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Sep 17, 2014 at 09:13

Breaking news: the thermal coal market is reeling this week. After the world's biggest consumer of the commodity announced some sweeping changes to its rules.That's of course China.…

Sep 16, 2014 at 19:05

For climate change activists and those hoping for an energy future dominated by renewables or even less-polluting natural gas, the death of coal cannot come quickly enough. But with coal…

Sep 16, 2014 at 19:02

The debate over natural gas exports appears to be over. On Sept. 10, the U.S. Department of Energy approved two more export terminals for…

Sep 16, 2014 at 18:57

Western sanctions won’t change any business plans for the Russian oil company Gazprom Neft during what’s left of 2014, but a senior executive says it is considering options for next…

Sep 16, 2014 at 18:55

Countercyclical investors sitting on $8 billion unspent funds have been waiting for clear signs of a market bottom. The wait may well be over.The mining M&A market is…

Sep 16, 2014 at 10:11

As of 2012, the total mileage of interstate natural gas transmission pipelines surpassed 303,000 miles in the United States, and for crude oil and petroleum products, there are over…

Sep 16, 2014 at 09:57

You won't hear a lot about it in the mainstream press. But one place on Earth is quietly becoming a go-to destination for oil and gas developers globally.East…

Sep 15, 2014 at 14:52

With U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement of an open-ended plan for airstrikes on the Islamic State (IS), the U.S. and its allies will need to degrade the power and influence…

Sep 15, 2014 at 14:37

It has been almost two years since Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, announced his own dream for the transportation of the future. The Hyperloop was to prove…

Sep 15, 2014 at 14:11

The price of Brent crude oil dropped to below $97 a barrel on Sept. 15, its lowest in 26 months, depressed by both a continuing oil glut and lower demand.…

Sep 15, 2014 at 13:51

On Friday, the United States and the European Union imposed a new round of sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s intervention in eastern Ukraine and following its annexation of…

Sep 15, 2014 at 09:20

It had threatened to be one of the biggest events in the uranium market for some time.But it now appears that a mineworkers strike at the critical McArthur…

Sep 12, 2014 at 16:55

China’s run as the world’s most voracious consumer of coal may be coming to an end. A recent report from Greenpeace found that China’s coal consumption declined…

Sep 12, 2014 at 16:44

The Kremlin says strengthened sanctions from the European Union and United States against Moscow will cost the West more than Russia.The EU on Sept. 12 formally extended…

Sep 12, 2014 at 16:30

Two academic studies of the health dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have produced different conclusions. One, conducted by Yale University, said people living near fracking sites report…

Sep 12, 2014 at 16:17

Not meaning to be villainous – like my British counterparts in the Jaguar commercial - but it would seem that sometimes ‘it’s good to be bad‘. And here are…

Sep 12, 2014 at 15:12

This week in energy, the prospect of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports gain momentum in Washington with final federal approval for two more projects in Louisiana and Florida thanks to…

Sep 12, 2014 at 09:13

It's turning into one of the biggest soap operas in natural resources. The "will they, won't they" question of gold imports into India.A few months ago, it looked…

Sep 11, 2014 at 18:41

Here it is, in one monumental and telling graph – the point on energy you must remember:

Sep 11, 2014 at 18:33

Chesapeake Energy (CHK) is one of those companies that just don’t seem to be able to get out of their own way. They have been dogged by controversy over the…