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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…

Jun 09, 2014 at 16:02

Canada’s federal government is expected to announce its final decision on Enbridge’s (TSX, NYSE:ENB) Northern Gateway proposed pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to a tanker port in Kitimat,…

Jun 09, 2014 at 08:45

It seems to be the darkest hour in the thermal coal market right now.Prices in key markets like Australia have dipped to multi-year lows. With benchmark Newcastle coal…

Jun 06, 2014 at 19:17

City-dwelling Chinese may still be choking on smog, but amid all the haze, China may be turning a corner in its fight on pollution. Top Chinese officials have hinted at…

Jun 06, 2014 at 18:55

The Norwegian energy company DNO International says it has exceeded 100,000 barrels of oil per day from its operations in the Kurdish north of Iraq, while Russian energy company Gazprom…

Jun 06, 2014 at 18:45

At the Age of Limits Conference, I gave a talk called Converging Crises (PDF), talking about the crises facing us as we reach energy limits. In this post,…

Jun 06, 2014 at 17:46

More oil was delivered by rail in the United States during the first four months of the year than in any other period in history, according to the Association of…

Jun 06, 2014 at 16:55

It has been the continued strength of the crude oil market, through the very bearish (and wrong) predictions of most of the major wirehouse analysts that has informed most of…

Jun 06, 2014 at 16:53

Last week, with reference to solar power, I outlined the basic reasons to invest in those that supply an industry rather than specific individual companies. The logic is obvious. Investing…

Jun 06, 2014 at 16:46

The big news of the week was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to limit greenhouse gases from existing power plants, a move that is intended to reduce carbon…

Jun 06, 2014 at 16:36

Oil and Gas FlashpointsSince fighting broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, oil production has fallen by at least one-third, with officials now giving us a closer…

Jun 06, 2014 at 16:26

If you’re working a value-focused oil stock portfolio, it may be easy to find several services that offer a fundamental view of this type of stock. When looking at the…