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
As hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the US, refineries and harbours were shut down, effectively disrupting nearly all fuel deliveries to the area.…
Hurricane Sandy may prove to be the event that the environmentalists were waiting for, the event that makes the world, or at least a large…
Wall Street is finding itself in a bitter fight against a relatively new organisation that is intent to see some of the largest banks charged…
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make a week-long visit to China this month where he wants to promote Canada as ‘open for business’.Andrew MacDougall…
Ground Source Geothermal Energy is a highly efficient and renewable heating system, which, despite its 75 year history is actually very rare, and low key.It…
The thermoelectric effect uses a difference in temperature to create an electric current. This effectively means that any system which produces excess heat can use…
European demand for gas is expected to fall in the coming years meaning that Russia’s Gazprom must look for new customers if it doesn’t want…
A joint venture company, Sunportal, set up by British and South Korean scientists, promises that it can deliver natural sunlight to any windowless space via…
Germany has installed too many wind turbines without the necessary infrastructure to support them. This means that on windy days the German electrical grid cannot…
The British Department for Energy and Climate Change has recently released information confirming that out of the 4,123 separate oil spills that have been reported…
Planting vegetation on the walls and roofs of city buildings, known as green walls and green roofs, is a great way to tackle common urban…
BP’s decision yesterday to accept Rosneft’s offer for its shares in TNK-BP in return for $12.3 billion and a 19.75% stake in Rosneft, has cemented…
The Maldives, perhaps one of the most beautiful, and yet equally most endangered nations on the planet, has announced that it plans to begin development…
Its official, OAO Rosneft has agreed to buy TNK-BP for $54.8 billion, in what will be the third biggest oil acquisition ever. The deal will…
According to Bloomberg, Rosneft is set to overtake Gazprom and become the largest oil and gas company in Russia if BP accepts its offer to…
TNK-BP is a joint venture company between BP and a group of Russian billionaire oligarchs, known as AAR, after the three business groups that make…
The Niger Delta is the heart of Africa’s oil industry, yet the Gulf of Guinea, the area in which the delta is situated, is a…
Today in Oslo, Norway, the Colombian government is beginning peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the nation’s largest rebel guerrilla group, hoping…
Bandgap Engineering, a startup from Woburn, Massachusetts, hopes that its method of using nanowires to create solar cells will enable it to eventually double the…
Having made little progress in talks with Iran over its nuclear program, the EU has decided to increase pressure on Tehran by tightening sanctions. Yesterday…