‘Iran to double gas production’

Iran’s oil minister Ghozam Hossein Nozari said Monday that the country planned to double its gas production to 400 billion cubic metres a year by 2025. “We have reached production of about 500 million cubic metres per day this year which puts us in fourth position in the world,” Nozari told an energy conference in […]

Sudan Says Oil Output to Rise, Unaffected by Darfur Conflict

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Russia can enrich 40 per cent of world’s nuclear fuel uranium – Rosatom

Russia’s nuclear power corporation Rosatom can enrich 40 per cent of uranium used by the world’s nuclear power plants, said the press secretary of the state-owned corporation, Sergey Novikov. “Russia accounts for 17 per cent of the nuclear fuel output on the world market. This means that every fifth reactor operates on Russia-made fuel,” he […]

UK: Green lobby and nuclear groups clash over role of renewables

EDF and E.ON have warned the government they may be forced to drop plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants unless the government scales back its targets for wind power. The demands – contained in submissions to the government’s renewable energy consultation – reinforces the worries of wind developers that the two […]

Moscow starts to shut up shop

Four decades after her father wrote Back in the USSR, Stella McCartney is shutting up shop in Moscow. Designers such as Lanvin and Alexander McQueen have followed suit. Several stores that were once packed with fur-clad Russians fighting to pick up the latest western trends now stand empty. Only six months ago, wealthy Muscovites were […]

The world’s first climate change refugees

By 2015 the Carteret islands – off the coast of Papua New Guinea- could well be a mirage. The low lying atoll is sinking and sinking fast.The ocean is rising. Salt water has eaten up the shoreline and invaded the gardens. For many, it’s time to pack up and go … but without help from […]

Indonesia Must Boost Palm Yields To Save Forests

Indonesia needs to squeeze far higher yields from existing palm oil plantations rather than open up more land in a country with some of the world’s swiftest deforestation, a Greenpeace official said on Monday. Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil producer, yields only about 2 tonnes per hectare from its plantations, or just a third […]

Afghanistan Holds Mineral Treasure – Minister

Afghanistan sits on one of the largest mineral deposits in the region, the country’s mines minister said, urging foreign firms to invest in oil, gas and iron ore sectors. A US Geological Survey (USGS) had shown that the war-torn nation may hold far higher amounts of minerals than previously thought, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel said.“In the […]

Crisis Hampers EU Wind Power In Short-Term – Lobby

The economic downturn is delaying wind power projects in the European Union but the negative impact will not last because of strong sector fundamentals, a European wind power lobby said on Monday. “There is a slowdown in the sector, we are seeing some signs, but much less than in other sectors,” Arthouros Zervos, president of […]

Electric-powered ATVs? Farmers seen as niche

Napa vineyard wants pollution-free vehicle it can charge with solar panels ASHLAND, Ore. – Electric all-terrain vehicles may not impress the dune- and trail-riding crowd that rides for recreation, but a few small companies expect organic farmers and vineyard growers will pay a premium to gather cattle and spray vines without the carbon footprint of […]

Greenland thaw among feared climate shifts by 2200

OSLO (Reuters) – A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland’s ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of strong global warming, according to a survey of experts. The poll of 52 scientists, looking 100 years beyond most forecasts, also revealed […]

Sentiment toward nuclear power improving: study

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Consumers around the world, worried about reliable energy supplies and pollution, said their nations should reduce use of oil, natural gas and coal to make electricity in favor of nuclear and renewable power, according to a 20-country survey by Accenture. Results of Accenture’s Multinational Nuclear Power Survey showed that 88 percent of […]

Kunstler: The horror of suburbia

James Howard Kunstler talks about suburbia as the thing that deprives us of the ability to “live in a hopeful present.” We are a nation, he says, of places not worth caring about. In this TED talk, he makes a case for the need for better places, for public spaces that are inspired centers of […]

Monbiot: If we behave as if it’s too late, our prophecy is bound to come true

However unlikely success might be, we can’t afford to abandon efforts to cut emissions – we just don’t have any better option Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than 2C of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the […]

Baker Hughes to cut another 1,500 jobs

HOUSTON The second wave of job cuts, which began last week, represents about 4 percent of the Houston-based company’s global work force, Flaharty said. About one-third of the cuts will take place in the United States. Tumbling crude prices, frozen credit markets and forecasts for meager energy consumption have forced oil and gas producers worldwide […]

Preparing city for life after oil

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Drowning islands warn of future perils for ‘environmental refugees’

(CNN) — There is one holiday destination that should shake the faith of even the most vehement climate change skeptic: the Carteret Islands, part of Papua New Guinea, located northeast of Bougainville. The palm trees sway gently under a balmy sun, the beaches are perfect, and stretched out as far as the eye can see […]

Naimi: Oil substitutes must wait

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Hot, Flat and Bothered

Thomas Friedman has done it again. He has taken a global situation, this time it Friedman is an engaging storyteller who can skillfully elucidate complex ideas with pithy phrases. For example, in the book

Will peak oil mean the end of aviation?

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Some or all of VeraSun could pass to oil owner

At the height of its rapid ascent in the ethanol business, VeraSun Energy owned assets worth as much as $2 billion and was in the running to become the largest ethanol producer in the United States. What those same 16 ethanol plants, including Nebraska holdings at Ord, Albion and Central City, are worth in a […]

Kunstler: Side Trip

…After apartheid fell, white business fled the large central business district of Joburg for the northern suburbs, establishing an alternative universe of drive-in offices, malls, and gated housing “estates” (what we call tract housing). Meanwhile, the skyscraper district — about the size of Denver’s — was abandoned for a while. Squatters moved into forty story […]

Climate change blues: how scientists cope

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Hydrogen fuel cell cars – Will they blow you up?

Last night, while watching Living Green with Ed (Begley Jr.), he visited Jay Leno’s plethora of vehicles in Los Angeles and they discussed the hydrogen fuel cell and its future for vehicles. Jay mostly made fun of Ed, most likely because he’s a comedian, but their discussion made me think, Wow, look at what happened […]

China, Kazakhstan, may sign energy agreement

China is likely to ink an agreement with Kazakhstan on finance, energy and resources cooperation within 2009, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at a press conference after the closing of the annual session of the National People’s Congress on Friday. Wen asked the nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan […]

PetroChina in deal to run 1st east China LNG terminal

PetroChina has signed a deal to set up a joint venture to run its first liquefied natural gas terminal in eastern China scheduled to be operational at the end of April in 2011. The terminal would be mainly fed by fuel imports from Qatar, a report on the website of CNPC, PetroChina’s parent, said. Qatargas, […]

Saudi Arabia says oil needs to be at $60-$75

Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said Monday that petroleum-producing countries need a price of at least $60 a barrel to bring more energy resources on the market. “If we want all hydrocarbon resources developed worldwide, 40 dollars is not enough,” Ali al-Naimi told reporters in Geneva, where he was attending an energy conference. Crude oil returns […]

Oilwatch Monthly March 2009

Latest Developments Conventional crude production – Latest available figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that crude oil production including lease condensates decreased by 639,000 b/d from November to December 2008, resulting in a total production of crude oil including lease condensates of 72.79 million barrels per day. The all time high production record […]

Opening of natural gas field to relieve a fuel-starved India

India’s biggest natural gas field will transform the energy landscape when production begins this month, eventually doubling the nation’s supply of the cleaner-burning fuel and reducing its reliance on oil. The $8.8 billion project of Reliance Industry will mean many things to India’s one-billion-plus people: more power supply from idled generators starved of gas; lower […]

StatoilHyrdro reports big gas find off Norway

Norwegian group StatoilHyrdro said on Monday that it had found a deepwater gas field off the Norwegian cost that could hold 16 billion cubic metres of gas, describing it as “one of the bigger disoveries off Norway in recent years.” The company said gas had been discovered in a prospecting zone called Asterix, 1,360 meters […]

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