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
Regulating temperature is one of the largest forms of energy consumption. During the winter energy is used to power heaters that warm up an entire…
Noam Chomsky, the famed linguist, philosopher, and political commentator has recently taken part in an interview with the Guardian, to discuss Canadian Prime Minister Steven…
Just hours before becoming the first Brazilian oil producer to ever file for bankruptcy protection, OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA was able to sell…
Despite the fact that talks with Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani seem to be going much better, and progress is being made to resolving the…
On Sunday, Green Field Energy Services, the first ever company to run its hydraulic fracturing equipment on natural gas, filed for bankruptcy protection after failing…
At the end of October 2012 Superstorm Sandy hit the US East Coast, causing severe damage in New Jersey and New York, flooding streets, knocking…
Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 Libya has suffered political and civil unrest, culminating in strikes at oil and gas terminals across the…
Jet fuel is now well over $3 a gallon, having risen from just 85 cents a gallon in 2000. The surge in fuel costs means…
China’s pollution crisis has been highlighted once again by a thick blanket of smog which has this time settled over the northeastern city of Harbin,…
At the beginning of the year the Netherlands proposed to use photo-luminescent paint to mark out lanes and traffic markers on roads, in an effort…
Some said that the automobile would never replace the horse, so when it has been said that oil will never be replaced as the main…
Despite the fact that new, stricter regulations on the transport of hazardous materials by rail, introduced following the derailment and explosion of a train carrying…
The arrest of 28 Greenpeace activists protesting Arctic oil exploration in Russian waters has attracted the world’s attention. It seemed like this would bring more…
PIRA, a leader in worldwide energy market analysis, has recently announced that the US has finally surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest oil producer in…
Fukushima Industries has had to make a public apology after its new, unfortunately named mascot was deemed to be poking fun at the ill-fated nuclear…
Analysts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) have calculated that global investment in clean energy technologies has fallen 14 percent during the third quarter of…
China is one of the most polluted countries in the world. At the beginning of the year the world media took note as many of…
Ed Miliband’s announcement to freeze energy bills for 20 months if his Labour party wins the 2015 general elections, has cause quite a stir, and…
The new CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, Doug Lawler, continues to make redundancies and asset sales in order to reduce the high costs left behind…
At the recent Solar Energy UK conference, Climate Change Minister Greg Barker, revealed a new government roadmap that provides a strategy to encourage the installation…