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• Lunar Drilling: The Resource Race For The Moon Is On

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 22,022 times

  The race for the Moon is on. Nobody is really sure exactly what resources are located on the Moon, or how vast they are, but…

• Nigeria Launches $100 Million Oil Fund

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 8,977 times

  Nigeria’s government has launched a special fund worth US$100 million to take care of securing the credit that the oil industry of the country needs.…

• Oil Markets Panic After EIA Reports Surging Gasoline Inventories

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 15,424 times

  Commercial crude oil stockpiles in the U.S. fell by 2.3 million barrels in the week to July 15, the Energy Information Administration reported. This is…

• Vancouver Bans All Oil Storage Within City Limits

  Published 20 July 2016 | viewed 6,934 times

  The city council of Vancouver has voted unanimously to ban new construction for oil storage facilities and refineries in the city, as well as expansions…

• Why Oil Prices Might Not Rebound Until 2019

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 40,738 times

  It’s a safe bet that investors are getting increasingly tired of all the conflicting forecasts about oil and gas prices. Some argue that oil is…

• Cameron LNG Gets Go-Ahead for Export Expansion

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 4,668 times

  Cameron LNG, Sempra Energy’s liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana, has received approval for a planned expansion in the amount of gas it exports…

• Iran Ships First Oil to China’s Teapots

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 5,045 times

  The Olympic Target supertanker, carrying two million barrels of Iranian crude, is en route to the eastern Chinese port of Shandong, Reuters reports, citing sources…

• China Plans Military Exercise In South China Sea

  Published 19 July 2016 | viewed 3,547 times

  A week after a Hague tribunal ruled against its territorial claims to 80 percent of the South China Sea, Beijing is organizing military exercises in…

• Energy Is The Reason Europe Is Still Backing Erdogan

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 23,954 times

  A lot of people in Europe are wondering why political leaders on the continent seem to be ready to agree with whatever Turkish President Recep…

• Arab Oil Exports Down $24 Billion In Q1, Challenges Remain

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 5,518 times

  Arab countries exported US$50.4 billion worth of crude oil in the first quarter of the year, local media report. This is US$24 billion less than…

• Nigerian Lawmakers Urge Change of Oil Well Ownership

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 6,191 times

  Legislators from the South-South and South East regions of Nigeria have urged the federal government of the country to change the ownership rules for oil…

• Two Oil Shipments Delayed At Libya’s Hariga Port

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 7,360 times

  Protests over unpaid salaries from a unit of the Libyan Petroleum Facilities Guard have caused a delay of two shipments of crude oil from the…

• Big Oil Begins To Worry About Trump’s Wall

  Published 17 July 2016 | viewed 18,878 times

  Donald Trump’s idea to build a wall along the southern border of the U.S. has been called everything from controversial to harebrained, but—to the likely…

• China’s Oil Output Tanks , Hits 4 Year Low

  Published 15 July 2016 | viewed 14,578 times

  China’s crude oil output over the first half of the year stood at 101.59 million metric tons, down 4.6 percent and the lowest six-month figure…

• Terror Attack Kills 84 in France

  Published 15 July 2016 | viewed 4,279 times

  A man drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the city of Nice yesterday and then opened fire, with 84 people losing their…

• EV’s Won’t Kill Diesel – Electric Highways Will

  Published 14 July 2016 | viewed 16,427 times

  There are millions of trucks on the world’s highways at any given time, carrying cargo from one place to another and spewing diesel exhaust fumes.…

• The Glut Is Far From Over As Offshore Oil Storage Continues To Swell

  Published 14 July 2016 | viewed 23,423 times

  Nine tankers carrying as much as nine million barrels of crude are floating in the North Sea as traders can’t afford to sell the crude…

• Tesla Targeted by SEC, Cancels Car Buyback Program

  Published 14 July 2016 | viewed 5,949 times

  Tesla has been making headlines these days because of the investigations into two accident involving Tesla cars, one of them with a fatal result. The…

• Iran’s Crude Output Hits 5-Year High in June

  Published 13 July 2016 | viewed 8,515 times

  Iran pumped 3.63 million barrels of crude daily in June, which is the highest since 2011, Platts reports. The cumulative increase since December has been…

• Bacteria: A New And Unexpected Energy Source

  Published 13 July 2016 | viewed 12,964 times

  Meet the newest and most unlikely source of renewable energy: bacteria. The hunt for more renewable sources of energy is still on as the world…