In response to Iran's attack…
The total number of active…
Namibia wants to join OPEC…
The United Arab Emirates are rich in oil, and as a result rich in pocket, yet unlike the US oil industry the Arab states understand that renewable energy is vital…
Volcanoes pose a threat to populations living in their vicinity, yet also have the potential to provide huge amounts of geothermal energy. A new design, known as the VolcanElectric Mask…
The US Treasury Department has come down hard on a Greek businessman who they claim has been helping Iran to evade sanctions and export its oil by buying a fleet…
The Cradle of Mankind is a Great Rift valley that runs through Kenya, created by separating tectonic plates, and so named due to the million-year old human remains that have…
If acting President Nicolas Maduro wins the April 14 election against Henrique Capriles then an increased focus on deals with China and Russia should be expected as he continues with…
In May 2012 Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker owned by Dynacom Tankers Management. It was one of the last successful pirate attacks against a large tanker, as combined efforts…
A new report written by NPD Solarbuzz has predicted that China will overtake Germany to become the largest consumer of photovoltaic power in the world this year.It…
Crystal ball-gazing is often a welcome distraction from a slow or dull market, but it serves a useful purpose too, particularly for firms with long design-to-market cycles or looking to…
The Financial Times has reported that officials and ministers from the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Qatar have been in talks over recent weeks about the possibility of Qatar…
Only days after Colombia’s largest coal exporter, Cerrejon, signed a wage agreement to end a month long strike which had paralyzed exports and cost the government millions in lost royalties,…
At around 6pm Tuesday evening, a tug boat pushing a fully laden oil barge along the river near to Bayou Perot, just 48km south of New Orleans, ran into a…
The US has upped their sanctions against Iran once again in their attempts to restrict Iran’s oil exports and the subsequent revenue that it provides the Persian country. Hopes are…
The state-owned Japan Oil, Gas, and Metals National Corporation, has just recently become the first company in the world to successfully extract natural gas from methane hydrate deposits trapped beneath…
A team of scientists, led by Dr. Justin Kasper of the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, have used data collected by NASA’s oldest active spacecraft, the Wind Solar Probe, to…
Japan has announced what it believes to be a world first, the production of natural gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits.Methane hydrates are a very underdeveloped, under-investigated source…
Taiwan’s fourth nuclear power plant, the $8.9 billion Longmen Nuclear Power Plant project, is threatened as more than 68,000 protestors took part in marches over the weekend to oppose its…
A representative from Brazil’s energy ministry has recently announced that the giant subsalt oil and gas deposits that were discovered in 2007, may yield around 35 billion barrels of recoverable…
Having hit rock bottom in 2008 as its banking system collapsed and it had to declare bankruptcy, Iceland is picking itself up and now exists of a modern model of…
Following the huge success of fracking in the US and the shale gas boom that it triggered, many other countries have investigated their shale gas prospects, especially in Europe.
Australia has seven LNG developments under construction worth a total $190 billion, which, when completed by the end of the decade, will make Australia the largest supplier of LNG in…