India has ratcheted up renewable energy installations…
Precious metal prices surge, particularly…
U.S. shale has provided that…
Environmental initiatives are set to receive a huge boost in the form of at least half of Sir Richard Branson’s fortune.The billionaire, who made his billion as the…
Talks between the five nations of the United Nations Security Council (and Germany) and Iran are set to begin again next week in Kazakhstan; the last round of talks which…
Everyone complains about the cost of gasoline, yet we all pay different prices. In the US the cost of gasoline is far lower than those in Europe, and in the…
European pollution laws have meant that some of the oldest dirtiest coal power plants in Britain have had to shut down. With little excess capacity and few new large projects…
BP is entering the final chapter of the aftermath caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 as it prepares to go to trial against the federal government next…
The Russian government has been given a sharp reminder of the necessity to invest heavily in the nation’s tired infrastructure, especially if it intends to increase exports to Asia, after…
The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP)(LSE: BLT)(NYSE: BHP) reported Tuesday its profits had plunged 58% and revenues declined 14% during the last half of 2012.Attributable net…
Baghdad has long now claimed that only it has the authority to issue oil and gas contracts to energy companies that wish to work in Iraq, even going so far…
China hopes that it can meet its growing energy demands by exploiting its huge shale gas reserves, much in the same way that the US is aiming to achieve energy…
Nigeria loses a fifth of its daily oil production of two million barrels to theft. International crime syndicates run huge operations which employ oil bunkering techniques where they hack into…
Researchers at the Monash University, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSRIO) in Australia have discovered a brand new material that can be used to efficiently capture, store,…
Nuclear fusion, the ultimate power source, the energy of the future’ that is how it has been described, yet the major problem is that so far it has been virtually…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez disappeared from the public eye back in early December when he travelled to Cuba for an operation regarding the cancer that riddles his body. Last week…
In an effort to reduce inner city smog without sacrificing valuable real estate, a residential block/vertical forest is being constructed in the heart of Milan.The design, by Italian…
Wind turbines provide a large proportion of the world’s renewable energy, yet they also face opposition, mostly due to claims that they cause deaths to birds that fly through the…
I still do not believe that the Chinese “recovery” is for real:Chinese credit issuance surged to a record high in January on the back of a boom in…
Forever a supporter of renewable energy and protecting the environment, President Barack Obama has always had to watch his plans thwarted by Republican opposition, and in response he has always…
The operator of the deep-water Horizon oil rig which blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico nearly three years ago has become the second company to plead guilty…
Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)and Rosneft have strengthened their partnership even further by completing an agreement that will give Exxon Mobil access to an extra 234,000 square miles in the Russian…
The model has worked fine for many years, however oil prices are now at constantly high levels and the European utilities are starting to complain and pressure their suppliers to…