Pakistan denies new reactor plan

Pakistan has denied a report it is in talks to buy between six and eight nuclear reactors from China in a deal worth up to $10bn (BBC

Shell ships 1st oil from Nigeria’s 1st deepwater field

Royal Dutch Shell has shipped the fist consignment of 200,000 barrels of crude oil from Bonga, the first deepwater oil and gas field in Nigeria, a company statement said on Tuesday… “It is a technological triumph that Shell is successfully producing oil and gas from Nigeria’s deepwater frontier and we have capped that achievement with […]

Oil, gas pose Arctic technology challenges

Increasing oil and gas exploration and shipping in the Arctic will pose huge technological challenges to safeguard the environment as global warming thins the polar ice, a leading expert said on Tuesday. “Oil and gas activity has just started to increase again in many areas” of the Arctic after a slowdown in the late 1990s, […]

State Corporation’s Three-Year Strategy for Oil Exploration

National Oil Corporation of Kenya has developed a strategic plan to spur oil exploration while sustaining profits from the sale of refined petroleum products. The State corporation will facilitate leasing of all open acreage to exploration companies to enable Kenya mine commercial crude oil (black gold) in the face of the increasing cost of fossil […]

Serious Fuel Shortage Hits the North

Most fuel stations in the North have run dry leaving many people in the region with no transport to return to their work places after the holiday break. Yesterday, scores of people who live and work in other regions in the south and east of the country, especially in Windhoek, Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Oranjemund, Luderitz, […]

EU energy security to take center-stage in 2006

The gas disute between Russia and the Ukraine underlines the need for a common European energy policy. Europe’s increasing dependence on insecure energy suppliers will put its long-term economic future at risk…The “new cold war” (The Times) could well be the first of a series of events this year that will demonstrate the return of […]

Shareholders’ vote hurts China’s oil supply plans

A Chinese government drive to secure reliable supplies of foreign energy has been dealt a setback by shareholders in one of the leading Chinese oil companies. The oil company, the Hong Kong-listed Cnooc, said Tuesday that independent shareholders had blocked a proposal that would have allowed the company’s parent, which is owned by the Chinese […]

Chavez hails Bolivian ally with energy, aid deals

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales energy and economic cooperation on Tuesday to seal ties between socialist allies united in their opposition to Washington. Chavez said the world’s No. 5 oil exporter would supply Bolivia with diesel fuel in exchange for farm products, help finance social programs and support Morales’ crusade to […]

Russia Assumes G8 Presidency; Presses Oil Wealth to Boost Clout

President Vladimir Putin’s push to revive Russian global clout reaches a symbolic milestone Sunday when Moscow assumes the rotating presidency of the Group of Eight industrial nations. Despite the assertive stance at home and abroad, most analysts predict the West will avoid confrontations because of Russia’s increasingly important role as a global energy supplier rigzone

European Union to Accelerate Biomass Energy in 2006

Amid industry reports projecting growth, size, and momentum of wood biomass in the renewable energy industry, Green Energy Resources says it expects to benefit from the 2006 forecasts. Twenty new European Union actions to be implemented in heating, electricity and transportation will help accelerate biomass power generation. “The global market for renewable energy technology is […]

2005 Year in Review for Renewable Fuels

The passage and subsequent presidential signature of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 this past August was a watershed moment for the renewable fuels industry, the impacts of which may not yet be fully appreciated, but will provide immeasurable benefits to the nation for generations. Indeed, 2005 may very well be remembered as the year […]

Russia Turns the Natural Gas Screws on Ukraine

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Intelligence report claims nuclear market thriving

It is also a wake-up call to EU governments, spy agencies and customs officials struggling to keep the ingredients for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) out of the hands of some of the most unsavoury regimes in the Middle East and the far east. While the Pakistani bomb project has long been realised, Iran’s nuclear […]

British energy company draws up plans to increase production

THE German group that supplies gas to millions of British households under its Powergen brand is trying to boost production from a power station in Kent for the first time since the minerstimesonline

Coal offers hope of new gas supplies

A new era for coal, with Yorkshire at the centre of it, could start in 2006. A report due early this year is expected to lay out a plan for drilling into coal under the Firth of Forth and turning it into gas underground. Government and private interests are poised to collaborate on the costs […]

Norwegian Oil Production Down 11% in 2005

Preliminary figures from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate for 2005 indicate that average daily production on the Norwegian Shelf dropped to around 2.5 million barrels per day in 2005, down 11% from 2.8 mbpd in 2004. Final figures will be available later in January. The Norwegian Barents Sea holds an estimated 2.2 billion barrels of oil […]

MMS Requests Comments on Regs for Offshore Renewables

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), the federal agency chartered with oversight of offshore oil and gas, is requesting comments for a regulatory program to support the development of alternate-energy projectsgreencarcongress

EU seeks energy solution as gas row revives Cold War fears

European Union states are urgently studying ways to reduce their energy dependence on Russia after Moscow’s decision to halt gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine revived uncomfortable memories of the Cold War. Officials from five central European states – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria – met to discuss finding alternative sources of energy. […]

Gazprom says gas supplies still face threat

Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom (GAZPPE.RTS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday that there was still a risk of supply disruptions to Europe if Ukraine continues to expropriate gas from the pipeline crossing its territory. Gazprom deputy CEO, Alexander Medvedev, said in an interview with Reuters the company could not go on forever compensating for supplies […]

Tar Sands: Blunting Oil

It can’t be said that the organizers of the November 2005 ASPO USA “peak oil” conference held in Denver weren’t willing to consider the role to be played by unconventional hydrocarbon reserves in replacing declining conventional oil production worldwide, including oil shale and tar sands, both of which are in abundant supply in North America. […]

Sustainable Energy Coalition Outlines

The Sustainable Energy Coalition today issued the second set of five “factoids” in what will be an ongoing series documenting the potential of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies to displace fossil fuels and nuclear power. The “factoids” consist of summaries of recent studies and reports issued by a wide variety of academic, governmental, business, […]

IEA Deputy Head: Russia Gas Cut is a ”Serious Mistake”

Russia’s decision to cut Ukraine’s natural gas supply Sunday, due to a pricing dispute, was a “serious mistake” that will lead consuming nations to further examine diversifying their energy supply mix, the deputy head of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. “I think Russia has made a serious mistake. It has demonstrated its willingness to […]

‘Road tolls will increase driving’

PLANS for a pay-as-you-go charge on Britain’s busiest roads will increase rather than reduce the distances motorists drive, opponents claim. Some volunteers in the Seattle pilot drove less, the overall average mileage increased because many drivers used circuitous alternative routes to bypass the most heavily tolled routes. ic Wales

The Guerilla War For Iraq

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US forces Brussels into rethink on aircraft emissions

THE European Commission is being forced to consider scaling back its scheme for targeting aircraft emissions after the United States threatened to take legal action to block it. The Commission proposed in September that all airlines operating in the European Union should be forced to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by buying permits to pollute. […]

Venezuela retakes controlling stakes in 32 oil fields

The state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) had finalized the acquisition of controlling stakes in 32 oil fields, which were handed to private companies by previous governments, Rafael Ramirez, head of PDVSA, told local press on Monday.

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Cost of cleaning up after nuclear power stations are closed down rises to

The projected cost of cleaning up the sites of Britain’s old nuclear power stations is likely to leap to more than The Independent

Colombian rebels bomb oil wells, energy tower

Left-wing Colombian rebels dynamited eight oil wells and an electricity tower near the Ecuadorean border over the weekend, police said on Monday, the latest attack in a series that killed 37 soldiers and police last month. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, destroyed the wells on Sunday in the town of Orito, in […]

The Guerilla War for Iraq’s Oil

..Currently, the resource war is concealed behind a propaganda smokescreen created by the establishment media. Their task is to characterize the conflict as a war on terror and to limit their coverage to the random incidents of violence by fanatical jihadis killing. It’s rare when the media reports on the real guerilla war that has […]

‘Environmental destruction in Niger Delta terrible’

Environmental rights activist, Patrick Naagbanton, says there is still a long and terrible record of environmental destruction and human rights violation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s oil and gas-producing region. Naagbanton, an Ogoni, who operates mainly in the mangrove forests, told our correspondent at Nchia-Eleme in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, that the […]

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