Energy Surety For Mission Readiness

Increased energy security and decreased dependence on fossil fuels are two major objectives of the new Army Energy Strategy for Installations. Both goals suggest that the Army consider diversifying its current use of the local electric utility for primary power and engine-driven generators for emergency back-up power.They also call for including renewable energy systems such […]

The Oil Drum: The Stability of Iraq

Courtesy of The Carpetbagger, I came across this superb Brookings Report on the situation in Iraq. This is my kind of report – almost solid graphs and tables. You can read it for an hour and have a far better idea of the situation than reading the newspaper for a year, and I highly recommend […]

$70 oil: Get used to it

With little spare capacity and strong demand from the U.S. and China, markets are more vulnerable than ever before. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Oil prices may fall if progress is made in talks with Iran over its nuclear program, but things like surging auto sales in China and record gasoline demand in the United States […]

Fuel costs make Hawaii even pricier

Visitors to Hawaii may be in for a surprise — the high cost of getting around doesn’t end after that long and expensive airline flight from the mainland. From air travel to exotic sea expeditions, rising fuel prices are making a Hawaii vacation an even pricier affair. Hawaii has the most expensive gas prices in […]

Oil Prices: How High Can They Go?

Like baseball and real estate, complaining about energy prices is a national pastime. And while high gasoline prices can certainly make trips to the pump painful, they do not appear to have visited major havoc on the U.S. economyyet. That may have offered some small comfort of late to motorists shelling out more than $60 […]

Plenty of opinions about energy

…In a self-assigned reading project, your friendly neighborhood business columnist has spent the past few months sampling recent books about energy — some read cover to cover, others perused or skimmed. And after reviewing the assembled literature on one subject, one conclusion can be reached about books on energy: There sure are a lot of […]

OPEC needs clear demand signals for spare capacity

“We in OPEC do not subscribe to the peak-oil theory.” Oil cartel OPEC scolded consuming nations on Tuesday for forcing it to spend billions on spare crude production capacity while sending confusing policy signals on future demand. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has an estimated 100 exploration and production projects with investment in […]

So Many Cars, So Little Money

California’s spending on its crowded, crumbling highway system falls far short of drivers’ needs. Every dime of California’s $116-billion plan to shore up levees, schools and other eroding facilities could be spent on the state’s overtaxed transportation system. And it still wouldn’t be enough. California’s highways, the system’s most costly feature by far, were once […]

Gasoline hits 2nd highest pump price ever: Government

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The average price U.S. consumers paid for gasoline jumped 3.9 cents over the last week to $2.97 a gallon, the second highest level ever, the government said on Monday. The national pump price for regular unleaded gasoline is up 65 cents from a year ago and not far from the record $3.07 […]

Dutch oil worker released in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria – A Dutch oil worker who was kidnapped last week by armed men in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta was released Monday, officials said. Michael Loss, an employee of Westminster Dredging, a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell PLC, was given to his employers in Yenagoa, said Ekiyor Welson, a spokesman for Bayelsa state. Loss […]

Energy security and uranium reserves

“… Assuming world nuclear generating capacity remains at 2005 levels, after about 2016 the mean grade of uranium ore will fall significantly from today’s levels, and even more so after 2034. After about 60 years the world nuclear power system will fall off the ‘Energy Cliff’ – meaning that the nuclear system will consume as much […]

Edible oil turns into bio-diesel

Prices of edible oil have registered an upward trend worldwide due to increase in the price of petroleum products and production of bio-diesel with palm fruits, market operators said. Many oil import dependent countries including Bangladesh have been the worst affected by the soaring price of fuel oil. Bangladesh, which largely depends on imports to […]

Venezuela struggles to plug natural gas deficit

Venezuela hopes to supply Latin America with its vast natural gas reserves through a transcontinental grid, but the country is just beginning to take steps to resolve a domestic deficit of the fuel that has dogged oil operations for years. This weekend, President Hugo Chavez and his counterparts from Colombia and Panama celebrated the start […]

G8 to discuss sharing nuclear power with emerging nations

G8 leaders will be joined on Monday 17 July by the so-called “outreach countries” group of nations, which includes Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. They will be shown a draft statement which refers to the development of nuclear as “a shared energy system” between developed and developing nations. A draft version of the […]

Wind Could be Third of French Energy Mix

France’s wind power share in electricity consumption could jump to 30 percent by 2030 provided the government removes bureaucratic hurdles, France’s wind power association said on Monday. Wind power makes up 0.25 percent of French electricity consumption with a production capacity of 1,000 MW. A 2001 European Union directive requires EU members to bring their […]

The bad, worse and awful news for energy prices

In the real world, it takes time for consumers and suppliers to respond to higher prices. Buying hybrid cars to replace old gas guzzlers takes time. Finding new energy resources and building refineries takes time. Supply and demand are heavily influenced by government policy and global politics, which adds complexity. To understand the outlook for […]

China Is Called On to Rein In Its Growing Use of Electricity

The International Energy Agency on Monday called for China to revamp its electric power industry, noting that waste and inefficiency contributed to the need for the country to add enough new, mostly coal-fired, power plants every two years to equal the entire electricity generation capacity of France or Canada. In a report issued at its […]

Analysis: Idea of `gas OPEC` worries West

Recent talks over an OPEC-like gas cartel led by Russia have worried the West; the issue is likely to be discussed — covertly at least — at this weekend`s Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. ‘Russia is not an energy giant, but a gas giant,’ Rahr said, adding that Moscow will do everything […]

Smart money eyes climate change

Companies in a range of industries are starting to figure in the business impact of climate changes stemming from global warming, according to experts. The calculations go along two lines, depending on the industry: Corporations are either mitigating risk associated with climate changes or seeking out business opportunities in fields such as clean energy. news.com

The world oil production is at its peak and is set to fall 32% by 2020 as discoveries wane, said Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, a former executive of Iran financialexpress

Wind Power: Report of The Week

This week’s report of the week is European Wind Energy at the Dawn of the 21st Century a report that introduces progress in wind power so far and highlights challenges for the future. climatechangeaction

Politics Of the Pipelines

For a low-profile State Department official, Matthew J. Bryza gets around. A member of the bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, he frequents places such as Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. This year, he’s also popped in on people in Brussels, Rome and Berlin. One key item on his agenda: persuading governments and energy companies to […]

Bright prospects of China’s green car industry

China’s Chaoyue(meaning to surpass) No. 3 fuel cell driven car from Shanghai received four gold medals during the Michelin Challenge Bibendum 2006 being held in Paris in June. The four categories of winning class A is in carbon dioxide emissions, emissions, noise and fuel efficiency. The car only consumes 1.03 kg of hydrogen for 100 […]

Ethanol won’t solve energy problems

Ethanol is far from a cure-all for the nation’s energy problems. It’s not as environmentally friendly as some supporters claim and would supply only 12 percent of U.S. motoring fuel yahoo

Grid-Connected Cars and Renewables: Understanding the Potential

The prospect of having millions of vehicles plugging in to the nation’s electric grid in the coming decade has never been better. The car-buying public has firmly demonstrated the commercial viability of hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), with HEVs reaching 1% of new car sales in 2005. Most vehicle manufacturers are betting on this trend accelerating […]

Ceres Hits Milestone in Switchgrass Genomics Program;

Ceres, Inc. has reached a major milestone in their switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) genomics program for enhancing biomass yield, completing the analysis of more than 12,000 switchgrass genes and characterizing the genetic variation associated with them. Switchgrass is a perennial grass native to the prairies of North America and has been identified by the US Department […]

Saudi Arabia Plans to Block $3.5 Bln Occidental, Total Project

The opposition threatens to reduce the U.A.E.’s ability to meet demand for power, curtailing economic growth. “Gas from the Dolphin pipeline will be a critical lifeline for the United Arab Emirates and growth in the southern Gulf,” Colin Lothian, senior Middle East analyst at Wood Mackenzie Ltd., an Edinburgh-based energy consulting company, said in a […]

African Nations Expand Oil Production

07/10 (LWN) Recent newspaper reports have indicated increasing oil production in two African countries, Uganda and Sudan. It was reported by Uganda’s Monitor newspaper that Uganda has built new roads, three airports, and other facilities “to herald Uganda’s joining the world’s oil producing countries.” The newspaper indicated that new schools have been built and clean […]

The Oil Drum: Trouble South of the Border — Mexico’s Oil Production

In April of this year, Mexico’s president Vincente Fox announced a major new discovery in the Gulf of Mexico by the state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). This new field, announced a scant few months before Mexico’s national presidential elections, was said to contain a potential URR of 10 Gb (billion barrels) of oil. I […]

Four Corners Broadband Edition: Peak Oil (Video)

ABC (Australia) – The era of cheap oil may be over and a growing number of analysts predict production is about to peak before significantly falling behind demand. Jonathan Holmes investigates.. ABC (Australia)

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