The U.S. biofuel industry is…
The UK economy has shown…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…
Damian Carrington, the author of the Guardian’s environment blog, recently spoke to an undisclosed senior executive from a major UK energy investment firm about the state of the UK…
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy, part of the South Korean government, announced at the beginning of the week that a consortium of oil companies from the country had signed a…
DESERTEC is a hugely ambitious plan to supply Europe with 15% of its energy requirements from renewable sources, mostly concentrated solar power plants, based in Northern Africa and connected to…
For years WTI has been the global benchmark for oil, yet now it seems as though Brent will finally overtake it and become the hedge of choice for investors around…
The various conflicts and standoffs littered across the Middle East are affecting global oil markets to varying degrees. Lately the deteriorating situation in the Gaza strip between Israel and Palestine…
Investigations continue into the explosion that occurred on the West Delta 32 platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday morning.Initial theories point to the possibility that a…
Perhaps one of the more overlooked aspects of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) recent World Energy Outlook 2012 and its detailed analysis of the US hydrocarbon potential, is the dilemma…
The famous, billionaire investor George Soros has just recently invested millions of dollars into gold bullion, leaving other investors wary of his view of the US economic recovery; Forbes Magazine…
Political relations throughout the Middle East seem to be worsening on an almost daily basis. One situation of particular concern is the deteriorating relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Kweku Adoboli, the ex-UBS AG trader, who caused $2.3 billion in losses for his bank due to illegal, unauthorised trading (the largest in British history), has been sentenced to seven…
A new report by the World Resource Institute (WRI), titled “Global Coal Risk Assessment: Data Analysis and Market Research”, claims to be the most comprehensive of its kind that…
Terrorists could black out large segments of the United States for weeks or months by attacking the power grid and damaging hard-to-replace components that are crucial to making it work,…
Gazprom’s once solid grip on Europe is slowly, but inexorably, slipping as the shale gas revolution continues to grow in the US, and spread out to other parts of the…
Whilst some, most notably the IEA, claim that shale oil will help the US become the largest oil producer in the world, OPEC has never really acknowledged the significance of…
Despite the incredibly low prices of solar photovoltaic panels, wind energy remains the fastest growing renewable sector. However it has one decidedly un-renewable secret at its core; it is built…
Glencore International Plc’s $31 billion takeover bid for Xstrata Plc has now been supported by Qatar Holding LLC, in a move that almost guarantees the success of the bid. Qatar…
Headway is finally being made in the case against BP (NYSE.BP) over the Deepwater Horizon spill which occurred in 2010.BP has pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed…
The US military is one of the most important developers of new technologies leading them to a point where they can be released onto the market for public and private…
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States, has written a report that analyses America’s coal power plants and determines that 353…
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has just released its Global Wind Energy Outlook report for 2012, in which it has studied a number of different, varying scenarios for…