Joao is a writer for Oilprice.com
Almost all forms of ethanol production use the sugar and starch found in sugarcane and corn grain. Producing biofuel from the biomass of the plant…
Seeing the President use green technology could prove a huge boost to a blossoming industry, so the fact that the Obama administration is overseeing the…
The giant brewery company Diageo, has announced that it is on target to achieve its ambitious goal of cutting carbon emissions by 50% from 2007…
Under the presidency of George W. Bush, Yucca Mountain was designated as the US’s sole storage facility for high-level nuclear waste, and was under review…
The idea that falling prices for renewable energy will begin to create a shake-up in the energy market, may have merit as RWE has just…
The Bulgarian architects, Morphocode, have designed an apartment for the future that is actually based on an offshore wind turbine.Their conceptual design, known as the…
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has taken a step forward in its plan to install 53 million smart metres to every household…
President Barack Obama has said that he will not approve plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline to carry crude oil from Alberta’s oil sands…
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western oil majors such as BP, Statoil, and Exxon Mobil have dominated the oil and natural gas…
British Prime Minister David Cameron has written an article in the Daily Telegraph in which he has called for all UK communities to show support…
During torrential thunderstorms over the weekend a lightning bolt struck a storage tank at a refinery on Sunday, causing a huge blaze. Having suffered similar…
A leak at an oil sands facility in Northern Alberta has so far spilled 280,022 gallons of oil across a 51 acre area since June…
PetroChina, China’s largest energy company, was the first foreign firm to sign oil deals with Baghdad after the US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and…
On Thursday ConocoPhillips announced another deal as part of its 2012-2013 asset disposition program, with the sale of 226,000 acres of its Canadian oil sands…
Due to the ever growing net of sanctions placed on Iran and its oil and gas industry by the EU and US, over the continuing…
Ever since civil unrest led to the toppling of President Ali Abdullah Salehas in 2011, Yemen has struggled to contain the rise of Islamic militants…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has compiled a new report, compiled from four major independent databases, that shows that 2012 was one of…
Speaking in his first ever news conference since officially being sworn into office after his victory at elections in June, Iran’s new President Hassan Rohani…
Having completed its mammoth journey that began last year, the Olympus production platform, Royal Dutch Shell’s latest offshore production platform, has finally been secured in…
There are no official records of contamination caused by fracking. That is the story pushed by frackers, and other persons who support the fracking industry.…