The sheep in this case being Zimbabwe.That country's Chamber of Mines said in a report this week that Zim is the brightest hope for global platinum supply. The…
U.S. supermajor Chevron last week halted work on an exploration well in the Romanian town of Pungesti after protesters rallied in opposition of hydraulic fracturing. The company had only secured…
Saudi Arabia and Iran, two titans of the oil industry, are heading for a headlong confrontation in what could result in a destructive and devastating new episode of conflict in…
A shiny new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is set to open in the Polish port of Swinoujscie next year. Three-thousand kilometers to the east, Chinese President Xi…
Energy independence sounds good, and that's why politicians and oil company executives love to say the words. It's so easy to say, but oh so hard to actually accomplish, which…
A new study of 35 countries maps out the amount of carbon stored by mangrove ecosystems in various parts of the world in hopes of learning from the mangrove’s elusive…
I had a notable conversation a few months back with a friend regarding doing business in India.He remarked that unlike many places in the world, corruption and bureaucracy…
At the moment, European energy markets are heavily dependent on Russian supplies. This is especially true of the countries with direct land borders to the big bear, including Finland and…
At approximately 1:00AM Saturday morning, a train carrying crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded outside of Gainford, Alberta, about 80 kilometres west of Edmonton. The 134-car freight…
On 18 October state-owned Russian oil firm Rosneft signed a memorandum of understanding with state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., a significant arrangement that gives China its first direct access to…
Mineral owners in North Dakota have filed law-suits against 10 oil and gas companies for royalties lost in the surge of natural gas flaring in the Bakken shale.
Today the British Government are announcing the construction of the first new nuclear-powered electricity generating station in 20-years. The new plant, which will replace plants that will close will…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas report, Assessing the Costs and Consequences of the 2007–09 Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: "Our bottom-line estimate of the cost of the crisis,…
Strong growth in international drilling activity helped increase quarterly profits for some of the largest oil companies in the industry. Oil services company Baker Hughes Inc. said last week the…
Much to the dismay of the environment and despite global renewable energy efforts, coal is set to overtake oil as the world's main source of energy by 2020, according to…
One outgrowth of the U.S. super-secret WW2 Manhattan Project, which produced the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, six years later, in 1951, a small experimental reactor in the…
Despite the fact that new, stricter regulations on the transport of hazardous materials by rail, introduced following the derailment and explosion of a train carrying crude oil through Quebec in…
Two energy ideas to touch upon today, now that the debt ceiling debacle is (at least for now) over: Refiners and the back of the crude curve.Refiners have…
Shale gas in western Canada is at the epicenter of the energy world this week. Excitement from energy investors over northern shale comes after Malaysian petro-major Petronas last week…
Though Norway in June overtook Russia in total exports of natural gas to Europe, the balance of Russian gas to Europe comes through Ukraine, which itself is dependent upon Russia…