Five bomb blasts hit Bahraini capital, two killed

Five bombs exploded in the heart of the Bahraini capital Manama on Monday, killing two Asian street cleaners, officials said, and prompting mutual accusations from activists and a government trying to put down a mostly Shi’ite pro-democracy uprising. The Interior Ministry said the bombs were homemade and described the blasts as “terrorist acts” – its […]

7,700 Gallons of Oil Spilled from Phillips 66 Refinery in NJ

Some 7,700 gallons of fuel spilled from Phillips 66’s 238,000 barrels-per-day Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, after Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. East Coast a week ago, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday. The refinery, a major gasoline producer in the region, was shut ahead of Sandy and remained idle even though electrical […]

The Proper Role of Government in Energy

Since tomorrow’s election is heavily focused on the appropriate scope of government, I have spent a little time lately reflecting upon the proper role of government in the energy sector. In regards to the U.S. Presidential race, I will refrain from analyzing the respective policies and stances concerning energy of the two candidates.  This recent […]

Sandy Price Gouging Probed: $7 Loaf of Bread, $10 Box of Matches

More than 400 possible cases of price gouging of gasoline and other essentials, including a $10 box of matches and $7 loaf of bread, have been reported in New York before and after Sandy. Reports are being investigated in New York City, the Hudson Valley and on Long Island by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. […]

Iran nuclear fuel move may ease war fears – for now

* Higher-enriched uranium short step from bomb-grade material * Tehran uses some of its stockpile to make reactor fuel * Israel’s Barak says this may delay “moment of truth” * But Iran rapidly expanding enrichment capacity By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, Nov 5 (Reuters) – A slowdown in Iran’s accumulation of its most sensitive nuclear material […]

Gasoline availability in Hurricane Areas

The EIA has stood up a daily emergency survey of gas stations in the storm-hit areas: Based on today’s emergency survey of gasoline availability, EIA estimates that 27% of gas stations in the New York metropolitan area do not have gasoline available for sale. This is a decrease from 38% yesterday. This number includes stations that […]

Nuclear fusion, JET and ITER: Your questions answered

Two European projects are hoping to pave the way for commercially viable power generation using nuclear fusion – a breakthrough that could make a massive contribution to our energy and climate change worries. We put your questions to the scientists and engineers working on these ambitious and fascinating schemes. Thank you to all readers of […]

Cecil Adams: What’s the Latest on Peak Oil?

What’s the current thinking on peak oil? Your column six years ago led me to think the petroleum tap was running dry and we’d soon be trading in our cars for bikes and roller skates. Now high-profile opinion types like David Brooks and Fareed Zakaria are making it sound like we’ve got nothing to worry […]

Growth alone is not the answer

If we know anything about what makes our economy tick we know this: Feed it cheap oil and it runs like a charm. But keep it rationed to expensive fuel, and growth stops dead. Every major global recession in the past four decades has oil’s fingerprints all over it. For all of our efforts to […]

China Looks to Boost Natural Gas Supply through Shale Gas Subsidies

China – the world’s fourth largest natural gas consuming country –will offer government subsidies to shale gas developers in an effort to boost the country’s supply of natural gas and support shale gas exploration efforts, China’s Ministry of Finance said Monday in a statement. According to the statement, a subsidy of $0.06 (CNY0.4) – running […]

Japan plans gas pipeline from Russia

Three Japanese firms are planning an 870-mile-long, offshore pipeline to bring natural gas from Russia’s Sakhalin Island, the Asahi Shimbun reported Monday. When completed in five to seven years, the pipeline, estimated to cost up to $5 billion, would substantially reduce procurement cost, sources told the newspaper. It would link Sakhalin Island with the Tokyo […]

More NY oil terminals online, gasoline lines persist post Sandy

The New York Harbor energy network was returning to normal on Sunday with mainline power restored nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the eastern seaboard. Yet damage to infrastructure near Linden, New Jersey, a major northeast fuel hub, kept a major refinery and some terminals shut, lending longer life to gasoline shortages that have […]

Rival Libya militias battle on streets of Tripoli

Rival Libyan militias fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other in Tripoli on Sunday and set fire to a former intelligence building in one of the worst breakdowns in security in the capital since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall. At least five people were wounded and a stray bullet entered a hospital in the heart of […]

Iran suspends uranium enrichment. Gesture to boost Obama’s reelection

Sources in Tehran put out word Sunday, Nov, 4, that Iran had suddenly suspended 20-percent enrichment of uranium, stopping a short step from building a nuclear device. The sources were not official. However, an Iranian lawmaker on the majlis foreign affairs and national security committee, Mohammad Hossein Asfari, was quoted as saying that the move was […]

Shell Sets Sights on Natural Gas to Fuel Growth

As weak U.S. gas prices drag down its earnings Royal Dutch Shell RDSB.LN +0.22% is planning to bolster its profits by converting natural gas into road fuels like diesel, which it can sell at much higher prices. Many energy companies are seeking to capitalize on low U.S. natural gas prices by exporting the fuel to […]

Tech Talk – The Quiet Steps of a Geothermal Movement

As I write this, the election is now less than a week away, with two entirely different paths possible for our future as we move toward 2013. These two approaches to energy are particularly different, but it is pointless to do any further comparison, since the airwaves have, on the rare occasion these differences are […]

Canada’s New Pipeline Woes

AND you thought pipeline politics in the United States were treacherous. Rebuffed by Washington on bringing the Keystone XL pipeline down through the western United States, Canada now finds that its Plan B — to build a pipeline to its west coast for shipping to Asia — has become mired in domestic politics thick enough […]

Crisis at NJ nuclear plant barely avoided in wake of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)’s official alert for the Oyster Creek nuclear power facility in Forked River, New Jersey, has been lifted. The narrowly-averted crisis was first triggered as an “unusual event” on Monday as flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rose to 4.7 feet around the plant, […]

Chaos reigns at NYC free gas fiasco

Free gas came with gallons of chaos. Thousands of fuel-starved New Yorkers were able to get much needed gasoline from the government at no cost yesterday, but not without a high-octane fit of confusion and double talk from state and federal authorities. The trouble-plagued giveaway began when Gov. Cuomo’s office announced in the morning that […]

Kuwait warns against unlicensed protest planned for Sunday

Kuwait said on Saturday it had not issued a permit to allow a planned protest against new voting rules and the prime minister warned police would use force if the nation was under threat. Kuwait outlawed unauthorised gatherings of more than 20 people last month after an opposition-led demonstration by thousands ended in clashes between […]

Daniel Yergin: The man the oil industry goes to for a voice of gravitas

Two weeks before the Nov. 6 election, industry groups backing Republican Mitt Romney distributed a new report asserting that robust oil and gas drilling will support 3 million jobs and raise $111 billion in tax revenue by the end of the decade. Amid renewed economic anxiety because of weak company earnings, the report argued that […]

Department of Defense setting up free, emergency gas stations in NYC metro area

Gov. Cuomo says the Department of Defense will set up emergency mobile fuel stations at five locations around the New York City metro area. Free gasoline will be distributed, with a 10-gallon per-person limit, Cuomo announced at a briefing today. Cars and emergency service vehicles will be able to fill up directly from the 5,000-gallon […]

Nigeria: Oil Wells – Twin Brothers Go for One Another’s Throat

There have been good neighbours for decades, but the age-long bond is being tested by disputed oil wells at their common borders. Unless there is a middle ground at the end of the meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan to broker peace in the on-going crisis between Rivers and Bayelsa States over the disputed oil […]

Man’s Eternal Need to Explore for Resources

Eternal Landscape Humans have always needed to explore for new resources — new hunting grounds, new sources for tool-making flint, new sources of salt, of wild herbs and food plants, new sources of clay for pottery, of iron for blades. Modern industrial societies have a driving need for energy. Humans stand at a fuzzy boundary […]

Queens residents arm themselves in the post-storm blackout from looters

When night falls in the Rockaways, the hoods come out. Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and […]

Kuwait warns of harsher crackdown on protests

Authorities in Kuwait have warned they will take a tougher line against anti-government demonstrators defying bans on protest gatherings. Thursday’s warning came as the Gulf nation’s opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak was released on bail after a night of violent protests against his detention that left dozens hurt, his lawyer and an AFP photographer said. Kuwaiti media reported that al-Barrack, a former member of […]

Natural Gas: America’s Future Electric Grid?

In August 2003, cascading electric blackoutsacross the northeast United States left roughly 50 million people without power and cost billions of dollars in economic losses. That incident called into question the reliability of America’s electric power grid. To the extent anyone still had doubts, that question was answered decisively by the prolonged power outages in […]

Should the federal government subsidize natural gas 18-wheelers?

Natural gas seems poised to make dramatic inroads into the transportation sector for long-haul trucks, given a powerful combination of high diesel prices, a company making large investments in building a nationwide network of stations, and major manufacturers eagerly producing the trucks. A widespread shift to natural gas would have a substantial impact on America’s […]

Why Not a ‘Lewis and Clark Project’ for Energy?

It amazes me to hear people talk about “drill here, drill now, pay less” or support an “all of the above” energy strategy, yet when asked, “drill where to find what?”, the response is oftentimes a blank stare or a generic, “on federal lands.” Many people would be surprised to know that regarding our “frontier” […]

NYC CRAIGSLIST: $15 a gallon

A third day of gasoline “panic buying” among storm-stricken New York area motorists prompted authorities on Friday to tap strategic oil reserves and waive shipping regulations even as limited deliveries resumed in the battered region. The U.S. government said it will loan 2 million gallons of diesel from the Northeast emergency heating oil reserve to […]

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