James Burgess studied Business Management at the University of Nottingham. He has worked in property development, chartered surveying, marketing, law, and accounts. He has also studied journalism and has written many articles over the years for a wide variety of sources.
James is the Deputy Editor of Oilprice.com
Turkey has stated that it remains fully behind its recent oil deal with Iraqi Kurdistan, despite the problems this has caused Baghdad and Ankara, but…
Space-based solar panels have been researched by some of the more fanciful scientists on the planet for quite some time based on the clear advantages…
Freshkills Park on Staten Island, once the world’s largest landfill site, is set to be converted into New York City’s largest solar power plant according…
Argentina hopes that a new deal with oil major Repsol will help to increase confidence in President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner’s government and repair damaged…
The Crown Estate, the organisation that controls most of the seabed around the UK, has given approval to Statoil to go ahead with the installation…
Russia’s lower house of parliament has given its full approval for new laws that would allow rival companies to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to…
The Sun newspaper has announced that British Prime Minister “David Cameron’s extraordinary transformation on the environment is complete,” after his supposedly ordered members of his…
Not only are mangroves growing in popularity for their ability to absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, and therefore help battle climate change, they are…
Reuters writes that on Friday a senior US official, speaking to reporters, admitted that a deal with Iran may well be agreed when negotiators meet…
Russian oil giants Rosneft and Gazprom Neft have signed a series of agreements with Vietnam’s state-run Petrovietnam that will give them a 49% stake in…
Fossil fuels are finite. They will run out one day. Now the fossil fuel industry itself claims that the earth still holds enough reserves in…
Chevron’s court battle against Ecuador over pollution caused in the Lago Agrio region of the country has been well documented over the years, and recently…
In 2005, ex-President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act which included the Renewable Fuels Standard, requiring oil companies to add ethanol to their…
Hydrogen fuel cells have the potential to replace batteries completely and offer a clean alternative power source for portable devices. Unfortunately development of the technology…
After EDF have become the fifth of the big six energy companies to raise their prices in the UK this year, Energy UK, the country’s…
Large criminal organisations are always on the lookout for the next opportunity to rip people off and make a quick bit of easy money. The…
At the beginning of the year Ukraine took its first major steps to reducing its dependence on Russian natural gas imports, by signing a $10…
Madagascar, the island nation off the east coast of Mozambique, boasts rich mineral deposits, and for a few years in the mid-2000s it attracted attention…
Back in July, Elon Musk released to the public a set of conceptual designs that he and his teams at Tesla Motors and SpaceX drew…
It has generally been agreed by environmental scientists around the world that in order to avoid catastrophic, irreversible climate change, global average temperatures cannot increase…