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Apr 25, 2013 at 17:07

The Canadian energy company Suncor Energy has been struggling since hitting a high of 74 five years ago. It is now trading in the high 20s (in U.S. dollars: symbol…

Apr 25, 2013 at 17:02

I got a laugh reading this one from the CBO (Link).The cost of the…

Apr 25, 2013 at 16:58

Each morning when I release my cat from the basement where he sleeps, he rushes to the upstairs bathroom to drink water from a bowl placed there for him. He…

Apr 25, 2013 at 16:42

Whether the topic is peak oil, climate change or commodity bull markets, Jim Letourneau tends to take the contrarian position. He's an unapologetic advocate of oil sands development and a…

Apr 25, 2013 at 08:51

RBOB bounced as hoped to reach resistance at 275.17/276.15. We said this should cap the move & it did but today we are trying to push higher to target strong…

Apr 24, 2013 at 16:06

A U.S. report on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi highlighted longstanding concerns about the threat level in Libya. The interim report from the House of Representatives followed an attack this…

Apr 24, 2013 at 15:59

Here’s some new impetus for those sitting on the fence over household energy efficiency: the risk of mortgage default is one-third lower for people with energy efficient homes, according to…

Apr 24, 2013 at 15:51

It is hardly a secret that Beijing’s claims to nearly all of the South China Sea’s waters have elicited concern from Southeast Asian nations.Now Russia’s state-owned natural gas…

Apr 24, 2013 at 15:48

As a matter of clarification, the technology under discussion generates hydrogen from water. It is not a fuel cell. For this reason, the title “Hydrogen Production Breakthrough” better reflects the…

Apr 24, 2013 at 15:31

LEDs have a mysterious drop in the light produced called “droop” when a higher current is applied.  That limits the amount of lumens an LED can make thus holding the…

Apr 23, 2013 at 17:35

Norway’s Statoil (STO) is sitting on a new discovery in the North Sea that could contain between 40 million and 150 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent, the company said…

Apr 23, 2013 at 17:32

In an astute political move the European Union lifted its embargo Monday on oil imports from Syria. Actually better make that an embargo lifted on oil imports from rebel held…

Apr 23, 2013 at 17:29

Bubbles are a funny thing. Participants don’t see them. Outsiders shake their heads – until they themselves get sucked in. Central banks support or create them, but deny their existence.…

Apr 23, 2013 at 17:24

For three decades or so, Saudi Arabia has wielded considerable influence on the global oil market. The kingdom's status as the world's only "swing producer" has given it the unparalleled…

Apr 23, 2013 at 17:19

We have all heard the story about oil supply supposedly rising and falling for geological reasons. But what if the story is a little different from this–oil production rises and…

Apr 23, 2013 at 16:35

The purpose of this article is to recommend investing in energy assets and propose that the dollar be backed by energy assets, not gold."One thing that makes it…

Apr 22, 2013 at 16:28

As Boston and U.S. security agencies congratulate themselves over the apparent neutralization of a pair of Chechens that bombed the Boston Marathon, troubling questions are beginning to arise.First…

Apr 22, 2013 at 16:22

In Kiobel vs. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Nigerian nationals do not have the right to sue the oil company for alleged rights abuses overseas,…

Apr 22, 2013 at 16:12

A flurry of recent reports on the renewable energy sector suggest that, while global investments are down from 2011 records, most of the major economies continue to support a low-carbon…

Apr 22, 2013 at 16:08

So I suspect I should apologize. Here I am talking about the future projections for energy production that have been made by companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell,…