Philippines’ oil importation bill soars

The Philippines last year spent almost three times as much what it used to pay to import oil, the government reported Sunday. A Department of Energy (DOE) report released Sunday showed that the Philippines Energy Secretary Raphael P. M. Lotilla blamed the skyrocketing cost of fuel in the international market for the Philippines

Bush’s latest energy solution faces hurdles

With oil prices stuck at more than $60 a barrel, President Bush is touting “cellulosic ethanol” as a 21st-century panacea for the U.S.’s addiction to oil. In his State of the Union address Tuesday, Mr. Bush said energy made from “wood chips, stalks or switch grass” could be available at gas pumps in six years […]

Ethanol expansion could hinge on water

BISMARCK, N.D. – Ethanol plants need more than corn: If all the proposed factories in North Dakota were built, they would use more than 1 billion gallons of water. Drought in future years could curtail North Dakota’s burgeoning ethanol industry or at least limit potential plant sites, particularly in the Red River Valley, officials say. […]

Expanding Chaos In Nigeria

02/19 (LWN) This weekend numerous pipelines and oil facilities have been attacked and nine oil workers were kidnapped by Nigerian militants who have declared “total war” on them. Meanwhile, angry demonstrations against European caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to anti-Christian violence and arson, killing dozens of people. According to the Associated Press, militants are […]

‘Iran’s Refining Capacity to increase to 900,000′

Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, also the head of Iran Refining and Oil Derivative Distribution Company, said the country’s refining capacity is slated to increase to 900,000 barrels daily within the next five years, IRNA reported…A major problem facing the company is the rising energy use especially gasoline consumption in the country, he said.Iran […]

For U.S., rising dependence on LNG carries similar risks to oil trade

The United States is increasingly going overseas to meet its natural gas needs, setting in motion a significant shift with a familiar, if unpleasant, side effect for the world’s largest energy consumer. As America becomes a bigger player in the global natural-gas trade, its vulnerability to faraway production snags and price gyrations will rise, as […]

Oil attacks costing Iraq $6.25bn

Attacks by insurgents on Iraq’s oil industry cost the country $6.25bn (BBC

Bush lacks understanding of oil market: Chevron chief

U.S. President George W. Bush’s desire to cut U.S. dependence on Mideast oil shows a “misunderstanding” of global energy supply and the critical role of Saudi Arabia, the vice chairman of Chevron Corp. said. Peter Robertson said the United States would be better off working for “interdependence” with oil producing countries rather than seeking to […]

Energy supply and the emerging powerful nations

The volume of long-term oil supplies may not see the rate of increase to which the world has become accustomed since the end of World War II over 60 years ago.Some experts have projected that world oil production is likely to reach peak levels by 2007 or 2009, after which they expect it to begin […]

Dutch Debate Energy Amid Environmental, Commercial Worries

The Dutch are debating their energy options for the future. Partial privatization of gas and electricity, building a new nuclear plant and meeting commitments under the Kyoto protocol are at the centre of the increasingly heated discussion. The country remains self-sufficient in gas, but this lucky situation is not expected to last much longer. Current […]

Shell bosses told ‘on yer bikes’ by gas protesters

Protesters yesterday blockaded the entrance to Shell’s Irish headquarters with bicycles as part of an international campaign against the Corrib gas pipeline. The construction of the pipeline in north Mayo was suspended last year after a determined campaign which saw five men from Rossport spend 94 days in jail. The Shell to Sea group yesterday […]

President to tout energy initiatives

Record-high gasoline prices have dropped, yet there are fears that another surge is around the corner. Larger heating bills this winter are still socking it to American wallets. Amid those anxieties, President Bush is making it “energy week” in his administration, and he and top Cabinet officials plan to crisscross the country to tout a […]

Nuclear Energy Initiative Holds Uncertainties

President Bush’s new nuclear energy initiative is supposed to help cure America’s “addiction to oil” by redesigning a taboo technology, originally used to obtain plutonium for bombs, to reuse spent nuclear fuel. Unlike past reprocessing methods, the administration says, the new technique would make it prohibitively difficult for would-be proliferators to extract weapons-grade plutonium from […]

Geothermal energy booms in Germany

Geothermal energy plants, which make use of our planet’s interior heat, are becoming increasingly popular in Western Europe. While Switzerland, Italy and Iceland have long harvested the heat from deep down, the latest country with a geothermal boom is Germany. Roughly 99 percent of the Earth’s mass is hotter than 1800 degrees. Granted, those temperatures […]

Tax breaks given on gas-guzzling SUVs

FEB. 18 9:17 P.M. ET New tax breaks are available to anyone who wants to help the environment by purchasing fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. But if owners of small businesses really want to save money, they can get even bigger federal tax breaks by buying the largest gas-guzzling SUVs. The disparity is drawing criticism from environmentalists […]

Current Climate Models May Underestimate Future Warming

Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found evidence that tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures may have once reached 107 greencarcongress

Hybrid car battery charges in just 10 minutes

American automotive researchers have come up with a car battery that can charge and discharge in just 10 minutes. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are touting their lithium nickel manganese oxide battery as an alternative to the nickel metal hydride used in current automotive hybrid batteries. And they said that their breakthrough came […]

Record cold forces rolling blackouts in Denver

Xcel Energy is experiencing reduced natural gas supply into Colorado. This situation is affecting natural gas supplies along the Front Range. It is also affecting the generation of electricity. Xcel Energy is asking customers along the Front Range to reduce their usage of natural gas and electricity until the situation can be rectified. The company […]

Nigeria suspends 380,000 bpd oil exports after tanker loading platform attacked

LAGOS (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell suspended exports from the 380,000 barrel-a-day Forcados terminal on Saturday after militants bombed the tanker loading platform, a senior oil industry source said. The company is still trying to ascertain the damage to the platform, which is located three miles offshore, but has already begun shutting oilfields in the area […]

We

CANADA – While the human race may have built a few monuments, cured a few diseases and placed a man on the moon, we remain, as we have for thousands of years, utterly reliant on plants. We eat them, wear clothing made from them and build our homes with them. We would perish within minutes […]

An analysis on global energy crisis and security

CHINA – Since the beginning of the new century, crude oil price has been increasing and broken the highest record many times. But the cost of production didn’t increase much, what’s the reason for the price hike? During a forum held by the overseas edition of People’s Daily, experts have given their analysis about the […]

Natural gas bills hit hard for some in midstate

MACON, GA. – Tracey Baker was expecting to pay more this winter for heating her house with gas, but she was shocked when she opened her December natural gas bill. It was $480. “I just sat there and cried,” Baker said. “We’ve been in the same house for about 16 years. … During the worst […]

Chavez warns of oil cutoff to U.S.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on Friday he could cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington goes “over the line” in what he has said are attempts to destabilize his left-leaning government. Chavez made his threat a day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the Venezuelan government […]

Expert: Ukraine is

Ukraine is Fomichev believes that the gas crisis will force the Ukrainian government to concentrate on the problem and to try to solve it. He says that the gas price is rising because Ukraine

Natural gas reserves not meeting rising needs

ALASKA – A steady supply of natural gas is vitally important to the economy of the Cook Inlet region and the Kenai Peninsula. But that gas is running out, though recent discoveries and reworked older fields have pushed back earlier projections for when production in the Cook Inlet region would decline below a threshold of […]

To solve the energy crisis, put people before profits

Statement by the Communist Party USA Prices for gasoline and diesel fuel, heating oil and natural gas have soared in the past four years, and rocketed to new highs in the last year, undermining the living standards of working people. This winter thousands of Americans have had to choose between heating and eating. The energy […]

Pests may soon be seen as allies in energy crisis

Scientists close to isolating genes in termite that allow it to convert plants into fuel As oil companies scour the globe for new drilling spots, microbiologists are looking for the keys to an energy revolution If the effort succeeds, biotech companies could use the information to grow new enzymes and modified germs to churn out […]

Energy expert is clutching at straws

IRELAND – A respected authority on fossil fuels has turned the debate on its head claiming the world has enough fossil fuels to energise the globe for at least 500 years. This is the view of a man who, for 20 years, believed the energy situation was grim. Professor Mark Jaccard is an expert in […]

Letters to the Editor – Peak Oil

…I received another e-mail from David, a professor of chemistry at an Ivy League university. David said: “What I would like to know is how many of those guys out there promoting ethanol know that an ethanol-based fuel is energy-negative by a mile? And even if you could make it energy-positive, the very act of […]

Oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria

Nine foreign oil workers have been seized by armed militants from a barge in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The group, including three Americans, two Thais, two Egyptians, a Briton and a Filipino, were on a pipelaying barge. Shell’s Forcados export terminal was also set on fire, and oil loading there has been suspended. The attacks come […]

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