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• South Stream Demise Could Benefit Both Turkey And Moscow

  Published 17 December 2014 | viewed 6,601 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 5,741 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 7,872 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 6,662 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 22,871 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 6,568 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 5,485 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 6,998 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 8,160 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 4,686 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…

• Delving into India’s Coalgate Scandal

  Published 24 October 2013 | viewed 8,004 times

  The media has dubbed it “Coalgate” after the infamous Watergate scandal of the 1970s, and the alleged multi-million dollar scam, still to be proven in…

• Japan Signs Rare Earth Deal with India

  Published 22 November 2012 | viewed 17,599 times

  Japan has sealed its new “friendship” in the world of rare earths by formally signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India for imports of…

• Why Are Investors so Bullish on Silver?

  Published 21 November 2012 | viewed 7,837 times

  A lot of people seem to be trying to find reasons to buy silver.In fact, there appear so few detractors that you wonder why it…

• The Best Way to Battle Commodity Price Volatility

  Published 14 March 2012 | viewed 5,694 times

  Crude oil prices spike. Copper tanks. Cotton and coffee can’t make up their minds. The price graphs you see look more and more like they’re…

• Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Not Long to Wait Now

  Published 23 February 2012 | viewed 21,895 times

  Fuel cells are one of those technologies we have covered before, usually citing some manufacturer who is fan-faring a new technology purported to be game-changing…

• What Does the Future hold for the World Oil Markets

  Published 12 February 2012 | viewed 8,546 times

  Never, it would seem, has the oil market been in such a state of disarray. Brent crude, the global benchmark, hit US$117 per barrel this…

• India Drops the Dollar and Pays for Iranian Oil in Gold

  Published 04 February 2012 | viewed 21,258 times

  Media reports suggests that India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first…

• Should the US Export LNG at the Risk of Increased Domestic Gas Prices?

  Published 16 January 2012 | viewed 11,096 times

  Capitalism is a wonderful thing. It can create so much wealth, spur so much research and progress that we sometimes take on blind faith that…

• India’s Coal Shortages to Worsen as Coal India Reduces Production Target

  Published 19 December 2011 | viewed 7,469 times

  State-controlled Coal India Limited (CIL) announced that it has lowered its production target for the fiscal year to 440 million metric tons, down from the…