Hoeven Chairs Meeting Of Interstate Oil And Gas Compact Commission In Denver

Gov. John Hoeven Wednesday will host an Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)task force summit in Denver to address oil and gas market dynamics in the Rocky Mountain area and Upper Great Plains. KXMC

Analysis: Iraq oil law (still) coming soon

The question is simple on the third and final day of a major Iraqi energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women broke bread with IraqUPI

Saudi hikes October crude prices

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has raised October official selling prices (OSPs) for its crude for Asian buyers and its lightest grades to Europe, but mostly lowered prices to the US. State-owned Saudi Aramco set its flagship Arab Light crude to Asian buyers at its highest premium in more than four years, with the price […]

Solar May Hit 5-10 Pct of Italy Power Mix by 202O

Italy may meet 5-10 percent of its total power needs from solar panels by 2020 as it boosts incentives to develop the sector, the head of an industry association said on Tuesday. “Photovoltaic energy may cover 5-10 percent of global power demand in the future,” said Gert Gremes, chairman of GIFI, a body grouping 45 […]

Iran: An oil industry that lost its head

Iran’s key oil industry could plunge into crisis, oil experts have warned, if President Mahmud Ahmadinejad does not urgently appoint a replacement for Seyed Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, who was sacked as oil minister two weeks ago in a major cabinet reshuffle. Meanwhile, various projects as well as negotiations on oil and gas deals have been […]

Technical issues stall hydrogen vehicles

Automakers differ on a likely launch dateA few years ago, it looked like we would all be driving pollution-free hydrogen-powered vehicles someday very soon. The signs, after all, were everywhere. Automakers debuted concept vehicles with fuel cells under the hood. Investors poured money into hydrogen startups. News stories abounded about the new “hydrogen economy.” Even […]

Japan, Australia working on bilateral nuclear energy deal

Japan and Australia plan to strengthen bilateral cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear power, with Tokyo poised to secure a stable supply of uranium from the world’s biggest uranium reserves holder, Japanese sources said Tuesday.For its part, Australia is believed to be seeking Japan’s support for building nuclear plants in the future. Australia currently […]

WWF says Asia-Pacific coal rush worsens global warming

Growing dependence on cheap coal to power rapid economic growth in the Asia-Pacific could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that is blamed for harmful changes in the world’s climate, experts said on Tuesday. Between 2001 and 2006, coal use around the world grew by an unprecedented 30 percent. Asia, led by China, accounted […]

Nuclear Bid to Rival Coal Chilled by Flaws, Delay in Finland

Martin Landtman hunches forward in his shirtsleeves as a June storm on Finland’s Baltic coast drenches the construction site of the world’s most powerful nuclear reactor. As project manager for TVO, the joint venture buying the plant, Landtman has weathered far worse annoyances than rain. Flawed welds for the reactor’s steel liner, unusable water- coolant […]

AN ENERGY WITH A BRIGHT FUTURE

As the world’s oil resources decline, consumer countries are looking to diversify their energy supply. There are large reserves of natural gas still waiting to be developed and an increasing number of uses to which it can be put.The gradual decline in natural gas reserves in the OECD countries combined with a growing demand for […]

China Plans US$265 Bln Renewables Spending by 2020

China plans to invest 2 trillion yuan (US$265 billion) in renewable energy by 2020, most of it corporate cash, to wean itself off polluting coal as it aims for cleaner growth, a top energy planner said on Tuesday. Chen Deming, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, added that China aimed to be using […]

A Better Way to Make Hydrogen?

A new process for using aluminum alloys to generate hydrogen from water could make fuel-cell vehicles more practical, says Jerry Woodall, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. Hydrogen fuel cells are attractive because they produce no harmful emissions, but hydrogen gas is hard to transport, and hydrogen vehicles have a limited range […]

No proof Iran running 3,000 centrifuges: diplomats

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that Iran has 3,000 centrifuges running is not backed up by evidence, diplomats familiar with U.N. inspections said. Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that Iran had 3,000 working centrifuges. With 3,000 centrifuges running smoothly in unison at supersonic speed for long periods, Iran could refine enough uranium for an atom bomb […]

Matt Simmons Calls for Hard Look at

There To meet the challenge of future energy requirements, Simmons told EnergyTechStocks.com that one of the first things that must be done is to institute a policy of

Faster Climate Change Means Bigger Problems

The debate about what constitutes However, there is no guarantee that the level of climate change

Get Your Green on in Energyville

Chevron launched an online, interactive game designed to fuel discussion about the origin of our energy. Energyville lets players select different energy sources to power their cities. They can choose from biomass, coal, solar, natural gas, petroleum, nuclear, wind or hydroelectric energy to run factories, light office buildings, and keep transportation and shipping moving along. […]

Richardson calls for transportation alternatives

Creston, Ia. The problem, he said, has been caused by poor planning by policy makers who have suffered from an inability to look forward to provide alternatives to driving automobiles.

Chicago: Nation’s Largest School Bus Company Switches Entire Fleet To Bio-Fuel

CHICAGO – The nation’s largest independent school bus company, the Cook Illinois Corporation in Chicago, is switching its entire fleet of school buses to burn bio diesel fuel. Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources such as vegetable oils. In addition, company officials will kick off a new Clean Air Club […]

Bank-Led Satellite Imagery Sheds More Light on Gas Flaring Pollution

From more than 400 miles in space, the World Bank is pinpointing the true extent of one of the planetThe imagery has reshuffled who are the top 20 gas-flaring nations, compared to previous official figures from 2004. Russia has moved to No. 1, replacing Nigeria, and new on the list, based on what satellite sensors […]

Energy market consolidation versus foreign state takeovers in Central Europe

In common with the Baltic states and Poland, which face the risk of being caught between Russian and German energy policies, Hungary is facing a similar two-front problem, albeit with country-specific differences. In HungaryAustria

Futurist sees way to end world woes

BUSINESSES will need to rethink their approach to growth and focus more on sustainability and innovation to save the planet, says futurist and author Thomas Homer-Dixon. Homer Dixon, from the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, said the world was in the grip of five major stresses:■Different rates of […]

China asks for some ‘development space’ while world seeks to curb global warming

BEIJING – China said Tuesday it was working hard to increase its use of renewable energy, but needs to be given some leeway in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases. China’s contribution over time to climate change has been relatively small, an economic planning official said when asked about China’s attitude toward the focus […]

Canada must lead by example in claiming Arctic

The title of the article in Harper’s Magazine was unusually sprightly for that rather staid journal. First, in bold letters, COLD RUSH, and below the subtitle, The Coming Fight for the Melting North. The Economist magazine was less inventive. Its article was titled “Drawing Lines in Melting Ice,” with a teaser below about “the ungainly […]

Dams ‘contributing to global warming’

The world’s dams are contributing millions of tonnes of harmful greenhouse gases and spurring on global warming, according to a US environmental agency. International Rivers Network executive director Patrick McCully told Brisbane’s Riversymposium rotting vegetation and fish found in dams produced surprising amounts of methane – 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide.“Often it’s accepted that […]

Mount Stripmine?

WHILE THE nation’s attention was focused on the nine lives lost in the deep coal mine of Crandall Canyon in Utah, the Bush administration has been busy pushing a form of strip mining in Appalachia that is lethal to land itself. It has proposed a rule that would explicitly allow mining companies to blast and […]

Coal Rush Reverses

Power Firms Follow; Plans for New Plants Stalled by Growing Opposition The mayor of Missoula, Mont., is the latest person to discover just how unpopular coal plants have become. In early August, Mayor John Engen (D) won city council support to buy electricity from a new coal-fired plant scheduled to begin operation in 2011. He […]

A letter to President Bush regarding

I have a feeling President Bush is fully aware of Peak Oil and the stakes on the table for America. I think he was speaking from his heart when he said in his State of the Union Address, I was going to e-mail this letter to www.whitehouse.gov but, realistically, it has a better chance of […]

Seacoast Sustainable Living Community

When it comes to the environment and moving beyond oil, this local group plans to be part of the solution What if there wasn’t enough fuel left to get all that great California produce we squeeze in the supermarket or if the fuel was just so expensive, we couldn’t afford that delicious orange? Not finding […]

The Dangers of Certitude

…This past August, your ASPO-USA conference co-chairs (Jim Baldauf and Steve Andrews) traveled to Houston to meet the editors and publishers of World Oil magazine and Oil and Gas Investor magazine, plus the editor of the Oil & Gas Journal and an experienced energy beat writer for the Houston Chronicle. We wanted to solicit their […]

A fuel pinch

Iran, Jordan and Syria each need to cut fuel subsidies The flip side of the Middle East oil boom has been the exponential rise of the costs that most of the region’s governments have faced in subsidising domestic energy demand Iran’s move to curb fuel consumption through rationing was motivated to a large extent by […]

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