James Stafford

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• Is Tunisia the New Hot Spot for Energy Investors? Interview with John Nelson

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 45,040 times

  Until recently Tunisia was considered to be a minor league and relatively underexplored venue in Africa’s rapidly expanding oil & gas scene. This situation has…

• Gambling on Methane Hydrates: Risk Outpaces Reward - For Now

  Published 01 April 2013 | viewed 6,084 times

  Everyone’s so excited about Japan’s successful extraction of natural gas from methane hydrates trapped in crystalized formation under the sea floor. The headlines are certainly…

• Oilprice.com Intelligence Report: The IMF vs. Energy Subsidies

  Published 30 March 2013 | viewed 8,065 times

  The IMF jumps into the climate change debate with a headline-grabbing carbon tax proposal; Dr John Abrahams talks to us about climate change realities; the…

• Real Pragmatism for Real Climate Change: Interview with Dr. John Abraham

  Published 26 March 2013 | viewed 40,748 times

  At a time when extreme weather incidents are causing billions in damages, businesses, governments and the public need the right information to make the right…

• Energy Intelligence Report: Profit from Gazprom's Crumbling Hegemony

  Published 25 March 2013 | viewed 5,074 times

  Two months ago we launched our premium service Oil & Energy Insider and I thought the best way of introducing the service to our readers…

• This Week in Energy - Methane Hydrates, Ethanol Mandate & Oil Market Movements

  Published 15 March 2013 | viewed 5,434 times

  America’s ethanol mandate under fire for jumping the gun; Obama prepares to announce a $2 billion “oil-pays-for-clean-car-research” plan; Japan storms international scene with methane hydrate…

• Climate Change without Catastrophe: Interview with Anthony Watts

  Published 11 March 2013 | viewed 44,766 times

  We couldn’t pin down global warming, exactly, so now it’s re-labelled as climate change, which is an incredibly vague loaded term that no-one fully understands.…

• LNG Technology: The Holy Grail of Gas Investments

  Published 08 March 2013 | viewed 13,632 times

  Liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology—from LNG seaborne tankers and LNG trains to floating LNG facilities have quickly gone from concept to commercialization, opening up new…

• This Week in Energy: Sequester Day - What it Means for the Energy Sector

  Published 01 March 2013 | viewed 8,544 times

  Happy Sequester Day—but don’t’ expect any celebration from the energy industry; Forbes outs California as home to the two dirtiest cities in the US; China…

• Peak Oil, The Shale Boom and our Energy Future: Interview with Dave Summers

  Published 28 February 2013 | viewed 34,750 times

  This where we stand, and it’s a fairly bleak view: Peak oil is almost here, and nothing new (with the possible but unlikely exception of…

• This Week in Energy: Texans Take on Big Oil

  Published 22 February 2013 | viewed 6,341 times

  ‘Crazy’ Texans take on big oil; Australia’s richest miner takes on his own industry; the EU imposes anti-dumping tariff on US ethanol; February pump prices…

• This Week in Energy - Billionaires Secretly Funding Climate Denial Think Tanks

  Published 15 February 2013 | viewed 7,340 times

  The shocking news this week (at least to the Guardian) is that secret funding helped build a vast network of climate denial think tanks. The…

• The End Game for Oil & Gas Juniors: Interview with Chris Cooper

  Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 27,102 times

  The oil and gas game can be a tricky one for junior companies, but if played right the pay-off can be massive. At a time…

• This Week in Energy - 8th February 2013

  Published 08 February 2013 | viewed 5,094 times

  Energy development on public lands …. full speed ahead.Whoever believed that Obama was an enemy of fossil fuels should hit up the Superdome in New…

• Nanotechnology: When Smaller is Bigger and Less is More

  Published 08 February 2013 | viewed 6,064 times

  It’s time to dig below the surface for good energy investments—way below the surface. The future of energy will be shaped in large part by…

• Can Leak Detection End the Pipeline Impasse? Interview with Adrian Banica

  Published 07 February 2013 | viewed 29,013 times

  Pipelines used to be things that were just built without blinking. It is said that there are enough pipelines now in the US to encircle…

• This Week in Energy - 1st February 2013

  Published 01 February 2013 | viewed 6,799 times

  An attack on the US embassy in Ankara on 1 February is very unfortunate for Turkey, the good governance darling of the North American junior…

• Kenyan Oil, Hot and Getting Hotter: Interview with Taipan’s Maxwell Birley

  Published 14 January 2013 | viewed 32,859 times

  Kenya has become the hottest oil and gas venue in East Africa since big discoveries were made in the country’s virgin oilfields last April. All…

• Oilprice.com Launches Premium Investment & Intelligence Service for Readers

  Published 11 January 2013 | viewed 6,282 times

  As the world continues its downward spiral with markets hanging over a precipice, the EU looking closer to collapse than ever, and global geopolitical tensions…

• As Canadian Crude Plummets, Find the Natural Gas Opportunity

  Published 10 January 2013 | viewed 6,442 times

  First of all, Canadian oil and gas companies are THE hottest investments on the junior scene. They are taking risks around the world right now…