James Stafford is the Editor of Oilprice.com
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…
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…
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…
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…
Two months ago we launched our premium service Oil & Energy Insider and I thought the best way of introducing the service to our readers…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…