South American Gas Pipeline Project on Hold, Petrobras Says

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, said plans to build a $20 billion natural gas pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina are on hold because of an impasse between Brazil and Bolivia over energy prices. A feasibility study of the 10,000 kilometer (6,215 mile) pipeline that was scheduled for delivery next month, won’t be ready […]

Geostrategic oil interests and the Gulf

At the end of the day, energy conservation and new forms of energy will be needed alongside a fair distribution of oil and gas resources. It becomes increasingly discernible that there is not enough energy out there to replicate the lifestyle of the industrialized countries on a worldwide scale. International institutions like the IEA expect […]

Africa: Fraction of Oil Profits Sought for Poorest Nations

The world’s 50 poorest nations — ranging from Cape Verde and Haiti to Nepal and Sierra Leone — are turning to the major oil-producing nations for urgently needed assistance for development. Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, U.N. under-secretary-general for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), has proposed that oil-producing nations should consider earmarking just 10 cents per barrel from […]

Oil firms ‘hushing up’ crisis of corroding pipelines

The oil industry is hushing up the extent to which corrosion is eating into pipelines and hitting production, the head of the Royal Society of Chemistry has told The Times. Richard Pike, who spent 25 years working for BP before becoming a consultant to a number of global oil and gas companies, said that some […]

World can absorb oil rises, bank chief says

The world economy will not face a serious inflation problem even if there is a further significant increase in the price of oil, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia said on Thursday. Ian Macfarlane, whose 10-year tenure makes him one of the world’s longest serving central bank chiefs, said in an interview with […]

Russia spins global energy spider’s web

The vast bulk of the world’s oil, gas and strategic minerals resources either is coming under or is already under the control of authoritarian, or less-than-democratic, or leftist, or otherwise radical regimes either with a decidedly anti-Western political stance and ideology or pointedly decreased sensitivities to strategic US interests. atimes

New Report Outlines Six Steps to Beating Global Warming

As Pennsylvania approaches the end of a summer that saw extreme heat waves and severe flooding plague much of the state, a new report released today by PennEnvironment outlined how the country can achieve the pollution reductions necessary to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. The report found that we can reduce our global […]

Paving the Way to War with Iran

Similarly, though those who criticize the intelligence agencies do so mostly because they WANT a tougher policy towards Tehran, I can’t help but conclude that the agencies have done so little to engender confidence. Look at Iraq today: everyday the CIA and military intelligence proves that they do not to have a clue about what […]

Alternative energy resource bill passed in state legislature

A bill to promote geothermal energy development in California was unanimously approved in both houses of the state thedesertsun

Promoting Alternative Energy Without Being Too Green

NICHOLAS PARKER would like to take this opportunity to loudly and clearly dispel any misconception that he is a tree hugger. As chairman of the trade group Cleantech Venture Network, Mr. Parker helps venture capital invest in technologies aimed at improving energy sources or providing alternatives by promoting the concept, providing research and sponsoring conferences […]

Ofgem: UK’s gas supply crisis is improving

The chairman of the power regulator Ofgem has raised hopes for lower energy bills by claiming that gas supplies could be under less pressure this winter. Sir John Mogg says he is confident new gas pipelines from Norway and the Netherlands will be up and running later this year. His optimism conflicts with warnings from […]

Ed Begley, Jr., and Josephine Gonzalez talk up solar power in LA

For a four-part video interview with actor and environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., in which he talks about peak oil, California Proposition 87, and solar electricity, go to: For an audio interview with Josephine Gonzalez, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Solar Program Manager, talking about the LADWP’s new performance-based Solar Incentives Program, go […]

Study Rules Out Ancient Bursts Of Methane From Seafloor Deposits

A dramatic increase about 12,000 years ago in levels of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, was most likely caused by higher emissions from tropical wetlands or from plant production, rather than a release from seafloor methane deposits, a new study concludes. This research, to be published Friday in the journal Science, contradicts some suggestions […]

Oil majors cultivate an interest in biofuel industry

After years of playing down the role of biofuels in the global energy markets, the world FT

Coal Gasification Archive Goes Online

A Texas A&M University history professor and Syntroleum Corporation, owner of a compact Fischer-Tropsch fuels technology, are posting nearly a quarter of a million pages of coal gasification research conducted from the 1920s through 1980s on the Internet. greencarcongress

Top hydrogen-storing polymer revealed

A series of computer simulations has identified a polymer material with a very large capacity for storing hydrogen that could be exploited in fuel cells. Jisoon Ihm and colleagues at Seoul National University in South Korea have discovered that polyacetylene with titanium atoms attached to the polymer chain can hold 63 kilograms of hydrogen per […]

Mexico’s PEMEX Restarts Development of Mature Fields

Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Thursday it has reactivated development of mature oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. realtimenews

Commentary: Using Low-Wattage Computers

Right now I am typing this article on a Tandy 1000 HX computer from the late 1980s. I will have to use a newer 250-watt computer to put the article online, but for now this computer is only drawing 28 watts of power. Although it can’t run Windows XP and would be rather slow on […]

Analysis: The Death of Oil?

(UPI) — Oil is ’signing its own death warrant’ by pricing itself out of the market, according to a new report by leading U.K. think tank Chatham House. But this is not a wholly negative occurrence, as high oil prices are forcing consumers to use technology more efficiently and invest in sustainable energy sources, the […]

Innovative Generator Could Spark Energy Savings

An innovative residential generator that can produce both heat and electricity could spark a revolution in energy efficiency, said Eric Guyer (S.M. 1974, Sc.D. 1977), the CEO of Climate Energy, during an MIT Energy Club talk recently. Science Daily

New device cuts gas engine air pollution

TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 23 (UPI) — Two U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a light-weight, relatively inexpensive way of reducing unburned hydrocarbon air pollutants from gasoline engines. Science Daily

Funds: Looking Past Era of Gushing Oil

International Herald Tribune – Howard Su’s Global Materials and Energy Fund, the first commodities fund in Taiwan, has more than tripled returns for investors in its two years. Now, faced with flattening oil and metals prices, Su is buying stocks of bioengineered products and alternative fuels companies – shares that so far have lagged behind […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: Conserving Light

This week the UN is to come up with a sanctions resolution that will keep Iran’s two million barrels a day of exports flowing and at the same time convince Tehran to give up on uninspected nuclear enrichment. Crafting such a resolution is likely to take some doing as the Chinese, who are more concerned […]

Peak Oil prophecies

Rise of the eco-engineers Lately, I’ve been freaking out over Peak Oil. For the uninitiated, Peak Oilers envision a fitful collapse of our hyper-industrial society, when crude oil passes its peak supply arc and slowly declines as a resource. As the supply of cheap energy sputters out of existence, Peak Oil adherents imagine resource wars, […]

The ‘Peak’ Role of Biofuels

Experts may not see eye-to-eye on peak oil projections, but most now agree the world In fact, Groenewold said the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB), a group comprised of governors and state legislators from 16 southern states released a critically acclaimed study in mid-July that focused on America’s liquid transportation fuel options. The

Gas prices mean more students take bus

ATLANTA – Most weekday afternoons, Patricia Israel waits in her front yard for the school bus to drop off her 6-year-old twin sons. The boys beg to ride the bus every day, which Israel said is fine with her. She sees it as environmentally sound transportation that reduces traffic on the streets and at the […]

The ”Fuel Surcharge” Scam

The latest trick to hide corporate price hikes. When higher costs squeeze them, most companies face two choices. They can raise their prices, risking the wrath of consumers and the loss of market share to cheaper competitors. Or they can sacrifice profits to keep prices steady and retain market share. But these days, some companies […]

Problem slows Prudhoe Bay oil production

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Production at the Prudhoe Bay oil field was reduced by another 90,000 barrels on Wednesday when a problem was discovered in a compressor, according to a spokesman for BP PLC, operator of the country’s largest oil field. The mechanical problem cut oil production at Prudhoe Bay from an already reduced 200,000 barrels […]

Oil lures West to troubled Myanmar

BANGKOK, Thailand – Governments both East and West are often critical of Myanmar’s human rights abuses, but the country’s energy production is rising, and nations are quietly doing lucrative business with its junta leaders. Although the U.S. leads the chorus of criticism and has slapped economic sanctions on the country, giant oil company Chevron Corp. […]

BP fighting hurricane-related offshore oil leak

HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP Plc (BP.L) is working to control an offshore oil well damaged by Hurricane Katrina nearly a year ago that continues to leak small amounts of crude, officials said on Wednesday. The well, 18 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Grand Isle 47 block, has released 93 barrels of oil since […]

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