Al Fin runs a number of very successful blogs that cover, energy, technology, news and politics.
US oil production continues to climb, introducing an odd shape to the traditional "peak oil graph" that has long been touted by energy doomers.USEIAThese continuing…
The real impact stems from its effect on the oil market. Shale gas offers the means to vastly increase the supply of fossil fuels for…
The US shale boom has already hit Russia's Gazprom hard. Now, the rising boom in US oil production, along with other sources of new global…
Terrorists could black out large segments of the United States for weeks or months by attacking the power grid and damaging hard-to-replace components that are…
Russia has the largest land area of any nation. Its land is not only vast, but rich. Oil, gas, base minerals, diamonds, precious metals, high…
US President Obama has big plans for using the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to shut down a large number of US energy projects and…
How dependent on oil & gas revenues is Russia's federal budget? Vladimir Putin recently claimed that his government is only 50% dependent on oil &…
“For foreign oil companies seeking to expand production and reserves, Russia is now off limits,” Robbert Van Batenburg, head of research at Louis Capital Markets…
In an abrupt break from its earlier peak oil-esque predictions of near-future astronomical oil prices, giant Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs now predicts an…
UK based think tank Chatham House has published a new report: What Next for the Oil and Gas Industry? The report predicts a continued lessening…
Next week in Toronto, nuclear scientists and government functionaries from around the world will gather to talk about different ways to bury nuclear waste deep…
We know that Russia's Gazprom and President Putin would like for the rest of the world to forget all about fracking for shale gas --…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown, widespread superstition and primal fear regarding nuclear energy has gripped the hearts and minds of politicians, pundits, and…
Citi is projecting that (PDF) oil costs will stabilize at $80 to $90 a barrel by the year 2020. And a recent report from Harvard's…
Russia is a difficult country to analyse. It is the largest nation on Earth, rich in natural resources and human resources. And yet it is…
There have been numerous reports in recent times, of oil and gas fields not running out at the expected time, but instead showing a higher…
The continued existence of Russia as a transcontinental power depends on its ability to leverage vast energy wealth into political stability and power. Without energy…
Gas to liquids (GTL) is a capital intensive process of converting natural gas to either diesel (FT) or gasoline (MTG). The countries of the world…
China's problems are piling up, just when the celestial kingdom is attempting an orderly handover of power. Since China's wild grab for commodities over the…
The following images are taken from a recent report, North American Energy Inventory (PDF) from Institute for Energy Research. I encourage you to read the entire…