, Except the Midwest

Gasoline Prices Fall Around the US, Except the Midwest

Jun 10, 2013 at 16:29 | Editorial Dept

From Reuters: U.S. Midwest gasoline price spike expected to lingerGasoline prices at the pump in several U.S. Midwestern states have spiked close to record highs this week and…

Norwegian Tax Increase Forces Statoil to Delay $15.5 Billion Arctic Project

Norwegian Tax Increase Forces Statoil to Delay $15.5 Billion Arctic Project

Jun 07, 2013 at 22:00 | James Burgess

The Norwegian government has been dealt a blow by the state-owned oil company Statoil, which has announced that it plans to delay a $15.5 billion Arctic project due to tax…

World’s Largest Coal Company Invests in Solar Power to Reduce Energy Costs

World’s Largest Coal Company Invests in Solar Power to Reduce Energy Costs

Jun 07, 2013 at 21:59 | Joao Peixe

The world’s largest coal company has announced that it will invest in the installation of solar PV panels in an attempt to reduce energy bills and cut costs.Coal…

Creating Artificial Geothermal Spots to Power the US

Creating Artificial Geothermal Spots to Power the US

Jun 07, 2013 at 21:58 | Joao Peixe

Traditional geothermal engineering generates renewable energy by tapping into naturally occurring reservoirs of water that have been heated by geothermal energy within deep within the Earth’s crust. It is clean…

How F1 can Improve Energy Efficiency in the Technology Industry

How F1 can Improve Energy Efficiency in the Technology Industry

Jun 07, 2013 at 21:52 | Charles Kennedy

McLaren, the iconic UK motor sports team, and first ever carbon neutral F1 team, will use its nearly 50 years of experience in F1 to develop data centres that are…

Strict New EU Laws could be the End of Oil Price Reporting

Strict New EU Laws could be the End of Oil Price Reporting

Jun 07, 2013 at 21:51 | Joao Peixe

Following the raids on the London office of the lead oil price publisher Platts over suspicions of manipulating oil prices in the market, the European Union has decided to introduce…

Perfect Storm of Refinery Outages Causes Gas Prices to Soar in Indiana

Perfect Storm of Refinery Outages Causes Gas Prices to Soar in Indiana

Jun 06, 2013 at 16:56 | James Burgess

Summer holidays for Indiana families are delayed for the time being as motorists wait for gas prices to fall. According to the website Gasbuddy.com, the average price for a gallon…

US “Deeply Troubled” by Iran’s Refusal to Give UN New Nuclear Reactor Plans

US “Deeply Troubled” by Iran’s Refusal to Give UN New Nuclear Reactor Plans

Jun 06, 2013 at 16:54 | Joao Peixe

Whether or not Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons is beside the point now, their childish attitude in handling the whole situation has gone beyond a joke.The latest…

Gabon to Seize Oil Field from Sinopec as Contract Dispute Deteriorates

Gabon to Seize Oil Field from Sinopec as Contract Dispute Deteriorates

Jun 06, 2013 at 16:53 | Joao Peixe

As the contract dispute continues to progress with Gabon’s oil ministry, Addax Petroluem, owned by China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec), risks losing control of another oil field in the small, west-African…

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