Texas Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick sent letters to oil and gas drillers to warn them about running afoul of the state’s rules on flaring natural gas. Gas flaring is the…
The United Kingdom’s Birmingham City University in a partnership with UK motorsport entrepreneur and manufacturer Spencer Ashley and the DYPDC center for automotive research in Pune is set to
As the great LL Cool J once said: "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years."The quote seems particularly applicable to the mining business today. Mining…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an executive order calling for more oversight on rail transit of crude oil that it's "historically safer" than road transport. With more oil…
Former Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon has reportedly raised as much as $500 million for his new venture, American Energy Partners LP, and is ramping up purchases with an…
In the aftermath of the 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, the then ruling Democratic Party of Japan took all of the country's 54 nuclear reactors offline before subsequently…
Who is going to finance advanced drugs? Who is going to guarantee the electric supply in 30 years? Whisper this: It will be the government.In these two areas…
Majority shareholders of Lithuanian utility Lietuvos Dujos are preparing to file a second lawsuit against Russian gas giant Gazprom over unfair gas prices. The lawsuit follows a…
Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) reported a big loss for the fourth quarter of 2013, its eighth straight. The numbers came in lower than many analysts expected and the company…
The emission levels of some pollutants from the Athabasca oil sands may be higher than previous official estimates, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. The focus of the…
Are Hezbollah and Israel preparing for the next war? Everything seems to indicate that they are, despite the fact that all logic dictates that they should not. A number…
An indigenous Nigerian oil company is suing major foreign players for allegedly plotting to exclude the local company from a $3.8 billion floating production vessel that was intended to be…
Iran says it's received a little more than 10 percent of the oil money unlocked when it agreed to the terms of a nuclear agreement with the so-called P5-plus-1 last…
Those who seek to get around the ban on most US crude exports that has been in place for four decades are reportedly eyeing the potential to export petroleum byproducts,…
Nigeria, already black Africa’s largest oil exporter, is thinking big, about exporting natural gas to Europe and thereby undercutting Brussels’ unhappy dependence on natgas exports from the Russian Federation.
US-based Hess Corporation (HES) has unveiled a $5.8 billion exploration and production budget for this year, with a focus on unconventional shale resources and big drilling plans in Africa.…
South Korea gave a green light on January 29 to a $7 billion plan to build two new nuclear reactors, a sign that Korea will push forward with nuclear…
The ethanol industry, already reeling from a draft plan for cuts in the ethanol mandate for this year, will now face more pressure as everyone from conservatives and environmental activists…
In order to understand what solutions to our energy predicament will or won’t work, it is necessary to understand the true nature of our energy predicament. Most solutions fail because…
Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced a deal with Qatar Petroleum to sell 23% of its take in a Brazilian oil field for $1 billion as Shell seeks…