General Electric has unveiled what is being lauded as breakthrough energy storage technology in the form of the new Durathon Battery to power an underground vehicle that transports mining materials.…
Despite rising electricity surcharges due to renewable energy subsidies, Germans on 22 September voted out the only political party that stood in the way of renewable energy efforts and would…
The United States, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form a bloc that are convinced that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is intended ultimately to produce a…
Several years ago, Asian mining companies were all the buzz.The idea was that deep-pocketed miners from China, Japan and Korea were going to buy projects around the world.…
Crude oil prices started the week on the decline ahead of this week's summit at the U.N. General Assembly. At center stage this week will be Iranian President Hassan Rouhani,…
In line with an overhaul at Chesapeake Energy Corp. under a new CEO, the company has lain off its entire natural gas vehicle team, and more layoffs could be in…
In a major piece of bad news for Armenia’s neighbors Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, Armenia's energy minister Armen Movsisyan has told journalists that the country’s aging Metsamor NPP, originally scheduled…
A town on the coast of Spain has put itself on the map by becoming the first in the world to launch a plant that converts sewage into clean energy.…
What will the world economy be like ten years from now? Or fifty years from now? Is it something that we can forecast by looking at the past, assuming that…
U.S. natural gas continues to be one of the cheapest commodities globally, on a late-historical basis.But despite the low price (in fact, because of it), there's a fight…
Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said last week it was time to add more diversity to an energy sector that relies almost exclusively on the United States. New drilling…
Within three years, Tesla Motors is planning to roll out a virtually driverless car that takes over 90% of driving—a time frame that blows other driverless car makers out of…
The largest independent refinery in the world, US-based Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) is lobbying Washington to scrap the ethanol mandate urgently because refiners can’t keep up with the costs of…
Modern armies run on fuel, as Hitler discovered to his cost.Belatedly discovering energy as a strategic need, on 6 September NATO opened its Energy Security Center of Excellence…
Many policymakers hope that shale oil and gas production will lead to greater energy independence. Deepak Gopinath isn’t so sure. He thinks that fracking is wasteful, expensive and is merely…
On his recent tour of U.S. shale basins, Frank Curzio, Editor of Small Stock Specialist and Phase 1 Investor, noticed two major trends: The transportation industry is eager to make…
What will they do with all that cash?That’s the question investors are asking of major oil firms like Apache (NYSE: APA). The company recently completed a…
Since my last column pointing out the vast value I saw in back month crude futures, I wanted to try to translate that opportunity into stock ideas. I invited subscribers…
As all attention is focused on Syria, and wondering how oil prices might respond to a US strike, where oil is concerned the focus should be on Iraq, which is…
November Crude Oil futures traded lower this week, but the market remained inside the broad $100.80 to $111.34 range. Several times this week, the market straddled a key retracement zone…