In California, Aemetis announced at Advanced Biofuels Markets the world’s first flight segment on 100% renewable, drop-in biofuel, conducted by the National Research Council of Canada using its Falcon 20…
How dependent on oil & gas revenues is Russia's federal budget? Vladimir Putin recently claimed that his government is only 50% dependent on oil & gas revenues:President Vladimir…
Tackling the global climate crisis could reap significant economic benefits for both developed and developing countries, according to a new report.The impacts of climate change and a…
We have revealed long term sustainable trends in the difference between producer price index for oil and the overall PPI. In the long run, one can foresee the direction of…
Are junior resource stocks the investment equivalent of a game of blackjack? It depends on the investor as much as it does on the company. Sid Rajeev of Fundamental Research…
The Iranian defense minister said last weekend that his country has no plans to choke of maritime oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. In early 2012, Iranian threats to…
About this time last year, Americans lost faith in their power companies, who failed to respond effectively to restore power outages resulting from a storm. This past summer, a series…
South Africa, Africa’s largest economy, has a weakness – the massive deficit caused by energy imports.Largely bereft of hydrocarbons, Pretoria relies on imports.Last year, the authoritative…
There has been a little stir in the news on Energy lately, as folks have begun to extrapolate the growth in American oil and gas production to the point that…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is working to more effectively remove the neodymium, a rare earth element, from the mix of other materials in a magnet. The…
This article revisits our previous deterministic model for ConocoPhillips' (COP) share price. We present the underlying pricing concept, a quantitative model and several predictions. After the recent revision to COP's…
The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami double disaster that destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor complex at Fukushima Daiichi was a startling reminder to the global community of…
The possibility of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India grows every day. If the Pakistanis do not bring under control the terrorist groups in the country and resolve the…
A report backed by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council finds the European Union could generate trillions of dollars in fuel savings by looking beyond goals mandated for 2020.…
Exxon Mobil is no longer the world's number-one oil producer. As of yesterday, that title belongs to Putin Oil Corp – oh, whoops. I mean the title belongs to Rosneft,…
The impact of unconventional fuels like shale oil on the global energy system is still an issue of great uncertainty. Not so much because of the size of the tank…
The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP) has a very different take on using wood. Refine it into the main component parts similar to what is done with crude oil.
When entering the world of commodities investing, there are many things to consider. Not only are there many different commodities to choose from, but other factors such as deciding allocations…
Energy: $85 supported in Crude oil the last 3 sessions but I view this as a pause before more selling ensues. I’ll remain bullish as long as December is below…
Here we go again, another ‘Planet Stupid’ update. All posts like this one have a predictable structure. Some egregious baloney is put out by a propaganda organization like Reuters, the…