Iran is playing down the…
from the moment the oil…
Russia sees advantages in the…
Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah, the chariman of Qatar Electricity & Water Company, told reporters, “we are one of the biggest believers in solar.”Only two years ago the…
While Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan control the headwaters of both the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, Central Asia’s mightiest rivers and both nations have extensive hydroelectric cascades that generate electricity, they…
As the UN summit on climate change is about to begin in Doha this week there will be an increased focus on the renewable energy plans of the fossil fuel…
In the past few months Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has had some success with its oil discoveries, and the latest is in the form of a deposit in the southern state…
The rebellion in Syria has spilt over into Turkey once again, and threatens to turn into a war between the two nations. Thousands of Syrians fled into Turkey as President…
The first ever fully operational, commercial biomethane-to-grid plant in the UK has been installed and will provide gas to around 56,000 houses in the county of Dorset in South West…
The UK government has finally released its long overdue energy policy, and it seems that Chancellor George Osborne won.The problems that were facing the coalition decision makers in…
The US and Russia had long been in a secret war to try and discover a method to access and extract hydrocarbons locked in tight rock formations such as shale.…
The Spanish oil company, Repsol, is in talks with the Mexican state-owned oil company, Pemex, in an attempt to repair their troubled relationship.Pemex is the third largest shareholder…
Consultants Booz & Company carried out a study at the request of the European Commission into the best location for a LNG terminal in the Baltic. The objective of the…
Household debt is way down. ... The good news is that in the past three years, Americans have made remarkable progress cleaning up their balance sheets and paying down those…
A recent report by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has estimated that a total of $215.4 billion of investments will have been made through the clean development mechanism…
In an effort to battle inflation in his country, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has forbidden the state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) from increasing its oil…
On the 14th of September 2012 the 3,500 wind turbines that exist around the UK managed to produce just over four gigawatts of power to the national grid; a record.…
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…