Infrastructure may check Asia energy thirst, growth

Asia’s ageing ports and railways are struggling to cope with fast-growing demand for energy and commodities, risking supply shortages and threatening to curtail economic growth unless massive investments are made. Shipping markets and oil traders have basked in a three-year boom on surging Chinese fuel demand and expanding global trade, but analysts say the delay […]

Energy consumption to rise 57pc by 2025: Gas summit

Doha: World energy consumption is projected to rise by a hefty 57 per cent from 2002 until 2025. A paper presented at the Gas Summit 2006 that concluded here yesterday suggests that much of the growth would be witnessed in countries with emerging economies. ..World oil use is expected to grow from 78 million barrels […]

Russia plans sharp boost in energy exports to Asia – minister

Russia plans a sharp increase in exports of oil and natural gas to the Asia-Pacific region over the next 14 years to meet soaring demand there, Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said in an interview. ‘Asian countries … will consume more and more energy’ in the foreseeable future while Western countries will continue seeking […]

Nuclear Energy Needed, But Not Welcome

The energy crisis brought on by reduced deliveries of Russian gas have led to a new debate on building nuclear power plants. The biggest of the countries of former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, have growing energy demands due to their increasing industrial and household consumption, but they also have strong anti-nuclear lobbies. Most people also […]

Pakistan mulls building trade, energy corridor for China

Pakistan wants to act as a transit facility giving China access to Central Asian markets and energy sources, said visiting President Pervez Musharraf. “We are interested in setting up a trade and energy corridor for China,” he told China Daily in an exclusive interview.China Daily

Diesel Shortage Hits North Rift Region

Farming activities in the North Rift region have been thrown into disarray fdue to an acute shortage of diesel. The situation has been made worse by the region’s agriculture sector being highly mechanised. The fuel shortage has dealt a serious blow to farmers who are currently busy preparing their farms, ahead of anticipated long rains […]

India to join Turkmenistan gas pipeline

Ahead of a visit by US President George Bush next month, India has decided to join the US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP)pipeline to import natural gas to meet the fuel needs of its growing economy. New Delhi earlier this month participated for the first time as an “observer” in the 9th meeting of the steering committee of […]

The environment, evangelists and US energy policy

Cynics would say that it is just further proof of the strong links between fundamentalist Christian groups in the US and the Bush administration. But the US — like an attendee of a Hydrocarbons Anonymous meeting — has finally admitted its dependence on oil, coincidentally just as evangelical Christian groups in the Deep South have […]

Non-OPEC Countries, Oil Companies Named in Price Fixing Suit

A U.S. law firm has filed a class action complaint against several non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries countries and their state-owned oil companies, alleging price-fixing collusion, a partner at the firm said Tuesday. Osen & Associate last month filed the case with the U.S. district court in Florida alleging Norway, Oman, Mexico and Angola violated […]

States are already pushing to end our addiction to oil

States are starting to come to the nation’s rescue, passing a range of energy-saving measures to counteract official Washington’s myopia on the perils of global warming and our overwhelming dependence on foreign oil. That’s the message from the state PIRGs chron

Black gold

Amazonian terra preta soil can transform poor soil into fertile, reports Dwain Eldred Here is a type of gold the conquistadores missed geolsoc

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Renewable Energy Taking off in Power Markets

The rapid growth in renewable energy is being driven by improving economics, technology advances and increasingly favorable government policies according to Global Energy Decisions (Global Energy), a leading provider of energy industry software, intelligence, maps and advisory services. A new wall map released this week by Global Energy shows installed renewable energy capacity jumped over […]

Switchgrass to Gas?

A biotech startup says its genetic engineering method could turn plants into cheap ethanol producers within five years. Raab is president and founder of Agrivida, a Cambridge, MA-based biotech startup that wants to add genes to plants to make it cheaper and easier to process them into ethanol. He hopes the technology his company is […]

Hymotion Unveils Plug-in Hybrid Kits

Hymotion, a Canadian company, introduced plug-in hybrid (PHEV) upgrade kits for the Toyota Prius and the Ford Escape and Mariner Hybrids at the Canadian International AutoShow this week. The Hymotion PHEV kits are based on a supplementary lithium-ion battery system that can be recharged by plugging it into a regular household electrical outlet. greencarcongress

Methanol fuel cell thru nano

Nanotechnological fuel cells that run on methanol could one day power everything from cell phones to cars, experts told UPI’s Nano World. The fuel cells Kumta and his colleagues are investigating are powered by commonly available methanol and water. When the methanol and water make contact with a catalyst, they break down into electrons, protons […]

Sustainable Fossil Fuels

In this book, Mark Jaccard doubts our prospects for moving away quickly from carbon fuels to renewable energy sources, and expects an energy system largely dominated by fossil fuels for the 21st century. This however does not need to be incompatible with a sustainable energy system. thewatt

The Oil Drum: US Port Security and the United Arab Emirates

As soon as I saw this story about the UAE, my paranoia/skepticism kicked into high gear. This awarded contract was not just boneheaded, it seemed to be criminally negligent or as some on the lefty talk radio called it, treason. This had to be about oil & gas, right? There had to be a connection […]

San Francisco examines power of dog droppings

SAN FRANCISCO The droppings will be tossed into a contraption called a methane digester, which is basically a tank in which bacteria feed on feces for weeks to create methane gas. The methane could then be piped directly to a gas stove, heater, turbine or anything else powered by natural gas. It can also be […]

Democrats Doubt Bush Can Cut US Oil Imports

Senate Democrats on Tuesday asked the Bush administration to explain how it can slash Middle East oil imports by 75 percent by 2025 when the government’s top energy forecaster predicts that won’t happen. As President George W. Bush wrapped up a two-day, three-state tour to promote his alternative energy plan, Democrats asked Energy Secretary Sam […]

ConocoPhillips Puts 2005 Reserve Replacement Ratio At 230%

ConocoPhillips’ (COP) put its 2005 reserve replacement ratio at 230%, helped by discoveries from projects in Qatar, the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the company’s re-entry into Libya.Dow Jones Newswires via iWon

Non-OPEC Countries, Oil Cos Named in Price Fixing Suit

A U.S. law firm has filed a class action complaint against several non- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries countries and their state-owned oil companies, alleging price-fixing collusion, a partner at the firm said Tuesday. Osen & Associate last month filed the case with the U.S. district court in Florida alleging Norway, Oman, Mexico and Angola […]

The appearance of $3 gas in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year showed the tenuous U.S. hold on plentiful and cheap fuel. The worst of it, however, was soon over, and prices declined. But what if there were a sharp shortfall in oil supplies that was permanent instead of lasting just a few weeks […]

Rising Fuel Prices A Worry

While 70 percent of Internet-users worldwide claim to have a vehicle for which they must buy fuel, an even greater number are concerned about the impact of ever-rising fuel prices. As many as 82 percent of consumers on the world Car owners aren

India, Oil and Nuclear Weapons

Exploding at the seams with building, investment and trade, India can hardly keep up with itself. Airplanes coming into Delhi and Mumbai routinely end up circling the airports for hours, wasting precious jet fuel, because there are not enough runways or airport gates. City streets originally built for two lanes of traffic are teeming with […]

Little Heat, Less Light

MAINE – Back in December, Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins said they had cut an uncomfortable deal. They would vote for cloture on a Defense appropriations bill that included drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In return, they would get, right after the Senate voted on the Samuel Alito nomination, a vote […]

Ukraine Denies That It Owes Turkmenistan

KIEV,Ukraine Turkmenistan said Sunday that Ukraine owed US$159.9 million (euro134 million), nearly 90 percent of which it said came from last year. Ukraine insists it is debt-free. Turkmenistan is the second-biggest gas producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia, and it is Ukraine’s biggest supplier. The country’s gas supplies took on a greater importance […]

Seeking newer ways of ethanol preparation

To realise the full potential of ethanol as a fuel and drastically reduce the use of natural gas for its production, experts are charting new methods to prepare ethanol. The endless fields of corn in the Midwest can be distilled into endless gallons of ethanol, a clean-burning, high-octane fuel that could end any worldwide oil […]

China’s gas-fired power plants face closure on natural gas shortage

BEIJING (AFX) – The bulk of China’s gas-fired power plants are on the verge of closure due to a shortage of natural gas, the China Daily reported. Installed capacity of China’s power plants reached 10.7 gigawatts at the end of 2005, but some four gigawatts remain unused in the east of the country due to […]

Venturing off the grid

Innovative families save money, gain power with solar, propane, other energy sources Arcata, Humboldt County — Just past noon on a hazy, raw Sunday a few weeks ago, Linda Parkinson did what few homeowners in this storm-battered region could: She turned on the television. While most Humboldt County residents were reeling from power outages left […]

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