PAKISTAN: Loadshedding across country planned

ISLAMABAD: With no let up in energy crisis, the government is expected to start formal loadshedding and spread its duration evenly to different parts of the country to enable consumers to plan their life accordingly. Sources said that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz would chair a meeting on Wednesday with the authorities of water and power […]

UK says atomic power needed to fight global warming

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it needed new nuclear power plants, more electricity from wind and waves and cuts in energy consumption to fight global warming and reduce rising dependence on imported oil and gas. But scientists and environmentalists dismissed the conclusions of the government’s six-month review of future energy supplies as either […]

IEA sees oil supply growth exceeding demand in ‘07

LONDON (Reuters) – World oil demand will grow more quickly in 2007 than this year despite high prices, but rising output from producers outside OPEC will ease the strain on supply, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. Global demand in 2007 will rise by 1.57 million barrels per day, the adviser to 26 […]

G8 to announce biofuels plan for the developing world

The long-awaited G8 Summit of industrialised nations being hosted by Russia later this week will announce a major plan for the creation of a biofuels industry in the developing world – Brazil’s national news agency, the Agencia Estado, tells us. The idea comes from President Lula and President Chirac, who recently signed a bioenergy cooperation […]

So We Drive On

Every week (usually on Wednesdays) the U.S. Energy Information Agency releases a status report of the nation zmetro

TV standby buttons will be outlawed: UK

The Government is to outlaw standby switches on televisions and video and DVD players to cut the amount of electricity wasted in the home. Refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers will have to become energy-efficient, and lightbulbs that burn too much energy will be phased out.The Times

The Mother Of All Battles: For Oil

This is an essay on the ongoing “Mother of all Battles” ,for oil, where the US led West , mercifully , is losing some ground .Starting with brutal colonial exploitation dubbed the so called burden of civilization (the westerners reaching Asia were certainly almost barbarians, as they still remain in many ways, or Christopher Columbus, […]

Musharraf reiterates resolve to overcome prevailing energy crises

President General Pervez Musharraf has reiterated his resolve to overcome prevailing energy crisis by taking all possible measures on war footing. He has welcomed both national and multinational entrepreneurs to come forward and provide full support to government efforts in meting out energy crises.Online News

Guide to Russia’s key energy clients

Energy has become the hot topic this year in Russia’s relationship with its European neighbours. Most depend to some degree on Russian gas and were shaken by the dispute between Russia and Ukraine in January, which led to a brief suspension in supplies. For an extensive overview of Russia’s energy clients in their particular relationship […]

Why Oil is Cheap at $75 a Barrel

Oil? Cheap? at these prices? Here is why: 1) Demand from China and India does not seem to slow. Add demand from Indonesia, Australia and Eastern Europe, and and oil never seemed so scarce. 2) Supply is short. Resources are getting dried up with every barrel of oil thats pumped. Pair that with declining levels […]

What the U.S. Military Doesn

Fact — The U.S. Department of Defense is the single biggest consumer of petroleum in the U.S. and the single largest oil consuming division of government anywhere in the world.As a matter of fact, back in 1999, the U.S. Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), the branch of government that buys fuel for the Defense Department, […]

When Fuel is the Price of Champagne

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U.S. Trade Deficit Probably Widened in May as Oil Prices Rose

(Bloomberg) — Higher crude oil prices and Americans’ appetite for goods made overseas caused the trade deficit to widen to $65 billion in May, the third-biggest on record, economists said before a government report today. The projected shortfall is based on the median estimate of 62 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News and compares with a […]

Army to End Exclusive Halliburton Deal

MSNBC.com – The Army is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, a decision that could cut deeply into the firm’s dominance of government contracting in Iraq. The choice comes after several years of attacks from critics who saw the contract as a […]

Chad targets 200,000 bpd oil output by end of year

The start of production at Exxon Mobil’s (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Maikeri field could help boost Chad’s oil output to 200,000 barrels per day by the end of the year, up 30,000 bpd from 2005, the country’s oil minister said on Tuesday. Oil Minister Mahamat Nasser Hassane also reiterated that the country’s output could rise […]

Black Gold

I’ve been reading an interesting book which summarises some of the issues related to peak oil — it’s called Black Gold by George Orwel. Orwel isn’t as pessimistic as Deffyes, he points out that big new fields are coming into production in Azerbaijan, Angola, Algeria, Nigeria and elsewhere. But he’s not exactly optimistic either; he […]

Thin-film Technology, Researchers work to shrink technology

Every day, the sun bathes the planet in energy–free of charge–yet few systems can take advantage of that source for both heating and cooling. Now, researchers are making progress on a thin-film technology that adheres both solar cells and heat pumps onto surfaces, ultimately turning walls, windows, and maybe even soda bottles into climate control […]

EPA Examines New Coal Technology For Cleaner Energy

A new technology can help provide electricity from coal in an environmentally sustainable way, according to a technical report EPA released recently. The technology, known as Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC), partially burns coal to generate gas. EPA examined the environmental impacts of IGCC technology as part of the agency’s continued efforts to understand how […]

Shell searching for gas in Saudi as costs jump

Royal Dutch Shell Plc began drilling its first well in Saudi Arabia, where the company is searching for natural gas in the Empty Quarter desert amid surging costs and rising demand for rigs. gulf-times

Power package to see UK through to 2050

The government yesterday unveiled an array of measures, from nuclear new-build to phasing out the standby setting on computers. It said these would take the UK closer towards meeting its target of cutting carbon emissions by 60% of 1990 levels by 2050 and helping to secure energy supplies in the long term. guardian

Crude Oil Trades Above $74 on Iran’s Refusal to End Its Nuclear Research

Crude oil traded above $74 a barrel in New York after rising yesterday on concern Iran’s refusal to stop nuclear research may prompt United Nations action against the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday his country won’t back down “one iota” over its nuclear program. The five permanent members of the […]

DARPA Solicits Proposals for Biofuel Alternatives to JP-8

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency greencarcongress

New Nanocrystalline Material for Next-Generation Supercapacitors

A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering Professor Prashant Kumta has discovered a nanocrystalline vanadium nitride (VN) material that is cheaper, more stable and produces a higher quality energy storage capacity for use in a variety of industrial and portable consumer electronic products. greencarcongress

Latest Energy News From Algeria

07/11 (LWN) Algeria, one of the world’s largest natural gas exporters and the 14th largest exporter of oil, recently found more condensed gas reserves and plans to continue increasing production of both oil and gas. It also may begin supplying natural gas to a large Indian power plant. United Press International reported yesterday that the […]

Tech firms go mining for megawatts in Wash.

Companies rush to exploit region’s cheap electricity QUINCY, Wash. – Microsoft is pouring concrete in a bean field on the west end of town. Yahoo is digging up a field of alfalfa out on the east end. Google, which declines to comment, is said to be sniffing around for its own field of dreams here […]

Angola to be oil producer to contribute most to increase in world supply

Angola is the non-OPEC country that will contribute most to the increase in the world supply of oil by 2010, of a list of five countries drawn up by Deutsche Bank, which also included Brazil. In a report by the German bank’s chief economist for the power sector, Adam Sieminski, the average annual contribution by […]

Palace seeks to cushion new oil price hikes: Phillipines

As major oil firms have jacked up prices of gasoline and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) anew, the Government is trying to lead the way in conserving energy and the efficient and prudent use of oil products in an effort to cushion the effects of a new round of oil price hikes.Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said […]

Q&A Andris Piebalgs, European Energy Commissioner

eGov monitor speaks with the European Energy Commissioner on role of energy in Lisbon agenda, the challenges of Europe in a volatile international energy market and how Europe is looking to face up to them. Piebalgs: We are also accelerating our efforts to increase the use of renewable energies in power generation, transport and buildings. […]

Africa scrambles for new energy as blackouts bite

African governments are scrambling for new sources of energy to stave off more costly blackouts as strained power supplies plunge swathes of the continent into darkness, stifling much-needed development. Higher than expected economic growth and a lack of past investment have left many countries, mostly oil importers, in a race against time to avert widespread […]

A watershed on energy?

This energy review, the second in three years, is far more than a justification of nuclear power. It may also be justly remembered as the moment when an oil-obsessed, energy-profligate department of industry read the runes and began a slow turn towards creating a low-carbon economy in response to climate change and future energy shortages. […]

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