The Financial Times, citing unnamed…
While U.S. and European automakers…
Trump's two primary campaign promises,…
Many Asian companies have invested in North American shale gas in an attempt to gain both hands on experience in the fracking industry in order to develop shale gas plays…
The case of Ecuador against Chevron continues on; and whilst Ecuador has won their landmark court judgement, Chevron is still refusing to pay the $18 billion demanded as recompense for…
Under EU law member states were required to reduce pollution levels for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) to a certain level by January 2010. Any nation that was worried it could not…
Energy production is one of the few bright spots in the American economy. A back of the envelope cost-benefit calculation from a Yale-associated group estimates that recent increases in…
Nuclear power is currently the cheapest form of producing clean electricity, however it is inefficient and leaves waste products that are potentially very dangerous and a pain to dispose of.…
Suncor Energy is the largest producer and refiner of oil in Canada. However due to ballooning costs it is now looking to create a partnership with Chinese firms as it…
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is the biggest energy company in Japan, but since the disaster at the Fukushima Daihatsu nuclear power plant last year it has struggled to survive.
Brazil is the largest economy in South America and is rapidly growing into one of the largest economies in the world. It has huge natural resources which are constantly being…
The EU embargo on Iranian oil is due to take effect on the 1st of July, but just before that date Ramin Mehmanparast, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry,…
Following an explosion at a natural gas compressor station in western Colorado, which killed one worker and injured two more, BP has launched a full investigation into the cause.
The UK wind sector has been dealt a blow as Vestas has announced that they will scrap their plans to build a new wind turbine factory in the Port of…
Uruguay has increased its already impressive wind power capacity targets from 800MW to 1,000MW before 2015, with over half of that expected to be under construction by the end of…
In a confidential project Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco), the world’s largest crude oil exporter, is to set up a venture capital company to invest in international start-ups which…
The negotiations over pensions and wages between the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (NOIA) and trade unions Industry Energy, SAFE, and Lederene have failed to reach an agreement, despite a government-led…
Some of Europe’s largest oil producers, including Shell and Total, were given permission to begin drilling at four different sites around the coast of French Guiana in South America; however…
Solar company New Energy Technologies Inc. (NET) is already known for researching and developing see through solar cells, but it is now nearly ready to start mass producing invisible solar…
According to the US Energy Information Administration an average of 17 million barrels a day passed through the Straits of Hormuz during 2011, about 35% of all oil traded by…
Oil trade unions in Norway, the world’s eighth largest oil exporter, have threatened to go on strike in the next few days if negotiations with the national energy firms do…
After the nuclear meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant last year and the subsequent off-lining of their entire nuclear industry, Japan suddenly found itself with a huge…
Sweden produces about 50 percent of its electricity from nuclear sources. It has ten reactors, four of which are based at eh Ringhals power plant, 45 miles south of the…