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• Big Oil Leading The Charge For New Carbon Capture Tech

  Published 25 March 2017 | viewed 9,894 times

  For an industry that has for decades been criticized by environmental groups as the root of all evil it is ironic that oil and gas…

• Is The Lithium Bubble About To Burst?

  Published 11 March 2017 | viewed 9,759 times

  After rising aggressively, some would argue that lithium prices have already peaked. Reuters quotes Paul Robinson, director at consultancy CRU Group saying that prices have…

• Metals Rise Across The Board After OPEC Agreement

  Published 03 December 2016 | viewed 11,152 times

  Yesterday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries finalized a deal to cut production by 1.2 million barrels a day starting in January, its first reduction…

• Renewable Energy Storage Could Be Worth $90 Billion Per Year

  Published 15 August 2016 | viewed 17,664 times

  Renewable energy technology has been split into two camps since it became a reality around the turn of the century. On the one hand there…

• The Coal Decline Is Now Irreversible

  Published 08 February 2016 | viewed 8,714 times

  There was a lot of talk last year about coal resources needing to be left in the ground if the world was to reach its…

• U.S. Shale Is Too Adaptive For The Saudis To Kill

  Published 15 October 2015 | viewed 13,159 times

   Saudi Arabia is taking a massive gamble on the world oil markets. Their “pump at any price” policy has driven oil down to below $50…

• Lack Of Political Will Could See World Miss Carbon Targets

  Published 21 February 2015 | viewed 4,139 times

  This graph illustrates the extent to which BP’s Energy Outlook 2035 sees renewable energy sources having a meaningful impact in the years ahead.Source: BP Although…

• Industry Relief As India Begins Coal Block Auctions

  Published 18 February 2015 | viewed 5,771 times

  India took its first step on the road to coal mining reform by initiating the auction of select coal blocks over the weekend. Environmentalists, though,…

• Russia India Nuclear Deal Not As Exciting As Previously Thought

  Published 20 December 2014 | viewed 6,142 times

  The initial euphoria over Russia agreeing to build at least 12 nuclear reactors in India by 2035 has died down as sector experts get around…

• South Stream Demise Could Benefit Both Turkey And Moscow

  Published 17 December 2014 | viewed 6,581 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin may have announced that the proposed South Stream gas pipeline is dead, but it would seem this has given him a…

• Low Oil Prices Causing Majors To Reconsider Larger, Riskier Projects

  Published 09 December 2014 | viewed 5,728 times

  With oil hovering around $70 a barrel, oil and gas companies must make decisions on 800 proposed projects worth a total of $500 billion. An…

• Oil Can Keep Crashing

  Published 03 December 2014 | viewed 7,848 times

  While Americans were tucking into their Thanksgiving turkeys, over in Europe a third of the world’s oil producers were cooking up a very different sort…

• Bitter Truth About Germany´s Renewable Energy Goals

  Published 02 December 2014 | viewed 6,645 times

  As an example of the fine pursuit of high ideals, Germany’s drive for clean energy could not be finer. Whether you hold to the majority…

• $15 Billion in Pipeline Projects Coming to Appalachia in 2015

  Published 03 November 2014 | viewed 22,849 times

  The natural gas boom in the Marcellus Shale region of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania has resulted in $15 billion in proposed pipeline construction projects.…

• India May Become World’s Largest Coal Importer

  Published 16 October 2014 | viewed 6,549 times

  It was to be expected. India’s coal imports in September zoomed up by 19% to 16 million tons as compared to a year ago, no…

• India Takes a Green Leaf Out of China’s Sustainability Tree

  Published 02 October 2014 | viewed 5,484 times

  When we think of India as an investment destination or look at the economy for areas that could provide growth and wealth generation construction is…

• Supreme Court Ruling Deals Blow To Indian Coal Sector

  Published 27 September 2014 | viewed 6,979 times

  In the end, it turned out as many feared it would. The Supreme Court of India canceled all but 4 of the 218 coal blocks…

• Commodities Suffer As Oil And Gas Takes Rail Priority

  Published 18 September 2014 | viewed 8,142 times

  The rapid pace of energy exploration, for both natural gas and oil, in North Dakota is creating a crisis for upper Midwest farmers. Grain shipments…

• Australian PM Finalizes Nuclear Deal With India

  Published 11 September 2014 | viewed 4,685 times

  “I do want Australia to be an energy superpower in the years ahead. We have large reserves of uranium. We have massive reserves of coal.…

• A New Oil Pipeline could be Devastating for the Railway Industry

  Published 28 January 2014 | viewed 11,487 times

  Earlier today, my colleague Stuart put low oil and natural gas prices in perspective, showing that demand has risen considerably of late.Cold weather and consumers…