Crude oil prices ticked higher…
A potential Trump re-election could…
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan join…
Volcanic eruptions can affect the climate. Huge eruptions release millions of tons of sulphur dioxide into the air which then remains in the atmosphere for a few years, reflecting sunlight…
As time passes Iran is becoming increasingly creative in its methods of avoiding Western sanctions and this creativity has enabled it to keep its revenues from exported petroleum products at…
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon there are a series of caves which archaeologists believe were inhabited by the some of the first people to live in the jungle, over 8,000…
The first ever oil tanker to carry Bakken crude oil from Albany, NY, to Irving Oil Corp’s refinery in Canada ran aground in the Hudson River yesterday. The…
Two weeks ago Repsol filed a complaint with the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a division of the World Bank, over Argentina’s seizure of the energy company…
The UK Met Office has predicted that 2013 will be another scorcher, saying that it will be one of the warmed years on record, with the global average temperature expected…
As part of its plans to cut back on less profitable, overseas assets in order to focus on low-cost domestic shale production in the US, ConocoPhillips has announced that it…
The US has the largest prison population in the world by quite a long way; the 2,193,798 convicts that inhabit the near 2,000 prisons across the US, cost taxpayers around…
The operator of the world famous New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NYSE Euronext, has today agreed to be sold to IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in an $8.2 billion deal.ICE, which…
With his new film ‘Promised Land’, Matt Damon is enetering the fracking debate, and fracking companies are worried that his celebrity status could help to influence many people, turning them…
Miguel Galuccio, the president of YPF, and Ali Moshiri, Chevron’s Latin America and Africa chief have just signed a letter of intent to begin work on the development of a…
As the holiday season beckons the Carbon Trust, the carbon management and reduction company, is urging businesses to reduce their energy consumption by turning off all unnecessary appliances. According to…
Seven years ago George W. Bush declared that, “America is addicted to oil, much of which is imported from unstable parts of the world.”That statement is certainly not…
It has been nine years since US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq and yet due to various deep-routed problems few have capitalised on plan’s to revive the nation’s…
The IEA (International Energy Agency), has just released its Medium Term Coal Market report in which it has predicted that coal will grow to rival oil as the world’s largest…
There has been much talk about giant offshore wind farms lately, such as the completion of the London Array; now it is time to look at a giant onshore…
Demand for natural gas in Europe has fallen this year as the economic downturn has forced consumers to cut back on expenditures. This desire to reduce expenses has led many…
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, believes that China is a great example of human success. The speed and power of its economic growth,…
Peter Thiel’s philanthropic organisation, the Thiel Foundation, operates a special grant-making body known as Breakout Labs, which invests in early-stage science ventures that are too experimental, or currently unprofitable, to…
Just shortly after the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the London Array, has been completed off the coast of the UK, plans for yet another giant offshore wind farm have…