Searching an instant solution to the power crisis

The Bangla Desh power crisis has taken a critical turn during the current summer. The consumers are deeply annoyed with widespread load shedding, the business people frustrated for the production shortfall in their industrial units on account of power supply disruptions. The lingering power crisis is creating severe pressure on the country’s economy. There were […]

Plan to export islands’ green energy to Norway

Green energy could be exported from Scotland to Norway and Ireland in an ambitious revenue-raising scheme. The executive has funded a feasibility study examining the possibility of linking Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles to a subsea power network. The project could see power generated from the islands through wind and wave power being transported […]

Nigerian Kidnappers Release Foreign Oil Workers, Police Say

Nigerian kidnappers have released at least some of the eight foreign oil workers they took hostage two days ago in the Niger River delta, a police spokesman said. Police spokesman Haz Iwendi said he didn’t know how many of the eight hostages, six Britons, a Canadian and a U.S. citizen, had been freed. The released […]

Royal projects a solution to oil crisis

The people of Thailand are deeply concerned about the energy crisis facing the country, but most believe that the use of appropriate technology – following the model of Royally-initiated energy-saving projects – can help to solve the problem, a survey by the ABAC Poll Research Center found. The poll, conducted from May 13 to 25, […]

Jatropha planting pushed

President Arroyo on Saturday ordered the Department of Energy to widen the propagation of Jatropha plants not only in military camps but in all available public lands. The President issued the directive to Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla when she inspected the 35-hectare Jatropha plantation inside Fort Magsaysay here. The President asked Lotilla to coordinate with […]

Gas fuels new cold war in the Arctic

The waters in that part of the Arctic Circle used to be the scene of cat-and-mouse games between Nato and Soviet submarines. Now it is being eyed enviously by the old superpower rivals because technological advances are making lucrative oil and gas exploitation possible for the first time. Russia holds most of the cards and […]

Oil Industry Attacks In Iraq Aid Vast Smuggling Scheme

The sabotage attacks that have crippled Iraq’s oil pipelines and refineries for the past three years are now being used to aid a vast smuggling network that is costing the Iraqi government billions of dollars a year, senior Iraqi and American officials here say. Once thought to be only a tool for insurgents to undermine […]

USA out-flanked in Eurasia Energy Politics?

Curiously and quietly the United States is being out-flanked in its now-obvious strategy of controlling major oil and energy sources of the Persian Gulf, Central Asia Caspian Basin, Africa and beyond. The US globalresearch

Iran gives ground on US plan

Iran seemed finally to be backing away from a confrontation with America and Europe over its nuclear programme, as senior officials and politicians in Tehran said yesterday that proposals put forward last week might form the basis for negotiation. State-run television reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had told UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that a deal […]

Rice Key to Reversal on Iran

Rice returned to Washington with a sobering message: The international effort to derail Iran’s programs was falling apart. Her conclusion spurred a secret discussion among Rice, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley: Should the United States finally agree to join the Europeans at the negotiations with Iran? Though Bush […]

Widening tropics ‘will drive deserts into Europe’

The world’s tropical zones are growing, threatening to drive the world’s great deserts into southern Europe and other heavily populated areas, alarming new research suggests. The study – based on satellite measurements over the past quarter of a century – shows that the tropics have widened by 140 miles since 1979. Scientists suspect that global […]

Water issues limiting coal-bed methane production

The Powder River Basin would be producing 20 percent more gas if some 3,000 coal-bed methane wells were pumping instead of awaiting approval to discharge groundwater, according to the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. “This development of coal-bed methane gas is very tightly regulated,” commission supervisor Don Likwartz told the Coal-Bed Natural Gas Water […]

Antarctic ‘cold rush’ raises fears for last great wilderness

A building boom in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet, has raised fears that the icy continent will fall prey to the worldwide search for oil, gas and other minerals. As the driest, windiest and coldest continent on Earth, Antarctica has long been the setting for […]

Gulf refineries, production still haven’t recovered

The energy industry has yet to completely recover from the hurricanes that swept through the Gulf of Mexico last year, the worst natural disasters ever to strike the sector. Major energy operations still need repairs, and about 10 percent of offshore oil and gas production remains offline. The bottom line: More price spikes appear likely, […]

Globe confronts warming as emissions grow

Britain and Sweden are on target for reducing global-warming gases, but other countries will have to toughen policies and rely on “carbon trading” to achieve their Kyoto Protocol goals by 2012, says a new U.N. report. yahoo

One Farm Town’s Drive for Energy Independence

New York Times – This corn and soybean and hog farming town, which pops up out of nowhere at a crossroads and disappears as fast, has only 533 residents left. As in many withering rural communities, worries here lean toward keeping the school open, persuading sons and daughters to stay and finding a role for […]

Japan Will Rely on Biofuel Imports

Most of Japan’s biofuel needs are met by imports and the country sees a good potential in importing ethanol from Brazil, according to a recent report from the U.S. agricultural attache for the country. agreport

BMW, TOTAL Pair for Hydrogen Vehicle Research

Carpages.ca – The largest blockade to hydrogen cars is no longer the technology. Sure, it isn’t 100 percent perfect yet, but advancements are being made steadily that should see hydrogen become a perfectly viable alternative to gasoline in the next few years. Rather, the problem is infrastructure, and therefore dollars and cents from a business […]

Convergence of Renewable Energy and Transportation Technology

RenewableEnergyStocks.com (RES) a leading investor and industry portal for the renewable energy sector presents,

Going to Extremes to Fight Global Warming

Many scientists are uneasy with the notion of monkeying with a climate system so complicated they are still working to understand it. In 1992, when a U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel looked at the policy implications of global warming, there was a serious debate over whether geoengineering should be included, said Stephen Schneider, a […]

Energy Hungry China Warms to Solar Water Heaters

(Reuters) – Dusty Dezhou was relegated to the footnotes of Chinese history for centuries, known mainly as the place where a Filipino king died. Now, Huang Ming hopes hot water will help put it on the map. His company has earned a fortune manufacturing solar heaters, relatively low-tech rooftop devices which capture the sun’s energy […]

Latin American presidents OK energy plan

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic – Seeking relief from soaring energy prices and dependence on foreign oil, leaders of 10 Latin American nations agreed Saturday to push forward a sweeping energy plan that includes the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant, a hydroelectric dam and a pipeline stretching from Mexico to Panama. But the most […]

Bush & Brezhnev: Separated at Birth?

How America is Losing the Great Game Perhaps the most important issue facing humanity today is the peak oil crisis, which has political, social, economic, cultural, technological and environmental implications so vast that many people, including America The strategic importance of the world

Kidnapped foreign workers in Nigeria in good health: police

LAGOS (AFP) – Eight foreign oil workers kidnapped off a drilling platform in southern Nigeria Friday are in good health and there are no fears for their safety, a federal police spokesman said. “We are still working on it and investigating the matter with continuing efforts,” spokesman Haz Iwendi told AFP. “We are hopeful that […]

U.S. weekly oil, gas rig count up by 8

HOUSTON – The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States this week rose by eight to 1,657. Of the rigs running nationwide, 1,389 were exploring for gas and 265 for oil, Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. reported Friday. Three were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago, the rig count […]

Attacks on Iraq Oil Industry Aid Vast Smuggling Scheme

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 3 In turn, the insurgents and criminal gangs

Oil shale enthusiasm resurfaces in the West

The headline on the newspaper that state Rep. Bernie Buescher keeps in a box at home captures the allure of the vast petroleum riches under the rolling hills and arid mesas north of this western Colorado city. “Oil Shale Development Imminent,” the paper reads. That edition of the defunct Grand Junction News, Buescher notes, was […]

Gas theft scandal in Cockrell Hill

COCKRELL HILL, TEXAS The alleged offenses by Juan Lopez and Carlos Gooden took place at two gas stations

BBC scrapes the barrel to stand up peak oil theory

As part of its John is prone to all sorts of anti-social individualism. Besides driving a big, fuel-hungry 4×4, he is shown stealing from his employers, hoarding diesel, unwilling to offer lifts to neighbours and driving like a maniac. Eventually, he gets his comeuppance, being left bloodied and bruised after getting into a fist fight […]

Confessions of a Statistician

EnergyBulletin.net – In its August 2004 issue of the Oil Market Report (OMR), the IEA posed the question whether the current oil market situation justify $45 oil and stated the result as irrational exuberance. What did the IEA do in order to justify that fundamentals are there? It adjusted Non-OECD demand upwards in OMR. It […]

« Previous Page — Next Page »

LATEST NEWS HEADLINES

• Why the IEA is Wrong About Peak Oil Demand
• Did we inadvertently speed global warming?  
• Venezuela’s Oil Monopoly Eases
• Why Germany is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power
• U.S. coal-fired electricity generation decreased in 2022 and 2023

• America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities
• Meet America’s Newest Oil Trader Extraordinaire: Joe Biden
• Is It Time To Refill America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
• Oil prices set to end year 10% lower as demand concerns snap winning streak
• What’s Driving America’s New Oil and Gas Boom?
• China’s peak oil demand bombshell eviscerates Danielle Smith’s energy strategy