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
2010 was the year that BP’s Deepwater Horizon infamously blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico releasing millions of gallons of oil into…
The Norwegian regulators, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), have found that the oil and gas leak at BP’s Ula field in the North Sea was…
At the Fossil Fuel Foundation (FFF) workshop held in Johannesburg this week, industry leaders from around the world heard about the benefits of underground coal…
In February, the conservative state government of Queensland lifted a ban on shale oil exploration and production along its coast, enabling companies to begin assessing…
Oil exports, which once provided Syria with 25% of all government revenue, are almost none existent now. The war has crippled the oil industry; over…
Donald Trump, as part of his on-going campaign against the Scottish governments plans to erect a wind farm off the coast of his £750m golf…
Much of Saudi Arabia’s conventional natural gas is produced as a by-product of the crude oil extraction. Nearly all is then re-injected back into the…
Mexico is looking for overseas investment opportunities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, led by the telecommunications magnate, Carlos Slim.Slim, with an estimated wealth of…
Based on figures taken from the annual company reports of the five main international oil companies (Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and Total) over the…
Helius Energy has officially opened its new biomass power plant in Rothes, Scotland. The biomass plant will create energy using by-products from the local distillery…
For years those opposing the Keystone XL pipeline used the argument that building the pipe along its proposed route would endanger the delicate Sand Hills…
China looks as though it might set up an unlikely partnership with the small island nation of Iceland. Iceland’s prime minister is currently in Beijing…
Dr. Ernest Moniz, the MIT physics professor who is set to be the new Energy Secretary, has just recently held a confirmation hearing where he…
As Lebanon’s economy has developed over the years its energy demand has generally increased by 6% - 8% a year, however over the past two…
Extracting crude oil from wells around the world also releases large amounts of natural gas which, whilst a valuable source of energy in of itself,…
This winter Repsol has drilled three exploratory wells on the North Slope of Alaska, in the Colville River Delta, all part of ambitious plans to…
Early estimates suggest that Spain has huge shale gas reserves, some of the largest in Europe, but the Spanish public are worried that the fracking…
Sunday’s Paris marathon was a great success, and this year, thanks to the installation of energy-harvesting tiles, clean energy was actually generated from the event.178…
Current rockets used to travel into space are flawed. They have limited fuel capacity, making long distance spaceflight impossible, have a relatively low top speed,…
Rimac Automobili is an automobile manufacturing company that specialises in producing high-performance electric vehicles, drivetrains, and battery systems. Estabilished in Zagreb, Croatia in 2009 it…