Peak oil getting a tighter hold on supplies

Winter clamped a death grip on Russia last week, causing many deaths among people stranded on the icy streets. The temperature hit 31 degrees Celsius, the coldest on record since 1927. As the mercury plunged and electricity use hit record highs, the government struggled to furnish enough energy to keep homes warm and factories humming […]

Turkey sees decrease in natural gas supplies

A decrease in natural gas imports coming from Ukraine and Iran to Turkey was registered on Wednesday according to the Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was immediately informed on the issue, and speaking to reporters Guler said, “There is some decrease in the natural gas amount coming […]

Saudi Arabia plans production expansion

Saudi Arabia is pressing ahead on its ambitious oil expansion scheme and stepping up exploration to meet future demand, the head of state Saudi Aramco said on Thursday. Opec’s leading producer, has plans in train to boost production capacity from 11 million barrels per day (bpd) to 12.5 million bpd by 2009. It has been […]

We must prepare for oil crisis

Richard Heinberg, one of the country’s leading educators on the topic of peak oil, visited Eugene on Jan. 10. The issue of peak oil is compelling: It’s the point at which global oil production reaches a limit and can rise no further. Virtually no petroleum expert denies peak oil – the debate is when, not […]

Georgia Suffers Another Setback to Providing Energy

MOSCOW, Jan. 26 – Energy shortages struck Georgia anew today as a wind storm toppled a major power transmission line and Russia’s gas monopoly failed to restore natural gas flow to the country following the acts of sabotage last weekend, energy officials said. The latest problem appeared at about 1 a.m., when high winds severed […]

Study gives mixed review of ethanol

Environmental benefit questioned A new study claims to settle a decades-long dispute over the use of ethanol as a motor fuel, saying it can reduce dependence on foreign oil but does not yet provide significant environmental benefits. The study, by University of California-Berkeley researchers and published in the journal Science, says earlier studies were wrong […]

Ocean gas depot tried

Plans were to be announced today for a deepwater terminal in the Atlantic Ocean to receive shipments of liquefied natural gas for the metropolitan area. Representatives for New York-based Atlantic Sea Island Group Llc said yesterday without specifying a location that the “man-made island” will be “far from population centers and outside vital shipping lanes.” […]

Spain’s top oil firm cuts reserves

MADRID The majority of the revisions are in Bolivia, accounting for 52 per cent, and Argentina, with 41 per cent, Repsol said in a filing to the Spanish regulator, the CNMV. It also revised smaller amounts in Venezuela and elsewhere. As a result of the downgrade, Repsol’s reserves will fall to 3.672 billion barrels of […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: Iran

The world moves quickly these days. Since the New Year, oil has risen by more than $7 per barrel and currently is in sight of the all-time high of $70 a barrel. Cold weather in Eastern Europe and threats of supply disruptions from Nigeria and Iran are raising the possibility of an economy-threatening spike in […]

Vision for meeting energy needs beyond oil

by Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell My view is that “easy” oil has probably passed its peak. But there are other reserves that are still a long way from their peak. In unconventional oil and gas – resources that are harder to tap – there are plenty of reserves. The […]

Oil Production in Danger, Shell Warns

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has alerted that the oil status of the country could be severely affected by the resurgence of violence in the Niger Delta region…Chief Akeni observed that while other oil producing nations of the World are busy carrying out research on how they could improve their oil production, Nigeria is busy […]

Earth could warm up fast

Recent studies of some of nature’s environmental “records” show that global warming can penetrate deep into the ocean faster than scientists have realized. In fact, some such penetration may have already begun. The record keepers are foraminifera – “forams” for short – creatures so tiny that several could sit together on a pinhead. The mineral […]

Osama’s Secret Weapon

Several times a year Osama Bin Laden emerges from seclusion to taunt America. There is always a quiet confidence about him as he proclaims that victory for Islam and God over America is inevitable. In addition to promising more attacks on us, Osama says he is patient and willing to wait for our demise as […]

Govt may ease curbs on oil price

The government is expected to relax controls over retail oil prices in its domestic market soon, bringing them more into line with international prices, a National Bureau of Statistics official said. Li Deshui, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a media briefing in Beijing yesterday that he believes the government will allow retail […]

Rising Oil Prices Skirt Poorer Nations

Contrary to expectations, the sharp increase in world oil prices has not had any devastating consequences on the fragile economies of the world’s developing nations, according to a new U.N. report released here. “Oil prices are expected to remain high in the near term, and the impact on growth and inflation will vary from country […]

Iran to stop LNG supply if oil crosses $80/barrel

Iran’s National Iranian Gas Export Corporation (NIGEC) has said it will reserve the right to withdraw supply of 2.5 million tonnes of LNG to IOC, GAIL and BPCL, if global crude oil prices cross $80 per barrel. This is the first time that Iran has put such a stiff condition while negotiating LNG supply to […]

Hawaii’s Energy Problems

There is this enormous and dangerous assumption embraced by the Governor that “renewable” energy sources will save the day. They won’t. Of that 141,000 barrels per day which Hawaii imports, 32 percent or 45,000 barrels/day are burned each day for the production of electricity. That’s a great deal of energy to ship to Hawaii with […]

Marine energy could be major UK supplier – and big Scots industry

Marine energy has the potential to supply 15-20 per cent of the UK’s electricity, according to a new report, although its authors warned that it would take a major government investment to turn the plan into reality. The renewable energy resource – which harnesses waves and the tides to generate power – is still at […]

Nuclear Energy Plan Would Use Spent Fuel

The Bush administration is preparing a plan to expand civilian nuclear energy at home and abroad while taking spent fuel from foreign countries and reprocessing it, in a break with decades of U.S. policy, according to U.S. and foreign officials briefed on the initiative. The United States has adamantly opposed reprocessing spent fuel from civilian […]

Ethanol is the answer to the energy dilemma.

We may not have to wait that long. After decades of being merely an additive to gasoline, ethanol suddenly looks to be the stuff of a fuel revolution — and a pipe dream for futurists. An unlikely alliance of venture capitalists, Wall Streeters, automakers, environmentalists, farmers and politicians is doing more than just talk about […]

Wind-farm debate Why not make it pretty?

Would opponents of the proposed Cape Wind offshore energy park thephoenix

Canadian Oil Sands posts $831M in 2005 profit

Annual profits at Canadian Oil Sands Trust (TSX:COS.UN) jumped 63 per cent to $831 million as cash flow topped the $1 billion mark, the big oilsands operator reported Wednesday. With Stage 3 coming on line later this year, Syncrude’s yearly production is expected to range between 95 million and 110 million barrels. CBC

Britain’s new energy research body aims at new technologies

A public-private body was launched here on Wednesday to develop new technologies to reduce carbon emissions and bridge an ever-growing skills gap in Britain’s energy industry. The Energy Research Partnership (ERP) brings together top energy industry executives, officials and senior academics in a Treasury-inspired initiative designed to give strategic direction to UK’s energy research, development, […]

Texas Oilfield Service Firms Expanding Slowly

Need an oil rig? Get in line and bring cash. High oil and gas prices have boosted drilling activity, and the supply of rigs can’t keep up with demand. So rig rental rates are up, and profit among oilfield service companies is booming. The number of U.S. rigs in operation grew 18 percent in 2005 […]

UK/US: Ricardo to help with ‘extreme hybrid’ development

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Titania Nanotube Arrays Harness Solar Energy

Penn State researchers are finding new ways to harness the power of the sun using highly-ordered arrays of titania nanotubes for hydrogen production and increased solar cell efficiency.  physorg

US military ‘at breaking point’

The US military has become dangerously overstretched because of the scale of its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, two reports have warned. One, by former officials in the Clinton administration, said the pressure of repeated deployments was very corrosive and could have long-term effects. The second, ordered by the Pentagon and yet to be released, […]

DOE Releases Roadmap on Manufacturing R&D for the Hydrogen Economy

Manufacturing covers a broad range of components and systems related to hydrogen production and delivery, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage. Significant challenges must be overcome to move from today’s components and systems, built using laboratory-scale fabrication technologies, to high-volume commercially manufactured products. DOE maps the path to a hydrogen-powered future in its Roadmap on Manufacturing […]

Ford Unveils Flex-Fuel Hybrid Research Vehicle

At the Washington Auto Show, Ford unveiled the Ford Escape Hybrid E85, a version of its Escape hybrid with a flexible-fuel engine capable of running either gasoline or ethanol blends of up to 85% (E85). The research vehicle is the first from a major car company to actually mate the two technologies (flexible-fuel engines and […]

Beluga Shipping to Try

Beluga Shipping GmbH, a Bremen, Germany-based shipping company, has purchased a new towing-kite propulsion assist system from SkySails, a start-up company in Hamburg, Germany. The SkySails towing-kite propulsion system uses offshore wind power (a kind of greencarcongress

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