Battery storage was the fastest-growing…
The world's largest oil producer…
A report by GlobalData reveals…
According to the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2012, the US will become a net energy exporter by 2035, due to technological developments which have increased the extraction efficiency of both…
Western sanctions have severely restricted certain important sectors in the Iranian economy, leading to a weak currency, high unemployment, and a double-digit inflation rate. Yet despite the contraction of the…
Rising demand from Asia for naphtha, a product refined from crude oil and essential for the production of most types of plastic, along with a shortage in the number of…
Yousef Armodeli, the chief of the Iranian Renewable Energy Organisation (SUNA) has announced that India have signed an agreement to invest in Iran’s renewable energy sector with the construction of…
A study of US cities has named the Dirtiest City in America as Fresno, California. The Central Valley city can share its shame with other Californian neighbours such as Modesto,…
Mongolia was the world’s fastest growing economy last year, driven by foreign investment and rapid developments in its rich coal, copper and gold mining sectors. Now it looks like all…
The head of the Bank of England warned on Monday that too many countries were trying to weaken their currencies to offset the impact of the slow global economy and…
BP has always claimed that it shared all information with the public and with the federal government about the extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the rate of…
The Koch brothers, Charles and David, are the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, and two of the most obstinate climate change deniers out there.It actually turns out that…
After months of deliberation Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has approved CNOOC’s $15.1 billion takeover of Nexen Inc.The deal will be largest stake in a foreign company that…
A huge increase in shale oil production from the Permian basin in Western Texas, coupled with a lack of pipelines in the area, has led to a bottleneck of crude…
Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that the UK government would off tax breaks to fracking firms and set up a new regulator just for the…
Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) announced yesterday that it has set an energy exploration and investment budget of $36.7 billion for 2013; about 12% more than this year’s budget.About 90%…
A new analytical study by Wood Mackenzie has predicted that capital expenditure in the Eagle Ford shale formation in 2013 will reach $28 billion. That will be equal to a…
The military is very interested in developing solar cells that can be created from flexible materials and therefore be woven into uniforms to provide individual soldiers with power stations for…
Upon his arrival in Doha for the UN climate talks the UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey said that, “climate change is a global threat and with every passing year, the…
Russia's Gazprom says construction will begin this week on the underwater section of its South Stream pipeline, which will carry natural gas beneath the Black Sea and into the European…
Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth.Time to…
In 1999 Bertrand Piccard became the first person to travel around the world nonstop in a balloon. The trip used a huge quantity of fuel and resources and left Piccard…
Tensions seem to be escalating between Baghdad and Irbil, as Kurdistan rolls out its Soviet-built tanks and positions them along its undefined southern border, all aimed at the unseen Iraqi…