On the verge of civil war and total collapse, Iraq’s oil exports are stagnating and the first half of this year has seen the Iraqis come up almost 30% short…
Ernest Moniz has been Secretary of Energy since May, that is, for about a month prior to President Obama’s announcement of his Climate Action Plan. Before joining the President’s…
Redox Power Systems has signed a partnership deal with researchers at the University of Maryland in order to develop and bring to commercial market a new distributed electricity generation…
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto unveiled plans this week to amend articles of the Constitution that prohibit private investment in the country's oil industry. The state company Pemex would remain…
There has been considerable fanfare this week over the Hyperloop idea, put forward by Elon Musk. In this concept, which was, in this case developed by engineers at Tesla…
The spot uranium market hit another new low in July.Spot Uranium prices slipped to $34.50 per pound during the month. Down over 20% since the beginning of the…
A natural gas company operating in Yemen said there was nothing to media reports stating al-Qaida militants killed four soldiers in a weekend attack. The country was the source of…
For many, the Himalayas, site of the world’s highest peak, Mt. Everest, and shrouded by Buddhist cultures such as Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, is a romantic region shrouded in mystery,…
E.ON SE, Germany’s gas, electricity and water utility company, has seen first-half profits drop 15% despite a 15% surge in profits from its UK customers thanks to an 8.7% price…
Businesses rarely gain from political instability so trying to predict unrest is a critical activity for any entity investing in a volatile corner of the world. One of the factors…
The US House of Representatives approved a bill at the beginning of this month aimed at completely closing off Iranian petroleum exports. Not since President Roosevelt told Japan in…
Big news from Mexico about reforms to oil giant Pemex.The government is pushing to end the state entity's monopoly control on the oil & gas sector. Allowing private…
Some analysts have been asking the question: is there a direct relationship between the level of violence in a country and its output of oil? In Iraq there most certainly…
The U.S. is the most fully developed petroleum transport nation – we have crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel and jet fuel in transit 24/7/365 – mostly in pipelines. …
Commodities prices are pretty much like the War on Terror—driven by fear. Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, uranium prices have dropped sharply, and stayed there.…
When I got home last night, I read every page of Elon Musk's 57-page plan for the Hyperloop.My conclusion:It's a great idea, and we should…
I have posted frequently (most recently in a three-part series that starts here) on the topic of underpricing of energy in the United States, but we are not the…
Water is an essential ingredient for the operation of most nuclear power plants, from providing the liquid that is flashed to steam to drive turbines to providing coolant for storage…
China is expected to be the leading contributor to an expected increase in the consumption of oil. A former economist at the World Bank said Chinese economic growth could continue…
I’m sure you have heard the statement that an electric car is only as green as the electricity that is used to power it. Climate Central performed a study…