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
At the end of February I wrote an article about the Mafia’s move into the renewable energy sector; encouraged by the generous subsidies and the…
Where does the Cyprus bailout deal leave its energy reserves?It has been estimated over the years that the southeastern waters of Cyprus contain 50 to…
Back in 2009 Israel discovered huge natural gas reserves just off its Mediterranean coast. These reserves have been estimated to be in the region of…
A team of researchers at the University of Georgia, USA, have developed a new method that can turn CO2, which exists in the atmosphere and…
John Fredriksen, the famed shipping baron, will spend $2.6 billion on the construction of the largest fleet of fuel efficient tankers in the world. He…
In a sign that the US government is slowly loosening its grip on the export of its cheap shale gas, the energy company Centrica has…
The oil empire of Harold Hamm, one of America’s wealthiest and most influential oil barons, is threatened by the contentious divorce in which he is…
As a student did you ever put your car into neutral when on a hill and coast along under the power of gravity in order…
Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it still owes $2.3 billion to Tehran for crude products traded in 2012 up until the summer deadline when…
Ed Davey, the UKs Energy Secretary, is expected to give the go ahead later today to approve the first of a string of new nuclear…
Volcanoes pose a threat to populations living in their vicinity, yet also have the potential to provide huge amounts of geothermal energy. A new design,…
In May 2012 Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker owned by Dynacom Tankers Management. It was one of the last successful pirate attacks against a…
A team of scientists, led by Dr. Justin Kasper of the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, have used data collected by NASA’s oldest active spacecraft,…
Japan has announced what it believes to be a world first, the production of natural gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits.Methane hydrates are a very…
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced his plans to invest nearly £1 billion ($1.49 billion) in a cycling project in the capital city,…
A team at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) has conducted a study into the effects of global warming, and the subsequent melting…
The idea of collecting solar power in space and transmitting it to earth is not a new one. The idea has been popular for decades…
Clean energy advances are made due to careful research and development in the fields of science and technology, with nanotechnology leading the way as the…
Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico, has won support from his party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), to continue with his plans for developing…
The plutonium produced during World War II and used to fuel the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was developed…