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Sep 30, 2013 at 16:16

Having difficulty selling off other assets and suffering from depressed North American natural gas prices, Canada’s Talisman Energy is looking to divest some of its prize holdings in emerging energy…

Sep 30, 2013 at 08:50

Traders are stunned by the performance of the shipping stocks this month, which have been far and away a top market performer. The big questions they are now asking are…

Sep 28, 2013 at 12:26

China—the world’s largest emitter of carbon-dioxide—expects power demand to grow by 5% annually and plans to more than double its power generation capacity by 2030 to meet this relentless…

Sep 28, 2013 at 12:23

The two bottlenecks inhibiting further use of renewable energy systems are cost and the fact that the sun doesn’t always shine or the wind blow-in one word, storage. While mass…

Sep 28, 2013 at 12:17

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Friday the sea ice in the arctic has melted at a rate of at least 9 percent per decade since the late 1970s.…

Sep 28, 2013 at 12:08

In what is being heralded as the most comprehensive study on livestock’s contribution to global warming to date, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) once again pins the lion’s…

Sep 28, 2013 at 12:03

Chevron today won another small victory in the ongoing case over pollution of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest at the US Court of Appeals in Manhattan, with the court rejecting Ecuadorian requests…

Sep 28, 2013 at 11:56

The industry is focusing on liquid-rich plays, but some gassier regions offer solid returns, asserts Joel Musante, senior research analyst for oil and gas exploration and production with Euro Pacific…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:36

I’m a big fan of royalty companies. And I want to tell you about a new firm I’ve found, that’s using this time-tested model for stable profits—run by some very…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:32

I've recently found very little to like in the oil services sector, but a move this week has me looking very seriously at starting a position in National Oilwell Varco…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:31

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has decided to take on the biggest family in the country in the form of Koc Holding. The markets don’t like it all, and the…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:26

Speculators continued to dump crude oil last week. The last of the longs finally realized that an attack on Syria by the U.S. was not going to happen. This shifted…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:24

Bottom Line: The UK is close to making a thaw between Iran and the West a tangible reality by considering allowing BP to resume work with Iran, and Europe is…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:20

Bottom Line: Denmark-based Maersk Group’s APM Terminals owns more than 25% of Global Ports Investments (GPI), with Russian partners, and GPI is hoping to acquire the National Container Company (NCC),…

Sep 27, 2013 at 20:14

Bottom Line: Somalia-based al-Shabaab radical Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the 21 September attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall. This indicates a further weakening of the group in Somalia and…

Sep 27, 2013 at 15:40

Bottom Line: Europeans are lining up for Azeri gas futures from Shah Deniz, playing to Baku’s tune of multiple customers. Analysis:…

Sep 27, 2013 at 12:37

When the Fed decided last week to maintain its Quantitative Easing, oil prices responded with a $2/barrel rise. But this has been balanced by the diplomatic progress made on Syria,…

Sep 27, 2013 at 09:10

Royal Dutch Shell is famous for its use of a technique called scenario planning.This is a way of envisioning the future, constructing alternate stories about what the future…

Sep 26, 2013 at 20:25

The consequences of the shale gas and oil energy revolution in the United States have had a great impact on the U.S. industry and economy. The benefits are by now…

Sep 26, 2013 at 20:20

Could human corpses end up providing our next renewable energy source, or is this controversial idea dead in the water?A crematorium in the city of Durham in…