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
A new report, written by Professor David Mackay, chief scientific advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Dr Timothy Stone, Senior advisor…
In the state of Jharkhand, eastern India, most families used to survive by foraging in local forests, or growing crops on farmland, but after 40…
“Will we help Syria? We will!”The statement made by Russian President Vladimir Putin to help its long-time ally in the case of an attack, caused…
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama held a meeting and press conference with Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Prime Minister of Sweden, in which he was asked what…
As the Scottish National Party (SNP) tries to build support for its plan to achieve independence and split from the UK, one of the important…
A recent article on Bloomberg described a disaster that occurred in 1976 in West Texas when an underground oil pipeline exploded, burning to death five…
As part of a giant investigation into graft (bribery and corruption) amongst China’s major, state-owned companies, the ruling Communist Party has just dismissed Jiang Jiemin,…
On Saturday, President Barack Obama announced that, although he himself has the power to send the US to war, he will ask for authorisation from…
The market for unmanned drones is growing rapidly; partly because drones are able to perform many of the tasks carried out by satellites, but at…
Balcombe, a tiny village in West Sussex, has become the battle ground of the fracking debate in the UK.Earlier in the month hundreds of people…
Gas 2 recently wrote an article which determined that through some very minor, simple design changes to a popular US product, one company could save…
Making big oil discoveries should make a company more attractive and therefore increase the share price, but in order to reap this growth in value…
Es Sider is the largest of several ports in eastern Libya that have been shut since the end of July due to protests by security…
Each year the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory releases an analysis of the energy input and energy use of the US economy to determine the energy…
In July the California Public Utilities Commission changed a previous decision to allow Pacific Gas & Electric to pay their $2.25 billion fine for the…
The Gulf Coast is expected to boom over the coming years, as more oil and gas companies drill offshore wells, the fracking industry produces more…
Despite the fact that production in the North Sea is declining rapidly and the current government claims to be the greenest ever; the UK oil…
On Wednesday the Japanese nuclear watchdog announced that it was considering boosting the UN’s International Nuclear and Radiological scale rating at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant…
Once the second largest oil producing member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) behind Saudi Arabia, Iran has fallen to sixth position in…
A new study carried out by the economists at the World Bank has examined the risks that coastal cities around the world face due to…