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Bloomberg: China First-Half Gas Demand Rises 22% as Output Grows

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July 26 (Bloomberg) — China, the world’s biggest energy user, consumed 22 percent more natural gas in the first half compared with a year earlier as the country boosted production and use of the cleaner-burning fuel to cut emissions. Demand rose after China Petrochemical Corp.’s first-half gas output jumped more than 40 percent, China National […]

WSJ: What a deal: Ethanol reduces carbon for only $754 a ton.

The best refutation of the theory of the survival of the fittest is probably the corn ethanol lobby, whose annual $6 billion in federal subsidies have managed to outlive both its record of failure and all evidence and argument. So while we doubt another devastating study will result in any natural selection, recent findings from […]

Peak Oil and Climate Change: Between Too Soon and Not Soon Enough

We are going to burn all of the oil and coal we have, because their benefits as energy sources are concrete, immediate, and local, while their costs are gradual, delayed, and global. Not to put too fine a point on it, but when facing similar choices, humankind has never chosen the more long-term view. There […]

I can’t believe it’s oil!

uses include: deodorants, petroleum jelly, moisturizers, rubbing alcohol, soaps, heart valves, antiseptics, hearing aids, nasal decongestants, antihistamines, moisturizers, Bactine, vaporizers, latex gloves, bandages, allergy medications, aspirin, burn lotions, insect repellents, anesthetics, artificial limbs, cough syrup, cologne, dentures, stethoscopes, syringes, glycerin, cortisone, cosmetics, dentures, vitamins and synthetic wigs. One of the biggest uses is the manufacture […]

Chavez warns of US oil cutoff in Colombia dispute

President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to halt oil sales to the United States if Venezuela faces any military attack by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia. Chavez said in a speech to thousands of supporters that if there is an “armed aggression against Venezuela” from Colombia backed by the U.S., “we would suspend shipments of oil.” […]

Is Australia’s population a problem?

“Australia should not hurtle down the track towards a big population”. Instead, she called for a “sustainable population”. Almost four weeks on, however, Labor’s policy has no details — just lots of rhetoric designed to pander to fears that immigration (particularly asylum seekers) is causing a raft of social problems. Countries with much larger populations […]

Financial-reform bill limits the speculation in ag commodity markets that sparked food crisis

While we lament the final death rattle of climate legislation, it’s worth noting that something non-hideous emerged from the ignominious halls of Congress last week. Buried within the financial reform bill signed into law by President Obama, there’s a set of provisions that evidently limit excessive speculation in agricultural commodity markets. According to an analysis […]

E.P.A. Considers Risks of Gas Extraction

ANONSBURG, Pa. — The streams of people came to the public meeting here armed with stories of yellowed and foul-smelling well water, deformed livestock, poisoned fish and itchy skin. One resident invoked the 1968 zombie thriller “Night of the Living Dead,” which, as it happens, was filmed just an hour away from this southwestern corner […]

China turns on demand power

China, the demander, gains too much leverage on exporting countries that have not managed to diversify their clientele. With a grim scenario of minimal economic growth and decreased energy consumption in store for the US, the European Union and Japan for some time to come, energy exporting states dominated by a single sector hope to […]

Africa Can Grow Biofuel Crops Without Harming Food, Habitats, Study Shows

Africa can grow biofuel crops on a “significant scale” without damaging food production or natural habitats, researchers said. A study of biofuel production in Senegal, Mali, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique found enough land is available to “significantly” raise cultivation of sugar cane, sorghum and jatropha for energy production without reducing food output, the Forum […]

China’s expansion can be fuelled by Europe’s wind energy knowledge

China erected more wind turbines last year than any other country and may install a record 18 GW of wind power capacity this year. The European wind power industry should take quick notice of two different yet related pieces of information traveling around cyberspace in the past week as both deal with China’s stunningly rapid […]

Uranium supply key for top energy user China

In Kurt Vonegut’s 1976 novel ‘Slapstick, Or Lonesome No More’, he talks about a future Chinese government that physically shrinks the population to reduce resources demand. But such a mass miniaturisation remains in the realms of fiction, and China’s insatiable appetite continues to grow. The International Energy Agency (IEA) this week said the world’s most […]

Rush On for ‘Rare Earths’ as U.S. Firms Seek to Counter Chinese Monopoly

MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif. — About an hour’s drive southwest of Las Vegas, on a private 2,200-acre desert patch flanked by Clark Mountain and the Mojave National Preserve, lies an idled mine many consider to be a linchpin in the U.S. push for energy independence and national security. The Mountain Pass mine, once the world’s leading […]

Second Federal Analysis Gives Further Clues about Location and Movement of Subsurface Oil

July 23, 2010 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today released its second peer-reviewed, analytical summary report about subsurface oil monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico. The report contains preliminary data collected at 227 sampling stations extending […]

Top kill, junk shot, storm packer…

TEXT OF INTERVIEW KAI RYSSDAL: We try real hard on this program not to do the jargon thing. We figure the less we talk about stuff like inverted yield curves and synthetic CDOs, the better off we and you are. The oil industry obviously doesn’t feel the same way. Since the leak in the Gulf […]

Pickens Plan, the Sequel

How can you not love T. Boone Pickens? Here’s someone who made his fortune in oil, and now he’s advising us to switch major parts of the US economy to wind and natural gas. And unlike some of the other concepts for taking a big bite out of our oil consumption, his current idea actually […]

Why I Garden

My husband has been studying and writing about oil and energy resources for the past six years. Not a day goes by that we don’t talk about peak oil or the transition into the post-industrial era. So, we decided to live in a place that is close to a grocery store and the downtown where […]

Deepwater Horizon Alarm was Disabled

Mike Williams, who worked for rig owner Transocean Ltd., said a three-way alarm system to warn of fire, explosive gas and toxic gas was turned on to monitor conditions, but its sound and light alarms had been disabled. He testified he knew the alarm settings from a computer monitor into which it fed. He said […]

Oilfield Technologies Continuing the development at Prudhoe

The Prudhoe Bay oil field at the fulcrum of Alaska’s North Slope oil industry is so large that, even after more than 30 years of operation, development activity at the field continues apace, squeezing as much product as possible from the field’s 254 square miles of underground reservoir. According the most recent Prudhoe Bay progress […]

Angola becomes China’s largest crude oil source

China, the second-largest oil consumer after the U.S., imported record 3.74 million metric tons of crude oil from Angola in Jun this year, 30% more than in the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics from the General Administration of Customs. In the first half of this year, China’s crude oil imports […]

After the Climate Bill Failure

With the Senate slinking away from any effort to control climate-altering carbon emissions, the frustrated and perplexed are asking, now what? Can federal and state governments move ahead under existing law to achieve some or all of the greenhouse gas reductions envisioned in the failed legislation? Just in time comes a report from the respected […]

NYT: Filling the Global Energy Research Gap

By ANDREW C. REVKIN Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency released a batch of new findings and reports as its contribution to the Obama administration’s “Clean Energy Ministerial” meeting in Washington. One report concluded that China’s total energy use now tops that of the United States, just a couple of years behind its rise […]

Global wind power and other renewables about to surpass fossil fuels

Wind energy additions reached a record high of 38 GW last year, adding the emissions-free generating technology now exists in more than 82 nations. Wind power got another strong vote of confidence last week when the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Renewable Energy Policy Network (REN21) jointly issued reports saying supplies of new […]

Bloomberg: Oil Futures Exodus Biggest Since Lehman

Investors are exiting the oil- futures market at the fastest pace since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. amid evidence the global economic recovery is slowing. Bets on West Texas Intermediate crude slumped 13.2 percent in the 60 days through July 20 to the lowest level since November, data from CME Group Inc.’s New […]

Is Matt Simmons Credible?

The topic is touchy because Matt Simmons has long been revered in the energy business, and some of his fans will be upset with me for writing this. But Simmons has lately been making what I feel are very irresponsible and sensational claims that don’t hold up to scrutiny. So I will review his history […]

North Sea Oil’s New Boom

there is no reason to doubt that the North Sea story of renewed viability and new, if more difficult to extract, prospects can be replicated in other parts of the world. And it makes a nonsense of peak oil theories that predict steep and imminent decline for global oil reserves. Energy insiders are only too […]

Revisiting the Fake Fire Brigade Part 2: Biomass – A Panacea

When we add up what biomass is projected to accomplish in the future, we quickly arrive at large numbers, which don’t take into account the fact that extracting energy from solar flows is not something that can be easily scaled up at our discretion. Below, we look at some key biomass technologies, and also spend […]

The Barrel: Ethanol or not to ethanol – that is the question

by Alison Ciaccio Retail gasoline marketers are taking on a new mantra these days, “to ethanol or not to ethanol,” as consumers decide whether the renewable fuel is best for anything from a Mini Cooper to a tractor. While the US government mandates ethanol blending requirements up to 10%, some retailers – who can still get […]

Matt Simmons Says Gulf Clean Up Will Cost Over $1 Trillion, Sees BP At $1, Says “We Have Now Killed The GoM”

Matt Simmons shares some startling revelations in his latest Bloomberg TV interview, in which he says none of the propaganda matters on TV 24/7 (photoshopped or not) as the ultimate clean up cost will likely be well over $1 trillion, and a result he is unconcerned about his BP short. He ultimately see the stock […]

Nature Often Resilient in Recovering From Oil Spills

do not underestimate nature’s powers of recovery. After most big oil spills, scientists are pleasantly surprised by how quickly the oil disappears and the marine life reappears. This is true even in Alaska, where the sheltered waters, low temperatures and abundant wildlife conspired to make the slick damaging and persistent. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

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