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Jun 12, 2014 at 17:32

Along with 3 billion other viewers around the world, I plan to tune in for the month-long World Cup to see whether the 22-year old Neymar can withstand the…

Jun 12, 2014 at 17:04

There has been speculation, including in this Aljazeera piece by Paul Hockenos, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will fall victim to “The Oil Curse” as set out in

Jun 12, 2014 at 16:56

China has been buying up oil at a record pace in order to stockpile reserves for a rainy day as part of its strategy to insulate the country from…

Jun 12, 2014 at 16:45

Recently, the IEA published  a “Special Report” called World Energy Investment Outlook. Lets’s start with things I agree with:1. World needs $48 trillion in investment to meet…

Jun 12, 2014 at 08:53

There's no doubt that China has been the biggest story in commodities over the past decade.Chinese demand has driven prices for everything from copper to coal to kaolin.…

Jun 11, 2014 at 17:06

On June 2, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a sweeping plan to rein in carbon pollution from the nation’s coal-fired power plants. It was the most significant step his…

Jun 11, 2014 at 16:52

Coal-fired power in the United States should start to ebb as regulations targeting pollution come into effect. More power, in turn, is coming online in the form of green energy…

Jun 11, 2014 at 16:35

Not all of Canada’s oil sands are destined for the proposed – and much disputed – Keystone XL pipeline through the United States. Energy start-up Pacific Energy Future…

Jun 11, 2014 at 16:28

Every morning after I wake up, I have a routine. The first thing I do, regardless of how sleepy I might still be, is slip on my shoes and run…

Jun 11, 2014 at 10:13

The tight oil boom in the United States is a well-worn story, and it is difficult to find oil and gas companies that have huge growth prospects but are not…

Jun 11, 2014 at 08:43

There's been a lot of debate lately about the future of oil prices. With a steady chorus of observers suggesting that crude must fall--as indicated by backwardation in futures curves…

Jun 10, 2014 at 17:04

OPEC’s second largest oil producer is in severe disarray just as the world has come to rely upon Iraq for greater energy supplies.Iraq is facing its biggest security…

Jun 10, 2014 at 16:47

In another sign that the United States has evolved into a major oil-producing nation, the first company to receive government permission to fly commercial drones over unpopulated areas isn’t

Jun 10, 2014 at 16:38

Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann wakes up every day thinking about trash. What got him thinking about it in the first place is how much of it is simply dumped into landfills across…

Jun 10, 2014 at 16:17

The International Energy Agency has just released a new special report called “World Energy Investment Outlook” that should send policy makers screaming and running for the exits—if they are…

Jun 10, 2014 at 08:56

The line on China has always been: companies here are primarily concerned with securing supplies of valuable commodities. With revenues and profits coming second.That certainly appears to be…

Jun 09, 2014 at 17:12

The British government wants to put cybercriminals who target the nation's energy sector behind bars for life. Many of the worst power outages in history, however, had more to do…

Jun 09, 2014 at 17:01

Last December, as OPEC prepared to meet in Vienna, Bloomberg News reported that analysts it polled had predicted that the oil cartel would leave its production quota unchanged in the…

Jun 09, 2014 at 16:51

A major energy crisis was averted last week in parts of Europe when common sense prevailed over the habitual hard-headedness often displayed by many politicians.Russia was set to…

Jun 09, 2014 at 16:29

So dear to Mexican society is the legacy of Lázaro Cárdenas’s 1938 expropriation of the country’s oil sector that it is still celebrated annually as a national holiday. Perhaps it…