Cheney to follow Rice to Middle East

Vice President Dick Cheney is reaching out to moderate Arab leaders for help in bringing stability to Iraq , a mission that will include pleas for postwar support for minority party Sunnis. Cheney departs Tuesday on a weeklong mission to the Middle East, right after a visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza […]

Saudi Arabia assures RP of stable crude supply

THE KINGDOM of Saudi Arabia, the country’s biggest crude supplier, has assured the government of stable crude supply, in the event of supply constraints from the Philippines’ other suppliers. In a meeting with Asian energy ministers, Saudi Arabia Petroleum Minister Ali Al-Naimi reiterated to Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla that his country was ready and willing […]

Investigative journalist reports peak oil by 2020

The end of oil is nigh… but not if you believe politicians or oil companies. Experts predict that oil production is about to peak, plateau and then fall, creating a demand that will be greater than supply that will result in oil shocks and economic consequences that will affect all. Investigative journalist and author David […]

Ecosystems are capital assets argues report

Global ecosystems should be treated as capital assets argues a new report released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI). “We must urgently expand the climate debate beyond reducing greenhouse gases to focus on how climate change is altering ecosystem services,” said Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute. “Lima in Peru, for example, […]

Iraq’s oil production falls short of goals

Here’s a bit of good news about Iraq and oil: The Al Basrah Oil Terminal finally can work at full speed. This giant H-shaped tanker loading platform, located in the Persian Gulf off Iraq’s southeastern coast, is one of the country’s most important pieces of economic infrastructure. Thanks to US-funded reconstruction, all four of its […]

Silence on geothermal deafening

Three months ago, the Toronto Star ran a lengthy story about an oil-industry consortium that is quietly exploring the use of geothermal heat as an alternative to using natural gas in the oil sands. Replacing much of this natural gas with clean, emission-free heat under the Earth’s crust, a completely feasible option according to a […]

Total plans big Canadian oil sands upgrader

Total SA plans to build a multibillion-dollar oil sands upgrading plant near Edmonton, Alberta, to process extra-heavy crude from its Canadian projects, the French oil major said Monday. Total joins several developers planning such plants in the region, but the head of its Canadian operation said Alberta’s stretched labor force and surging cost inflation due […]

Those Mysterious Oil Reservoirs

In his 36 years with BP, Jeremy Gilbert worked in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Iran, Alaska, and the North Sea. In the late 1980s, Gilbert became BP’s Chief Petroleum Engineer, with responsibility for all of BP’s petroleum engineering worldwide. In this wide-ranging interview with ASPO-USA’s Randy Udall, he reflects on the myriad challenges we face in […]

Solar energy offers hope – but not for a long time

Solar power has long been the light at the end of the tunnel. The twin ills of America’s costly dependency on foreign oil and the unwanted creation of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion would be cured in one fell swoop if solar power ever became a cost-competitive technology. Alas, it has not happened. But […]

Students Develop New Ways to Produce Renewable Fuels

There is a frenzied push in the United States to find alternative fuels and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. At North Carolina State University, even student researchers have caught the alternative fuels bug. And they physorg

EEA Reports EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop in 2005

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in Europe decreased between 2004 and 2005, according to preliminary data from a forthcoming report by the European Environment Agency (EEA). greencarcongress

Benziger and Woo ‘06 design more efficient hydrogen cells

A new type of hydrogen fuel cell promising 100 percent efficiency has emerged from the senior thesis research of Claire Woo ‘06 and her adviser, chemical engineering professor Jay Benziger. Though the idea of a hydrogen-powered car has received a lot of hype in past years, Benziger said he does not believe that this is […]

Green Snowmobiles?

LetWith an eye on changing these terrible stats, and making winter wonderland safe and even more enjoyable for everyone, the Keweenaw Research Center, a research arm of Michigan Technological University and the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department also of Michigan Tech recently hosted the SAE 2007 Clean Snowmobile Challenge. Students from all across North America met […]

US: Get Ready for $4 Gasoline

Get ready for $4 gasoline With prices at record high, demand and refining problems could push them much higher. Any relief in sight? With gas prices near record highs, experts say $4-a-gallon gasoline is just around the corner. “I think it’s going to happen,” said Phil Flynn, a senior market analyst at Alaron Trading in […]

The Cost Of Coal On The Environment

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Ethanol byproduct may be used in biodiesel

VeraSun Energy Corp., the nation’s second-largest ethanol producer, is considering making biodiesel, its chairman said. Don Endres, chairman and chief executive officer of VeraSun, said in an interview that VeraSun has plans to extract oil from dried distillers grains, a byproduct of the ethanol process, for use in biodiesel production. Endres said the company plans […]

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The Complete User’s Guide to T. Boone Pickens’ Portfolio

T. Boone Pickens is perhaps the world’s greatest oil investor. He’s been drilling for oil, buying oil companies and running oil-based hedge funds since 1951 and right now he’s saying oil will top last year’s high of $78.80 and break through $80. “You will have to stop the demand with price,” he said at a […]

Learsy: How Congress Must Now Act to Reduce Runaway Oil/Gasoline Prices

In a little noticed event reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, the United States arrested eight non American executives involved in connection with an international cartel accused of fixing prices for industrial rubber hose. Industrial hose is employed to transfer oil between tankers and storage facilities. Between 1999 and 2007, hundreds of millions […]

Obama: More fuel-efficient cars needed

DETROIT – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday that U.S. energy policy must change in order to help domestic automakers answer the rising global demand for fuel-efficient vehicles. “For years, while foreign competitors were investing in more fuel-efficient technology for their vehicles, American automakers were spending their time investing in bigger, faster cars,” according […]

Breaking News: Ukraine gas pipeline hit by blast

A blast has destroyed a section of one of the main gas pipelines in Ukraine exporting Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine’s emergencies ministry says. It says 30m (90ft) of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline were damaged by the explosion. No injuries were reported in the blast in the Kiev region. There was no immediate information on the […]

Ethanol byproduct boosts crop yields, acts as herbicide

Several scientists of the US Department of Agriculture’s research service (ARS) have now found an interesting alternative use for the DDGs. The byproduct makes for an excellent herbicide and mulch, boosting crop yields.Biopact

Peak opportunity

…The Opportunity that Peak Oil awareness provides is to focus the mind on the inevitability and immediacy of the changes in our economic systems that will force each of us and the whole system to change very soon. It seems to me that although there is certainly a proportion of environmentally aware people who have […]

India’s crude oil import bill jumps 24% to $48.1 bn

India’s crude oil import bill jumped over 24 per cent to $48.1 billion in 2006-07 on back of rise in international prices. The country imported 110.85 million tonnes of crude oil in 2006-07, which is 11.5 per cent up from 99.4 million tonnes bought in 2005-06, petroleum ministry officials said. In terms of rupee, crude […]

Poll: Current price of oil is not justified

Canada’s business leaders believe the current price of oil is not justified, but argue the situation is in much better shape compared to the oil crisis in the mid-to-late 1970s. In a Web-based survey, 57% of respondents said the oil situation is better now than 30 years ago, while 35% of those polled believe the […]

Kurt Cobb: The point of despair

I recently gave a talk to a college audience on what I called the hidden role of energy in every environmental problem. As part of my presentation I went through a depressing list of environmental problems and showed their connection to our energy use. The next day I received a message from an audience member […]

Saudi assures Philippines of oil supplies

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Iraq: Explosives found under pipeline

BAGHDAD – Four Iraqis were arrested early Monday after soldiers found a load of explosives planted under an oil pipeline in northern Iraq that carries crude oil to Turkey, the Iraqi Army said. About 330 pounds of TNT were discovered under a stretch of the pipeline in the al-Kisk area, about 50 miles west of […]

Why one-day gasoline ‘boycott’ won’t work

With gasoline prices topping $3 a gallon again, a number of readers, including Greg in Louisiana, are wondering about a proposed one-day “gas boycott” that has a goal of taking $2.3 billion in oil company profits. Aside from circulating some questionable math, organizers of this event stand exactly zero chance of having an impact on […]

Hawaii, get ready for 2010 ConCon

It’s been nearly 30 years since Hawaii held its last state Constitutional Convention and re-examined in a holistic way how our government could be reorganized to better meet the many challenges facing the islands today. Hawaii is a different place from the one it was in 1978, the date of the last ConCon. The number […]

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