Trump Faces Test on Coal With FirstEnergy Appeal
The Trump administration’s commitment to coal is under its stiffest test yet after an Ohio energy company made a plea to favor that power source over its many rivals, including Continue Reading
Wary shale investors warn against drilling at all costs
“Each man kills the thing he loves,” wrote Oscar Wilde. US oil executives know exactly what he meant. In 2014, the US shale industry helped tip itself into a downturn Continue Reading
The Petrodollar Isn’t Dead Yet
Few geoeconomic game-changers are more spectacular than yuan-denominated future crude oil contracts – especially when set up by the largest importer of crude on the planet. And yet Beijing’s media Continue Reading
Study projects future EVs to have 30-70% lower environmental impacts that current EVs when changes to electricity generation are considered
Numerous studies have tackled the future environmental impact of battery-electric vehicles; the resulting assessments are highly uncertain. Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with Continue Reading
Russian oil output hits 11-month high in March
Russian oil output rose slightly in March to an 11-month high of 10.97 million barrels per day (bpd), above a quota agreed under a global pact to curb production, energy Continue Reading
Europe’s Biggest Gas Field To Close Over Quake Risk
Europe’s biggest gas field–Groningen in the north of the Netherlands–has been pumping gas for more than half a century and supplies gas to 98 percent of the Dutch population. But Continue Reading
Will Gazprom Leave The Ukraine Forever?
Few expected such a dramatic turn of events in the long-ongoing Russo-Ukrainian gas dispute. Before the February 28 decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court, most observers expected a court ruling Continue Reading
Can Russia Maintain European Energy Dominance?
The ninetieth century was the age of conquest and the ‘Great Game’ between the vast empires of Imperial Russia and the United Kingdom. Before the First World War, London and Continue Reading