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• Coal Mining and the Highwall Method

  Published 26 November 2010 | viewed 24,216 times

  There is an aspect of coal mining that gets relatively little attention, even though it is growing in popularity, It is with this method that…

• Oil Demand in the West to Decline, According to the IEA

  Published 18 November 2010 | viewed 9,555 times

  For those addicted to more roads, airports and the sweet smell of gasoline, the IEA's 2010 World Energy Outlook includes some pretty sober reading. As…

• What it Takes to Get a Pipeline Built

  Published 11 November 2010 | viewed 33,645 times

  There are regularly stories in the media or in the blogosphere about various pipeline projects that are announced with much publicity, and are seen to…

• Energy Research and the Development of Renewables

  Published 10 September 2010 | viewed 5,084 times

  In 1913, Lord Northcliffe, who owned the Daily Mail, offered £10,000 to the first men to fly the Atlantic from North America to Ireland or…

• What Will the Relief Well Find at Deepwater Horizon

  Published 09 September 2010 | viewed 6,663 times

  With Labor Day weekend, and the recovery of the blowout preventer from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, the remaining parts of…

• Peak Oil: Why a Supply Crunch Can Lead to lower Oil Prices

  Published 11 August 2010 | viewed 26,242 times

  There seems to be an on-going debate among peak oilers and many economists as to which came first, the chicken (peak supply flow) or the…

• Europe Faces Tough Choices Over Natural gas

  Published 07 August 2010 | viewed 14,300 times

  In Europe, natural gas has great importance. Many people believe (some countries even instituted policies) that it will be the fuel that will become the…

• What Effect Would Unlimited Liability Have on Offshore Drilling?

  Published 04 August 2010 | viewed 13,148 times

  Last Friday, the US House of Representatives passed legislation that would remove the $75 million liability cap on economic damages incurred by offshore drilling activities…

• The BP Oil Spill: The Static Kill Process Has Started

  Published 03 August 2010 | viewed 8,631 times

  Progress on the relief well at the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached the point that BP have started the procedures for the top static…

• Rising Demand in OPEC Countries Causes Oil Importers Concern

  Published 19 July 2010 | viewed 10,547 times

  OPEC tells us it has lots of spare capacity, but how much should we believe them? Even when prices were much higher than they are…

• Can Renewable Energy Really Satisfy Our Energy Needs

  Published 12 July 2010 | viewed 18,041 times

  With the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill now focussing President Obama's and the American people's minds on where their energy comes from, and what…

• A look at China’s Growing Demand for Oil

  Published 10 July 2010 | viewed 11,810 times

  In my last post, we looked at the supply of oil in the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) recently released International Energy Outlook (IEO), which…

• Was There a 700 Million Gallon Oil Spill off Saudi Arabia in 1993?

  Published 09 July 2010 | viewed 25,627 times

  A mishap during the loading of an oil tanker off Saudi Arabia in 1993 initiated a cascading disaster, resulting in what was the largest offshore…

• Dwindling Resources and Why Population Growth Must Stop

  Published 08 July 2010 | viewed 18,950 times

  Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day. Rich nations have…

• A Detailed Guide of BP’s plan to Stop the Oil Spill: The Top Kill

  Published 26 May 2010 | viewed 11,813 times

  The next attempt to shut off the flow from the leaking BP well in the Gulf is still aimed to occur early Wednesday. The attempt…