Massive invest in oil refineries could cut global fuel prices

Oil companies and other investors are spending a collective USD 100 billion on new oil refineries that could alleviate the current bottleneck in refining capacity and eventually translate into a small cut in the price of gasoline, a top project financier said here today. Will Rathvon, global head of project finance for Standard Chartered bank, […]

Does U.S. Have Enough Coal On Hand?

The United States is heading into what could be a hot summer with high power consumption, and a number of electric utilities are scrambling to make sure they have enough coal on hand. Even though the US guzzles imported oil by the tanker load, it is often called the “Saudi Arabia of coal,” with enough […]

Bid to slash energy waste in Brazil, China and India

With world energy prices and climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions ballooning in tandem with a surge in energy demand from the hot economies of China, India and Brazil, the world has a major stake in the success of energy reduction efforts, particularly in those three countries, warn experts concluding a four-year international project. Without significant gains […]

Pakistan battles ethnic guerrillas

In the remote desert of Baluchistan, a war for independence is distracting Pakistan as it struggles to contain Taliban and al-Qaida militants along the Afghan border. It is up against an array of Baluch fighters who accuse it of plundering the hidden riches of the arid southwestern province: natural gas. It’s Pakistan’s ‘other’ war, a […]

Looming Petroleum Crisis Solution Found in Cebu, Philippines

In an effort to realise this long overdue alternative clean and renewable source of eco-dynamics energisation, a cebuano vegetable energy expert was asked by the Arroyo Administration to produce his 1976 invention THE Philippine coconut industry as it is today did not come about through an overnight decision of any single policy maker, or a […]

Canadian Report Urges Immediate Action on Carbon Capture and Storage

A recently-released report published by Natural Resources Canada (the federal department tasked with sustainable development and use of natural resources) urges immediate action on the development and deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies as a means of reducing Canada greencarcongress

Ramping Up Renewable Energy

For the past year, the World Bank has been researching what it would take for the world to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, says World Bank Energy Economist Gary Stuggins. The research, requested by G-8 leaders after the Gleneagles Summit last July, has focused on the potential for reducing carbon dioxide emissions […]

The symptoms of oil withdrawal

It has become fashionable in Washington to declare that the United States must end its “addiction” — as President Bush put it in his latest State of the Union speech — to foreign oil. Advocates of energy independence argue that U.S. dollars are propping up oppressive regimes in the Middle East, fomenting the rise of […]

Report of the week – Mainstreaming Renewable Energy

This weeks report of the week is by Worldwatch Institute. I must admit i havent read the whole thing yet but had a browse through and it looks like an interesting read. On a more general tip you might like to check out the Worldwatch Institute website as they have a good selection of interesting […]

Cross-country drive reveals America’s car views

And that kind of relatively unfazed attitude was not unusual among drivers encountered by an Associated Press writer on a drive along interstates and backroads from Detroit to Los Angeles. Along the journey, regular gasoline ranged from $2.60 to $3.49, with one station, a remote Mojave Desert outpost, charging $4.29 a gallon. msnbc

Planning for the Peak Oil in the SF North Bay

Energy Bulletin is pleased to have dual coverage of this Peak Oil event. First, one of the organizers, Steve Wohlrab, gives a formal report. Next, Liz Logan from Atlanta, Georgia gives a participant’s view. North Bay Energy Vulnerability Summit By Steve Wohlrab (EVS Planning Committee) An unprecedented regional “Energy Vulnerability Summit” organized exclusively for local […]

Oil giants turn to Arctic promised land

Sky-high prices and dwindling supplies have rekindled the interest of oil companies in the Arctic region, which remains largely unexplored and could hold a quarter of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas reserves. “After a relative lack of interest in the 1990s, we have seen a resurgence in the appeal of the Barents Sea and […]

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Oil Could Top $US105 a Barrel

The Daily Telegraph – A GOLDMAN Sachs projection that oil prices could top $US105 ($139) a barrel in the event of a big supply disruption was conservative, a senior banker with the US investment bank said on the weekend. Other energy experts told an energy forum held in Kuwait that global oil market fundamentals pointed […]

Quest for energy alternatives heats up

The future of energy is bright in Said Al-Hallaj’s invention lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and not just because of the solar window that lies in development on a table. All around the lab are advanced alternative energy projects that testify to the war on oil that’s proceeding quietly at laboratories and research […]

Germany’s wind farms challenged

Germany is the world’s biggest user of wind power, and it has ambitious plans to build even more wind turbines. It has decided that generating nuclear power is not the way forward, and it has decided eventually to close all the country’s existing nuclear power stations. The country’s great hope for is for a future […]

VW to Drop Diesels from MY2007 Lineup in US Due to Emissions Requirements

The Detroit Free Press reports that Volkswagen of America will drop the diesel versions of the Jetta, Golf and Beetle models from its US line-up for the 2007 model year due to their inability to meet the new, incoming stricter emissions standards nationwide. greencarcongress

Preparing For The Depletion of Oil

While it is known that world oil supplies are likely to be depleted within decades, efforts to prepare for this vary substantially in each oil-producing nation. If more nations, both oil-producing and not, don’t take serious measures to prepare for the depletion of oil, future generations will deeply regret this lack of foresight. Preparing for […]

Africa plans green fund, seeks new funding methods

Africa will create a fund to promote its unique environment and seek new ways of funding green reforms such as carbon credits and canceling debts in return for conservation, ministers said. Africa has large areas of ecologically valuable rainforests and other habitat with many unique plant and animal species, but despite a small industrial base […]

A Jump in Gas Prices Isnt Deterring Summer Travelers

Behold the annual migratory ritual that has begun. Millions of Americans are loading up their children, packing their suitcases and kicking off that great exodus known as the summer driving season. Nearly 38 million people will travel this Memorial Day weekend, and most of them will drive on America’s roads and highways a record number […]

Russia, Europe draw battle lines in energy dispute

After the discussions at the latest Russia-European Union summit laid bare the growing disagreements between Moscow and the European bloc over how to guarantee “energy security” to the Old Continent’s countries, the leaders of the pro-Western GUAM grouping (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) launched an initiative that appears to be aimed at breaking Russia’s monopoly on […]

Nepal’s biogas initiative gets major funding boost

A project that is bringing clean, efficient energy to rural communities in Nepal received a major boost this month in the form of a deal that rewards it for reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Nepal Biogas Project promotes the use of underground ‘digesters’ that use bacteria to generate methane gas from cattle dung. […]

Getting efficient will end winters of discontent

As winter looms, our perennial rain worries can’t be far behind. Will we get enough to keep our hydro turbines spinning? Nobody knows, but our preoccupation distracts us from the real problem. We are hopelessly hooked on the supply side of the electricity equation. We believe more generating capacity and more transmission lines are the […]

Living a lie at state’s expense

It is the view of Simpson Oil Limited that the true costs of petroleum products should be passed through to consumers on a timely basis. Government has been heavily subsidising petroleum products in the last few years as prices escalate and, in doing so, has placed a heavy burden on itself. We have seen several […]

China’s oil supply faces risks, expert says

China’s oil supply is facing risks, which need to be solved mainly through domestic efforts, an oil expert said. Zhu Jianjun, a researcher with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), predicted that China’s spending on oil imports will keep rising as its imports increase and international oil price remains at a high level. Transportation also poses […]

Terror alert as Caspian oil pipeline opens

‘A terrorist attack is the greatest threat we face,’ says the guards’ commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Giorgi Pantskhava, an energetic Georgian in desert fatigues and aviator shades. The $4bn (The pipeline – 70 per cent funded by the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and export credit agencies – took three years to […]

Coal May Be Fuel of the Future, but Industry Battles Over Path

Coal, the nation’s favorite fuel in much of the 19th century and early 20th century, could become so again in the 21st. The United States has enough to last at least two centuries at current use rates — reserves far greater than those of oil or natural gas. And for all the public interest in […]

Next on BBC: If… The Oil Runs Out

Blending drama and documentary, on May 30 the BBC IF series returns with a film investigating a scenario many experts fear will come true. When the cheap oil we depend on starts to run out, we may not be able to take anything for granted any more.Combining expert interviews with a fictional story line, the […]

Power Shortage Plagues South Asia

Aljazeera.Net – As South Asia enjoys unprecedented economic growth, soaring summer temperatures have highlighted a chronic shortage of electricity that is crippling enterprise and leaving millions to suffer without any hope of respite. From India, the world’s second fastest growing major economy after China, to impoverished Bangladesh, which has enjoyed 5% annual growth since the […]

News Flash: We’re Running Out of Oil, Get Used to It.

Washington Post – End the silliness. Stop worrying about whether gasoline will go up to $4 a gallon. It will. In some California communities, the price is already there. Stop running around all over the place wasting time and the gasoline you have looking for fuel a few cents a gallon cheaper. What’s the point? […]

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