A team of researchers at Xiamen University in China has examined the factors influencing electric vehicle uptake in major Chinese cities. Boqiang Lin and Wei Wu have put forward an Continue Reading
Southeast Asia’s growing deficit of fossil fuels including oil, natural gas and coal up to 2040 will dictate energy trends for the whole region, including trade flows, investments and policy Continue Reading
Invisible disaster: Infrared images from the Environmental Defense Fund show a huge plume spewing from the ground. Two years ago today, the largest U.S. methane leak was discovered. The leak Continue Reading
Saudi Aramco’s CEO says he does not worry about the booming U.S. shale oil output. The “sweet spots” that American frackers are focusing on will eventually deplete, forcing them to Continue Reading
BOEM proposes lease sale for nearly 77 million acres in Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday proposed what it Continue Reading
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history this week. The sale will include almost 77 million acres of federal waters in the Continue Reading
Connie Francis sang about “Where the Boys Are” in 1961. Well, the bright boys and girls are flooding into transportation. It is the place of cutting-edge invention: not cell phones, Continue Reading
More than 100 pages of testimony submitted in challenge to plans by Enbridge to overhaul a crude oil pipeline in Minnesota. An agency charged with part of the vetting process Continue Reading
A report from the non-partisan U.S. Government Accountability Office finds the U.S. may be facing significant economic strains due to climate change. A U.S. report found the costs associated with Continue Reading
Midwestern politicians used leverage to halt biofuel changes Trump told EPA’s Pruitt to keep Iowa Senator Grassley happy Farm-state interests just conquered Big Oil in a fight over biofuels, proving Continue Reading
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has launched a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) pilot, with the first charge point already being utilized with Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV’s in-vehicle storage batteries. Using V2G-technology, peak demand on Continue Reading
Oil prices inched up on Tuesday, getting support from a decline in oil exports from OPEC’s second-biggest producer Iraq and a projected extended fall in U.S. commercial oil stocks. London Continue Reading
WTI prices closed in on $52 a barrel on Monday as OPEC reported record compliance to its 10-month old output reduction agreement. A slowdown in North American drilling coincided with Continue Reading
In this piece, I decided to tackle some recent oil-related data that shows a continued recovery in the market. Prices aren’t responding, but the underlying data suggests the recovery in Continue Reading
Unplanned disruptions in global oil supply dropped to 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) in September 2017, which was the lowest level of crude offline due to unforeseen events since Continue Reading
An unexpected disruption could occur at any moment, as has happened in the past, leading to a sudden and sharp jump in prices. Geopolitical tension has been largely irrelevant since Continue Reading
Crude oil flows from Kurdistan to Turkey’s port city of Ceyhan continued at rates of between 200,000 and 250,000 bpd over the weekend, versus a normal flow of between 550,000 Continue Reading
Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi met a senior BP executive on Monday to discuss developing and boosting production from Kirkuk oilfield, a ministry spokesman said. Luaibi, who met BP’s president Continue Reading
Saudi Aramco has once again refuted reports of the past month that it could delay the listing of 5 percent of its shares in what is expected to be the Continue Reading
Saudi Energy Minister Khaled al-Falih said on Tuesday that there was flexibility and options were open on an OPEC-led supply cut agreement. Mohammed Falih, who holds the rotating presidency of Continue Reading
Saudi Aramco’s chief executive said on Tuesday that domestic and international exchanges such as New York, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong have been looked at for a partial listing of Continue Reading
Researchers from the University of Sankt Gallen have found that neonatal mortality rises if a child’s mother lives close to an oil spill before conception. Niger Delta resident Annkio Briggs Continue Reading
Southeast Asian demand for oil will keep growing until at least 2040 as emerging nations there rely on the fossil fuel to transport their rapidly growing populations, ship goods and Continue Reading
Pennsylvania’s governor asked U.S. President Donald Trump to ease up on the state’s oil refiners by waiving a rule requiring them to add renewable fuel to their products, following a Continue Reading
In a presentation at the New York Stock Exchange this week, Doug Suttles, chief executive of Encana, spelt out the new reality for North American oil and gas producers. The Continue Reading
A number of years ago, one of the smartest entrepreneurs in the electric industry (as evidenced by the timing of his sale of generating assets to a big energy producer) Continue Reading
North Carolina-based utility provider Duke Energy is betting on the rise of increasingly efficient battery technology to propel the rise of solar and wind power over the next five years, Continue Reading
Commodity and energy trading houses have proven that they can adapt their business model in an economy that imposes more capital requirements and regulations every day. These companies have invested Continue Reading
Figures from last year say the Midwest’s refining capacity at 3.9 million barrels per day – that’s the highest volume on record. The surge in production comes from new sources Continue Reading
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Kremlin respects Iraq’s sovereignty. Bilateral talks Monday came after Baghdad issued veiled warnings over oil contracts. After Iraq issued veiled warnings about oil Continue Reading
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday that compliance with a global output cut deal in the past nine months had been 102 percent. He said compliance by OPEC Continue Reading
When crude oil demand will peak is anyone’s guess. Forecasts vary widely. Wood Mackenzie says that peak demand is “very real,” and sees a decline of 4 million bpd between Continue Reading
The Telegraph . London’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is due to issue a study on the matter soon, and industry sources said the Rolls Royce consortium’s Continue Reading
Oil prices rose on Monday oversupply concerns in the Middle East and as the U.S. market showed further signs of tightening while demand in Asia keeps rising. Crude oil is Continue Reading
According to Bloomberg , questions over demand growth, relative production from the U.S. and OPEC and the lingering glut are dividing prognosticators and generating some seriously divergent views of what Continue Reading
Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military force with political clout and an industrial empire, stands to benefit from heightened tension between Washington and Tehran, officials and analysts said. Continue Reading
Last quarter, offshore drilling rig companies retired more rigs than ever before in a three-month period, according to one energy advisory firm. Embattled Transocean is sending six floating rigs to Continue Reading
Last week some comments from OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo signaled that OPEC may not understand how the U.S. oil industry functions. Reuters reports that Barkindo urged cooperation from U.S. Continue Reading
Oil exports from Iraq’s Kurdistan via the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan have risen slightly to around 255,000 barrels per day (bpd), a shipping source told Reuters on Monday. Flows Continue Reading
Sub-Saharan African oil producers may be among the more promising emerging players, though a downturn in investments is striking a blow, analysis finds. Nigeria is a member of the Organization Continue Reading
The next few weeks for Venezuela will be crucial, as it could struggle to meet a huge stack of debt payments. Reports that the nation’s oil production is experiencing deteriorating Continue Reading
Colombia production is holding a plateau over the past year after a large decline in the last part of 2015 and first half of 2016. August value was 858 kbpd Continue Reading
China’s Datang Corp has 28 days of coal stocks for its power plants, enough for winter consumption, the company’s general manager told Reuters on Monday, brushing off concerns that utilities Continue Reading
Bangladesh expects to import first 0.05% sulfur gasoil through pipeline from neighboring India by the end of 2019 under an agreement to import a total 5 million of the fuel Continue Reading
For much of the past two decades, China has been the main driver of global oil demand growth. In the coming two to three decades, China is expected to become Continue Reading
Last year, shortly after the election, the coal baron Robert Murray received a phone call from President-elect Donald Trump. “He said, ‘Tell your coal miners I got their backs,’ ” Continue Reading
U.S. refineries from Ohio to Minnesota are capitalizing on access to cheap crude from Western Canada and North Dakota oilfields, helping their region break a historic dependence on fuel from Continue Reading
The Narragansett Bay Estuary Program is funded through the E.P.A.’s approximately $26 million National Estuary Program. WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency Continue Reading
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has questioned whether human activity ranks as a main driver of global warming. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) The Environmental Protection Agency has instructed two of its scientists Continue Reading
This is one of those essays that if read 100 years from now will be seen as either amazingly prophetic or yet another example of the misguided apocalyptic literature emerging Continue Reading
