The electric vehicle, Artificial Intelligence,…
Heat pumps are gaining popularity…
Renewable energy installations reached record…
The Niger Delta is the heart of Africa’s oil industry, yet the Gulf of Guinea, the area in which the delta is situated, is a hot spot for piracy. Only…
Today in Oslo, Norway, the Colombian government is beginning peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the nation’s largest rebel guerrilla group, hoping to negotiate an end to…
Leon Panetta, the US Secretary of Defence, recently made the strong declaration that the US is at risk of a “cyber Pearl Harbour”. He claims that the vast increase in…
Bandgap Engineering, a startup from Woburn, Massachusetts, hopes that its method of using nanowires to create solar cells will enable it to eventually double the amount of power generated.
Having made little progress in talks with Iran over its nuclear program, the EU has decided to increase pressure on Tehran by tightening sanctions. Yesterday in Luxembourg, EU…
BioPower Systems has just announced that it will form a business alliance with the large Chinese industrial organisation, Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group.After six years of research and…
Figures that have recently been released by Hadcrut 4, the collaboration between the Met Office’s Hadley Research Centre and the Climatic Research Unit, describing the changes in global temperature. The…
Solyndra, the bane of Obama’s clean energy loan scheme, received $535 million in government support before it had to file for bankruptcy back in 2011.It has now come…
In an attempt to show flexibility in the talks over its nuclear enrichment program, which have made little progress since April and have led to the West imposing harsher sanctions…
Khalid al-Falih, the head of the world’s biggest oil producer, Saudi Aramco, has given a speech at Oxford University in which he mentioned that his company will invest $35 billion…
In an attempt to attract investment and support for his plan to upgrade and improve the cyber defences of the US, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta addressed business leaders in New…
Iran has threatened to close the Straits of Hormuz on more than one occasion in response to the sanctions being imposed upon its economy by the US and EU. Over…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted that oil prices could fall over the next five years as a result of the slow global economy and low demand in comparison…
Baghdad has been angry with certain international oil companies, namely ExxonMobil, Total, and Chevron, for their dealings with Kurdistan. The oil companies have signed oil deals in the northern region…
In a landmark case which could open up the doors to allow more poor communities to file compensation claims against international oil companies, on Thursday four Nigerian villagers took Royal Dutch…
After ignoring warnings not to enter Turkish airspace, an Airbus A320 operated by Syrian Arab Airlines was grounded by Turkish F-16 fighter jets on its way from Moscow to Damascus…
The Crown Estate recently released the findings of a report that it had undertaken into the potential capacity of marine energy that is available in the UK. The findings estimate…
The Department of Commerce reported: Total August exports of $181.3 billion and imports of $225.5 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $44.2 billion, up from…
Chevron Corp has just lost yet another court case in its attempt to appeal the $18.2 billion judgement it must pay to residents of the Lago Agrio region in Ecuador.…
For the past two weeks train industry executives from around the US have been holding private meetings to discuss the potential of using natural gas to power the trains, rather…