Poll: High gas prices lower driving time

WASHINGTON – High gasoline prices already had most people cutting back on driving before the shutdown of an Alaska pipeline threatened to push costs even higher. However, few drivers are making bigger changes, such as carpooling or using mass transit. Fifty-five percent of drivers said they had reduced their driving because of high gas prices, […]

Worries rise over pipeline reliability

Pipeline damage that crippled the nation’s biggest oil field this week is triggering worries about not only the safety record of energy giant BP but also the reliability of the 200,000 miles of pipe that moves oil products across the USA. Some of that pipe was installed 100 years ago; most in the 1960s and […]

The Promise of Urban Agriculture

The American Community Garden Association roughly estimates the number of community gardens nationally at 18,000. Add to that number the many small-scale farms that line the edges of most urban centers in the United States, and you have an indicator of what makes digging in the dirt so important to us. Urban farms and gardens […]

Russian Researchers Say Rains Boost Oil Reserves

A group of Russian scientists at the oil and gas research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, led by Azary Barenbaum, have come up with a new explanation of the nature of oil and gas formation. They argue that huge reserves of hydrocarbons may take only decades to be formed, not millions of years, […]

Russia-Algeria Gas Agreement Can Mean Higher Prices for Europe

Europeans could pay more for natural gas as a result of a deal between Russian and Algerian state-controlled gas groups, Italian Industry Minister Pierluigi Bersani has warned on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Earlier this month RussiaRussia and Algeria are expected to become increasingly important energy providers to the 25-member club, but the European nations repeatedly express […]

Pataki’s big energy speech

First, let’s dramatically reduce the up-front cost and risk of building bio-refineries and other alternative fuel production facilities by allowing companies to immediately expense their capital investment in these projects. Second, let’s provide transportation fuel producers with a meaningful federal production tax credit for renewables and clean petroleum alternatives; Third, let’s further reduce the risk […]

Manipulating The Price of Oil

Yesterday’s closure of the Prudhoe Field on Alaska’s North Slope was followed by a more than $2 jump in the per dollar price of oil to near its all time high. The increase prompts new outrage about the price, and questions about whether the price is manipulated or not, and if so how. Price is […]

When Oilmen Turn Sour on Crude

Has global-warming-think sunk in this deeply? Have climate fears finally saturated our country to the point that even Houstonians are mobilizing? When one recovers from the remarkable fact that a campaign to fight global warming has infiltrated Energy City, the rebounding tremor comes quickly with the realization that the movement isn’t an aberration. It’s actually […]

Israel, Oil and the “planned demolition” of Lebanon

Lebanese sovereignty is one of the unfortunate casualties of this Israel-Turkey strategy. Most of the oil from the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline will be transported to western markets but, what is less well-known, is that a percentage of the oil will be diverted through a “proposed” Ceyhan-Ashkelon pipeline which will connect Israel directly to rich deposits in […]

Clyvia Successfully Completes Large-Scale Trial Run for Converting Plastics into

Clyvia Inc. (OTCBB: CLYV) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Clyvia Technology GmbH (“Clyvia Technology”), successfully converted 3 metric tons (approximately 3.3 US tons) of plastics into 2,000 liters (approximately 528 US gal.) of diesel fuel. These test results are in addition to the results announced yesterday by Clyvia with respect to Clyvia Technology’s […]

Recycling Used Engine Oil into Fuel Oil

Nikkei. Japanese environmental equipment manufacturer and vendor Fuji Energy Co. has developed a compact processing device for converting used engine oil or other waste oils into fuel oil. This device mixes used engine oil and type A fuel in a 40-60 ratio, heats it to 60 greencarcongress

Carbon Sequestration in Deep-Sea Sediments

A team of researchers has concluded that deep-sea sediments could provide a virtually unlimited and permanent reservoir for carbon dioxide. The researchers estimate that seafloor sediments within US territory are vast enough to store the nation greencarcongress

Pumping up the volume on ethanol

The debate has changed from whether we use the biofuel to when and how to increase its use, writes Robert Wainwright. THE businessman Trevor Bourne has $1 billion to spend making ethanol. His Brisbane company – Global Ethanol Holdings – will be listed publicly in Sydney on Friday with hopes of raising $400 million to […]

NZ slow off the mark with biofuel

New Zealand has barely started a biofuel industry, as Paul Gorman reports, but questions are being raised elsewhere about the value of ‘green’ fuel. New Zealand’s reputation as a hotbed of innovation comes unstuck when talk turns to the potential for biofuels. stuff

Regional Energy: Ain’t Pretty, But…

Seattle-Post Intelligencer – It’s hard to ignore the sight of electrical transmission lines cutting through Northwest forests, suburbs or cities. But it is easy to forget their importance to everyday life. A new federal Energy Department report ought to focus greater attention on the need to maintain, upgrade and build major transmission lines. Economically growing […]

Prudhoe Bay Raises Questions About Aging Oil Fields

(AP) – BP’s problem of corroding pipes is worsening as the nation’s largest oil field ages and more water and less oil is produced during drilling. ”Really, we are a giant water field,” said Bill Hedges, BP PLC’s corrosion expert, explaining that what comes up now during drilling is three-quarters water. Water contains carbon dioxide, […]

Iran OPEC Gov: OPEC Oil Too Heavy to Make a Difference

Schlumberger – Sunday, BP shut in 400,000 barrels a day of production at its Prudhoe Bay field in Alaksa, erasing about 8% of total U.S. production. BP has so far not been drawn on how long the shut down would continue… But Kazempour played down OPEC’s ability to make a difference at this time. “What […]

Analysis: Optimism Prevails Over Oil

(UPI) — The closure of BP`s Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska led petroleum prices to spike more than $2 per barrel Monday, but the shock of shutting down the biggest oil field in the United States is likely to abate within a matter of months. What`s more, the despite ongoing turmoil in the oil-rich […]

The Oil Drum: Is Nuclear Power a Viable Option for Our Energy Needs?

In the middle of the last year it became clear to me that the Australian Government was interested in having a debate about Nuclear Energy for Australia. I decided that we, in the School of Physics, could make a positive contribution to the debate and organized a study group to investigate this. We constructed a […]

$3-plus for gas, but we keep buying more

If anyone ever questioned America’s love affair with the automobile or our willingness to pay up for gasoline, this summer should remove all doubt. Despite record-high gas prices that seem relentless – $3.13 a gallon in New York, $3.23 in L.A. and Chicago – Americans are on track to burn through more fuel this summer […]

Apocalypse always: Is the peak oil movement just another apocalyptic cult?

Whenever the world’s scientists release yet one more piece of evidence pointing to ecological catastrophe in climate or resource depletion, some of those who are historically minded like to say it has ever been thus. For instance, peak oil nemesis Daniel Yergin loves to repeat the idea that “[t]his is not he first time the […]

No shortcuts to saving money on gas

Experts say proper tire inflation best way to reduce fuel mileage NEW YORK (CNN) — Liz and Rocky Rothwell, a retired couple from Orlando, Florida, thought they could save money on gas by dropping a little green pill called BioPerformance in their car’s tank. “When it goes in your gasoline, it disperses out. It’s supposed […]

Rising gas prices cripple New York taxi drivers

NEW YORK (Reuters) – For most Americans the rising price of gas has been a major headache, but for the 42,000 men and women who drive New York City’s famed yellow taxis, sustained high fuel prices have endangered their livelihood. And slowing economic growth could make the matter worse. Skyrocketing gas prices, which have risen […]

The World at $100 A Barrel

Two years ago in May of 2002, a group of international petroleum specialists met at Uppsala University in Sweden for a two-day conference to discuss the world’s oil supplies. The result was a consensus that global supplies of crude oil will peak as early as 2010 (or earlier) and then start to decline, ushering in […]

Sludge, lack of testing cited in pipeline failure

WASHINGTON – The North Slope oil pipelines being shut down because of corrosion were clogged for years by sludge buildup that may have prevented the most sophisticated internal corrosion tests, officials said Monday. The last time the pipelines were cleaned and tested, using a “smart pig” Investigators have been told that the Alaska pipeline, which […]

The oil apocalypse is nigh

Wilbert the Haitian trader had sailed into Grand Turk in a leaky old sloop and was selling charcoal and grills made from scrap iron. A Goliath of a cruise ship glided away from the dock behind him. It was a Caribbean Kodak moment if ever I saw one, ancient days set against the new. But […]

SchNEWS

BABYLON IS BURNING The economy is being kept afloat by a debt-fuelled consumer boom and we are engaged in a disastrous resource war. Overt corruption in political life has been oozing to the surface once again. The electoral system and the mainstream media will try and palm us off with Blair Mark II, and Cameron […]

‘Dead zone’ threat to US suburban dream

Petrol price rises may cause the housing bubble to burst, triggering global recession and the fall of America’s Eden, writes Paul Harris in New York Levitown is a bus ride beyond the aptly named Hicksville in the outer suburbs of New York. Its lawns are neat and its houses boxy. From many gardens fly American […]

Oil field closure ignites oil prices

WASHINGTON The price of a barrel of crude oil trading for delivery next month rose $2.22, or 3%, to $76.98. That just missed the record, not adjusted for inflation, of $77.03 hit July 14. Adjusted for inflation, the record was more than $86 in 1981. The increase came after energy company BP on Sunday began […]

Criticism flies over BP’s pipeline maintenance

Even though it markets itself as environmentally conscious, oil giant BP had a troubled record in its Alaskan operations even before late Sunday’s announcement that it is shutting down Prudhoe Bay production to replace corroded, leaking pipeline. The move will take away about 8% of U.S. domestic oil production for weeks or months. Environmentalists say […]

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