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Mar 25, 2015 at 19:01

The newest Mercedes autonomous car looks like a car on the outside but like a lounge on the inside, with four swivel seats facing each other…

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:49

The fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is approaching, but in the intervening years since the well blowout deep offshore, oil and gas drillers have…

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:36

If electricity and the management of power sector reforms are key to Nigeria’s economic future, crude oil/gas – and the mismanagement thereof – is at the…

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:05

So what do you do when you believe devoutly in hydraulic fracking but also understand that too much fracking is responsible for an oil glut that’s hammering the price of…

Mar 25, 2015 at 17:57

Two of the factors in the oil price crash are well constrained: 1) oversupply of expensive light tight oil (LTO) in North America and 2) the…

Mar 25, 2015 at 12:39

China imported coal at the slowest rate in almost four years, sending coal markets into a tailspin. For the month of February, China imported 5.86 million…

Mar 25, 2015 at 12:13

Brief, but very interesting note this week from world LNG-hotspot Australia. Where it appears the environment is getting better for new project development - despite an…

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:30

The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in 2011 following the Japanese tsunami forced a major rethink of nuclear power as a safe form of…

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:21

If nuclear power is going to succeed in the 21st century, there will need to be major innovations in controlling costs and enhancing safety. The generation…

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:08

Ukraine plans to suspend its gas purchases from Russia on April 1, the day after the current contract expires, in an effort to strengthen Kiev’s bargaining…

Mar 24, 2015 at 17:58

Norway is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Last week, the Norges Bank defied market expectations by leaving rates unchanged citing an overheating housing…

Mar 24, 2015 at 16:08

Oil prices nudged upwards slightly on March 23 and 24, ignoring several troubling signs for energy markets. WTI traded above $48 per barrel and Brent…

Mar 24, 2015 at 11:38

Oil prices bounced back on March 24 on a sliding U.S. Dollar, but the pain may not be over yet. Oil storage capacity continues to deplete.…

Mar 24, 2015 at 11:00

Momentum has been building amongst gold stocks this week. With gauges like the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index up 9% over the last week of trading. The interesting thing is, this…

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:58

More than four years after the catastrophic tsunami that crippled several nuclear reactors in Fukushima, the Japanese utility that owns the site is struggling to deal…

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:42

As of late last year coal formed the backbone of US electric generation capacity. At a share of roughly 39 percent, it still does. However,…

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:30

The plunging price of oil over the past nine months has forced many if not most energy companies to cut back drastically on spending, especially on…

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:22

The Obama administration’s new rules on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are being denounced by the energy industry as impeding a US oil renaissance and by environmental…

Mar 23, 2015 at 16:21

The definitive answer to Texas’ drought, concerns about future supplies of potable water, and oil industry fears of fracking drying up is next generation technology that…

Mar 23, 2015 at 14:56

It is a staple of oil industry apologists to say that the recent swift decline in the price of oil is indicative of long-term abundance. This…