Reduce reliance on fossil fuels

What will we pay when the supply for cheap energy begins to dwindle and peak oil production starts to decline? The cost for maintaining Mad Max vehicles, heating homes, food production and distribution in a hostile environment, where a big percentage of the workforce will not have jobs because the price to live is too […]

Brandon: Riding on E85

An interesting exercise in alternative fuel utilization was conducted recently by Rick Tolman, chief executive officer of the National Corn Growers Association. For a series of meetings, he drove his Yukon SUV from St. Louis to Chicago, then on to St. Paul, Minn., and back to St. Louis, with several refueling stops along the way. […]

OPEC Crude Production Continues to Falter (MEES)

Data released today from the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) detail OPEC crude production continues to show decreases since a relative production high last October. Total estimated OPEC (including Iraq) crude oil production for May 2006 was 29.34 million barrels per day, compared with 30.02 million barrels per day in October of 2005. Saudi Arabian […]

German flower power emerges as an alternative to tanking up with oil

Germany has a well-deserved reputation as an eco-friendly nation. It also has a great love for cars and a passion to drive with no speed limits on much of the country’s vast network of Autobahn highways. So how can it bridge the gap between promoting an environmentally conscious world and a desire to hit the […]

Biodiversity Holds the Key to Sustainable Biofuel Production

It has been reported that global biodiversity has decreased during the last centuries due to human activity. As the global population has increased, so forests and prairies have been cleared to meet the increasing demand for land for farmland planted with monocultures, buildings and roads. For more than 50 years, scientists have hypothesized that greater […]

Jamaica: Consumers feeling the energy squeeze

As more and more disappointing financial returns are published, there is puzzlement in the local business community about the reasons for the slow growth in revenues. So far there is only speculation that there is a slowdown in the economy, but we are yet to hear clear reasoning as to the causes of the anaemic […]

Asia Shows Solar Power is Not Just for the Rich

Solar power does not require steep subsidies to be able to push aside environment-polluting fossil fuels, says proponents of large sun-powered projects in Laos and Bangladesh. In developed countries, solar-generated electricity is four times more expensive than so-called brown electricity made with coal and gas, and can only be made attractive to consumers when subsidised […]

The lights will go out if we avoid the nuclear option, says Darling

Alistair Darling has thrown his weight behind rebuilding the nuclear power industry and plans to use the energy review to push a fast-track planning process for atomic plants, wind farms and even transport schemes. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the new trade and industry secretary gave a blunt warning to householders and local […]

Uganda: Oil Level 8 Times Higher

Years of oil exploration are promising good results. Uganda’s petroleum deposits are far in excess of what the exploration companies had expected to find. Hardman Resources Ltd, the Australian company, that is prospecting in Block 2 of the exploration field in South Western Uganda, announced on Monday that the tests over the weekend indicate that […]

China gets a spurt of new energy

To help ease its oil shortage while reducing its increasing reliance on oil imports, China is putting effort and money into research and development (R&D) for new sources of energy, in addition to speeding up its ambitious coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuel projects, intended to convert the country’s abundant coal resources into liquid fuel. There are now […]

CPULs – Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes – Andre Viljoen (2006)

Review of CPULs – Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes. Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. Andre Viljoen (ed) 2005. Architectural Press. Great book, terrible title. Andre Viljoen has put together a book of the most profound importance at this point in history. How will we feed our cities beyond the age of cheap oil? Does the […]

Iran’s ideological army takes on energy contracts

Iran’s powerful ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards, is set to enter the oil and gas sectors in a move that would increase their stake in the Islamic republic’s economy. “The Revolutionary Guards have obtained the contract to develop phases 15 and 16 of South Pars,” a huge offshore gas field divided between Iran and Qatar, […]

Australian PM hails natural gas contract

Australia’s prime minister hailed his country’s record liquid natural gas export contract with China as a symbol of blossoming trade between the countries during an inaugural ceremony Wednesday at the Dapeng Gas Terminal in the bustling manufacturing hub of Shenzen in southern China. The $3.6 billion terminal was built to receive liquefied natural gas shipments […]

Nigerian Oil Dispute Flares into Full-Scale Revolt

(Reuters) – Crude oil seeping from a gnarled steel wellhead forms a lake the size of a soccer pitch near the Nigerian village of Kegbara-Dere, but these oilfields have not exported a drop in 13 years. The Ogoni tribe kicked Royal Dutch Shell out of this part of the Niger Delta in 1993 protesting that […]

Oil Rises for a Sixth Day as Refineries Ask for Crude Supplies

June 28 (Bloomberg) — Oil rose for a sixth day in New York as crude supply disruptions at two U.S. refineries may limit the growth of summer motor fuel stockpiles. An Energy Department report today will probably show gasoline inventories rose by 450,000 barrels last week, the smallest increase forecast by analysts in eight weeks. […]

Our Future(s) – Part 2: Scenario Coaster (Powerpoint)

Dynamic Cities Project – ‘Scenario Coaster’ builds on the four futures developed in the ‘Our Future(s)’ presentation. It first looks at the implications of some of the mainstream peaking scenarios (i.e. Exxon vs. ASPO) and, second, asks the question “Can we agree upon which of these paths is most desirable?” Comments from EnergyBulletin.net – An […]

China’s Crude Oil Import Up 20.5% in May

Xinhua – China imported 12.4 million tons of crude oil in May this year, a rise of 20.5 percent from the same month a year ago, China Business News said on Tuesday, quoting latest statistics from the General Administration of Customs. China Daily

Climate experts: Gore’s movie gets the science right

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy… “Excellent,” said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. “He got all the important material and got it right.”CNN

The Oil Drum: Drilling on Wall Street

Finding it easier to add new reserves on Wall Street than from E&P in the ground, Anadarko bought both Kerr-McGee and Western Gas on Friday, June 23rd in a $21 Billion Deal in the Oil Patch. I assume these fossil fuel reverve numbers are proved reserves as reported to the SEC–see Bubba’s What the hell […]

Proposal to end offshore drilling ban advances

Clears House committee, faces likely filibuster in the Senate Legislation that would end a quarter-century ban on drilling in most of the Outer Continental Shelf advanced in the House on Wednesday. The measure would allow oil and gas development in restricted offshore waters unless a state prohibited it. The House Resources Committee approved the legislation […]

An Open Letter to the President: Dubious Bio-diesel Product Standards

Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo President of the Republic of the Philippines Dear Madame President, RE: DUBIOUS PNS 2020:2003 & BIO-DIESEL TECHNOLOGY? Greetings with Peace & Joy! The undersigned have a bunch of questions than answers, about the Philippine Coconut Dieselization (Bio-diesel) Program. Somebody, somehow, someone got Is Coconut Methyl Esterification (CME) process is the […]

Oil industry to strike in Norway

OSLO, Norway, (UPI) — Norwegian oil industry workers may be preparing to go on strike, Aftenposten reported. Leif Harald Halvorsen of the oil industry’s national association told reporters that drilling activity and exploration is being halted, and about 30 drilling operations may be affected if no solution is found. A strike among members of the […]

Energy literacy – what you don’t know can hurt you

It seems that everybody’s got an opinion these days about how to fight high gas prices. Punish price gougers. Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Drill in protected areas in Alaska or off the Atlantic coast. And then there’s the chain e-mail urging a consumer boycott of one brand of gas station at a time until […]

Safer Iraq said needed for U.S. investment

HOUSTON – Iraq’s instability has kept foreign oil companies from investing in reconstruction, compounding what officials see as a litany of woes confronting the country’s once-dominant oil sector from corruption to poorly maintained fields. While the world’s thirst for oil grows, untapped Iraqi reserves and current production that still hasn’t met prewar levels remain a […]

Chevron CEO: Corn is not the answer

Change in Washington, domestic exploration and new sources of ethanol are required to meet the U.S. demand for energy. NEW YORK (FORTUNE) – It’s either a great time (record profits, soaring share prices) or a terrible time (Capitol Hill’s scrutiny, the public’s ire) to be a Big Oil chief executive. FORTUNE sat down with Dublin-born […]

Blair sets climate change deadline and hails Africa aid successes

Tony Blair set a one-year deadline last night for a new global deal on climate change as he warned that time was running out to find a way of limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Mr Blair used a report on the progress made since last summer’s Gleneagles summit to say that the international community could not […]

East Africa: Geothermal Power a Cheaper Option

Estimates place the geothermal electricity generation capacity of East Africa as high as 2,500 MW. In Western Uganda, the hot springs around Lake Albert could produce as much as 450MW of electricity, which is more than the current power demand of the entire country. They have reasonable maintenance and operation costs relative to other power […]

Energy and military force transformation

energybulletin

Energy Efficiency Improvements Could Significantly Cut Natural Gas Use

The report, written by the Georgia-based GDS Associates, concluded that if aggressive policies and programs utilizing off-the-shelf energy efficiency technology were implemented today, consumers would save nearly 2.8 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas annually over the next 10 years. That amounts to 12.7 percent of the 22 TCF Americans consumed in 2005. GDS […]

Oil demand growth accelerates to 13.5pc

China’s oil demand growth accelerated to 13.5 percent in May, nearing the explosive rate of 2004, as refiners boosted output and curbed exports ahead of a domestic price increase to meet peak summer demand. thestandard

« 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